VMA Webinar – QR Codes for Marketing with Nick Holzherr of BBC’s Apprentice

Join us on Thursday 3rd May at 9.30am BST for a webinar that will help you to bring your marketing strategy right up to date.

We’ve teamed up with Nicolas Holzherr who is currently appearing in the BBC’s Apprentice as a contestant and is the founder of QR code company QRky. In this webinar you will learn about one of the latest marketing techniques – QR Codes and how to integrate them into your existing marketing.

Nick will host the QR Code session and cover:

•Understanding QR codes
•Case studies including good and bad examples
•How to use QR codes for optimum benefit as part of your marketing activity
•How innovative QR technology is linking the digital space with the real world

We’ll then help you to kick start your marketing with a short session hosted by our own Clare Tucker, covering:

•A 10 point action plan specifically developed to help you kick start your marketing
•10 steps that you can take right now to help you improve your marketing and generate better results

Attendees of this webinar will also be provided with free marketing training module on QR codes, a free marketing guide and 14 days free access to the QRky platform.

Spaces are strictly limited for this webinar so in order to secure your place we recommend early booking.

Eventbrite - QR Codes for Marketing + Kick Start your Marketing Webinar


Another free guide from The VMA – What is Marketing?

Our latest free guide answers the question ‘What is Marketing?’.  It might seem a very simple question to answer but in our experience often individuals with responsibility for marketing struggle to define exactly what it is.  If you can’t answer this fundamental question then you are going to struggle with your marketing efforts.  So in this guide we explain in plain English precisely what marketing is.

You can access this free guide by clicking here.


The VMA Attending Business 2012 at The O2

The VMA has been given one of the hottest tickets in town this month. We have been invited to run a marketing workshop at the Business 2012 exhibition being held at the 02 in London between 18th and 20th March.

Heralded as London’s Greatest Business Event in 2012, we are absolutely delighted to be attending this prestigious exhibition which is expecting thousands of delegates to visit across the 3 days. The good news is that it is entirely free of charge to attend and is especially suited for start ups and growing businesses.

Inspiring guest speakers include Sir Richard Branson, Lord Sugar, Cherie Blair and many other leading business figures. With over 200 companies sharing their advice and exhibiting including Microsoft, Google and Blackberry and hundreds of seminars and workshops it really is going to be an event to remember and we can’t wait!

You can register for the event at http://www.business2012.com/


The VMA supporting The Peter Jones Enterprise Academy

The Vocational Marketing Academy is delighted to be working with The Peter Jones Enterprise Academy students at Solihull College this year.

In conjunction with the tutors we are preparing a marketing challenge that is designed exclusively for the students to help them understand some of the basic marketing challenges that they will face when running their own venture.

Helping the new generation of entrepreneurs to succeed is something that we at The VMA support wholeheartedly.  We are looking forward to working with the students and helping them to understand what marketing in the real world is like!


Another free guide from The VMA – 6 steps to improve your website

In the latest free guide from The Vocational Marketing Academy we’ll share with you 6 simple steps that you can take to drive more traffic to your website.  This guide will be of particular benefit to anyone who is new to marketing or needing to improve the effectiveness of their website.

Download it for free here

 


The new VMA Marketing Made Easy Group on LinkedIn

If you would benefit from lots of great marketing advice then we invite you to join The VMA Marketing Made Easy group on LinkedIn.

The group is supported by some incredibly experienced marketers and business professionals all happy to share the benefit of their knowledge with you, for free.

So if you have a burning marketing question, are looking for some advice or interested in keeping up-to-date with the latest marketing trends then this is the group for you.

Simply click here to join.


Enter our competition to win a free marketing module, free blog articles written for your company and 2 hours of consultancy worth £400

Win a free marketing module from The VMA, have 2 web-optimized blog articles written for your company and receive 2 hours of expert marketing consultancy courtesy of 1st Position Marketing.  This prize is worth over £400 so don’t miss out on this chance to gain some amazing free marketing suppport for your company.

Simply tell us why you need our help and you could be the recipient of a free marketing training module of your choice courtesy of The VMA. You’ll also have 2 blog articles written for your company completely free of charge by our good friends at 1st Position Marketing who will also provide you with 2 hours of expert marketing consultancy.

This prize is worth over £400 so don’t miss out.

All you have to do is to tell us why you should win.

The deadline for entries is midnight on Friday 18th November 2011.  We will review all entries after that date and the one that we feel is most deserving will be notified by Friday 25th November 2011.

Simply click here to enter.


Announcing the latest free guide from The VMA – Traditional or new marketing which is best?

Here’s the latest free guide courtesy of The Vocational Marketing Academy.

In this guide we take a look at the traditional marketing methods and then explore some of the new methods before offering you some advice on which ones to use. It’s ideal for anyone new to marketing,

Download it for free here

 


Free guide on using QR codes for marketing

If you’re looking to keep up-to-date with all of the latest marketing methods then you might like to read the latest free marketing guide to be published by The Vocational Marketing Academy.

In this guide we take a look at what QR codes are and how they can help bring traditional marketing to life.

Download it for free here


The VMA on YouTube

We’ve prepared a short video entitled ‘Learn the Basics of Marketing with The Vocational Marketing Academy’.  It briefly explains a little bit more about us and is available for you to view too!