Northern Marketing Festival

At the Northern Marketing Festival, you will have multiple sessions led by industry experts, lively discussions on the latest trends, and invaluable networking opportunities. Whether you’re looking to gain new skills, tackle challenges, or simply connect with fellow marketers, this festival has something for everyone.

As Summer ends, we have a September start!

Join us in September! nesma offers CIM courses from level 3 to level 7. Each module at every level is designed to help marketers meet the increasing demands of contemporary challenges at every stage in their careers.

The Inventory: How to design a Content Marketing Plan that keeps you sane

Content Marketing Session

If you have been marketing your business, products and services for some time, you will have a back-catalogue to harvest for content ideas and online content to share more widely. This includes any digital content assets, but may also include offline, traditional marketing materials – even old brochures and reports. The efficient content marketer will look for opportunities to re-use and repurpose older content, or ‘hero’ assets like video, podcasts, webinars, online events and e-books.

Get Ready: From ‘top of mind’ to ‘top of preference’: how to become the clear choice for customers

Content Marketing Session

This session will help you discover how you are unique. As Sainsburys said: “Our Values Make Us Different”. It’s as true for businesses, charities, agencies, corporations and sole traders as it is for us as people. Each has a personality and identity. But it is how you apply your values and deliver the benefit of them to your customers that is unique.

If you can turn your values into the value they deliver to your customers, then you’re really onto something. It’s time to show them what you do and why only you can do it.

Change Management: how do we make it stick?

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Overview  Change management ensures that the change leaves an organisation better than it was before.  This involves understanding what is driving the change, understanding the risks, understanding the people motivators, understanding the benefits, and having the ability to embed the change firmly within the culture of the organisation.  Course structure This is an interactive virtual …

Change Management: how do we take people with us?

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Overview With change we need to see the need, move to meet the need and finish when there is no more need for it!  Successful change is led by people who deliver literally ‘where the rubber meets the road’, those with the ability to build a high concept pitch backed with the ability to clearly …

New product development in a virtual world

Join CIM for another great Webinar Express on Thursday 6 May 2021. We are living in truly unprecedented times, in which the lives of people and organisations are being truly disrupted. In Higher Education many institutions are grappling with the new normal whilst considering what this means for new product/course development. What opportunities does this new world offer to organisations looking to revolutionise their product/course portfolio and what are the challenges? This session will look at Higher Education institutions and outline approaches to virtual new product development and key learning points.

Expressing your personal brand at work

Join CIM for another great Webinar in the Graduate Gateway Club series on Wednesday 21 April 2021. Articulate your value, develop your brand story, and shine! How do we communicate our worth in the workplace? How do we convey the important work we do and achieve the recognition we deserve? This session shares valuable tools and mindset shifts to help you move ahead with confidence, shoring up your foundations with the understanding that you’re putting your best foot forward and presenting yourself as a person of influence and value.

The science of storytelling

Join CIM for another great Webinar Express on Tuesday 13 April 2021. Transform your results and increase your influence through advanced business storytelling strategies. In this session Richard Newman from UK Bodytalk will explain strategies you can use to captivate your clients, team and stakeholders, so that you compel them to listen and dramatically increase your business results.