SOLO NEWSLETTER 60
November 2011
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© Copyright Albert Wright
1 Right Angle Consultants are Exhibiting at Two Major London Events this Month on Tuesday November 15th and Thursday / Friday 16/17th , promoting Breaking the Barriers to Business Growth – BB2BG.
2 NABO Networking - The Nationwide Alliance of Business Owners – more locations. November and December meetings.
3 North London ecademy, Flagship Boardrooms – Wednesday November 2nd and Wednesday December 7th. More Boardrooms Nationwide.
4 Comment / Rant of the Month – Less is More?
1 Right Angle Consultants are Exhibiting at Two Major London Events this Month:
a)RAC will be taking an exhibition stand at the Great British Business Show on November 17th and 18th and we will be delivering a seminar and selling our book, Breaking the Barriers to Business Growth.
Do come and visit us on stand 665.
Great British Business and Start Up Exhibition at Earls Court
Thursday and Friday November 17th and 18th
Tickets are FREE Go to http://www.greatbritishbusinessshow.co.uk/
b) Fresh Business Thinking event and exhibition at OLD BILLINGSGATE, LONDON, EC3R 6DX on Tuesday November 15th, see http://www.freshbusinessthinkinglive.com/
To register your interest go to http://www.freshbusinessthinkinglive.com/page/register-your-interest
As an exhibitor, RAC have FREE tickets for SOLO readers, contact Albert on 07973192712 or email albert@millionairecoachingacademy.co.uk
Find us on Stand F 116.
Do You Want to Double Your Sales and Profits?
Our role is to help you do just that through business advice, training and support.
If you are the owner of a micro or small business with 5 to 200 employees, you've come to the right place.
Right Angle Consultants' (RAC) 3 partners and 11 associates are the specialists you can call on to help you seize the challenges and demolish the barriers to your growth and success, which you may be finding tough to get on your own.
Our mission is to improve our clients’ profitability by helping you increase your efficiency and effectiveness and do the right things, at the right time in the right way.
With over 14 specialists experienced in subjects ranging from strategy to people management, we are likely to be able to supply the right person to assist you in achieving your goals or sorting out your current challenges.
You can choose from training and workshop events to 121 coaching or hands on consultancy or interim management.
If you want to invest in business support for your business, speak to one of our partners. We guarantee the value you get will always exceed the fees you pay.
07973192712 www.right-angle-consultants.co.uk
Breaking the Barriers to Business Growth book.
Now available to order via the RAC website www.right-angle-consultants.co.uk
To get £5 off the normal price as a reader of SOLO please send me an e-mail albert@successfulsolo.com with your details and we will send you an invoice at this special price, which, if paid before December 1st 2011 will entitle you to the reduction.
2 NABO Networking - The Nationwide Alliance of Business Owners – expansion and November and December meetings.
NABO Networking is now holding breakfast and lunchtime meetings at over 40 locations with another 40 or more to start before the end of the year.
See www.nabonetworking.biz for full information.
I personally know several of the Group Directors and have known founder, Jonathan Jay, for over 10 years and can recommend the organisation.
My own group in North London has been meeting every 2 weeks since July 19th and the next meetings are on Tuesday 8th November and 22nd November.
The combination of business education, peer group support, the Issues Spotlight Hot Seat plus 'in the meeting 121 sessions', networking and incidental referral make the events unique in the networking world.
The North London Group meets every 2 weeks starting at 7.30 am to 9.30 am.
For full details and to book in advance go to www.nabonetworking.biz or phone me on 07973192712.
Only those who book in advance will get access to NABO TV and we now have 8 mini programmes in our business education box, the most recent from Jonathan Jay on Marketing.
At most groups you will pay no more than £17 for the venue hire and refreshments / meal, the meeting itself being FREE to members who have paid an annual fee of £99 to join.
NABO Networking offers outstanding value and if you cannot find a group in your area, why not set one up yourself.
I am so pleased with what NABO are doing that I will contribute my help and £100 towards the cost of setting up a local group. Ring me on 07973 192712 for details.
To attend an event you need to book in advance. Go to www.nabonetworking.biz – under Barnet, to register for North London and to see the location of other Groups.
3 North London ecademy, Flagship Boardrooms – Wednesday November 2nd and Wednesday December 7th.
More Boardrooms Nationwide.
Like NABO, ecademy are growing their number of boardrooms.
See http:ww.ecademyboardrooms.com/ecademy-boardroom-chairman/ where you will find full details and mini video clips from several of the Boardroom Chairmen, including me, William Buist, Sharon Eden, David Doveton, Judith Germain, Mick Say, Simon George and 12 others.
These monthly Mastermind Group offer lunch, networking and 2 chances to sit in the Business Issues Spotlight and have group members comment on your key business issue.
All are welcome. The Official Price is £99 plus Vat. Special rates for ecademy members.
To book and for details of member discounts go to http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&c=9063
More on ecademy Boardrooms next month.
4 Comment / Rant of the Month – Less is More?
As I have been saying for many months now, Things are Not Getting Better.
Other people are revising down estimates for growth and talking about a 5 to 10 year period of low or no growth.
My question for the UK is 'Would that really be so bad for us? Or is it a great opportunity?'
I see it as an opportunity.
Consumerism has not apparently brought us greater contentment let alone happiness.
More material things, newer consumer products, bigger houses and cars, longer, further away holidays, greater choice of magazines and TV channels, the explosion of opportunities via the Internet, a bigger GDP have not had us in the streets rejoicing.
Instead there is more greed, stress and depression, disappointment, envy, fear, moaning, anger, loneliness and disengagement.
Could many of us stop buying things (and some services) for a few years and take life a bit slower, cutting our borrowing and paying off debt, while at the same time being no less content and possibly a bit happier?
Less can be more.
Do we actually need a new car every 3 years, a new sofa every 2 years, an exotic holiday every year?
Do we now have an opportunity to better re-balance our lives?
The change will be painful for some and will require change by many.
It is a myth that we cannot have full employment today and tomorrow, but the nature of the work done will have to change.
For too long and for too many, work activity has produced too little of real value.
Governments have paid sections of private industry and their directly employed staff in various ministries (particularly in defence, construction, healthcare and criminal injustice) too much and have not had good value for money.
Members of the Civil Service, Armed Services, Police Service, Health Service, Education Service and Local Authorities for generations have not been picked or trained as businessmen, operational managers, risk takers with a bottom line focus on costs, return on investment etc and have been inefficient and generally out smarted by better prepared people in the private sector.
The private sector in the UK has also been burdened with excessive and useless regulation and often inadequate enforcement agencies where the regulations have been good.
We have become wasteful and profligate as a nation and the economic downturn has the potential to make us fitter, leaner, more efficient and possibly happier if we seize the opportunities now before us.
Next Month and Next Year – a return to book and people reviews and fewer rants and comments.
I have been reading books by Andrew Ludlam and Grant LeBoff, attending events featuring Daniel Priestly of Triumphant Events and it’s time to share my thoughts.
Comments always welcome – it’s good to know someone is reading this.
Albert@millionairecoachingacademy.co.uk