Sales and Partnership workshop 101

Throughout the session, we will explore three key areas:

• LinkedIn for Business Growth: Learn how to strengthen your profile, grow your professional network, connect with potential customers and partners and use LinkedIn to create new business opportunities.
• Tenders and Grants Made Simple: Understand the difference between tenders and grants, where opportunities come from and what organisations are actually looking for when they assess applications or responses. We will explore how to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing and how to communicate why your business is the right fit.
• Demonstrating Creativity in Business: Learn how to communicate your ideas, experience and capabilities in a way that stands out. We will explore how creativity can help you differentiate your business, strengthen proposals, improve pitches and present your products or services more effectively.

This is not a workshop filled with complicated sales language or theory. You will complete practical activities using your own business so you can immediately apply what you learn.

Please bring your laptop so you can follow along and complete the practical activities using your own business.

This workshop is for any small or micro-business owner who wants to create more opportunities, strengthen their business development skills and become more confident generating revenue.

It is particularly useful for business owners who:

• rely heavily on word of mouth and referrals
• want to find new customers or markets
• want to build relationships with other businesses and organisations
• are interested in tenders or grants but do not know where to start
• want to use LinkedIn more effectively
• struggle to communicate what makes their business different
• want to improve how they pitch, present or demonstrate their capabilities
• want a simple and practical approach to generating new opportunities

No previous sales or business development experience is required.