Newsletter
from Robert Craven,
Keynote Speaker, Author and MD of
The Directors' Centre
September 2006

Greetings...

We're just back from our summer break and we are raring to go so we thought we'd send you an interim newsletter to get you back up to speed. In this month's newsletter:

• Three new articles, one book review and a press cutting for September 2006
• An article which is only available to Website/Newsletter subscribers: Bright Marketing #2
• Directors' Centre's Robert Craven wins contract to run 20 more 'Let's Talk...' workshops - venues all confirmed - you can attend for free!
• Free Stuff from the website

Regards,

Robert Craven

P.S. 'Let's Talk' continues to be my motto... Let's Talk... do give us a call on 01225 851044 - more specifically give Lesley Bees a call - she's started working with us and would love to hear from you.

STOP PRESS! FOr You, your business network and your clients

Robert has been awarded the contract to deliver 20 'Let's Talk...' workshops across the UK. Delegate fees should be £225 but you can attend for FREE by signing up now.

These events are a unique opportunity for you to see Robert live, and meet up with him afterwards. 'Let's Talk... More Profit' and 'Let's Talk... Bright Marketing' are interactive, practical half-day events. 100% of delegates said that they would recommend the event to a colleague.

Business Support Agencies/Networks and Firms are able able to reserve tables of eight for their clients and prospective clients. Contact us for further details.

Robert will be in: Reading, Caernarfon, Swansea, Plymouth, Milton Keynes, Cheshunt, Warrington, London Docklands, Brands Hatch, Maidstone, Birmingham FC, Wellingborough, Peterborough, Slough, Leeds, Dudley, Preston, Scotch Corner, Edinburgh, and Bournemouth.

BOOK NOW

Visit the webpage, contact Lesley on 01225 851044.

Want Your Life Back? - Take Action Now

The reason why many of our clients work with us is because we help them to run the business they want to run... and for others it is because we help them to get their lives back! Fancy growing your business and getting your life back? Ask your partner and kids what they think! Call Lesley on 01225 851044 and she will tell you how we can help.

Other actions you could take...

• Check out the free stuff on our website
• Book a free business surgery - an opportunity to talk to one of our consultants about what you are trying to do with your business, and what's holding you back.
• Book in to see Robert at one of the Let's Talk events.

September 2006 Articles - On Exiting The Business

Time For A Sharp Exit!  Options To Get Out Of Your Business! - So… the business has been going for a couple of years and it’s all been going quite nicely…but where to next? (Robert Craven, IOD Herts, Autumn 2006).

September 2006 Articles - On Profitability

Let's Talk Profit Formulas - The one question that start-ups and new small business-owners should be asking is ‘How do I get more profit?’. Robert Craven (Start Your Business Mag, Sept/Oct 2006).

Boost Your Bottom Line - Robert Craven reveals some simple but powerful ways to improve profitability (Making Money, Sept 06).

September 2006 Book Review

Scorecard Your Brand - Robert Craven finds Strategic Performance Management a compelling and informative read with real strategic potential despite the uninspiring title (Brand Strategy, 2006).

September 2006 - Media coverage

Profit From Marketing...! Marketing For Profit! - “Owners of growing businesses are always on the lookout for simple, no-nonsense ways to improve their profit and their marketing” says Robert Craven... (Onrec.com, Aug 2006).

Robert on the radio -a busy Thursday morning last week when he did 19 consecutive radio interviews - did you catch him?

Article for Newsletter Subscribers Only
- Bright Marketing

The Bright Marketing Results - Part Two of three. The Bright Marketing Manifesto and the Bright Marketing Seminars have changed the lives and fortunes of thousands of the UK’s small businesses. So what’s all the fuss?

Growing Your Business - FREE STUFF ON THE SITE

We are especially proud of the Free Stuff pages on the new website - but it looks like they won't be free forever! It includes:

• 70+ free Articles and Reports This site offers you the opportunity to download Business Guides and Direction, Articles and Reports
• Free Business Surgeries... a particularly powerful way of talking to us in a one-to-one environment - in effect it's a 'Try Before You Buy' (TBYB).

NEWSLETTER LINKS

• Kick-Start Your Business and Customer Is King
• Free Business Surgeries
• The New Service Plan
• Let's Talk... webpages and testimonials

ABOUT ROBERT CRAVEN, MD of The Directors' Centre

Robert Craven works with ambitious directors of fast-growing businesses who feel that they could be doing even better.

• As a keynote speaker his style is challenging, honest and goading; free of business school hyperbole, he makes his audience think.
• The Financial Times describes him as 'the entrepreneurship guru'.
  
• Mentoring and Coaching - The Directors' Centre team work with a select number of Managing Directors to help them grow their businesses. Phone Robert direct to know more on 01225 851044.
  
  
  For more details go to the Directors' Centre website.

BUY THE BOOKS NOW AT A SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE FROM AMAZON

Robert Craven, The Directors' Centre, 1 The High Street, Woolley, Bath BA1 8AR, UK - +44 (0)1225 851044 - www.directorscentre.com

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