Louise Welsby from The Marches Growth Hub sat down with David F George, an AI expert from Choice Master to record their latest podcast - How Can AI Empower Businesses.

This episode explores how to utilise generative AI to help your business and save valuable time. 

Here are just a few of the topics Louise and David cover:

• How AI can be used to automate tasks, personalise the customer experience, optimise processes, and enhance predictive capabilities
• How to use generative AI to create new marketing content, develop new products and services, and improve customer service
• How businesses of all sizes can get started with AI .

If you're interested in learning more about how AI can help your business, listen to our latest podcast

Simply click on the following link: How AI Can Empower Business | How Can AI Empower Businesses (transistor.fm)

Ideas are the lifeblood of any business. But where do good ideas come from? And how can you generate more of them?

This workshop will help you to answer these questions and more. We will explore the different techniques for generating ideas, and we will give you the tools and resources you need to come up with innovative ideas that will grow your business.

By the end of this workshop, you will have a clear understanding of how to generate ideas, and you will be able to use these techniques to create new and innovative products, services, and marketing campaigns.

Topics Covered

• The importance of ideas for small businesses
• Different techniques for generating ideas
• Tools and resources for idea generation
• How to evaluate and select ideas
• How to implement ideas

Ideas Generation: How to Think Outside the Box and Grow Your Business Tickets, Wed 4 Oct 2023 at 09:30 | Eventbrite

*Fully funded, specialist business advice sessions for business based in the Shropshire Council area*

Are you looking to grow your business?

Would you like to take time to look at your business strategically?

Then why not come and talk to our experienced adviser.

These 75 minute conversations will consider your aspirations (personal) and examines what you want your business to be.

This session will support you in :

• Evaluate the current market and opportunities
• Evaluate the talent and assets available
• Consider the businesses financial performance
• Identifying the critical success factors that the business relies on

Sign-up here

The Friday Hub is Shropshire’s biggest, regular, FREE, business networking event. Every Friday 9.15-10.15am

You can register here if you've not before https://bit.ly/G2G1FriHub

There are plenty of opportunities to meet others and discover the power of sharing and solving together - this is a gentle and light-hearted yet business focussed group where you can be sure to finish your week on a high…

“Good things happen when you bring good people together”

You can hear Johnny explaining what the Friday Hub is all about here

: https://vimeo.com/734666973/437b2936

The iconic Small Business Saturday UK Tour is back again this November!

The countdown to Small Business Saturday is officially on, as The Tour returns to spotlight and support small businesses all over the country.

Once again supported by BT Skills for Tomorrow, ‘The Tour’ will call at twenty three different towns and cities across the UK throughout November, visiting small businesses and shining a light on their contribution to the UK economy and local communities.

It will also offer a jampacked free daily programme of online events - including workshops, webinars, mentoring and inspiring entrepreneurial stories - open to all small businesses.

Small Business Saturday UK | Another year making a Big Difference!

Talks, demonstrations and debates brought more than 200 people together to reinforce the need to produce good quality local food at the first Marches Real Food and Farming conference.

The event was held on Friday and Saturday, organised by the Shropshire Good Food Partnership and held at Partridge Farm on the Linley Estate near Bishop’s Castle.

The packed schedule featured local and national scientists, farmers, growers and chefs in a diverse programme focused on creating a regenerative and resilient food and farming system in the region.  

Shropshire Good Food Partnership founder Jenny Rouquette said the partnership had been inspired to stage the conference by the annual Oxford Real Food and Farming Conference and after seeing the power of bringing farmers together at events like Groundswell.

“We were looking for a way to launch a broad debate about the future of our food and farming systems in the Marches and we hope we achieved that. We were thrilled that there was a real energy at the conference inspired by so many people engaged in different aspects of producing good, local food, and its journey from farm to fork,” she said.

The conference also included a collaboration hub and culminated in a people's assembly. Views and debates from these will be used to shape a vision for the local food future and how all those involved can work together to achieve it.

Further information on the event is available at https://www.mrffc.uk/