New Forest Business Growth Programme - Simple Marketing for Small Business
We'll cover basic principles in marketing and then dive into realistic resource efficient marketing activities, tactics and planning that empower you and get you feeling confident about the growth of your business.
Please note - the zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the event
Speakers
Rich Burn is a dynamic business start-up, digital-skills consultant, bid writer and marketing mentor with over 20 years of experience helping organisations and small businesses unlock their potential. With a career spanning marketing, sales, training, public-sector innovation, business support, and hands-on consultancy, he’s known for turning complex ideas into practical, human-centred solutions that drive growth. Rich has worked in corporate life, been a co-owner of a small retail business and worked across multiple sectors including public and third sector, giving him a wide ranges of experience across many fields. Rich brings energy, empathy and humour to every project. Whether mentoring entrepreneurs, supporting public-sector partnerships or running marketing workshops, his goal remains the same: to make business growth, practical, results focussed and simple - inspiring the business owner with confidence and enthusiasm to make that next step towards success.
Rich has worked in publishing (Financial Times/Pearson), marketing of the arts/film & music (including roles at Earls Court & Olympia, Bournemouth International Centre & Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts). Adding to this he has worked on publicly funded programmes as a business advisor with the creative and digital sectors in Dorset and the South East and been actively involved with creative sector communities including Your Are The Media and The Marketing Leaders Forum