Invest in Angus

Lunch with Dr Susie Mitchell
2023-01-25 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | Clayton Hotel, 286 Clyde Street, Glasgow, G1 4AR
Join Scottish Women in Business for lunch as they kick off their quarterly topic of innovation and technology with guest speaker Dr Susie Mitchell, Programme Director at Glasgow City of Science and Innovation.
About Dr Mitchell:

She came to Glasgow in 1996 to undertake a PhD in cancer research at the University of Glasgow’s Beatson Institute for Cancer Research where she was awarded the John Paul Award for research excellence
She would then become an R&D manager within the NHS, a public policy practitioner for local and national government, and Accessibility and Inclusion lead for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee
She is a champion of diversity in STEM and in 2016 was recognised by Equate Scotland as a Leading Woman of Scotland for her contributions to STEM and Scotland’s advancement
In 2013, she became Programme Director for Glasgow City of Science and Innovation – a regional innovation partnership that influences regional innovation strategy and delivers impact through a range of pioneering projects and programmes that support greater innovation in business to benefit people, productivity and planet
She is a proud member of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival Board and outside work, is a session musician and a presenter and contributor for the BBC.

Fife & Tayside Procurement Surgery
2023-01-25 09:00 - 13:00
To support local suppliers in Angus, Dundee City, Fife and Perth & Kinross Councils, Procurement Surgeries are hosted by each local authority on a rotating basis.
Local suppliers are invited to attend clinic appointments lasting 20 minutes, available from 9:00am to 1:00pm by prior appointment only. The appointments shall be conducted via Webex, hosted by the Supplier Development Programme.
Procurement Surgeries will:

Signpost and prepare businesses to local support, aiming to increase their confidence when tendering with the public sector;
Assist suppliers in gaining knowledge of local supply chain opportunities across Fife and Tayside;
Help the Councils build relationships with suppliers and break down barriers to bidding;
Raise awareness of the opportunities within public sector procurement, such as Regulated Procurement Pipelines; and
Support suppliers in becoming “tender ready” with the Supplier Development Programme to better understand and respond to the “ask” from local authorities in procurement.

Bookings for Procurement Surgeries must be booked in advance by SMEs by logging into the SDP website and answering the required questions that are part of the booking process.

Making digital content accessible
2023-01-25 09:00 - 11:00
Everyone consumes and understands information differently, with some facing additional challenges that aren’t always considered. In this webinar, we’ll explore the challenges that people can have when accessing digital content and we’ll look at the ways you can improve your digital content to be inclusive and considerate for all.
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

Understand and consider the barriers and challenges faced by others when accessing digital content.
Assess your digital content on how easy it is for others to access, consume and understand.
Review your website content with an understanding of what adjustments you should make to ensure that your content is catering to all.
Use social media functions and tools to help make your content more accessible.
Understand and use an ‘Accessibility Ready Checklist’ for any of your content to ensure you are designing and developing content for all of your audience.

Blogging for business
2023-01-24 18:00 - 20:00
This webinar will provide you with the knowledge and understanding you need to create a blog that promotes your business.
We will cover:

What a ‘blog’ is, how to set one up and what it takes to make them work
Other small and medium sized businesses who already blog successfully and what you can learn from them
Options for monetising a blog
How to promote your blog
How your blog can help move your website higher up search engine rankings
Understanding analytics and measuring the impact of your blog

Scale-Up Visa Route
2023-01-24 14:30 - 15:30
The government has recently introduced the Scale-Up visa route, which gives certain employers another visa option to help access international talent.
Join us to learn more about this new route and how it could help you access international talent.

Video production for social media
2023-01-24 14:00 - 16:00
Video captures people’s attention online and is important for getting your message across, while engaging with your target audience.
Learn how to:

Choose what type of video to create to suit your business objectives
Plan, shoot, edit, and upload video without special kit or expertise.
Get to know the various digital platforms that can be utilised to view and share video content.
See what editing apps are available and how to add music and subtitles.

Using Public Contract Scotland (PCS) – How to Find and Bid for Opportunities
2023-01-24 14:00 - 15:30
Public Contracts Scotland is the national public sector tender portal for Scotland. It lists contract opportunities for all public sector bodies and has a “Quick Quote” function for lower value contracts. This webinar will help you to ensure that you’re not only comfortable using the PCS website but also know how to generate business from it.
This event is suitable for Level 1 (Beginners). This workshop is the first step to tendering for new or inexperienced bidders.
During this course, you will learn:

What is Public Contracts Scotland (PCS)?
How do I set myself up on PCS?
What functions do I need to use on PCS?
What is PCS-Tender (PCS-T)?
What is a Quick Quote?
How does e-invoicing work?

HR – Recruiting, managing, and retaining staff
2023-01-24 11:30 - 13:30
One of the scariest things you can do as a business is take on staff – from hiring, interviewing, payroll, pensions, contracts, remote working and more, it is a minefield for the business owner.
This webinar will allow you to have the key information in your possession to take on staff and manage your team.
Topics covered:

Recruiting, managing, and retaining staff
Attracting and recruiting the best and right people for our business
Our obligations as employers
Managing people to stay with us
Moving on
Dismissal
Restructure/Redundancy

We will also look at:

How in the current climate you can manage staff and teams in a remote environment, considering their productivity, efficiency, and the issues of home working
How you can best manage staff to ensure productivity is kept and mental health is supported
The impact of companies who may be considering restructuring and therefore redundancy for the first time and how that can be managed

Developing Your International Digital Strategy
2023-01-24 10:00 - 11:00
Are you looking to grow your business in the international ecommerce market? By attending this webinar, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of the key strategy components of a successful international ecommerce business.
The webinar will cover the following areas:

Global ecommerce market overview
International ecommerce growth dynamics
Key digital strategy considerations, including audience insight, digital marketing, trading platforms, warehousing and fulfilment, customer support, user experience and conversion, payment processing, and delivery

Upgrade your business marketing with a CRM system
2023-01-24 09:00 - 11:00
From organising how you reach new customers to tracking the new deals you close, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a great tool to help your business grow. In this webinar, we’ll show you how to connect a CRM to your website, track potential new customers, manage your business activities, nurture your leads and track successful, new business.
By the end of this webinar, you will understand:

What a CRM is, why they’re important and the difference between some of the best CRMs offered to businesses.
How to use HubSpot, a free CRM, for managing contacts, organising sales processes and creating reports.
How to improve your sales and marketing processes by using CRM task management, meeting scheduling and email marketing.
Your legal responsibilities when capturing customer information.

Building Resilience in Hospitality and Tourism
2023-01-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Dundee & Angus College, Gardyne Campus, Dundee, DD5 1NY
The past few years have devastated Scotland’s Hospitality & Tourism industry, and employers have faced challenges, including the pandemic, spiralling energy and supply costs and staff shortages. This event will focus on the tools at our disposal to weather this ‘perfect storm’ while ensuring staff feel valued and supported.
Aimed at Hospitality & Tourism employers, the event will be an opportunity to reflect on some of the sector’s challenges and explore opportunities to develop resilience through fair work practices.
Attendees will hear from Gordon McIntyre, founder of Hospitality Health – a charity focusing on supporting staff in the fantastic world of Hospitality and helping employers better understand how to ensure employee wellbeing. In addition, a panel of Dundee-based employers sharing their experiences of engaging with Fair Work, including The Selkie and Dundee University Students Association.
The audience will further explore the theme of resilience with a panel of employers, who will speak more about the benefits (as well as challenges) of implementing fair work and sustainable practices in their business.
During the event, attendees will have an opportunity to speak with organisations offering support for businesses within the local area, including Zero Waste Scotland, NHS Public Health Scotland and Business Gateway. Guests are invited to Networking & Nibbles from the end of the session until 6pm.

Paid for advertising
2023-01-23 14:00 - 16:00
This webinar is designed to help you make more informed decisions about where paid for advertising fits in to your digital marketing strategy. During the webinar we will discuss various key considerations of paid advertising, provide advice on planning, explore platform options and look at measuring the impact of your ads.
By the end of the webinar, you’ll have a better understanding of:

Key concepts of paid ads and how it fits within your strategy
Best practice during ads setup
Importance of planning for paid Ads
How to evaluate and understand performance of paid ads

How Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help your business marketing
2023-01-23 10:00 - 12:00
You’ve heard of Artificial Intelligence, but do you know how it can help you as you run your business? This brand new practical webinar will explore how AI can help revolutionise your business marketing to be more efficient and cost-effective, through the automatic creation of content for all your digital platforms; as well as helping you better understand your customers and business opportunities.
This webinar will include:

What is Artificial Intelligence
Current AI tools and systems to use right now (including ChatGPT and Dall-E 2)
Automating Digital Content for Blogs and Social Media
Using AI for business strategy and customer profiling
The pros and cons of AI for small businesses

This webinar will help you understand how you can integrate AI into your existing marketing, looking at the potential consequences (good and bad) of Artificial Intelligence, and its impact on small businesses and their customers.

Innovative Strategies to Attract and Keep The Best Talent
2023-01-23 10:00 - 11:00
Attracting the right talent and retaining it is paramount to business success.
In this webinar, The Conference Board will explore the key themes that organisations should consider when it comes to stimulating innovative approaches to broaden the talent pool and anchor existing talent.
These themes will include:

Alternative sources of labour to widen the talent pool and achieve greater
diversity in the workforce
Challenging recruitment bias in current processes
Rethinking employee value propositions and employer branding, with consideration of workers’ varying expectations
Retention and recruitment strategies and how these interlink

Scotland's Trade Fair & Speciality Food Show
2023-01-22 09:30 - 2023-01-24 16:00 | SEC Glasgow, Exhibition Way, Glasgow, G3 8YW
Held at the SEC in Glasgow, over 500 companies exhibit thousands of products to retail buyers looking to source inspirational products for the new season.
These co-located shows offer the very best home accessories, giftware, fashion, jewellery, accessories and speciality food and drink from Scotland and beyond.
Please note this is a trade only event.
Sunday 22 January: 09:30 – 17:00
Monday 23 January: 09:30 – 17:00
Tuesday 24 January: 09:30 – 16:00

Photography for online business
2023-01-20 14:00 - 16:00
During this webinar you will:

Discover the basic ‘dos and don’ts’ of taking your own pictures, editing them and uploading them onto digital platforms.
See some real-life examples of posts that demonstrate good, bad and indifferent use for businesses.

What is involved in building a successful international ready website
2023-01-20 13:30 - 16:30
This expert-led webinar covers everything you need to stay ahead of competitors by creating a globalised website and social media presence.
The session is designed as a guide for ambitious Scottish businesses planning to expand into new international marketplaces.
You’ll learn about the following topics:

Selecting a domain
Registering with search engines
Choosing a web host
Language and localisation issues
Payment and shipping
Localising your social media

Build an effective strategy to grow your business
2023-01-20 09:00 - 11:00
This webinar is practical, outcome driven, and designed to fit with the needs of small businesses in both B2C and B2B environments. It will help you develop a strategically led approach that can turbo charge business growth, identify the core growth strategy(ies) that are right for your business, and develop an action plan.
We will look at:

Your business today – identifying your strengths and areas for development
The key pillars of a business and why balancing all areas is essential for success
Personal and business ambitions and using these to guide strategy development
Ansoff’s Matrix as a tool for identifying core growth strategies
The core components of your business delivery
How to develop a methodical, strategic approach to developing your business for future success

After the webinar, you will understand:

How to undertake a balanced review of where your business is that helps identify areas for development
Ansoff’s Matrix and how to use it as a core strategic planning tool
How to create a strategic plan for growing your business

How to start a business: The basics
2023-01-19 18:00 - 20:00
Whatever your reasons may be for considering being your own boss, Business Gateway is here to support you and help you decide if this is the right path for you. Helping you consider your plans from exploring your potential customers to looking at the key activities and costs involved.
We will cover:

Personal finance planning – how much do you need to earn?
Researching your market – who your customers are, understanding your competition and what the trends are within your chosen field
Business structure – what are the core business structures? How to decide which is right for you and how to register as a business
Creating your start-up action plan – an outline
Marketing
Pricing
Naming the business
Basic bookkeeping
Forecasting
Financing, banking, insurance, and VAT
Tax

An update on 'Right to Work' checks
2023-01-19 14:30 - 15:30
Covid-19 right to work measures are ending on 30 September 2022. In this webinar, TalentScotland will look at how employers in Scotland can continue to perform right to work checks after this date.
This webinar is presented by Brodies LLP, TalentScotland’s immigration specialists, and you’ll have the opportunity to have any questions you might have.

How to improve your Google search rankings - Part 1: On page optimisation
2023-01-19 14:00 - 16:00
Join us to look at how Google and other search engines decide the order in which they list their search results. We will show you how to maximise your chances of appearing towards the top of the search rankings, ensuring you understand what key words and phrases your potential customers are using when searching online, and how to optimise your website as a result.
We will cover:

How search engines work, and the ‘on-page’ factors used to rank your site
Understanding customer search behaviour
Keyword research tools and how to benefit from them
Optimising your website content for search engines

Working with the Public Sector - All You Need to Know
2023-01-19 10:30 - 12:00
How well do you know the public sector? This introductory module is recommended for anyone new to bidding. It provides a comprehensive overview of the public sector marketplace in Scotland and beyond and introduces the concept of tendering and procurement.
This event is suitable for Level 1 (Beginner) workshop is a first step to tendering for new or inexperienced bidders. No previous knowledge or experience is required to attend this workshop.

During this course, you will learn:

What is the public sector?
Routes into the public sector
Finding opportunities
Creating a pipeline of work
Pre-engagement activities

Get impact & engagement with social media analytics
2023-01-19 10:00 - 12:00
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn & Pinterest are widely used social platforms, but often account owners aren’t looking at the metrics provided within them. Those metrics will inform you of reach, impressions, demographics and more, all of which can help towards improving the impact of your posting and targeting.
This webinar will help you understand how to access those metrics, and how to use them to improve your social media delivery.

Getting to grips with Instagram Reels
2023-01-19 10:00 - 12:00
We’ll take you through a step-by-step process of planning, shooting and editing a video with Instagram Reels. We will cover how to:

Create ‘expert’ videos
Create text videos
Use Reels soundtracks
Create voiceover videos
Use transition in videos

Market Research Made Easy
2023-01-18 14:00 - 16:00 | The Cabin, 6 Union Street, Monifieth, DD5 4NG
This workshop aims to help you identify your customers, understand your competitors and plan an effective marketing strategy.
The workshop will look at:

the role of marketing in your business
identifying your target customers
identifying the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors
market research

Instagram for business
2023-01-18 14:00 - 16:00
Thinking about using Instagram to communicate with existing and potential customers? Want to showcase your products or services using it? During this webinar we will cover:

Getting the setup right and benefitting from the available business tools.
Best practice profiles, and some strategies to help your business stand out from the crowd.
The types of audience you can reach via this platform and the factors and analytics such as cost and timing of posting images and how that can maximise impact.
The various types of content you can post to Instagram, from regular posts to Stories and Reels.

Inclusive Workplaces
2023-01-18 11:00 - 12:00
Inclusive workplaces can be attractive to current and future employees, regardless of which diversities they may face. Educating your staff on inclusion is essential in complying with legislation, retaining staff, and improving employee satisfaction, success, and well-being.
In this webinar, you’ll learn what inclusion is and how it differs from diversity, why having an inclusive workforce is critical to your success, the laws and policies which support this in the workplace, and employee disabilities.
Following our Q&A, Phillippa will share information on the additional support available for you to make positive changes.
This webinar is for businesses based in Dundee, Perth and Angus.

An introduction to business websites & what you need to consider
2023-01-18 10:00 - 12:00
This webinar will take you through all the steps required to design, build and host a business website. You will learn about:

The need to determine website objectives
The importance of knowing who your audience is and measuring results
Setting clear calls to action and creating engaging content
Creating your brand’s visual identity online, your site’s blueprint and how you can structure your site map
What’s involved in registering your domain, maintaining your site content, and options for hosting it

This webinar will also offer guidance on when and how to outsource your website development. Covering topics such as choosing a suitable content management system, what to organise first and costing for the work.

Making use of YouTube in your business
2023-01-18 10:00 - 11:00
YouTube is the perfect place to grow your brand internationally and drive traffic to your website. If you get a large enough following, you may also be able to earn some money.
This webinar will provide many live demos, as well as the tips and tricks required to help you jumpstart your own YouTube channel. It will also help you understand how to achieve success and measure your visitor activity on YouTube.

Skilled worker route - How employers can sponsor international talent
2023-01-17 14:30 - 15:30
With most EU and non-EU citizens now subject to the UK immigration system, we invite you to join us as we discuss how the Skilled Worker route can help you to access overseas talent.
As a Scottish based SME, TalentScotland can support your business in a number of ways.
