Social Media Workshop: Food & Drink
27-03-2017

An evening of Social Media training, hosted by a Blogger, Trainer & Content Creator – especially designed for the food & drink industry.
Co-hosted by food & drink blogger, Kavey Eats.
This workshop has been designed with food, drink and hospitality brands in mind – be you a butcher, baker or chocolate bar maker, budding food & beverage entrepreneur, independent street food seller, restaurant marketing team, bar, cafe, or hotel owner, shop manager or maître d’ – learn how to win more brand exposure and lift your digital presence.
Created by the Social Media specialists here at Gertrude & Ivy, Social Slam is a new training event, featuring 3 key elements for online success: Instagram, Influencer Marketing & Content Creation.
We are pleased to welcome special guest, Food & Drink Blogger: Kavita Favelle (Kavey Eats), as co-host, alongside Emma Jane, experienced Social Media trainer and founder of Gertrude & Ivy. The trainer and the blogger will share both strategic instructions and practical learnings.
This event will take place at Venturi’s Table in Wandsworth, inside the beautiful kitchens at this Cookery School, where guests will be served refreshments, to keep us fuelled through the evening, for maximum learning!
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The Blogger, The Trainer, The Content Creator
Meet Kavey Eats: Kavita launched food and travel blog Kavey Eats in 2009.
Since then she has worked extensively with fellow bloggers, PRs, brands, trade bodies and tourist organisations. She
is well-known in the blogger community and has forged strong relationships across the wider food industry. In her day job, Kavita works as a freelance IT Business Analyst + Trainer, specialising in Retail. Strong communications skills, nailing the requirements of each client and ensuring the solution meets or exceeds expectations are key. Kavita looks forward to sharing her social media skills and ideas with you during the workshop.
Visit Kavey Eats blog
Meet Emma Jane: Emma Jane is a straight-talking, dynamic speaker, who chooses to conduct training sessions in ‘plain-speak’. With her love of language and passion for Social Media
marketing, Emma Jane builds vivid scenarios of everyday situations, with which anyone is familiar, to convey how real life social behaviour can be translated into the most successful social campaigns. Drawing on a wealth of campaign and training experience, Emma Jane shares valuable Social Media expertise, to both agency staff and brand teams.
Read more about Emma Jane: Here
Meet Venturi’s Table:
This custom-built Cookery School, is located just a few steps from Wandsworth Town station. Featuring two, state-of-the-art
kitchens, these beautiful spaces play host to many cookery experiences and events – for groups of business professionals, private hire and photo shoots.
Venturi’s Table Cookery School
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Social Slam: Social Media Training Workshop
You: The Butcher, The Baker, The Chocolate Bar Maker
Hosts: The Blogger (Kavey Eats), The Trainer (@LadyofSocial), The Content Creator (Venturi’s Table)
Date: Monday 27th March 2017
Time: Doors from 6pm. Start 6.30pm. Finish 9.30pm
Tickets: Early bird £75+VAT (5 available) Standard £90+VAT (10 available)
Location: Venturi’s Table – nearest station: Wandsworth Town – Address & Directions
Book: Tickets via Eventbrite
Editorial coverage: After the event, Kavita has planned a featured article to be published on her blog. This will be a showcase, including details of each brand she meets at Social Slam!
What will you learn?
INSTAGRAM: Advanced level user tips, insider tricks and time saving shortcuts, to help your brand increase reach, following and engagement, on this powerful social network.
- Optimise your profile for maximum visibility and conversions
- Instagram Stories – features and benefits
- Targeted networking, community management & building your audience
INFLUENCERS: Kavey will share insights from the perspective of an online influencer, while Emma Jane will bring her outreach campaign experience, to teach you the most effective ways to win coverage and support from online PR activities.
- Identify & assess the right influencers
- Making the correct approach
- Relationship management
CONTENT: Flat lay like the professionals. Covering both styling tips and practical photography, you will capture a high quality flat lay image, as well as the knowledge of how to shoot more visual stories, through this popular photography trend. For this part of the session, you will photograph a piece of “Mermaid Toast”, the latest Instagram food craze.
- Styling & lighting demonstration
- Photography practical workshop – editing beyond the standard filters
- Trends & storytelling
Refreshments: Will be made and served by the talented Cookery School team at Venturi’s Table – please let us know if you have any food allergies, when you book your place.
SUPPER MENU
NIBBLES
Homemade Marinated Olives
Grissini
BOWL FOOD
Chicken Involtini rolled with Parma Ham, Parmesan & Sage, Petits Pois
Wild Mushroom Risotto, Mushroom Ragu, Truffle Pesto
PUDDING
Chocolate, Salted Caramel & Rose Tart
Basil & Raspberry Mini Pavlovas
DRINKS
Sparkling Elderflower
Apple Juice and Orange Juice
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