E-Myth
Michael Gerber in the legendary E-Myth book extols the virtue of working on your business not in it, and for ages I never really understood how I could make the shift or find the time to do just that. It’s so easy to get caught up in the day to day activity of your business that’s the hours fly by and the days merge into each other.
What was my solution ?
Oxford Business Wealth Club
My business mentor and close friend, Paul Avins, invited me last Friday to the Oxford Business Wealth Club awards evening, now in its 4th year. Of course I couldn’t say no and spent Friday night in the company of diverse, inspirational & successful business people.
What surprised me was the sense of community they demonstrated, all pulling together, working with each other to grow their businesses in what after all are some of the toughest times we have been through in a long while. The awards covered a variety of different aspects of business, growing business, business of the year etc.The two categories I found most interesting were the Joint Venture Award and the Back from the Brink Award.
Can one size fit all ?
Retail Merchandise Units (RMU’s) have been on the UK mall walkways for well over 10 years. The challenge that all manufacturers face is designing a unit that works for everyone, not just retailers but for shopping centres as well.
Shopping centres will want to protect sight lines and ensure that the unit is made from fire rated material, that it is secure at night and blends in well with its surroundings and will stand the test of constant use.
Retailers on the other hand want something totally different, large areas to display, power and data capability, lights and shelving that work for their own particular product. They also need enough room to store all the stock they carry. One of the only things they seem to agree on are security at night.
Whats The Answer ? find out here!
As an expert in commercialisation let me bust “The Myth” about working in a shopping centre, it’s not as expensive as you might think and you don’t need to big a big brand name either.
Across the UK’s shopping centres you will find activity on the mall walkways, companies with a retail offer, experiential activity & lead generation. Have you ever stopped to look at just who they are? Well more than half of them are local or regional businesses. They have realised that using the local shopping centre is a cost effective and dynamic way to grow sales, leads or raise customer awareness.
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This morning I spent an amazing few hours with the members of the BWC in St Albans. The Breakfast question was “What are you passionate about?”
The discussion that followed generated many interesting ideas, a given was our family and friends of course, but the one thing we had in common was that we were all passionate about doing business.
Over the years I have been to many network events, we’ve all been to ones where you are constantly being sold to or talked at by the other networkers.
The St Albans Business Wealth Club wasn’t like that at all, not only was the group treated to a great member presentation, members received the book of the month and some excellent mentoring by Alan French, they were all genuine people linked by a common purpose of helping each other and having a passion for business.
All at Mall Services, Blueprint Projects, iCentreB2B helped raise money for Wear it Pink day
with all baking cakes for sale and wearing pink outfits.
Westfield has opened their new centre next to the Olympic site in Stratford, London. The site opened to huge crowds and is expected to be packed with fans on the 7th November when Justin Bieber turns on the Christmas lights.
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