What a fantastic day – over 90 delegates arrived to listen, not just to me with my usual rant on marketing – but, more importantly, to some of my favourite clients talking about “how they did it”. I felt almost parental as I watched Alex Jones, Mark Whetstone, David & Dawn Cunningham, Uchenna Okoye and
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A tremendous success – one our my best days in public speaking ever. More later – but here are some photos

Chatting to a friend last night who has lots of contacts with surgeons in London and the South East. Here’s what’s happening: sales of private medical treatment are down 50% since the start of the year claims on insurance are up as people use their Employer’s Medical Insurance before they are made redundant. The point
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You cannot open a brand new private dental practice in the current economic climate!No patients – standing start – it just will not work. (Whisper) By the way – don’t tell these people… Aesthetics Ollie and Darsh Fresh Dental Care No 45 Dental

Yasmin George has sent me a link to her new web site and I’m happy to add it to my list of favourites. You can also see it if you click here. I will be writing to her today with one suggested improvement that leapt out at me – can you guess what that is?

Its been a theme at the SOE marketing workshops: over 80% of the audiences show up with no business cards about their person and those that do usually brandish the common, boring card with “data” and, at best, a logo. My rant being that the only place you don’t carry a business card is when
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There’s a whole “tribe” developing around Ocarina:

Here’s your last chance: Hello  I need to finalize the numbers for Saturday’s workshop by end of day Tuesday. I’ve got 15 or so places left, so if you’re at a loose end, if you’re curious, if you’d like some fun, if you’re looking for more Great Work … please do consider coming along. => http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/public-workshops/
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It seems time to offer a further comment on the “CB” thread that still has legs this morning. Last week was a fantastic professional experience for me: speaking to packed audiences alongside Brian Weatherly and the SOE team at marketing seminars in Belfast and Edinburgh,  lecturing on “Irish marketing” to a group of dentists from
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Recent rumours of my nervous breakdown were almost as funny as the accusation at the Showcase a couple of years ago that I had run off to Spain with a 14-year old (rather sick actually). Just before going on stage at the SOE gig in Belfast this evening, I was handed a Blackberry and asked
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