[Retail Focus Newsletter]

BizConNH

Chamber of Commerce Greater Peterborough

Saturday, October 1, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

South Meadow School, Peterborough

BizConNH is your chance to share ideas, make connections, find new customers, discover the latest products and services for your industry, and launch your business into a successful 4th Quarter and new year.

If you're a new entrepreneur or an established business owner or executive; if you're seeking the most recent wisdom on marketing, communications, finance, sales, human resources, and technology; with 20+ workshops, 40+ exhibitors, networking events, roundtables and nationally known speakers, you'll find what you're looking for at BizConNH. Fee: $45; includes breakfast snacks, lunch, all events and exhibits, keynote, and $20 off new or renewed membership in the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce. Details & registration at http://www.bizconnh.com.

BizCon

Understanding What You Need

Your Website to Do For You Workshop

With Heidi Stanclift, 4Web, Inc.

Monday, October 17, Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Hannah Grimes Center, Keene

Explore Jesse James Garrett's Five Planes of User Experience for a website: Strategy, Scope, Structure, Skeleton, Surface. Audience: Anyone with a website or thinking about creating a website. Cost: Free. Register at http://www.hannahgrimes.com.

The Fundamentals of

Internet Marketing Series

Monadnock SCORE

October 18, November 1 & 15, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Saving Bank of Walpole, Keene

Oct. 18: The Fundamentals of Internet Marketing; November 1: How to Drive More Traffic on to Your Site; November 15: How to use Social Media as a Marketing Tool. Fee: $30 per person/$50 per couple. All 3 Seminars: $60 per person/$100 per couple. Register at

http://www.monadnockscore.org/seminars.html.

Put Your Business On the Digital Map:

Roadside Marketing in the Digital Age

UNH Cooperative Extension

Wednesday, November 9, 9:00a.m. - Noon

Hannah Grimes Center, Keene

Make sure people find your business, town or organization when searching maps online, and when using their GPS units and smartphone in the car! This 3-hour course will explain the importance of getting your business listed accurately in a variety of online databases, and will teach you to update and manage your listing on the most important sites. Make sure your digital storefront is visible to potential customers everywhere digital maps are used. FEE: $40; Scholarships available. View flyer for more details & registration.

What you will get from the training:

An understanding of the new types of marketing opportunities offered by GPS and smartphones
Your accurate and descriptive business information in numerous databases and maps used by online, GPS and smartphone mapping applications
The skills to maintain and update your listing in the most important mapping databases