Brightpearl Commerce Acceleration 101 Live, Manchester & Liverpool – 24th July
Commerce Acceleration 101 Live aims to provide local retailers and wholesalers with practical advice on how to accelerate their businesses. Topics will include focussing on some of the activities that gain you profit; like saving time, increasing efficiency, better customer service and selling online.
The day starts with the first event in Manchester kicking off at 8am and finishing at 10am so that you can get back to your business for the rest of the day. The event is repeated in Liverpool the same evening with a 6.30pm start.
If you can’t attend the events, Brightpearl have a number of online resources on their Commerce Acceleration 101 site which are well worth browsing, all of which are free of charge to access.
Online Seller Meetup, Birmingham – July 24th
The next Online Seller Meetup will take place at The Red Lion, Hockley, Birmingham on Wednesday the 24th July. Shaf Rasul, the successful entrepreneur and founder of Boffer, will be speaking about his experience and give his best tips on how to turn your business in a success. Shaf will be followed by Dan from PHP Genie, who will share his expertise on “Pros and cons of webcart providers. Should you build your website via Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce…?”
There’s a break in the Meetups over the summer, but their back on the 18th September at The Didsbury Inn in Manchester.
Ecommerce Expo – October 2nd-3rd
Ecommerce Expo boast over 180 top suppliers exhibiting including market leaders in ecommerce, mcommerce, social commerce, digital marketing, mobile, fulfilment, delivery, payments, security and more. On top of that will be 50+ seminar sessions in four theatres over the 2 day event.
One of the best things about Ecommerce Expo is that it’s free to attend, that’s both the exhibition and the seminar sessions and keynotes.
Registration for Ecommerce Expo is already open so get the date in your diary now.
Internet Retailing Conference – October 16th
The Internet Retailing Conference is coming to Hammersmith on the 16th October and as usual Tamebay will be heading up to this event. It’s normally a great chance to meet ecommerce sellers for some networking (beer) as well as a chance to get a quick fix on what’s happening in the Internet retailing arena.
There are three streams throughout the conference focussing on The Customer, The Business and The Industry as well as the normally packed exhibition hall. Prices for the conference start at £295.00 for retailers, but the exhibition and numerous workshops are totally free to attend so there’s no reason not to visit and pick up the latest tips and tricks for online retail.
Here are four topics that might make you want to attend the conference sessions:
- Touchpoints – Online, mobile (customers and staff), tablets, kiosks, TV, re-emergence of the high street, print, social.
- Customer Behaviour & Expectations – showrooming, price matching, social, value and
transparency, store experience, service on their terms. - Requirements – Optimizing data, personalising all touchpoints, single view of stock, 360 degree view of customers, speed, efficiency and seamlessness across channels and borders.
- The Future – Collaboration, shake up and convergence of payments, reaching the head and heart of individual customers and staff, and then shaking it all about with a splash of innovation and technology.
Metapack Delivery Conference 2014 – February 4th 2013
The Delivery Conference, which is run by the experts at Metapack, will take place next February and the 2014 theme will be ‘Delivering Customer Loyalty in an Omni-Channel World‘, focusing on the shift from client acquisition to client retention, guaranteeing customer loyalty and that elusive repeat sale.
Of course the conference will also retain its role as a one-stop-shop to find out everything that’s advancing in delivery.
The Delivery Conference is free to attend so book now to reserve your place.
