If you pass through Fenchurch Street Station this Thursday, then please drop any spare change into our St. Luke's Hospice (Basildon & District) buckets. Your kind donations will go towards caring for people whose illnesses are no longer curable.stlukeshospice.com

If you're at a loose end this Friday morning and want to find out more about EV ownership, then come along to our IoD East of England breakfast event at Gridserve's futuristic EV charging forecourt facility in Braintree (non-members welcome too): iod.com/events/gridser…

Jo Lucas and Paul Durrant - PDT Sales Consultancy right at the front making sure everyone knows St. Luke's Hospice (Basildon & District) is in #fenchurchstreet today! 👍💙💛

SPO is the discipline of maximising your sales team's performance (over the short, medium and long term) by optimising the deployment of your full set of resources i.e. systems, processes, people, technology and finance. Need helping optimising your #Sales performance?

Next Wednesday the 26th, I'll be opening the Enterprise Nation hosted 'Amazon Bootcamp: Becoming a resilient business' programme with a presentation about #livestreaming and live commerce. Book your free virtual ticket here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/amazon-bootc…

Have you got a great #business idea or want to scale up your side hustle? Enterprise Nation's 'StartUp Saturday' is coming to Chelmsford this Saturday (21st May) - so book your 'must have' ticket here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/startup-uk-s…

Are #entrepreneurs born or made? Can you develop a #growthmindset, if you believe everything is fixed? I answer these questions and more in my current book 'Entrepreneurial Sales '. Available in both paperback and e-book: amazon.co.uk/Entrepreneuria…

Have aspirations to write and publish your own book? Having done so myself, catch my FREE 'How to Write, Publish & Promote Your Own Book' webinar - at midday on the 22nd June, with my good friends at Enterprise Nation eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-and-le…

With #hybridworking and flexi-time common workplace practices now, which day of the week and which time of day is best for prospecting? Here is some guidance from Gong and RingDNA to help you.

Great quote here from Toni Morrison "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." If you do want to have a go yourself, then catch my free 'How to write, publish and promote your own book' webinar: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-and-le…

With economic growth stagnating and only weak growth predicted for 2023, it's a challenging marketplace for both sellers and buyers. Catch my 'Building Back Your Sales in a Recovering Market' FREE webinar, with London Chamber of Commerce and Industry on June 28th at 1pm: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We don't just negotiate when making a sale - we negotiate in all aspects of our lives. Brush up your negotiation technique, with my FREE 'Negotiation & Closing Skills' 1 hour webinar with Small Business Research and Enterprise Centre (in 2 weeks time on the 20th July at 10.30am): eventbrite.co.uk/e/negotiation-…

I'm a great believer that business can borrow some of the best practice from elite sport. No surprise that my summer reading is Pep Lijnders 'Intensity' (about Liverpool FC Online FC's 21/22 season). This quote could easily apply to how SME's should approach the next 2 challenging years.

Calling all IoD East of England members, I'll be chairing the next Mastermind Group dinner at the Blue Strawberry, Hatfield Peverel - on Monday the 12th. This is a lively peer to peer group and the food is excellent. Places are limited, so book here: iod.com/events/iod_ess…

Need some sales guidance to help navigate the current economic downturn? Book a place on my FREE #Sales workshop, this coming Wednesday at Nwes Business Support in Harlow: eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-you…

They say your network is your net worth but are you making the most of your #networking opportunities? If not, then catch my free webinar with the Small Business Research +Enterprise Centre, on the 22nd September and get your networking, working better! eventbrite.co.uk/e/effective-ne…

Your network is your net worth but are your #networking efforts, working? If you're struggling to communicate your value and connect with people, then catch my FREE 'Effective Networking & Elevator Pitching' webinar - next Thursday at 10am, with the SBREC. eventbrite.co.uk/e/effective-ne…

Increasing your circle of influence by #networking, can really help in a challenging market. Using some recognised best practice will help even further. Find out more with my free Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre webinar, this Thursday at 10am. eventbrite.co.uk/e/effective-ne…

The Wellness Exchange: The value of the industry and why you should start a wellness brand enterprisenation.com/learn-somethin…

Many thanks for your support Jill and the ORB community. Fingers crossed 🤞🤞