When my kids were little (a.k.a. the 90’s) we would frequently take the last 2 weeks of August as a family holiday, so that the first Monday in September would be the “back to work” day. I well remember how often that Sunday night’s sleep would be broken by a mind active with anticipation and
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Our September newsletter – published on Sunday morning – features a long-form article on the next (final) 121 days of 2019. It’s September and the summer is over for most of us – kids back to school, us back to work and the nights beginning to draw in (as a member of the 05:00am Club,
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The Smile Spa in Stockton on Tees was sold to Portman Dental Care about 3 years ago and founders Simon and Sue Andrews delivered their last days of dentistry in January this year. I’m still completing a coaching assignment with the management team, advising on their marketing activity and attempting the delicate balance between the
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The defenestration of Bury is a calamity for the club’s supporters and a note of loss for everyone who cares about English football. But it is all of these things within the rules as they stand and entirely in keeping with the broader culture. Bury failed because nothing within the current state of regulation could
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Sometimes a client just quietly beavers away at the internal marketing tactics that I rattle on about and they GTD (get things done). Credit where it’s due to Joe Watson, Raashi Tiwari and the whole team at Tiwari Watson Dental Care in Glasgow. https://www.tiwariwatsondentalcare.co.uk/ They have created an excellent web site and, in particular, Joe
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One of my resolutions this year was to constantly carry around with me a digital recorder so that, when the opportunity arose, I could capture interviews with fascinating people. During a recent weekend break in England’s verdant South East I was motivated to sit down in the dining room of a holiday farmhouse after
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There are two features of note about the photograph reproduced here. I have spoken with co-Principal Dr. Sinead McEnhill over the years but I’ve never visited Lorraine Browne and the team at Belmore Dental Implant & Facial Clinic in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland; That’s my mug on screen in their training room, ready to deliver an
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Yet another call this week from an old friend and former client, to thank me for the work I have done over the years and confirm that the practice is being sold (this one at 8 x EBITDA – the multiples are creeping up). This has become a regular event in my business life; it’s
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Returning from a weekend break with friends on Sunday, I was intrigued by a poster in a South Eastern station, advertising the senior railcard for over 60’s. I’m trying hard to understand the relevance of including the happy female Millennial as part of this advertising? Possible explnations: She is the daughter of the senior card
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You are only as good as: your skill at the thing you do; your managers; your income versus expenditure; your ability to convert prospects into patients and then into advocates; your curiosity to innovate; your balance of time between working IN and ON your business; your sleep, nutrition and exercise and time OUT of the
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