Digital marketing experts Social Progress are to drive awareness of a national conference promoting some of the best venues around.

The Honley-based company, experts in all things social media, is supporting leading sales and marketing consortium Venues of Excellence at its annual conference on January 24.

Held at the prestigious Silverstone International Conference and Exhibition Centre, the theme, in-keeping with the motor racing heritage, is ‘Fast Lane to Excellence.’

The conference will showcase an excellent range of unique and first-class conference and event venues including Alton Towers, Wyboston Lakes and Coombe Abbey.

It also has an exciting programme lined up including motivational and inspirational guest speakers to help the venues strive for maximum results and succeed in business growth in 2023.

Social Progress are keen to help bring the conference to the forefront with a bang!

Silverstone at night

Managing director of Social Progress, Janet Bebb, said: “Nowadays, digital marketing and online communication are essential tools to help the growth of independent businesses such as the member venues attending the conference, and it’s great that Venues of Excellence have recognised this.

“We are thrilled to be invited to support such a key event for the hospitality and events industry. Our team are particularly excited to attend and feel the buzz around an industry that was hit hard by Covid over the past few years and shout about the amazing success now happening.”

The conference will represent various themes including leadership, inspiration, innovation, technology, sustainability and industry best practice, and as well as supporting current member venues, plus will welcome potential new venues who are considering joining the Venues of Excellence consortium.

It is important to note that there is a stringent process to join such a prestigious list of venues – members must meet specific criteria and be accredited – so Venues of Excellence are quite literally the best of the best!

Mandy Jennings, CEO of Venues of Excellence, said: “We are delighted to work in partnership with Social Progress; they are an innovative and highly trustworthy social media partner.

“Their aim for ‘quality over quantity’ fits beautifully with our Venues of Excellence values and ethos, plus the advantage is they have vast expertise and knowledge to share, with a desire to understand our business and the wider hospitality industry.

“I am particularly impressed with how they have tailored the delivery of the service to complement our marketing plan.”