I am hosting my third breakfast event.  "Should Brands be Broadcasters?" on Wednesday 18th June, 2008 at One Alfred Place  I run these breakfasts in order to showcase new ideas and innovative marketing thinking.  Past speakers include Adriana Lukas on Social Media and Mark McGuinnes s on the Enneagram.  Three speakers will give their unique [...]








Dick Stroud of consultancy 20Plus30 5 things all digital agencies should know about aging 1 – when working for a client consider whether their product is age- neutral or not.  Sites tend to get optimised for a younger age group. 2 – Age is not a good proxy for behaviour.  The default is we are [...]








I have decided to make it easier to buy my services for those on a budget. Normally, my clients pay me a 'day rate' in order to work with me and I visit their offices and we work together on projects.  Following the beginning of a project with a new client, Afia , I have [...]








I just found an interesting website which may be helpful for those times when you think you've done a fabulous piece of work and would like others to appreciate it as well. It is called Dynamo London and it is a site promoted (and presumably funded) by the lovely NMK, London Development Agency and a [...]








Steve Moore has launched a new breakfast event, called One Morning, the launch was yesterday at the glamorous One Alfred Place business club. Steve asked me to help out by chairing the three fabulous presentations – each one answering the question "What Happens Next?" for TV, book publishing and newspaper publishing.  I love doing this [...]








I have been given sight of the Forrester report "The Connected Agency " Feb 8th 2008.  And it spells gloom and death for the current traditional agency business model. Definition of a CA is An agency with a deep understanding of consumer communities, helping brands create and nurture connections, deliver targeted, on-demand messages, and network [...]








Thanks to Steve Moore I was invited to chair the Channel4 and Sport England seminar held at Horseferry Road [backstory here and here ].  I loved it.  A perfect opportunity for me to exercise my passion (rowing) and my profession (business development). The brief was that Sport England wants to educate its members (sporting organisations) [...]








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 [...]








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 [...]








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 [...]