Thebestofnorthwest Local & Loved Awards

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I have just had a marketing meeting with David and Gaynor after being in the Bestof for just over a year and with thanks to them I am very pleased with how my business as come on in the last twelve months, Thankyou David and Gaynor and keep up the excellent work!
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Since joining Best of Bolton we have been made to feel really welcome. Nothing is too much trouble. We start our social media training in January another of their additional services.
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David and Gaynor are two of the most hard working, professional people I have come across. The support for members and commitment to local businesses is second to none. If you need help with your social media look no further!
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I participated in The Best of Bolton Social media training with Gaynor recently. This was very insightful and thought invoking to develop our social media actions. Very professional and worth speaking to Gaynor to organise social media training for yourself!
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Thanks Stephen, really pleased you found the session helpful.
I attend the ladies networking group every month. Can I just say the help I have had from this group of ladies is tremendous. the group is always very well organised and its a pleasure to attend.
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I want to take the opportunity to thank Gaynor, David and Ellie for their amazing support for me personally and for Zac's during my time at the charity. Look forward to working with you even more in the future.
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David and Gaynor at The Best of Bolton have provided loads of help and support in developing my business, not only from promoting it through the site, but also the nuts and bolts of running it, particularly with social media, which previously I knew very little about. The networking events they set up have also been a great opportunity to meet with other members. A big THANK YOU to all at The Best of Bolton
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Brilliant course ran by David & Gaynor this week. A fantastic inspiring team who are generous with their knowledge and really want to help you succeed. Thank you so much 5***** of course!
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Gaynor and David ran a great course yesterday. It was a great day, with lots of really useful and practical information. Having run their business for 5 years, their knowledge is excellent. Thank you guys
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I attended a training course run by David and Gaynor yesterday. The course ran for a full day and was brilliantly organised and smoothly run. The content was exactly what I needed and was delivered at the right pace. I have piles of brilliant notes that I now only need to implement!
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David, Gaynor, Ellie and Anna are fabulous! They know everything about Bolton and offer fantastic support for local businesses. We attend many events organised by them such as networking, Women in Business, Big Bolton Expo, workshops, marketing clinics, awards events and have always found these events informative and helpful. They really have helped us to build our business and we're very proud to now be multi award winning. Thanks guys!
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I joined The Best of Bolton about a month ago and have already received lots of help and additional promotion for my business from Gaynor, David and Ellie. Glad to be part of the BoB family, I would definitely recommend joining up.
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The team at TBO Bolton are amazing!
Ellie has been extremely helpful with adding the new review app to our facebook page and website, and is always extremely helpful with my queries - Thanks Guys! :)
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Just to let you know how much I enjoyed the best of Bolton presentation on Wednesday afternoon. "Digi dos and Digi don'ts" gave exactly what it said on the tin. The presenters, Chris from Scruffy Monkey, Julie from Julie Lomax and Paul who dealt with video photography were all first class. All 3 provided me with information that will prove to be invaluable and in a simple forthright manner that even I could Understand. Well done. I look forward to the next workshop.
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Thanks so much for organising the workshop as part of our membership.

Julie : great succinct tips on taking personal photographs
CHRIS : how to improve our websites and why seo doesn't work
Paul : video the new must have for your website
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I felt the workshop was very useful as we are currently having our website redone so I gathered a lot of information on how to improve our online presence. The presentations where interesting and was overall a great workshop. Thanks so much for setting this up as part of our membership
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Thank you for delivering such an insightful workshop! It was both engaging and informative in a easy way and I look forward to sharing what I learnt with my colleagues. I have already started implementing some of the advice shared so today's workshop is already benefiting Zac's Youth Bars. Thanks so much to thebestof Bolton for setting this up
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The workshop delivered was of great use to the business I work for Alliance Learning.
We are currently in the process of revamping our website and the tips we picked up towards the development of this were of great use.
All round another fantastic workshop

Thanks so much for organising it!
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I would like to say how much I enjoyed yesterdays event and I found all three sections very informative. As we discussed my company is now established and at a stage where we are looking to raise the profile of the company name in a big way to push us to the next step. I am fully aware that social media is going to be a big part of that, and what Chris, Julie and Paul had to say really did stress that it is imperative.

Therefore I may be calling on any of them in the near future to utilise their services.

Thanks so much to thebestof Bolton for organising this as part of our membership
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What a useful workshop that was! If you run a business and you’ve ever had any doubts about the necessity or importance of a good quality website, then you need to speak to these guys! Julie, Chris and Paul are clearly very knowledgeable in each of their lines of work and they delivered a very informative and useful presentation.

Thanks for organising it as part of our membership.
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It was great to catch up with you and David again yesterday at the workshop at St. Catherine’s. Many thanks for organising it and for inviting me.

All the presenters all gave freely of their knowledge to share tips and expertise giving insights into how to work more effectively in the age of digital communication. As ever, I come away with a list of things to do that will improve what I am doing.
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Many thanks for the very information workshop this afternoon.

I think it is very easy to think that as a business we have things in hand but following the presentations today it is a reminder that websites are an on-going piece of work and with the competition strong for many businesses this work is not something that can be put on the back burner.

Julie, Chris and Paul had clearly put a great deal into their presentation and it showed as they all kept me interested through to the end! No easy task!

I will be taking forward a lot of what they said today with Matt to see how we can improve out ranking and stay ahead of the game.

Once again a big thank you to them for a great workshop...and of course to David and Gaynor from thebestof Bolton too for organising this as part of our membership.
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David, Gaynor, Ellie and the rest of the team @ TheBestOf Bolton have once again boosted our online presence by making us aware of a new facebook feature allowing our customer reviews to be viewed within our facebook page. They went a step further than just telling us about it by sending us the link to help set it all up at NO COST to us. Superb service once again, cheers guys !!
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We have been members of this close knit group for approximately 12 months now. In this relatively short space of time we have made numerous new contacts, we have been contracted to work for several fellow members and we have also managed to set up a couple of working relationships with fellow members. David, Gaynor and the rest of their team are great, they are always available for a chat and they are constantly promoting ours, and everyone else's businesses to their many contacts & followers. This is way more than just "advertising" and we are delighted to be part of it !!
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I recently joined the ranks of the Best of Bolton and would like to thank David, Gaynor and all the team for the positive energy and support for my business! I especially enjoyed being part of the Big Bolton Expo... bear in mind that being a photographer I exhibit often and I must say the Best of Bolton expo totally exceeded my expectations. The event was very well organised with so many visitors it was a great opportunity to showcase my work to wider audience and build new contacts. I recommend any local business to get involved!
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