Bury's business leadership group met today and showed their support for the White Ribbon campaign.
Find out more about White Ribbon, how to get involved and what you can do to help end violence against women👉whiteribbon.org.uk
Bury Means Business 💼

Met a childhood icon last night, the amazing Pete Waterman, at the equally fabulous “I should be so lucky” production. Fabulously produced, great storyline, laugh out loud jokes, and as for the music…. It’s going to be huge! If you fancy lunch Pete it would be my pleasure!

Had a lot of fun this morning on #wakeuptomoney on with Rahul Tandon. Practising a bit of intentional touching, the terrifying Ted x flirting video he referred to is on my LinkedIn profile youtu.be/KdGLjdcVzno

I met another female founded business tonight, the fabulous Bar 17 at the marina in Cala D’or. Rafa ( the husband) turned the menu into an experience and the food was heavenly, giving full credit to his wife Tracey. He also said how hard it is now and ask…lnkd.in/eDNvQUVE

Don’t be fooled by the smiles in the second photo, that’s after I’ve just heard it was £17 for two small lemonades and 2 cans of water, this was at 4.30 in the afternoon, in 30 degree baking sunshine, 4 hours before Billy Joel was due to play. When you’re…lnkd.in/eQqEPA-J

It’s official, I’m a member of the Free Speech Union! As someone with no filters I’m pretty sure I’ll be in more need of them than they will be of me.
I have several friends and work related acquaintances whose opinions make me laugh like a drain, but, th…lnkd.in/ehxTPMC9

You have to read this book if you want a long life and then a quick demise and death. A must for your summer reading list. It's one of the best I've read - and I've read a few! The guy is a mathematician and a medical doctor so he gets stats and the app…lnkd.in/eM3whwZB

Ouch! The ruling by Europes highest court - which isn't appealable - has said that Meta must get consent from users for serving personalised ads. 22% of their revenues from ads come from Europe, they had tried offering them an opt out form for the Europea…lnkd.in/emEfNUd5

I read a great article this morning on the 5 basic laws of Human Stupidity, based on the expert Italian Economic Historian Carlo M Cipolla.
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some people are, there are times when I think 'nobody will go along with th…lnkd.in/eBNp3xJr

The government inquiry wants to know your experience for lockdown. For my 82 year old father it was total isolation in his home before having a jab which he thought would give him his freedom back, but which milled him. George Osb…lnkd.in/eq7bvvUi lnkd.in/evQfizQW

You know you’re getting old when you go to a gig on a school night, and you make for the seats. Then you’re clock watching because they haven’t started on time, and THEN you turn your Fitbit on because the walk to the loo is down so many flights of steps…lnkd.in/egiFCZGh

What a lovely surprise in my inbox today, I've been nominated for the TalkTalk NW women in Tech Awards! We've had some very sexy tech releases this year, driving up online sales and margins while driving down operational costs and reducing Carbon Foot Pr…lnkd.in/eX7976mG

We ran our first pro-manchester event yesterday '6 weeks to improve the sales price of your business'. Hosted at the lovely Investec offices (it's their zebra, I left mine at home). Our panel were outstanding, Dermot Power and Daniel Brecker provided t…lnkd.in/ej2QcnBE

CHECK YOUR MERCHANT CENTRE. We put a lot of work into complex shipping arrangements for clients, but many agencies seem to have missed the compulsory change on shipping and the prospects we have on books at the moment are being affected by this. One has…lnkd.in/ewgVzrQb

I've been a bit slow to the party to promote this, but as it happens it's sold out! Excellent job pro-manchester. Here's what I was going to tell you about it:

Whether you’re;
a business owner looking to capitalise on the best price possible for your bu…lnkd.in/eMP8YDeB

More Startups are throwing in the towel, unable to raise funds for their ideas. The Wall Street Journal is reporting startup shutdowns, fire sales and hard pivots are under way in the face of a downturn in the venture market. If the US sneezes the rest o…lnkd.in/eZzevjux

I had an early, but fun, start to the day in the Radio 5 Live Studios on Wake Up to Money with the amazing multi tasking Sean Farrington. I wasn't quite sure whether my answer to 'How will the talks go with Biden and Sunak?' would be air-able, but I gav…lnkd.in/eQeNzK_n

Did you watch the launch of the Apple Vision Pro tonight? We were holding our breath to see if the wait and the product, could justify the price tag. I’m loving what I’ve seen so far compared to the meta quest, but find out exactly what I’ve loved and q…lnkd.in/erkeSXgN

Google Marketing Live has dropped a new ticking time bomb, which is virtually guaranteed to increase returns, fraud and cancellations due to credit history. Fraudsters don't buy cheap they buy big, google sees these transactions as…lnkd.in/gWjMn9a9 lnkd.in/gGkSmWwU

There’s no place I’d rather be than the UK when the weather is like this. We finished early yesterday and headed up to the lake with the pups for a walk and dinner. (We did do a US call on Monday thank to forgetting to put the May bank holidays into Calen…lnkd.in/gfWcyYwh