Winners to be announced by 3rd June – watch this space!

Our next photography competition has been announced follow it on twitter and facebook. The theme is be “Lifestyle” you can win prints on aluminium that look like floating panels.

Photography Competition – ‘Environment’

northern lights by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk

The theme for our competition this time is ‘Environment’ so no matter where you live, or what you do, you can get out there and get snapping. You can photograph your own environment or others, just post your entries on Flickr to be in with a chance of winning our fantastic prize! If you don’t already have a Flickr account it’s easy and free to set one up, then you need to join the group, then just add your image/s (you can enter up to 2 images) to the Silicon Beach Training Flickr group.

To follow this competition head to Flickr, our Facebook page,  and also follow our RSS Feed. The winner will also be announced on this blog and also on Twitter so don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @SBTtraining. We run regular photography competitions so keep in touch and let us know if you have any suggestions for the next competition theme.

Silicon Beach Training offer a full range of creative software courses including Photoshop Training, Illustrator Training and  InDesign Training in Brighton, Sussex. We also run other useful business courses including Management Training, Leadership Training, Software Testing Training and MSP Training

‘Environment’ Photography Competition Prize

The prize for the winning photographer is your choice of any public one or two day training course here at Silicon Beach Training in Brighton. You could try something creative like Illustrator Training, something practical like a Management Training Course, brush up on something more technical like HTML5 Training or expand on your social media expertise with a WordPress, Blogging or Social Media course. A full list of public courses can be found on our training dates page (only public courses in Brighton with a maximum duration of two days can be claimed as your prize).

The prize is for the training course only and winners will be responsible for any travel or accommodation costs incurred.

Winning will also result in exposure across our website and various social networking sites (namely Twitter, Facebook and our blog) – excellent free promotion if you want to build your profile online.

‘Environment’ Photography Competition Judge

Martin Bailey is a Professional Nature, Wildlife and Portrait photographer, born in England though now a Japanese citizen, based in Tokyo.

His work has been published by Popular Photography Magazine, Pomegranate, Korean Air, Creation Durable (Paris) and Light of Consciousness Magazine, among others. He had five pieces in a joint exhibit Viaggiando Immaginando, in Italy in 2005, and his first solo exhibition “The Nature of Japan” was held in Aoyama, Tokyo, in December 2010.

Martin releases a weekly photography Podcast, available in iTunes, as well as running a photography forum and this blog. He also runs popular wildlife and landscape photography workshops.

He is a proud member of the X-Rite Coloratti, a group of the world’s top professional photographers who understand the importance of implementing color management in their digital workflow, and he incorporates color management instruction into his workshops and seminars.

Martin is active in Social Networking too. To keep up with Martin on Twitter or Facebook etc. use the icons at the bottom of his portal page here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/

How to Enter the Photography Competition.

1. If you have a Flickr account you can add your photo directly to the competition’s Flickr group. It is easy and free to set up an account.
2. A maximum of two photograph entries per entrant will be accepted.

When is the Photography Competition Closing Date?

The deadline is Friday 27th May 5pm.

Photography Competition Terms and Conditions

Please read the competition terms and conditions before entering.

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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.

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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.

1. Write an email to nathan@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk with Email Marketing Competition in the subject field.
2. Add you name and company if relevant
3. Say why you think you need the Email Marketing course – We don’t need an essay we are just interested to know!
4. 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.

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