V‑BOOST DAY at Hive: The day when your business takes a digital leap with digitalization experts

At Stup you will find everything you need if you want to start or grow a business: a community of over 40,000 members, free events where you can learn about tax changes, digital marketing, sales and much more, and more than 20 partners with preferential price services for the Stup community. Today we're talking to the Vodafone team, the Hive partner that keeps entrepreneurs connected and helps businesses of all sizes succeed in a digital world.

In a landscape where entrepreneurs are simultaneously juggling customers, operations, marketing and too little time, we bring you an event that helps you understand what digital transformation of a business means.

V‑BOOST Day – created by Vodafone Business, in partnership with Stup, is more than just an event: it is an intense, applied, practical day, designed to reset your perspective on the digitization of your business and help you find out what a digitized, efficient and profitable future looks like.

The event has three important advantages: practical workshops that shows you what to do, 1:1 digitization consultancya session in which, together with a digitization specialist, you evaluate your level of digitization of the business and a giveaway offered on the spot to those who attend at least one workshop and complete the assessment.

4 workshops‑supported by digitization experts

We have prepared 4 focused workshops for you, which discuss the most important challenges of a business in terms of the digitization process. Each workshop lasts 45 minutes. As usual, you have the opportunity to talk with experts in digitization and about the challenges of your business at the end of each workshop.

The foundation of a digitized business: the essential first steps towards an automated business protected from digital risks

If you want your business to not only be present online, but also organized, secure and ready for growth, this is the workshop that lays the foundation. In 45 minutes, discover what the digital foundation of a business looks like that runs smoothly, without chaos and without the risk of a cyber attack.

You will find out:

• what a digitized business really means and why it's not just about “being online”;
• what digitized operations look like when documents and processes are in one place, accessible and orderly;
• why cyber security is your safety belt, no matter how small or big your business;
• some quick and easy steps you can implement right away to be more efficient and protected.

Speakers:

Adrian Dobre, Team Leader, Solutions Consultant, Vodafone Business

Vasile Lazăr, Senior Manager, Vodafone Security Operations Center

How to turn email and SMS into tools that deliver concrete results

If you want your messages to reach, be seen and, most importantly, be received with interest, this is the workshop you need to be at. In 45 minutes you discover how to turn three seemingly simple channels into a growth engine for your business.

You will understand:

• Why SMS it still remains the channel that reaches the customer instantly and does not get lost in feeds;
• Why email to your subscriber base is a strategic pillar for information, loyalty and recurring sales;
• how omnichannel works in reality – simple and effective – so that every message, on every platform, works for you.

Speaker: Andrei Georgescu, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of White Image

Customer experience: what makes customers buy

This is the workshop where you learn, concretely, how to turn every customer interaction into a real advantage for your business. In a short, clear and applied format, discover what makes people trust your business and how you can influence the key moments in your relationship with them

You will find out:

• how the client “sees” you in the first 3 seconds online and why this moment can decide;
• why all your channels need to tell the same story;
• what does a coherent digital presence mean and how do you build it with simple, clear and easy-to-implement elements;
• how do you create a smooth journey, from discovery → contact → order → delivery → post-purchase, so that the customer feels like they are at the center of attention every step of the way.

Speakers:

Daniela Hariuc, Senior Manager, Customer Experience, Vodafone

Alexandru Todoran, Digital Cluster Manager, Vodafone Business

How AI becomes your business partner

If there is one workshop that can transform the way you work, this is it. Here you discover how artificial intelligence becomes your team partner – the one that doesn't forget and can streamline a few hours of your schedule.

For 45 minutes, you will learn:

• what AI is (without complicated terms) and where you already use it without realizing it;
• the types of AI briefly explained, so you understand what you can delegate to the technology;
• how it can make your work infinitely easier: from offers and follow-up, to messages, automations and the generation of texts or images.
• how you can eliminate repetitive tasks, becoming more efficient without working more.

Speaker: Matei Mișarca, AI Engineering Chapter Lead, Vodafone

1:1 digitization consultancy – you evaluate your business and way of working

Throughout the day, V‑BOOST Day hosts one of the most valuable experiences of the event: 1:1 digitization consultancya format through which the business and way of working is evaluated by digitalization specialists. It's a structured discussion that will give you clarity, direction and concrete actions to streamline your operations through digitization.

In a dedicated space, you have 30 minutes face-to-face with an expert who analyzes your business in a conversational, attentive and applied way, to identify the areas where digitization and optimization can make a difference. Appointments are made on the day of the event, on the spot, within the available slots.

What you leave the session with:

• evaluation of your business from the perspective of the technologies used or digitalization solutions
• clear and immediately applicable recommendations in areas that can be made more efficient
• visibility on what you can improve in the short term to accelerate operational digitization

V-BOOST bonus of the day: you can go home with a giveaway

If you participate in at least 1 workshop and do your 1:1 Business Evaluation with the specialist in DIGITIZATION, you automatically get a giveaway. They are received on the spot only if the 2 conditions are met.

Come to V-BOOST Day, participate in workshops, evaluate your business 1:1 and leave with clarity, solutions and a checklist for your business.

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BT Stup is a place for all entrepreneurs, created with the aim of connecting them with service providers and products for starting, running or managing a business. The Hive also hosts events for entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs, organized both by BT and by the partners of this initiative. BT Stup is dedicated to all entrepreneurs, regardless of the bank they are a customer of.

This article is part of an initiative by Banca Transilvania, which wants to support entrepreneurs and provide them with all the necessary information when they are at the beginning of their journey. If you want to start a business, BT is at your side with resources, information and know-how. To make it easier for you.

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