The benefits of Greater Manchester's digital marketing community
If you spend just five minutes on Indeed, it's no surprise that Manchester's digital marketing community is vastly growing, alongside other sectors in the city. Just a quick search brings up 2,000 jobs in the city centre alone, ranging from entry level positions on £16,000+ all the way up to senior positions earning over £85,000.
According to stats released by New Economy Manchester, Greater Manchester has the largest creative and digital clusters in the UK, employing 63,500 people and generating GVA of £3.1 billion each year. Key assets to this include MediaCityUK and The Sharp Project.
Manchester has widely been known as a city that is large enough for your business to grow, but small enough to feel as though it has a great, tight-knit community. Naturally, this opens up great opportunities for collaboration.
It may feel like a new digital or creative agency with a ball pool is popping up in the city on a daily basis, but the truth is - there's a hunger for this sector.
So how can you take advantage of the thriving digital marketing community?
A panel of experts at our conference, including Rebecca Bishop, founder of the world's first social connection app designed to keep you active after having your baby and her PR consultant, Eve Jane Deasy and app developer, John Kershaw will share how they have done just this.
They will be discussing how the Manchester community helped to grow Buump to an initiative supported by Sport England with excellent potential to benefit new mums who are looking for an alternative route to fitness post-baby.
Through making great partnerships in the region, using consultants instead of having an in-house team has allowed Rebecca to grow her inspiring app while also being able to tackle the challenges that come with bringing up two children. The app has achieved more than Rebecca ever imagined, after having an initial idea when getting into Park Run after having a baby.
This panel will share tips and advice on how you too can engage with Manchester's freelance community to boost what your business can offer and to help your business to grow.
When you're an SME, it can often be daunting to commit to having a whole new member of staff to pay for. This is the headache the insights from this panel will help you to overcome. It will also celebrate Manchester's business community, which pro-manchester is always delighted to shout about.
Don't miss this panel, which so far includes three excellent speakers, with more to be announced in due course...
According to stats released by New Economy Manchester, Greater Manchester has the largest creative and digital clusters in the UK, employing 63,500 people and generating GVA of £3.1 billion each year. Key assets to this include MediaCityUK and The Sharp Project.
Manchester has widely been known as a city that is large enough for your business to grow, but small enough to feel as though it has a great, tight-knit community. Naturally, this opens up great opportunities for collaboration.
It may feel like a new digital or creative agency with a ball pool is popping up in the city on a daily basis, but the truth is - there's a hunger for this sector.
So how can you take advantage of the thriving digital marketing community?
A panel of experts at our conference, including Rebecca Bishop, founder of the world's first social connection app designed to keep you active after having your baby and her PR consultant, Eve Jane Deasy and app developer, John Kershaw will share how they have done just this.
They will be discussing how the Manchester community helped to grow Buump to an initiative supported by Sport England with excellent potential to benefit new mums who are looking for an alternative route to fitness post-baby.
Through making great partnerships in the region, using consultants instead of having an in-house team has allowed Rebecca to grow her inspiring app while also being able to tackle the challenges that come with bringing up two children. The app has achieved more than Rebecca ever imagined, after having an initial idea when getting into Park Run after having a baby.
This panel will share tips and advice on how you too can engage with Manchester's freelance community to boost what your business can offer and to help your business to grow.
When you're an SME, it can often be daunting to commit to having a whole new member of staff to pay for. This is the headache the insights from this panel will help you to overcome. It will also celebrate Manchester's business community, which pro-manchester is always delighted to shout about.
Don't miss this panel, which so far includes three excellent speakers, with more to be announced in due course...
Rebecca BishopFounder, Buump Active
Rebecca Bishop is a busy, working mum of two young girls from Manchester. A business development specialist by profession, Rebecca has spent much of her career in the third sector. Always a great connector of people, Rebecca created Buump Active to introduce mums to each other and to inspire them to become the best versions of themselves through fitness and activity - using tech as the vehicle for connection. Buump Active is the first social connection app in the world, designed to keep you active after having your baby. Helping look after your physical and mental wellbeing and proudly supported by Sport England. |
Eve Jane DeasyPR Consultant
Eve Jane Deasy is a Manchester and high peak-based PR consultant with 19 years’ experience working with consumer brands and businesses. Eve has worked agency side, in-house and as an independent consultant during her career, across a wide range of industries including food and drink, beers, wines & spirits, fashion, parenting, tech, health and lifestyle, and takes a bold approach to media relations in order to secure national press coverage and help to make brands famous. She enjoys working with everyone from large FMCG companies to new start ups. |
John KershawFounder, M14 Industries
John Kershaw founded Bristlr, the dating app connecting those with beards to those who want to stroke beards. After gaining international notoriety he grew the company and white-labeled the technology to become M14 Industries, who now build and manage apps for other people. He and his company went through the Ignite startup accelerator in 2015 and appeared on Dragon's Den in 2017. |