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Marketing Industry Network

First entries in my diary after buying JDA 10 years ago this month

15 September 2010

The reason I started to write these notes were Judith said she wished she had recorded the early days of JDA I have a hopeless memory and this will be a great way to look back come success or the alternative! I have decided to tell no one of this ‘journal’ so it will be [...]

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Cappuccinos to coppers – what a week

5 August 2009

Monday. My week started with a ‘coffee with kloog’. This is simply a format of me spending time, one to one, with small or start-up businesses. Due to the birth of my new son I had put these on ice for the last month or two but they are picking up. During the two allocated hours [...]

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From Joint Ventures to Jelly and Cake – what a week

17 July 2009

Another varied week almost behind me. The only negative being an ongoing ‘legal argument’ which I can’t talk about but I offer this advice – have a good team of lawyers with you and keep them close. So Monday kicked off with a trip to Manchester to take part in an MIN http://www.marketingindustrynetwork.com round table about [...]

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Hello and thanks for visiting Carl’s Blog

5 June 2009

Hello, so I have been persuaded to start a blog. Timing is everything I am told so I thought it would be appropriate to start this on the second anniversary of selling my old business. I tend to plan my career in two year lumps and over the last two years I feel I have ‘re-invented’ myself… Madonna [...]

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