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SERVICES | Education + Training

The Banter Crew believe that learning is a life-long pursuit and that it should be fun.

Valentina Borbone, Banter CEO, has been a digital marketing trainer for 10 years … and that’s a very long time in the digital marketing world!

Valentina works in marketing day-in and day-out, so she isn’t just preaching from a textbook with abstract theories about what works; she knows what works in the real world.

She educates graduates to senior directors, small business owners to multi-national strategic communication managers. She uses a straight-forward, no-nonsense approach and her training style is personal, tailored and pitched perfectly at the level required for the participants in the room.

Valentina runs training courses in capital cities throughout Australia, but she is also passionately committed to offering regional training opportunities, particularly in her home-patch of the Southern Highlands, NSW. She has identified a marketing skills gap in smaller, regional businesses and is proud to be working with business owners who want to market their business better, but can’t necessarily afford to engage a ‘big smoke’ agency.

Training options range from 1:1 training and mentoring to a sports stadium setting with hundreds of people. Val delivers training to corporate, public sector and not-for-profit businesses. She is also regularly engaged as a keynote speaker for functions.

To discuss your training or event speaker needs, contact Valentina today.

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Luisa Giusti

Having just recently completed the “Social Media for Small Business” course run by Val and the Banter Group team, I’d like to say how professional, informative and thoroughly enjoyable the course was. Val certainly knows her stuff and imparts her knowledge in a clear and relatable way. This course has enlightened us in the uses of social media from a business point of view and given us the confidence to be creative and adventurous over varying social media platforms in order to grow and advertise our business. I would strongly recommend this course for any small business looking to discover and learn more about the role of social media. It was actually a lot of fun!

Luisa Giusti

IKEA Group

Val was incredibly authentic and engaging throughout the course. Her extensive and up to the minute knowledge and enthusiasm for digital marketing, combined with her wicked sense of humour, and skill at engaging with every member of the class, made it a real pleasure to attend. I left armed with knowledge, ideas and tips that are already making a positive impact in my role. I recommend anyone who wants to improve their digital marketing knowledge and learn applicable skills to attend Val’s courses.

National Paid Media Specialist
IKEA Group

Bupa Australia & New Zealand

I was fortunate to have Val as our teacher and WOW what a course she ran. Her knowledge and experience working within digital marketing is like no one I’ve encountered before. We often have people coming to mentor in this area at Bupa and to be honest no one has had the skillset nor the intel on what’s new/ trending in the industry like Val. This coupled with her teaching ability and charismatic personality makes her a rare find. I would recommend her in a heartbeat to any company large or small looking to initiate a new digital marketing strategy or to improve an existing one and to anyone wanting to broaden their skills within this area throughout a course.

Corporate and International Marketing Manager
Bupa Australia & New Zealand

REA Group

Since 2014, Valentina has provided digital marketing training for REA Group. Training and facilitation has included short one hour sessions through to full-day workshops to deliver market-leading digital ideas and trends for the property industry across residential, commercial and developer business units. Valentina regularly delivers a half-day program on digital awareness development at REA in Melbourne, at a business-wide level as part of Learning and Development’s Induction framework. Val is incredibly passionate and knowledgeable. The sessions are well received by our teams and our people love Val’s style of delivery. The programs provide real value in particular to our new starters who haven’t worked in the digital industry previously, and to our sales teams, where having strong knowledge across the digital landscape is essential. Partnering with Val on these programs is a dream – she’s flexible, easy to work with, open to suggestions, feedback and ideas – and she really gets what REA Group is about.

Ambra Perera
REA Group

Cass Robinson

Val is an engaging and approachable presenter. I found Banter’s Social Media for Sole Traders and Small Business course very valuable. It helped me clarify the direction of my online communications with customers and potential customers of Seats & More. Highly recommended.

Cass Robinson

Rel Vild

Just finished Val’s Social Media for Small Business – was a great course thanks Val – I’m getting out there! Fast paced and thorough, excellent materials and presentation. Looking out for the next course you offer Val!

Rel Vild

Lindsay Loomes

I have just completed Val’s small business social media training and I feel like I actually know what to do now to improve our business profile in the big wide world of Social media! It’s clear that Val just wants you and your business to thrive, her knowledge and enthusiasm makes you want to do better too! Thanks Val.

Lindsay Loomes
Explorers Learning Academy