Well I've connected the site to this blog entry and if all things are equal, it should now be working. This blog will be about the business Boot Camp, now in its fourth year, run by Stephen Askew and Laurie Philp.
I'll aim to keep it up date so you can get some idea of the sort of things that are going on behind the scenes.
I decided to do some counting the other day and discovered that I've actually launched or been involved with starting over 200 photography businesses. Some in America and Australia but the majority here in the UK.
Then I decided to count the number of businesses I've been involved with working as a consultant, adviser or coach in the general world of business and there are now over 600. The majority of them were small businesses usually employing less than 10 people. The most unusual business I've worked with was a bagpipe player who wanted to improve his marketing and get more work while living in Hastings. My largest client who I've worked for in the UK and America is Pfizer the global pharmaceutical company.
So over some 20 years I've had the fun and pleasure and sometimes pain of being involved with business growth, development, creativity and innovation. What amazes me is that despite the increasing technology and the speed at which data and information can be moved around business is still about people. People buy people first and whatever else second. People still prefer to do business with a person. I really do believe it is the interpersonal skills that make the biggest difference.
So although the delivery methods change and we can make mistakes faster than ever before, good businesses, even great or excellent, are always customer driven, user friendly and responsive to change.
Even this blog was dictated to my computer and my fingers never even touched the keyboard.
Magic
Laurie
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