Unfortunately our competition is finished, but we have just added a brand new HTML Emails course!
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.
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.
In these videos Sam discusses how to run a successful competition for link building. The example he gives is of an equipment hire firm running a photography competition so to build up a community and get valuable links from mainstream and niche publications. A great tip he mentioned (if you’re going to ask for links) is to build relationships with people, is it always much easier if you already have a rapport with someone, rather than just charging straight in with demands.
At Silicon Beach Training we promote a regular Photography Competition Follow us on twitter or facebook to keep up to date. We can testify that all of these techniques work as Sam almost exactly described the process we use to publicise our competion!
Creativity
Sam talks about creativity and how even the most boring product, if you think out side the box, can still run a competition.
Inflexible Client
If a client is stuck in their old habits you may want to put on your ‘sales hat’ and show them that these new tactics can help them in different ways.
Brighton SEO – Using Competitions for SEO – Part 2
In Using Competitions for SEO – Part 1, Sam explained that with a bit of creativity even the plainest of industries can create an interesting campaign using competitions. Its a fantastic way to build links and drive traffic thats quite often over looked. He goes on to explain how you can “sell” this idea to a client.
To sell a competition successfully to your client you need to focus on the benefits such as increasing audience, brand awareness and building links.
Sam’s case study was for a tool hire company that would give the winner an afternoon on one of their cranes. The competition was for people interested in photography, who had to send in ideas of how they would use the crane to take a photo. This meant that there were links from a number of well-established photo blogs and magazines.
At Silicon Beach Training we promote a regular Photography Competition Follow us on twitter or facebook to keep up to date. We can testify that all of these techniques work as Sam almost exactly described the process we use to publicise our competion!
Standard Entries
You will also need to add your link to relevant forums and directories.
Affiliates
Once you have considered your niche, you then need to consider affiliates, mailing lists, press releases, whilst always keeping in mind what the customers wants or expects.
Silicon Beach Training offer a full range of creative software courses including Photoshop Training, SEO Training as well as HTML5 training, Social Media Courses, Blogging, and WordPress Training in Brighton, Sussex.
Watch out for our next competition – we will announce it soon on twitter and facebook.
The votes have been counted and verified and we can now reveal that the winner of our “Colour” photography competition is….
Well done to our winner Wendy Laural who thanks to Brighton Journalist Works, wins a place on their 4-day Freelance Photography Course in December – worth £245.
You can visit Identity Signage and Printing online or drop into their new showroom, Identity Signage & Printing, Westham Business Park, Eastbourne Road, Westham, East Sussex, BN24 5NP
We are due to launch the next one soon and would like suggestions for a theme. Please tweet your theme suggestion to @SBTtraining and don’t forget to add the hashtag #sbtphoto – we’ll give a £25 Amazon voucher to the one we choose.
The next Photography Competition will be judged by @lomokev and @special_noodles .
We have some great sponsors lined up for the next Photography Competition so keep your eyes peeled and we’ll tweet about it and let you know on Facebook to so become a fan of our facebook page by “Liking It”!
Also if you have a prize you could donate for the winners of our bi-monthly photography competitions, let us know, we are wizards at social media and you will get lots of links, tweets, Facebook mentions etc for your efforts. If you would like to donate a prize please email photocomp@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk with the details. If you’d like to know how we have become wizards at social media then come on our Social Media Training Course!
So get your thinking caps on an tweet your theme to @SBTTraining using #sbtphoto.
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Are you a budding photographer? Win free training and online exposure!
Whether you’re an aspiring photographer or have a photographer who works for your business, enter Silicon Beach Training’s photography competition to win a free training course. The winning entry will be announced on our blog, Twitter and Facebook as well as other social media platforms – an excellent way to generate online exposure and increase traffic to your website!
Photography competitions will run bi-monthly, and the theme this time is “My Home Town”. It’s up to you how you interpret this; it could be about people, architecture, landscape, culture etc.
To follow this competition head to Flickr or our Facebook page and hear about updates on our blog. We will also be announcing regular photography competitions and details of winners on Twitter so don’t forget to follow us @SBTtraining.
Read on to find out more about the free training prize, learn about the high profile photographers who will be judging the competition, and how you can enter.
Thanks to everyone who entered our Twitter Re-Tweet competition which closed yesterday at 12.00 noon. The prize was a free place on any of our public training courses here in Brighton.
We’ve now picked our lucky winner (or Twinner!) – congratulations to Nadine Burzler, we look forward to hearing from you to arrange your prize!
