Business Media Club goes global and into seventh heaven

13 Oct Business Media Club goes global and into seventh heaven

CGM is 10 years old this autumn and for the last seven of those years we’ve proudly ran our Business Media Club each month.

Well, almost. In March this year the Covid-19 lockdown kicked the idea of in person meetings into touch.

While others raced headlong into online networking, we stood back to take a view.

Our club, which has had dozens of members and countless visitors down the years, has always prided itself on delivering this triple aim: Comms and marketing training, personal development and quality networking in a sharing setting with an all-important ‘all egos left at the door’ ethos.

Fed up of networking events where everyone seeks to sell to one another, we started the club with the aims of building a better experience.

Learning, sharing, interacting and growing are benchmarks that have served the club well.

We started with one club in Worcester, then grew a second in Birmingham a year later which ran for three years before we focused on opening our own Media Centre in 2017 with a ‘build it and they will come’ approach.

Then came lockdown. With no face to face meetings for the foreseeable we mothballed the club for six months.

But now we’re back – keen, eager and proud to celebrate our seventh anniversary on Friday, October 23.

This will be our first online meeting – and although it can’t ever be the same as meeting in person (no pastries or fresh brewed coffee for now) we can reach out to a wider audience – going global as we’re calling it – so folks can join us with having to travel in.

And to make the meeting truly special we’re aiming to make it a massive fundraiser.

That’s why we’re dropping the meeting fee to just £10, which will go entirely to our club charity Worcester Foodbank.

We’re also scaling the running time down to two hours from 10am to midday.

Okay, they’ll be some backslapping with contributions from friends of the club but we’ll have a meeting theme with a difference – how to regain and retain trust as we learn to live with Covid long term. This is arguably our most weighty and timely theme to date – one that will kickstart a fresh future for the club with clear communications centre stage as ever.

We hope you can join us.

You can book via Eventbrite and see further details on our CGM Business Media Club page.