Thursday 29th January 2026

Event: How to sell through WhatsApp and messaging apps

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Price: FREE
Date: Thu 29th Jan 2026
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Customers increasingly expect quick, convenient conversations with the businesses they buy from.

Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs have become powerful channels for answering questions, giving personalised recommendations and even completing sales on the spot.

Join this free Tech Hub webinar to discover how your small business can use messaging apps to engage customers, speed up responses and turn conversations into sales. You’ll find out how to provide great service, showcase products and manage orders directly from your phone.

Whether you’re a small business owner, retailer or service provider, this session will give you the confidence to use messaging apps as a powerful, low-cost sales channel.

What you’ll learn
- Why messaging matters: The growing shift towards chat-based customer communication
- Sales through conversation: How to recommend products and guide buyers through quick chats
- Taking orders in-app: Practical methods for capturing customer details, sending payment links and confirming orders
- Building trust through fast replies: Tips to deliver helpful, personalised responses without extra admin
- Tools and shortcuts: Using templates, catalogues and automated replies to save time and stay organised
Who should attend
- Small business owners wanting to boost sales through direct conversations
- Retailers offering personalised recommendations
- Service providers handling bookings or enquiries
- Anyone looking to streamline customer communication through mobile chat apps
About the speaker
We’ll be joined by Emma Watson from Specky and Ginge, part of the award-winning UK Social Media Marketing Agency of the Year 2025/26. Emma brings experience helping businesses turn everyday conversations into real sales through smart, strategic use of social platforms.

How to join the online webinar
When you register for the webinar, you’ll receive an automatic email, including the Zoom link to access the event. The event will begin at the time and date stated in the registration information. If you don’t receive the link within two hours of signing up via Eventbrite, please let us know by emailing events@enterprisenation.com. (Note: It may be in your junk folder.)

About Tech Hub
A collaboration between Google and Sage and built by Enterprise Nation, Tech Hub offers an accessible solution to support small businesses to adopt the technology they need to run and grow their ventures.

Event: Foundations of AI for Business - 29/1/26

29/01/2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm

Event Location: Louis Pearlman Centre

Event Address: Louis Pearlman Centre, Goulton Street, HULL, East Riding Of Yorkshire, HU3 4DL

Contact Telephone: 01482 391622

Contact Email Address: business.support@eastriding.gov.uk

Foundations of AI for Business
Event Description
Foundations of AI for Business

Thursday 29 January, 10.00am - 13.00pm (03 hours), Louis Pearlman Centre

This practical, three-part programme is designed to take you from a curious AI beginner to an informed practitioner. Through hands-on workshops and an instructor-led, supportive environment, you’ll learn to use AI safely and effectively in your business.

Already confident with tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot? Feel free to pick and choose the workshops that suit your needs — there’s no requirement to start with the Foundations session. Each workshop stands alone, allowing experienced users to dive straight into the topics that matter most.

We focus on real-world examples (in plain English), not complex theory or jargon. Attend one or all three workshops—each builds your confidence and practical know-how.

What You’ll Cover:
We’ll explain, in plain English, what makes the AI tools you use work. You’ll learn the fundamentals of prompting, explore key risks around data privacy, safety, and legal issues, and understand how to use AI responsibly in your business.

What You’ll Achieve:
- Completed an AI Readiness & Risk Checklist
- Built your first simple AI model
- Created a First-Project Planner to safely test a high-value AI use case in your business

This workshop is delivered by Tech Educators on behalf of Hull and East Yorkshire Business Support Services.

Ready to start your AI journey? Click the button below to book your place.

Photo Consent
Please note, to promote the work of the Council and our partners, we wish to use photographs or images of people using or benefiting from our services or taking part in activities arranged by the Council and our partners.

Photographs will be taken during this session to promote this workshop and the support offered by the Invest East Riding Service of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, HEY Growth Hub, and Invest Hull. These images may be used in social media, in printed and electronic promotion of our services and events and shared with our delivery partners (HEY Growth Hub and Invest Hull) for similar promotional purposes.

The images will be stored electronically on Council networks and may also be securely shared with our partners. All stored images will be reviewed annually to ensure they remain relevant and appropriate. Under the Data Protection Act 2018 / UK GDPR 2018, we require your consent to use your personal image for these purposes. If you do not wish to consent, please advise your Business Support Representative before the session starts.

These images will not be used for anything which may be viewed as negative in tone or that may cause offence, embarrassment, or distress. Images may also be used to validate that the session or support took place under our UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) requirements. These validation images will not be available to the general public but will be retained until at least 2035.
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Event: The AI tools small businesses need to scale now | Lunch and Learn

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Price: FREE
Date: Thu 29th Jan 2026
Time: 12:00 - 12:30
Are you overwhelmed by the noise and confusion surrounding AI business tools?

As a small business owner, you might know you need to adopt AI to stay competitive and efficient, but the sheer volume of new tools makes knowing where to start paralysing.

Join Suki Singh, founder of AIToolsTribe.com and Agentzio.com, for a practical session designed specifically to demystify AI business tools for small and medium-sized businesses.

He’ll present a curated list of the top 7 “off-the-shelf” AI tools that are working right now for businesses operating on limited resources.

Topics covered in this session
- Smart lead generation and marketing: Filling your pipeline while you sleep
- Professional writing assistants: Speeding up emails, blogs and copy
- Video generation: Creating engaging social assets without a studio with AI avatars and more
- Customer engagement: Streamlining customer engagement across multiple channels.
About the speaker
Suki Singh is an AI tools consultant for small and medium-sized businesses.

He’s worked with many businesses and conducted business audits to uncover bottlenecks and suggested AI solutions to increase efficiencies leading to cost reductions, increase in revenues and profits.

Suki is the founder of AIToolstribe.com, an AI business tools review site, and Agentzio.com, a business that develops customised AI agents for specific business needs.

If you have any questions you’d like Suki to answer during the webinar, please send them to events@enterprisenation.com.

About Enterprise Nation
Enterprise Nation is the UK’s most active small business network, helping thousands of people turn their good idea into a great business. Join today to get everything you need to start and grow your small business, in one place.