Startups

The half day workshop will give you an overview of everything you need to know about digital marketing as a startup or new business. When in the early stages of business, you often don’t know what you don’t know. Which is why we see so many small businesses making the wrong decisions about their digital marketing activities which ultimately costs them a lot of time and money in the process. This crash course in digital marketing for startups is designed to put you and your business on the right track for success.   What You’ll Learn After attending the digital marketing for startups workshop you will go away with the knowledge to make informed decisions for your business. We will be covering a large range of topics that you need to be aware of to succeed online.   Design Looking at the importance of design on your website, how this links with the price point and quality expectations of customers. How to effectively use photography, videos and content marketing on your website and pitfalls to avoid. The design of your website has such a huge impact on how people perceive your business, products and services to the point that it […]

This free taster session is designed to shortcut your learning in the digital world to understand what foundations you really need in place to enable your business to grow. Most startups get their digital fundamentals wrong which costs their businesses precious time and money. The event is for businesses who have been involved with the Startup Loans scheme with Business Enterprise Trust. For ambitious companies looking to implement the right technologies from the outset to help their business grow, this taster workshop is designed to help you understand how your technology decisions can either help or hinder your business.   “Smart people learn from their own mistakes, wise people learn from the mistakes of others.” – A Wise Person   5 Key Takeaways from the taster session will include; Website Technologies: Understanding the components of your website and how these technologies can mean the difference between growing your business online or chaining you to the ground. Looking at website language choices, content management system choices, web hosting choices and more. Generating Traffic: As a startup or new business, having a website is the equivalent of buying a phone… no-one is going to call you unless you start to promote your phone […]

This free taster session is designed to shortcut your learning in the digital world to understand what foundations you really need in place to enable your business to grow. Most startups get their digital fundamentals wrong which costs their businesses precious time and money. The event is purely for businesses who have been involved with the Government’s New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme with East Lancs Chamber of Commerce. For ambitious companies looking to implement the right technologies from the outset to help their business grow, this taster workshop is designed to help you understand how your technology decisions can either help or hinder your business.   “Smart people learn from their own mistakes, wise people learn from the mistakes of others.” – A Wise Person   5 Key Takeaways from the taster session will include; Website Technologies: Understanding the components of your website and how these technologies can mean the difference between growing your business online or chaining you to the ground. Looking at website language choices, content management system choices, web hosting choices and more. Generating Traffic: As a startup or new business, having a website is the equivalent of buying a phone… no-one is going to call you unless […]

This free taster session is designed to shortcut your learning in the digital world to understand what foundations you really need in place to enable your business to grow. Most startups get their digital fundamentals wrong which costs their businesses precious time and money. The event is purely for businesses who have been involved with the Government’s New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme with East Lancs Chamber of Commerce. For ambitious companies looking to implement the right technologies from the outset to help their business grow, this taster workshop is designed to help you understand how your technology decisions can either help or hinder your business.   “Smart people learn from their own mistakes, wise people learn from the mistakes of others.” – A Wise Person   5 Key Takeaways from the taster session will include; Website Technologies: Understanding the components of your website and how these technologies can mean the difference between growing your business online or chaining you to the ground. Looking at website language choices, content management system choices, web hosting choices and more. Generating Traffic: As a startup or new business, having a website is the equivalent of buying a phone… no-one is going to call you unless […]

This talk will explain the evolutionary UX process behind TendoJobs.com, a website that links employers directly with job hunters making the entire recruitment process seamless and transparent. The design and building of TendoJobs.com has been driven by continual user feedback which has improved both the onboarding process and the engagement levels on the website. This talk will also cover some of the challenges faced and the lessons learnt while diversifying the business model from agency into a scalable technology product. Michael Cropper is the founder of tech startup TendoJobs.com and owner of digital agency ContradoDigital.com. He can be found on Twitter @TendoJobs / @Contrado Digital /@MickCropper, LinkedIn at /MichaelCropper86 and regularly publishes useful resources on digital topics over the company’s developer blog. Please invite your friends and colleagues and use #UXManchester Schedule: 5:45 Free refreshments 6:30 Michael’s talk & discussion 7:45 Lightning talks 8:30 Drinks & chat at PLY (next door) Lightning talks & Sketchnotes: Please feel free to prepare a Lightning Talk (max 3 min) or bring/create your Sketchnotes about any UX related or topic related idea, project, vacancy, event etc. Live streaming: This talk will be broadcasted live as well as archived on Periscope@UXManchester Book here: https://www.meetup.com/Manchester-UX-UI-Networking/events/232914157/

Abstract: “DDD: The God that Failed?” DDD is rarely applied 'properly'. When directed at the right sort of problem and executed well, DDD is a valid solution. But DDD is over-used, misunderstood, misapplied, deified, and just downright bastardized. It is a small core concept that has gargantuan consequences throughout the solution. Thankfully, there are alternatives. By following the Single Responsibility Principle at an architectural level, we can create a suite of small, decoupled services with high internal cohesion. These services can be composed and orchestrated in many different ways to solve business problems. Speaker: Gary McLean Hall Develop and Architect. Author of "Adaptive Code via C#" and "Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM". Very sporadic tweeter. Code pedant. Frustrated game developer gone corporate. Venturing into the unknown building TendoJobs.com A talk by Michael Cropper, founder of Tendo Jobs, which looks at the technical aspects behind building a tech startup. Starting with the skills required to bring your idea to life, should you be a specialist or a generalist? Then looking at the underlying frameworks, technologies and design patterns required to build solid foundations for growth and scale while keeping things as simple as possible to avoid technical pitfalls. Through to how to […]