Here’s a list of reasons why you could give up, throw the towel in, sell up and go: The threat of litigation; The burden of compliance; The meddling of Government; The squeeze by insurance companies: The scarcity of good clinicians and team members; The irritation and dilution of competition; The behaviours of your most troublesome
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After starting his working life as a teacher and a tour manager in the music business, Mark accidentally entered the charity sector as a short-term hire for a friend and has stayed there ever since. He and his wife Jo lived in Tanzania for 10 years, began raising a family and both served for the
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First day back at work after our mid-November break at the beautiful Rosie’s Barn in Butterwick, Cumbria (by the way – if you want a superb location for two people to get off the grid – this is it). This post will be brief as I have a lot of catch up to get to
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Good morning – it really is good to be back after the FivegoForth Land’s End to John O’Groats charity bike ride. I’m already getting the “how was it” questions and the challenge is knowing where to start in articulating an answer. 15 consecutive days of cycling without a break. Seeing 1,000 miles of England and
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I’m leaving home at 09:00 this morning to meet Ashley Latter at Manchester’s Piccadilly station and begin our train journey to Penzance, Cornwall. We’ll be joined by Les Jones in Birmingham and then will meet Sheila Scott and Simon Tucker down at St Just, Cornwall this evening. Tomorrow morning at Lands End it begins and
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My weekly Bunker Day was switched to Tuesday this week, to accommodate Monday’s London workshop. Here’s a record of just one day’s conversations: with a Millennial married dental couple who want to buy a parent’s long-established practice; with a Practice Manager who wants to set up her own freelance compliance and consultancy business; with a
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Chris Barrow has seen me at my best. And probably my very worst. Specifically, when we were halfway up the frozen scree slope of Mount Kilimanjaro, around 3am on a cold August morning in 2011. Chris, his wife Annie, myself and 22 others were on a fundraising climb for Bridge2Aid, the dental health charity I
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My congratulations are offered this morning to two organisations: FMC for the superb Stars of Dentistry on Friday, surpassing the previous year in content, style and attention to detail – you really should make a date of 15th June 2018 and plan to attend; Bridge2Aid for their equally impressive annual conference on Saturday. My colleagues
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In order to create share-worthy marketing collateral for your business, follow these basic rules: Decide on your channels Facebook Instagram Linkedin a blog every day/week a newsletter every month online and offline journals professional and trade local community speaking events professional and trade local B2B and B2C Decide on your content 80% stories about the
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I’m really looking forward to speaking at the Bridge2Aid conference on Saturday 24th June in central Birmingham (5 minutes walk from New Street Station). It’s an organisation I’ve been involved with for almost 10 years now, and Annie’s friendship with Mark Topley the CEO goes way back to 2004. I say ‘organisation’ but B2A, for
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