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Top SEO Trumps Blogging Competition

Heather Buckley — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:48:24 +0000

The great Top SEO Trumps Blog Off has begun!

We have been slaving away creating the top SEO Game of the Decade. To get your hands on one of these limited edition Top SEO Trumps packs we are inviting you to take part in our Top SEO Trumps Blog Off!

Here’s a preview of how the cards look:

Simply write a blog post that meets the conditions below to be in for a chance to win.

There are 46 Top SEO Faces from the SEO world, each ranked by:

Popularity on the web
Twitter followers
Google+ contacts
Fanciablility (we are keeping our judges a secret for this category)
Geek Cred

Can you guess who is hiding behind Danny Sullivan? If you can’t guess or want to see the other 45 Top SEOs then you can follow all those who made it into to pack by creating your own SEO circle from this one we made earlier, just click on the image to view or add this circle in Google+:

35 Limited Edition Top SEO Trumps packs are up for grabs.

Anyone can enter: SEOs, marketing people, social media specialists, bloggers, content marketers, and students, anyone who thinks they can write a good blog.

There are so many ways of winning that the playing field is wide open, there is a really good chance of winning so it’s worth a go. As all great SEO’s and Content marketers know, generating great content is just par for the course anyway. What have you got to lose?

Not only that, if you are one of our 35 finalists we will publicise your fine post using our many social media accounts, and link to it from all of our resources and blogs, as well as on our own well ranked site, so it would be good for your SEO too.

All you have to do is what you do best: write a great blog post.

How to win

Write a blog post that contains a link either to one of these links
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/seo-top-trumps OR http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/seo/
Tweet a link to your post to: @sbttraining with the message: “My SEO Trumps entry” and the Hashtag #seotoptrumps

It’s as easy as that!

For example if this was my entry I would tweet:

@sbttraining My Top SEO Trumps entry http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/seo-top-trumps (or shortened version) #seotoptrumps

You can publish your blog post anywhere (not necessarily on your own blog) as long as you identify yourself as the author somewhere in the post and tweet the link with hashtag as above.

After the closing date April 1st 2012

Votes will be counted and verified and prizes will go to the authors of the winners of the following categories:

The 5 funniest posts
The 5 most original posts
The 5 most useful posts
The top 5 posts that drive the most traffic to the destination link.
The 5 top most liked posts on Facebook – where that information is available
The 5 most +1’s on Google Plus
The 5 most tweeted posts – where that information is available

Good luck and get blogging!

Become a future top SEO trump with our many SEO related courses. SEO training will provide you with the best practice approach to optimising websites and content for higher rankings, you can then use the knowledge learnt on our Social Media course to market your website and build strong brand identity. If you want to measure how your site is doing (and your social media efforts) then Google Analytics training is essential, while Advanced Google Analytics training is available for those who already use it on a regular basis. Don’t forget, we also now provide Content Marketing training – great for building brand and author identity whilst gaining valuable backlinks!

ReTweet Competition: Win Free Training at Silicon Beach via MyTrainingManager

Andy Trainer — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:37:53 +0000

THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

Win a free course at Silicon Beach Training via MyTrainingManager

We’ve teamed up with MyTrainingManager to offer you the chance to win a free training course at Silicon Beach Training with our simple ReTweet Competition.

Simply retweet our competition tweet, and follow @SBTTraining and @jen_mtm (Jennifer Tarjanyi from MyTrainingManager) to be in with a chance of winning a place on one of a great range of training courses here at our training centre in central Brighton. A list of the courses up for grabs, more details on how to enter and terms and conditions can be found below.

MyTrainingManager is a flexible and cost effective service providing business support, people management, development and training advice to businesses in the South East. Read our interview with MyTrainingManager’s Jennifer Tarjanyi in the blog last week to find out more.

Keep your eyes peeled on this blog this week too for more information about New Training Grants which could help you to access valuable courses for your staff.

How to enter our ReTweet Competition:

Its so easy, all you have to do is:

Retweet our competition tweet – or copy and paste the following in to a new tweet
RT to Win a FREE course at Silicon Beach via MyTrainingManager (also follow @jen_mtm & @SBTTraining): http://bit.ly/eJsCO2
Follow @SBTTraining and @jen_mtm
That’s it!!!

The closing date is Monday 18th April – so get your tweets in before then!

Competition Prize:

You can win a free place on any of the following courses:

Don’t have a Twitter account?

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service (if you didn’t already know that – where have you been!!). It allows you to send short messages 140 characters in length, called “tweets”, to your friends, or “followers.” You can find more information about Twitter (and how it works) here.

Signing up is very easy and only takes a few seconds.

Terms & Conditions

In order to participate in this competition you must:

Have a Twitter account, and have accepted the Terms of Service of Twitter.
Send a valid Twitter message that contains the content of our competition tweet, including the Twitter usernames @SBTTraining and @jen_mtm, plus a link to this contest page: (http://bit.ly/eJsCO2)
The competition will close at 5pm on Monday 18th April – entries after this time will not be valid
The winner will be randomly selected from all valid tweets on Tuesday 19th April.
The winner will be notified via direct Message from @SBTTraining on Tuesday 19th April
The winner may choose any training course from the list in this contest page (listed above) as their prize
Booking is subject to availability and our usual Terms and Conditions
The winner will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs as necessary to attend the training course

This competition is not open to employees of Silicon Beach Training or MyTrainingManager or their families.

Training Advice From MyTrainingManager

Alistair Wylie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:56:28 +0000

Interview with Jennifer Tarjyani from MyTraining Manager – plus a chance to win a free course

Jennifer Tarjanyi from MyTrainingManager recently attended our Blogging Training and Social Media Training courses, and we took the opportunity to catch up with her about what they are doing to help businesses in the south, and how their new MyTrainingManager service can help managers to make the most of their training budget by choosing training that is appropriate to their needs.

In addition to online marketing courses, Silicon Beach Training offers a wide range of Management Training, Leadership Training, Appraisals Training and Project Management Training courses (including PRINCE2 Training and MSP Training) in Brighton, Sussex. We will soon be launching a competition in partnership with MyTraining Manager to win a free course at Silicon Beach – more details to follow soon…!

Read on for our interview with Jennifer about the new MyTrainingManager service

Interview with Jennifer Tarjanyi from MyTrainingManager…

Tell us a little about MyTrainingManager, how did it come about?

Our advisers have been out and about supporting Small Businesses for the last 5 years offering government funded support, and time and time again our clients were telling us that they wanted more long term support – anything from sourcing training to helping with appraisals or conducting staff surveys and action planning to improve motivation and morale.

This sort of thing is in particular demand in the current economic climate for 3 reasons;

1.) Staff aren’t moving on, they’re staying in jobs which perhaps don’t inspire them for fear of moving on into the unknown,

2.) Employers often don’t have the funds to spend on incentivising and increasing pay, they need to look at other ways to engage their teams.

3.) People are making cut-backs. Many small businesses can’t justify paying someone a salary to manage their Learning and Development. Our fees start from £195 pm which is more affordable.

When you are providing a “fee” service, there is a limit to the amount of time you can give. MyTrainingManager is a cost effective way in which we can help longer term.

What sort of companies come to you for assistance?

All sorts! The main thing we hear though is that owners & managers don’t have the time or the experience to dedicate to looking after their people. That’s where we come in!

What types of training are most in need for your clients, and what did they use the Leadership & Management grants towards mostly?

Leadership Training is a big one – most people are in leadership positions either through promotion or because they started their own business. Although they may know their sector or product inside out, managing people can be pretty tough, even for natural leaders, a bit of underpinning knowledge goes a long way to increase their confidence.

Social Media Training is also becoming really popular.

How soon will we know more about the next round of training funding and when will it be available?

There will be more Leadership and Management funding coming out in the next few weeks, although details will be announced shortly.

UPDATE – The new Leadership & Management Training Grants are NOW AVAILABLE.

We have seen you are embracing Social Media and using it to communicate with your clients. Why is this?

We know that people in business love to network, increasingly we have seen this going online. Our advisers have a great deal of knowledge and expertise as well as resources to share, social media allows us to do this effectively

Why do you think Social Media is becoming such an important marketing tool?

I think the way people buy is really changing. People have always “bought people” but now more so than ever, the chatty nature of social media really engages people.

Become a fan of MyTrainingManager on Facebook and follow Jen on Twitter to keep up to date with developments

Also keep an eye on the Silicon Beach Training Facebook page and our Twitter feed – details of funding will be announced soon.

15% discount on Search Marketing Expo – London May 16th and 17th

Heather Buckley — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:30:23 +0000

SMX Search Marketing Expo 2011

The editors of Search Engine Land have been busy organising the schedule for the next SMX advanced program in London on May 16th and 17th . Search Marketing Expo has now been going for more than 10 years and has been attended by tens of thousands search marketeers.

The advanced expo in London is designed for professional or knowledgeable SEOer’s – the line up will be discussing cutting edge contemporary theory and tips, no wasting time going over the beginners SEO basics. They promise “Sessions are fast-paced, Q&A-packed, frequently controversial, always informative…”

Attending this conference allows SEO experts to connect with decision makers from the search engines, and other key industry stakeholders. You’ll be encouraged to participate in conversations orchestrated to debate thorny issues and move the industry forward. Some of the most accomplished and influential search marketers in the world will be revealing cutting edge tips for driving traffic, increasing paid search conversions, SEO, social media marketing and search analytics.

At Silicon Beach Training we understand that getting your delegates involved is a powerful learning technique so this approach should get you absorbing all those wonderful secrets and set you off thinking about search marketing in new and innovative ways.

Silicon Beach Training provide Social Media Training, Google Ananlytics Training, Advanced Google Ananlytics, jQuery Training and Ajax Training in Brighton Sussex.

Discount Code for Search Marketing Expo London

We can also offer you a 15% discount if you book using this discount code: SILICONBEACH011

when you book. To reserve your ticket go to http://searchmarketingexpo.com/london/register

Free PRINCE2 Training revision guide for your mobile

Heather Buckley — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:18:03 +0000

Free PRINCE2 Ebook download for Mobile

As ever we like to keep on trend! So for all you Project Managers on the go or those wishing to revise for their PRINCE2 Practitioner Training or PRINCE2 Foundation Training in Brighton, Sussex, we have provided a PRINCE2 guide – a Free Prince2 Ebook for your mobile devices. It will work on your IPhone, IPad, IPod Touch, Android Phone… just about everything.

We will be adding lots more ebooks for mobiles in the near future so if you have any requests let us know – use comments below for suggestions.

Go here to:

Download your free PRINCE2 Ebook.

We also have a free PRINCE2 quiz for you to test yourself.

Win Free Training – Twitter Retweet Competition NOW CLOSED!

Heather Buckley — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:12:40 +0000

CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED!

win free training

You could enter our current photo competition though – click here

Want a free place on one of our public training courses? Fancy something creative for example our Photoshop Training Course in Brighton, Sussex, or Dreamweaver Training, something practical like Time Management Training or brush up on something more technical like VBA for Excel Training. A full list of public courses can be found on our training dates page (only courses with a maximum duration of two days can be claimed as your prize)

Enter our simple retweet competition on Twitter to be in with a chance!

It’s Really Easy to Enter

The only thing you have to do is -

1) Follow @SBTTraining

2) Retweet our competition invite on twitter.

RT: Win Free Training – @SBTTraining is giving it away! Visit http://bit.ly/2sCAJh for more info! #SBTweet
(click on this for an easy retweet)

Just make sure your tweet contains our Twitter name (@SBTTraining so we can track you as a contestant) and a link to this blog post (of which http://bit.ly/2sCAJh is a short version) and include the hashtag #SBTweet

We will DM the winner so make sure you follow us @SBTTraining.

That’s all you have to do. See? Entering is very easy!

Don’t have a Twitter Account?

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service. It allows you to send short messages 140 characters in length, called “tweets”, to your friends, or “followers.” You can find more information about Twitter (and how it works) here.

Signing up is very easy and only takes a few seconds.

How do we decide the Winner?

On Monday 13th December 2010 at 12.00 GMT we will randomly select one winner from everybody who sent a Tweet according to the guidelines above.

We will announce the winner via Twitter the same day (so we highly suggest you follow us) and will contact the winner through DM . The winner will be able to select any of our public scheduled courses based in Brighton up to 2-days in length.

The winner will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.

What’s the Catch?

There is no catch. We’re not after your email address or phone number.

Terms of Service

In order to participate, you must have a Twitter account, and have accepted the Terms of Service of Twitter. Members from every part of the world can enter the contest.

In order to participate, you must send a valid Twitter message. A valid Twitter message, or tweet, contains our Twitter name (@SBTTraining, so we can track you as a contestant), and a link to this contest page (of which http://bit.ly/2sCAJh is a short version)

We will DM the winner so make sure you follow us @SBTTraining.

The winner will be randomly selected from all valid tweets.

On the Monday 13th December, we will reveal which Twitter member has won the Training Course.

The winner will be able to select any of our public scheduled courses based in Brighton up to 2-days in length.The winner will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. Booking is subject to availability and our usual Terms and Conditions

Win free Email Marketing Course

Heather Buckley — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:35:08 +0000

email marketing

Everyone should give email marketing a shot as a way of promoting their business, and now you have the chance to win a free Email Marketing Training in Brighton, Sussex. We have just written a post about the benefits of Email Marketing in our free resources section.

To be in with a chance of winning enter before the closing date 17th September 2010 at 5.30pm so get your skates on.

Write an email to nathan@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk with Email Marketing Competition in the subject field.
Add you name and company if relevant
Say why you think you need the Email Marketing course – We don’t need an essay we are just interested to know!
One entry per person

Email marketing can be quite simple, however, as with most things there’s actually more to it than meets the eye.

Great reasons to try email marketing are:

You will get to know more customers.
Communicate more with them.
Hold on to them.

Customer trust is something of great value in any business, and email marketing enables you to make sure your emails are relevant to what your customers need or want.

It’s really flexible – you can change emails or email details easily to promote different products, services, announcements etc.

Email Marketing is also very cost-effective compared to other types of marketing.

So what are you waiting for tell us why you need the Email Marketing course and if you win we’ll give you all the tools you need to get started. We are going to be running regular simple competitions for free training as well as launching our next photography competition very soon, so keep up to date by following us on twitter, liking us on facebook and signing up to our rss feed.

Good luck.

Discount on ITIL Training in November

Alistair Wylie — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:01:42 +0000

If you need ITIL Training in Brighton, Sussex, and Certification, don’t miss out on our latest ITIL discount in November.

You can now book a place on our ITIL Foundation Training course on 15-17 November for just £695 + vat (normally £795) here at our training centre in Brighton.

The fees include all pre-course reading, materials, ITIL Foundation training, examination and certification – and our pass rates are among the best in the country.

We expect the course to fill up fast as usual so if you’d like to book call us as soon as possible on 01273 622272, or e-mail alistair@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk