Business Brunch, South Tyneside Creatives

Calling all startups and existing businesses operating within South Tyneside’s Creative sector!

Join our Business Brunch on Tuesday 8th October from 10.00am at Sea Change Café situated in the heart of Ocean Road, South Shields. This event is designed to bring South Tyneside’s based creatives together as well as help grow and diversify their business activity.

At our Business Brunch, attendees will:

• Attendees will hear compelling business journeys from talented creatives
• Meet BIPC’s Experts including Ecommerce Marketplace Expert, Racheal Straughan and Food, Drink & Hospitality and Product Photography Expert - Sue Todd who are on hand with important tips and takeaways to help you maximise your creative potential.
• Discover the latest market trends, consumer buying behaviours, and funding opportunities through the power of market research – essential for local creatives!

• Tap into free advice and need to know business support programmes planned for local creatives.

• Connect with other local creatives businesses, artists, and freelancers within the South Tyneside community.

As the title suggests, a delicious brunch will be provided by Sea Change Café.

Who should attend these sessions?

This event is open for all South Tyneside businesses including pre starts, start-ups, freelancers, established businesses and sole traders operating in the creative sector which might include advertising, architecture, art and antiques, artisan food producers, crafts, designer makers, designer fashion, film, music, performing arts, photography, publishing, software and computer services and TV and radio.

Racheal and Mark are the Founders of Mayfli, an all-in-one eCommerce online Marketplace. With over 40 years of combined self-employment experience, they have a vast knowledge of setting up ecommerce stores and selling on most major marketplaces. They predominantly used these large online platforms to promote their business and reach customers internationally. Drawing on their extensive experience in eCommerce retailing, Racheal and Mark can provide a wide range of advice and guidance on all aspects of trading online.

Whether you are about to enter the world of online selling for the first time or already established but looking to increase your sales, Racheal and Mark further can help in the following ways:

Idea formulation into a viable concept, future forecasts and planning a launch for new entrants. (Products Range)

Online shop critique to take a closer look at current business activity, examine viability, and look for more efficient and profitable ways to move forward.

Extending sales opportunities for brick-and-mortar retailers through setting up online stores, helping with online visibility and brand recognition, exposing them to new online customers, and increasing foot traffic to physical stores.

Researching and preparing for upcoming seasonal shopping trends online.

Great imagery, results in more social interaction and higher sales, no where is this more true than in food, drink & hospitality, where it is vital to stand out for all the right reasons. It’s all about telling the right story, with the right backgrounds and props, the composition just so and the lighting to make the shot pop. Images for this industry ‘need’ to make the audience ‘feel’ the need to eat or drink right now, or have them dream of spending some time in your location. That’s what Sue does.

Styling is a huge part of this, and along with ensuring your images are on brand can really set you apart in the market place. Sue has full cooking facilities in her studio for recipe creation/production for shoots.

Available services:

• Professional Photography in my studio or on location/in your premises
• Help in commissioning the right photographer for you
• Audit of existing photography with ideas to consider
• Help in setting up photography brand guidelines
• Photography training in food, drink & hospitality
• People shots across the industry
• Cook and shoot – following your recipe or creating one for you
• Video
• Food/Drink/Hospitality Photography training from beginners upwards
• Lightroom & Photoshop Training
• Food styling training

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