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My philosophy of how I treat my clients
We’re all in business because of our clients – if it wasn’t for them we’d have no orders and therefore no business. Client interaction has always fascinated me, its something I’ve studied since I started my web design & online marketing business over 10 years ago. Originally there were three directors at Optix. We formed [...]
What’s your social footprint like?
I consult a lot of small to medium sized businesses on ‘Social Media/Communications’. I’m not a self professed ‘social media guru’, it’s certainly not everything I do, but it does form a lot of the marketing/customer service/networking activity that I carry out for my own businesses. This post is about something I call ‘your social [...]
Secrets for Super Successful Business Owners – Nigel Botterill
On Wednesday night I had the privilege of watching Nigel Botterill, UK Entrepreneur and CEO of thebestof Franchise group present to 100 businesses in my hometown of Exeter. The tour of the country is called “18 Secrets that Super Successful Business Owners Know and Do…” – you can follow the conversation about the tour on [...]
The Rule of the First and the Last
What do you do when you turn up to a networking event or a meeting? Do you turn up after everyone else? Do you leave before other people have? Well here’s a quick tip for you this week – thousands and thousands of pounds have been won through the rule of the first and the [...]
5 traits successful business people have – do you have these?
Missed a week due to travel folks so firstly apologies for that – clearly my first trait should be the inability to keep an appointment with ones blog OK so there are probably hundreds of things you need to be successful in business but I’ve been day dreaming this last week and working out my [...]
How Optix Solutions does ‘People to People’
Last week I wrote about People 2 People and Personal Branding. A few of you asked how we actually implement this in our businesses so I wanted to highlight this in today’s post – hopefully to give you some food for thought. I’m going to use Olivier Blanchard’s (The Brand Builder) post on this for [...]
Personal Branding in a ‘P2P’ World
After a couple of very hectic weeks and then a fantastic week’s holiday I need to get back into my regular Friday blog post. I intend to start that again today. Just before I start, If you were confused by ‘p2p’ in the title it stands for People to People. More on that later. I [...]
Likeminds 2010 & Never forget where you’ve come from
Last week saw Exeter host Likeminds 2010, a social media conference (for want of a better title). It showcased some of the world’s leading authorities on social media, in some of the world’s largest companies. The event took place on the 26th of Feb and boy was the line up something special. My Online Marketing [...]
Location, Location, Location
A few days ago a new website popped up called ‘Please Rob Me’ and it got me thinking, are all these location based applications and websites a cause for concern or not? It’s certainly very exciting, so does this put a dampener on the whole thing? If you’re new to the location based games world [...]
Is your marketing material all about you?
I learnt a valuable lesson about marketing once which fundamentally changed the way I view the composition of marketing material for my businesses. This was the lesson: It’s not about me/my business, it’s about the needs of my prospective clients. Sounds simple doesn’t it, but it’s all to easy to talk about yourself when putting [...]