march, 2025
In 2025, search is more visual than ever. Discover how to optimise video and image content for search in, leveraging Google's product grids, visual search, and business profiles to boost
In 2025, search is more visual than ever. Discover how to optimise video and image content for search in, leveraging Google’s product grids, visual search, and business profiles to boost visibility.
In 2025, search is more visual than ever. With Google showcasing product grids and advancing its visual search capabilities, users are increasingly searching with images and snapshots rather than text. This evolution opens new opportunities for businesses, particularly ecommerce brands, to get their products in front of the right audience.
This workshop will guide you through:
Outcome of Attending
Participants will:
Who it’s For
This is ideal for:
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(Wednesday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
Join us for a practical workshop discussing all things social media, as we examine the ways tools like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok can help (and hinder) your business objectives. Social Media
Join us for a practical workshop discussing all things social media, as we examine the ways tools like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok can help (and hinder) your business objectives.
Social Media is much more than just a promotional tool. Used effectively, you can truly engage and influence your target market audience and achieve better business objectives. Used wrongly, and you’re likely just wasting your time hoping for some vanity likes.
This session aims to ensure you remain “business focused” with your own usage of social media and will cover:
There will also be plenty time for questions, and some live audits of attendee social media profiles (with advice and recommendations given).
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(Thursday) 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Auchrannie Country House
Auchrannie Road
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
19mar3:00 pm5:00 pmBusiness Gateway Webinar - Writing for your Website
This webinar aims to transform your attitude towards writing and help you create engaging, useful material for your website. You'll learn the secrets of persuasive writing, how to make writing more
This webinar aims to transform your attitude towards writing and help you create engaging, useful material for your website.
You’ll learn the secrets of persuasive writing, how to make writing more accessible and concise, and common structures to help get started when you’re staring at a blank screen.
Whatever business you’re in, being able to explain what you do in the written form is an essential skill and with our feedback and coaching you’ll get better at it. Whether you consider yourself good at writing or if it’s something you’ve always struggled with, you’ll find yourself both encouraged and challenged by this interactive, engaging session.
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(Wednesday) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Webinar
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
20mar10:00 am12:00 pmBusiness Gateway Webinar - Financially Managing your Business Day to Day
Delegates will learn about the key aspects of financially running a business, keeping on top of the day to day activities, developing profit and ensuring they know how to manage
Delegates will learn about the key aspects of financially running a business, keeping on top of the day to day activities, developing profit and ensuring they know how to manage their financials.
This webinar will also discuss the variety of accounting packages available and if your business should be using them.
Main aims:
A 2 hour webinar which will be practical and results-oriented. Working with a set of core presentational slides the core content will be a mix of knowledge delivery, discussion and the presentation of tools and techniques to challenge the attendees currently thinking of profitability in their organisation. Participants will leave with a set of methods, tools and techniques to allow them to be implemented within their business.
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(Thursday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Webinar
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
The world is on social, and growing an organic audience can take ten times the amount of time to grow than driving clients to your business using well targeted advertising. In
The world is on social, and growing an organic audience can take ten times the amount of time to grow than driving clients to your business using well targeted advertising.
In this workshop we’re going to show you how to take the first steps in testing out Facebook ads and how they can be used to quickly grow new audiences, gather leads and enquiries and get new clients in a cost-effective way.
This workshop is suitable for those who haven’t run social media ads before, but also for those who may have tried a DIY approach or have found limited success – we can show you how to make ads work for your business.
This workshop is going to be run by an expert in social media marketing and PPC. Their business thrives on providing social media advertising services, consulting and support to different companies across many different industries so you can expect to see the most efficient way of getting up and running with affordable digital marketing strategies.
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(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Business Gateway Office (Irvine)
22 Quarry Road
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
27mar12:30 pm4:30 pmBusiness Gateway Workshop - Artificial Intelligence for Content Creation
In this workshop you'll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT and Canva to create compelling content, engage customers, and streamline your marketing efforts. ChatGPT might have just turned 2
In this workshop you’ll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT and Canva to create compelling content, engage customers, and streamline your marketing efforts.
ChatGPT might have just turned 2 years old, but it’s already changed the way businesses are working. In this workshop, you’ll get real practical advice on how ChatGPT can be used alongside creative tools like Canva, to assist you with all aspects of Marketing, from the planning and strategy side of things, to the tactics of creative content creation.
We will cover:
Whether you’re brand new to AI, or have some previous experience, this workshop will show you what’s possible, and provide actionable insights and prompts to help boost your marketing game.
To book a place, click here.
(Thursday) 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Auchrannie Country House
Auchrannie Road
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
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