Free Digital Coaching With DigitalBoost
Business Gateway’s DigitalBoost resource is providing free digital coaching to help businesses improve their digital skills.
DigitalBoost
With DigitalBoost, businesses can access free webinars, grants, support from a digital consultant and online advice and tips to help them do more with digital. Whether you’re starting out in business and need to find out more about running social media channels or you’re an established business looking for support to take your business to the next level online, DigitalBoost provides expert help for your needs.
Digital Coaching Sessions
Looking to improve your digital skills? Want to optimise your website or create a Facebook business page but not sure where to start? Digital Coaching Sessions with DigitalBoost are hands on, practical sessions which allow you to work through the actions required with an expert on hand to guide you.
Sessions are hosted regularly and are available to all businesses in Midlothian, Edinburgh, West and East Lothian. Spaces are limited so book early and check events regularly to ensure you don’t miss out.
Coming up over the next month are the following fantastic webinars designed to support your business and digital activity
Setting up on Google My Business
During this session you’ll receive a practical, interactive demonstration that will show you how to set up your business on ‘Google my Business’ from scratch and optimise it to its full potential.
The coach on the day will deliver a step-by-step demonstrations so you know what to do, how to do it yourself, and understand why it’s important to have an up to date Google My Business listing.
Creating your Facebook Business Page
Setting up a Facebook Business page from scratch can be a daunting task. This coaching webinar will guide you through basic page creation and setup, reviewing core page settings and provide a deep dive into Facebook Insights, a review of Facebook groups and an overview of selling via Facebook.
Where possible, you’ll get the chance to carry out some of the tasks involved to build your confidence and get your started in building your own business Facebook page.
Optimise your existing LinkedIn presence
In this session you will build a fully optimised personal LinkedIn profile and a LinkedIn company page for your business. An experienced professional will guide you through an easy to follow step-by-step process so that your LinkedIn presence is ready to start achieving results.
For best results you are asked sign up for a LinkedIn account in advance (it’s free and all you need is an email address) but you’ll do everything else on the day.
This session is ideal for complete newcomers to LinkedIn as well as those who have an existing presence but feel uncertain about how to make the most of it.
Getting to grips with Instagram Reel
Not sure how to make the most of Instagram Reels? An expert will take you through the process of creating short videos so you can start using Reels for your business.
By working through the practical tasks you’ll learn how to plan effective Reels, structure your Reels for impact, and present on camera with confidence. You’ll get to grips with editing tools learning how to trim clips, use soundtracks, record a voiceover and add text. When finished you’ll leave having created some Instagram Reels for your business and be ready to make more!
Book your place
These sessions are available for Midlothian, Edinburgh, West Lothian and East Lothian businesses but spaces are limited so book today to avoid disappointment. Similar sessions will be run again in the future so be sure to bookmark this page so that you don’t miss out!
