Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time again today, And I wanted to run through what the plan is for my ‘week away’ from the day job. First of all – Part of this week away is going to be managing the fact that I’m not allowed to talk to any of my team for the entire…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, Back at it and today I want to talk about motivating your team. One of the biggest things managers and founders want from their teams is extra effort and superior performance. So how is it that you can drive such performance with your team outside of what is part of the agreement you…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, I’m excited and nervous at the same time for the week after next as I’ll be officially taking my first ‘week’ off of work. What I mean by this is that I’m preparing to see what happens when I’m away from the team for an entire week. In a bid to have…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Much later than I normally start when it comes to writing these – but today I’m determined to get at least two done by hook or by crook. It’s been really interesting to review the calls of some of the sales team to understand more about what’s happening on the phones. And…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time this morning and I’m still figuring out how to effectively use my Lenovo Thinkpad. I’m growing more and more fond of this machine as it’s basically as powerful as my old Macbook and only half the price. I’m already half thinking about getting the most powerful Lenovo on the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Glad to be back at it this morning. Although I’m actually getting to the point of writing a little later than planned. Nonetheless. It’s 620am and whilst none of the UK/USA team are awake/working (it’s 01.23 am EDT) – it’s 1324 in the Philippines and 1054 in India. This means that by…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Morning all, If you’re reading this on my blog for the first time then welcome! I (check this page out) like to write pretty much 7-days a week if I can. It’s almost a form of self therapy and like having a business partner. As a solo founder absent any ‘board of advisors’ (it’s…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Afternoon all, Here’s the time and I wanted to hammer out this blog as best as I can as I’m excited about the fact I’ve decided to formally begin thinking about building a recruitment agency. For a while now – many people have commented upon how unorthodox our recruitment process is and how we’re…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I’m writing this from my Lenovo thinkpad which I’m beginning to enjoy using more and more. It feels good to be getting used to using a Windows machine. I also enjoy the fact it’s so cheap for something relatively powerful (16GB RAM) given I just forked out £3,000+ for a Macbook (which…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I had something of a brainwave last night when I was thinking about one of our campaigns for Pearl Lemon Leads. So we’ve got an American realty client who we’re cold calling for at the moment. Now what’s interesting about this campaign is several things: It’s business to consumer In this regard…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I’ve just been reading ‘The Sales Development Playbook’ by Trish Bertuzzi and it’s given me a brainwave that’s going to have applications across all of our recruiting. This (btw) is the beauty of reading as a regular part of your routine. You always end up finding something that can change the way…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, Today I want to talk about something that began with me involving first my father in my property adventures. In my mind, since entering the world of business – one of the big things I want to do is to use my success to help my family. Here’s practically how that has…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Writing my first blog for several days (I think the last one was Wednesday). I’m seriously having withdrawal symptoms because amongst other things (such as trying to give half arsed advice where and when I can) – I use this as a platform to journal and share my thoughts with the world….
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I want to talk about the development of the Pearl Lemon Placement programme and the people it’s producing and the way they are being produced. In terms of the long-term development of it’s people – Pearl Lemon has a training programme that it takes all of its young people on. The young…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’ve ‘randomly’ discovered Tom Peters and Lina Kaplan this morning. In the same way I discovered the books ‘Drawing on the right side of the brain’ and ‘The origin of consciousness….breakdown of the bicameral mind’ (books I’m staring at on my shelf right now). Book and literature I would ordinarily never come…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’ve not blogged for a couple of days this week so I’m going to try and make it all back today. Pearl Lemon will be 4 years old in October and so to a degree even writing this blog seems a little nonsensical arguably because the business still doesn’t run itself yet….