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FREE TRAINING: Website Design

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The Halifax Chamber of Commerce is working hard to provide our members with resources, information and value. We are pleased to offer a round of FREE online training programs to help grow your business in collaboration with the Department of Labour, Skills, and Immigration. This program is offered to businesses, managers, and employees at zero cost as a benefit of your membership. TRAINING OVERVIEW: Website Design training is a 10 week program that will start on, Tuesday, January 23, 2024 and take place once per week every TUESDAY from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. These training sessions are in high demand with our members. Please consider your schedule beforehand and only register if you are 100% committed to fully participating in this training. This is a 40 hour course and you will be required to participate in 80% of the sessions in order to receive the certificate Preference will be given to members. Future members interested in joining, please contact Jenn Kurmey, Membership Sales Manager: jenn@halifaxchamber.com There are only 12 spaces available for this session, if the session is full, please add yourself to the waitlist, you will be contacted only if a spot opens up. We are limiting this training to 1 employee representative per membership in order to allow more members the […]

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Knowing your business in real time

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This session is about businesses that want to use data to make decisions. As a group we will discuss the difficulties of accessing, linking, and reporting from multiple sources of data. Interactive Reports built in either Microsoft’s Power Pivot (Excel) or Power BI Desktop offer a shorter, straighter pathway to improve efficiency and accuracy. The best part is that Excel is on most computers, and experienced staff can quickly learn to use both products. Digital Nova Scotia has been helping the Tourism industry in Nova Scotia with digital marketing tools. Dunvegan will use a Restaurant example to demonstrate Interactive Reports to measure business activity and to help make more informed decisions. The reports will look at revenue and expenses by: Categories & sub-categories Products & sub-products Trends Impact of special occasions Forecast vs actual Meet your presenters.. Dan MacLeod  Dan is the Manager of data analytics, consulting, and training. In his first career, Dan was a Senior Sales Manager with MT&T (now Bell). He was responsible for sales force automation, and held several Sales Management roles including Data Communications, Mobile Radio, and Cellular service, and in small/medium business telecommunications. Dan introduced Cognos (now owned by IBM) data analytics software to […]