Learn how reimagine the way you promote and grow your business and increase your sales pipeline

Join FSB and partners for a day of workshops and networking, all designed to help you upscale your sales.

Our Bootcamp and Networking, in partnership with Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and in partnership with Zoho.

FSB is turning 50 this year! To celebrate our golden anniversary, we're helping businesses across Staffordshire and the West Midlands to join us in Going for Gold! Join us for a feature-packed day of insights, ideas and inspiration to 'Power up Your Potential' and 'Supercharge your Sales'.

Our hugely successful FSB Business Bootcamp comes to Staffordshire for the first time in June 2024! Held at the gorgeous Keele Hall on Keele University Campus, our Bootcamp is packed full of hands-on workshops from leading local businesses, to help you build value into your small business.

Agenda

  • Arrival from 7.30am
     
  • Breakfast Faciliatated Speed Networking Session 8am - 9am 
    Where you can expand your network from across the region and meet as many people as possible before the main Bootcamp begins
     
  • Bootcamp 9.30am - 3pm
    Free to attend, this is your chance to hear from inspirational speakers to help you develop and grow your business

Sessions and Speakers

The Bootcamp will feature expert speakers throughout the day, giving their top tips which you can put into practice and take back to your team to help you Supercharge Your Sales in 2024. 

Amanda Bourne - Breakfast Speed Networking
Amanda from Findabiz networking has been running networking events for many years, in all different styles and formats. Using the unique FindaBiz Networking SWAP Formula, everyone has one minute to introduce themselves to the table and then after exchanging cards or digital contact details you move to the next table where you meet completely different people. We do this until you have met every delegate in the room.

Todd - Selling Smart: Using Social Media to Support Sales
Todd is the co-director of Spaghetti Agency and will show you ways to get your social media 'Selling Smart’ and away from pushy selling (badly) online. You'll discover powerful, easy-to-implement tactics to increase your business’s awareness and convert followers into customers, all without the icky hard sell or spammy LinkedIn DMs!

Bernie De Souza - "The Only  Two-sentence Sales Presentation You Will Ever Need!"

Need more sales and clients? We have International speaker and best-selling author, Bernie De Souza, to show us how at our Bootcamp. Bernie's presentations are powerful, fast-moving and teach attendees word-for-word exactly how to get more clients without paying for advertising. Immediately, attendees can improve their results with simple, actionable phrases that bond people to them. You’ll be entertained, motivated and inspired with their new skills that last a lifetime. 

Simon Washbrook - How to build a qualified and engaged sales pipeline
Simon is founder of multi-award-winning popcorn CRM & Lead Management. 

During Simon’s session he will outline how to design a practical sales process/pipeline, how to keep your prospects engaged and how to identify when your prospects are ready to buy. With 20+ years of experience in Sales and Marketing, specifically for SMEs, he certainly knows how to engage with the right prospects and not write them off just because they said ‘NO’! 

Want to get your business in front of the region's best small businesses? We also have low-cost exhibiting opportunities too! Starting from just £85 plus VAT, secure yours today before they're all snapped up. If you would like to be an exhibitor, please click here 

For those that opt in for this event, we will share your business contact details with Department for Business and Trade and Zoho. They may contact you with information from this event as well as product information and other information relevant to you. Department for Business and Trade will process your data in accordance with their Privacy Notice, Zoho will process your data in accordance with their Privacy Policy. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

PLEASE NOTE Car parking: We have been asked by the venue to obtain the car registration details for guests who are parking at the venue to reserve the spaces for you on a free of charge basis and to avoid any car parking charges. Upon booking could you please provide the details which FSB will share with the venue. FSB will then irretrievably delete this information immediately following the event. You will be assigned a car park prior to the event, to avoid any car parking charges, please ensure you park in the assigned car park.

Event Contact
Please contact Caroline Ashman for any further information.