Thanks to the eagle eyed Mark McGuinness , I've been invited to chair a panel for Sport England and Channel 4 at their "All Together Now – sports, community and the web" event on 1 May. Now this really gets me excited.  Many of you know that I write a rowing blog , I still [...]








[declaration: this is a client - and they have a great product that many of you may find useful for biz dev on your own potential clients]. We are running a seminar to show how to use customer data in order to stop 'campaigns' and start long-running 'conversations'.  This drives improved ROI for brands (retention, [...]








Have just updated the earlier databases work to include some which came out of the comments (thanks Tomas and Chris). Here is new summary document. Databases summary April 08








I was invited by the lovely folk at Designer Breakfasts to do a workshop on how to do business development for your agency or for yourself. The group was fantastic and worked really hard on the problems and tools I set them tow ork on.  Here are the photos. The handout is here. Designer Breakfasts [...]








It is for both brand managers and Marketing Agencies to show how to use customer data in order to stop 'campaigns' and start long-running 'conversations'.   This drives improved ROI for brands (retention, lower costs, higher response rates).And for agencies, can be a new income stream (selling data services, analysis, results-based fees). Event is in [...]








I have been invited by Designer Breakfasts to lead a "brunch workshop" on 17th April They are running a series of events to help design businesses improve their skills in getting new clients. the first event was Sir George Cox talking about the future for design businesses; then Frances Hinton on  how to ask the [...]