Buy one get one free offer at City College for the Mary Portas master classes

City College are offering their Mary Portas master class as buy one get one free for a limited time only.

The classes are designed principally for retailers and offer help with reviewing your business and guidance on how to take it on to the next level. They are all run by Marcus Pescod who is City College’s Retail trainer and assessor. He has over 20 years of experience in retail and is extremely passionate about helping retailers.

Up coming courses ...

Mary Portas – Creating Desire
22nd June 2011, Guildford, £200
This master class looks at the mechanics of creating desire amongst your customers through visual merchandising.

Mary Portas – Marketing for more customers
28th June 2011, Brighton, £200
This master class looks at how to spread the word about your business without it becoming time consuming ad expensive, featuring tips and advice on maximising the impact of your precious marketing spend and identifying activities that are really going to make a difference  in driving up sales and profits effectively.

Mary Portas – Creating Desire 
6th July 2011, Horsham, £200
This master class looks at the mechanics of creating desire amongst your customers through visual merchandising.

Mary Portas – Buying for your customer 
20th July 2011, Guildford, £200
This master class provides you with all the information, tips and tools to help you get to know your brand, competition and shoppers inside out; in short the skills to become a great buyer.

Mary Portas – You and your team 
26th July 2011, Brighton, £200
This master class looks at leadership style whilst addressing some of the practical issues in recruiting, training and developing the people in your business, from writing job descriptions to interviewing techniques.

Mary Portas – Retail Finance and business planning 
27th July 2011, Horsham, £200
In easy to understand language and using interactive examples, this master class takes a comprehensive approach to building a really effective budget, sales plan and cash flow forecast. Helping you to keep an eye on your numbers and plan for what to do if things go off track.

WorldHost  - Creating service excellence in retail 
3rd Aug 2011, Brighton, £85
An Internationally recognised customer service training programme. This is a certified programme which covers all aspects of high quality customer service. Participants on completion of the course will be eligible to wear the WorldHost pin badge.

All courses are one day (09:30 – 16:30).
N.B The Brighton Courses are held at City College Brighton & Hove Pelham campus.

For more information please call 01273 667756 (option 2) or email nnu@ccb.ac.uk  
www.ccb.ac.uk/cbs

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