Sales meeting in the toilet (2005)

I am a dad of three children, Molly 7, Millie 6 and Henry who will be 2 shortly. I am on my third relationship and have experienced my fair share of adversity in my life. My family are very close and like any close family we spend a lot of time in each other’s houses.

My mum and dad, although semi retired now, were successful business people and worked in the retail fashion trade and without their support, guidance and the occasional kick up the butt, I would be lost. The integrity that they both possess is very difficult to find these days, especially in our modern generation.

Since a young lad I have been highly motivated and possess high levels of energy. I would and have worked all the hours around the clock and travelled great distances to go to work and earn a pound note.

I enjoy motivating others and love getting up on stage, speaking to an audience and doing some really crazy inspirational moves to get people to move out of their comfort zones.

I have run my own businesses and worked for other companies but one constant remains and that is – I want to be the best at what I do! During my business and personal career I have succeed and failed in equal proportion.

I was working in 2004 for a small advertising directory sales company and we had just 35 staff when I joined. I grew the staff headcount to over 250 people employed on a full and part time basis. The energy and sexiness within the outbound call centre environment that I created was truly awesome and on a good day, sales and motivational was unrivalled.

Sales on one particular day were way were way off what they should have been and my staffs were sluggish, not performing and KPI’s were way in the red zone. Even my managers were downbeat and were not inspiring their teams and I was starting to lose my patience.

I was watching the floor, which was an 8000 sq ft open planned call centre and waited for someone to take action. No action came and as a result I went to the front of the floor and told everyone to finish their calls, put their phones down and join me at the front of the floor.

I always held two meetings every day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon after lunch. I was always well prepared and inspired my teams using a mixture of personal and business related topics and information.

People always used to say to me that my meetings were awesome and that I pushed people way beyond their own personal expectations for what they could achieve in sales and indeed their lives.

I have always believed that motivating and teaching people is a two way game. I always say “You hold onto one end of the rope and I will hold the other. As long as you hold on, ill hold on but if you let go then so will I”.

Inspiring people is an art and they have to love you, trust you and fear you all at the same time.

So, I am at the front of the floor and I now have 140 staff, 6 sales directors, 8 sales managers, an operations support team, IT team and the CEO looking on. I could see by the looks on their faces that they knew a crap storm was coming and there was an eerie silence as they waited to hear the inevitable.

The meeting that I was about to give them was by no means going to be my usual motivational and inspirational ye ha lets go type of address. This was going to be far from inspirational, but little did I know!

“OK team, sales are down, calls are down, profit for the day is down and not one of you, including my senior team have stood up and made any positive changes that could influence a turnaround for the day’s sales – Why? You have all the tools and personal and business reasons to achieve your daily goals. Yu have the ability and coupled with the superb product that we have you should be smashing the days sales out of the ball park – Why is it that we are having this crap day?”

Not one answer came from my entire team. They knew better and they also knew that in this team we fight, we fight for every inch and we stay on top of our game regardless of what challenges we face. That knew that with excellent performance come great benefits, commission rewards and other team and company incentives and recognition. On the contrary, poor performance comes with one almighty kick up the arse.

“OK then, if you guys are happy with such a crap performance then we are going to hold this meeting in the toilet, which is where the crap goes”.

With that I marched over 150 people into the men’s toilets and packed them in every piece of space that I could find. Some were standing on the toilets, others in the sinks, some were on other peoples shoulders and we were packed to the rafters. I forced and pushed every one into this toilet until the doors were bursting with people.

Whilst in the toilets I explained in no uncertain terms that we do not accept any kind of poor performance and that when things are not going to plan that you stop, adjust, evaluate, change and move forward. I cannot put the exact words in this book that I used but let’s say the use of my vocabulary was colourful.

Inside the room it was hot, stuffy and people were feeling uncomfortable being in the toilet, but they soon got the point. My HR Director was spitting kittens about my methods and I would not recommend using the toilet as meeting point for anyone in today’s tough employment law society.

The bottom line was this:-

I – My managers realised that they needed to see things before they happen as prevention is better than cure.

2 – Not everybody is motivated all of the time but if you can motivate and keep your top performers motivated then the rest will follow.

3- If you do not perform when I am around then the shit is going to hit the fan and literally, it did.

4 – You can bring some humour into your everyday business life and people will never forget these moments.

The outcome of the afternoon kick up the arse toilet session was that the team flew out of the toilets and went on to smash their daily target to pieces. Now I do not know whether it was because they did not want to go back into the hot sweaty toilet again for another spank or because they were actually inspired by my meeting. Either way, it got the job done and that’s the kind of unconventional guy I am.

Best Wishes for 2012

A great year ahead!

Regards Brad

Getting a million pounds Investment and loosing everything!

Its 6.30am in the morning, the month is January, and the year is 1994. The birds are tweeting; the sun is rising. I am 24 years of age and have been working night and day for nearly three years building my promotional clothing business. I am on the way to my office, situated above my mum’s shop in Epping Essex. Today is the day that is going to change my life forever. I am going to sign a contract today that will secure me over £2 million pounds worth of imported clothing from Indonesia. The problem is that I do not have one single penny to put down as collateral.

Last night I was working on a fast food stall and Wembley Arena earning extra money selling hotdogs to support my business. On the way home at 2am D:ream were playing on the radio “Things can only get better”.

I had worked on the stock market as a blue button when I was 16. The stock market crashed a year later and I lost my job. I bought my first market stall business when I was 18 years of age costing me £15,000. I also bought my first house when I was 18 and interest rates increased sharply to 15%, resulting in losing my £34,000 life savings that I had invested. I went bankrupt when I was 21 and thought my world was at an end. I clawed back from bankruptcy and started my promotional business when I was 21. I had already experienced major adversity and I was still only a baby.

 

I arrive at my office in Epping at 7am to prepare for my biggest ever business deal, one that would set me on the road to entrepreneurial stardom. A Korean gentleman called Mr Kim was arriving at 11am to see my business in action. He had been sent by his company, The Kolon Corporation, a multi-billion dollar organisation to open export channels in Europe and I was his one of his UK supply options.

The other two companies who wanted this contract were already turning over millions of pounds, had an established client base and had sound financial backing. Not only that, they had showrooms and warehousing in the clothing wholesale capital of London, Commercial Road E1.

My company was turning over just £250,000 a year. I had little stock and few customers. My first floor office was 300 sq ft with a few racks of stock. I had no office furniture and only two spare chairs, one of which had a broken leg and paint all over it.

I knew that I had to impress Mr Kim and I also knew that if I secured the deal it would mean that I could take my company to a multi million pound turnover business, pretty much over night. In business belief is everything and if you are prepared to do what your competitors do not have the imagination or balls to do then you will win.

I called in four friends dressed in smart suits and sat them at desks and placed phones on the desks that were not connected to any phone lines. I told them that when Mr Kim arrives that they should be on the phones closing deals and mentioning high profile companies. I also asked my family to call and place orders at a precise time and not to stop until we called to say that Mr Kim had left.

It’s 10.45am and Mr Kim had arrived early. My palms were sweaty, my heart was beating and my legs started to shake. I had to calm myself down and prepare for the pitch of the century. The boys were ready, the order pads were out, phones were in their ears ready to take orders and my family were ready to call in 5 minutes to place orders…… Ok action stations here we go!

I greeted Mr Kim downstairs, shook his hand and walked him up the stairs to my office. The only two incoming phones lines I had were ringing off the hook. The sales guys were on the phones that were not plugged into anything pitching customers and taking orders. My family were playing their part in helping me secure the deal.

Mr Kim questioned me for almost two hours nonstop. The sales guys kept taking order and my family as requested kept ringing in. After about an hour someone took an order from my family, later I found out it was dad. The order was for 6000 jackets and I can remember saying to myself “calm down family”, that is an order for £120,000 and if they keep placing silly order like that, it’s going to blow my deal out of the water.

Mr Kim had questioned me about sales, marketing, manufacturing, ranges and design styles, colours and size ordering breakdowns. We had discussed import and export duty, ports of origin and ports of destination. In fact we had covered everything from fabric and the mills that would be making it to container sizes, shipping and warehousing costs.

I understood it all and had been studying about manufacturing for a long time and besides, both of my parents had inducted me into the world of fashion from about 10 years of age – Thank you mum and dad!

Mr Kim knew that I was buying jackets from a Company in London called The Cobles Company ran by a Jewish man called Lawrence Cohen. Mr Kim also knew that Mr Cohen was spending a good few million dollars in Indonesia producing the jackets. What I did not know is that Mr Kim knew his exact import numbers and had the use of the factory two streets away producing the same goods and he had his eyes set of Western Stardom and needed me to make his dream a reality.

Another 30 minutes went buy and I held my nerve and made Mr Kim believe that I did not need his imports. I finally shook hands and Mr Kim left the building.

What I had achieved in the last two and a half hours was this:- I secured over £2 million pounds of imported goods ordered and ready to be delivered in ninety days to my 20,000 sq ft warehouse. The beauty of the deal was this. I did not have to lay out a single penny security. I had just placed an order for £2 million pounds without a single penny deposit. To this day I have not heard of a deal being done like that by a guy of 24 years of age.

I had no warehouse, no customers, no distribution and no way of even financing the deal I had just signed. I had just ninety days to prepare to take a business from turning over £250k a year to a £3 million a year business.

I did just that and by 1996 I was supplying Walt Disney, Coca Cola, Wembley Stadium, Capital Radio, The Spice Girls and had supplied products to just every brand that you could imagine from food to drinks, pop and rock groups, formula one racing teams and SkyBSB. I built a blue chip client network that was the envy of the promotional clothing world. I was turning over £3.3 million pounds a year, had been approached by Dunn and Bradstreet for outstanding growth as well as Sir Richard Branson’s Fast track 100.

It all seemed to be going so well until the Far East Crashed in 1998 costing me over half a million pounds and everything that I had built over a 5 year period.

When you lose everything it hurts, but the extraordinary people get back up, learning from their experiences to go on and achieve greater things and that’s why – Everyday People Achieve Extraordinary Things.

 

Best Wishes

Bradley Chapman

What does it to be an entrepreneur

What does it take to be an entrepreneur?

With the UK economy in full re-build, it will be the entrepreneurs, who create jobs, through innovation and by putting their ideas into action. Being an entrepreneur or business owner is not an easy thing to do and with so many new business startups perhaps more than ever before, you have to ask yourself one question:-

Am I ready?

Being an entrepreneur requires a passion, determination and courage that few people actually realise. You will experience the highest of highs coupled with the lowest of lows. At times, your mind and resolve will be tested to the limits and only when you face real adversity will you know whether you truly are entrepreneurial.

Entrepreneurial Leaders

Entrepreneurs are natural leaders that inspire and innovate through ideas and creation. An entrepreneur must accept and realise that he is not skilled in every aspect of business and day-to-day operations. The skill is knowing when and where to seek help and how to use it and in what quantities.  Always stand up and be counted even when things go wrong. When your ideas work, ride them, when they do not, evaluate and reapply.

Your idea

If you are starting a business then you must test-drive your idea. Do not keep it to yourself, as you are not re-inventing the wheel. Put your idea out there, as that is the only way to know if it is going to work. Use your friends and family to test drive your idea but also use people who do not know you, as they will answer honestly without emotion. Above all, listen to them, as they could be your future customers.

Finance

Do you have adequate finance to get your business where you need it to be? If you do not then you have two choices: – either wait until you have secured enough money to fund the business or start it knowing that you will require investment at a later stage. Some investors prefer to see something tangible, live and working. Be careful and choose wisely.

Employing people

During my career, I have employed thousands of staff. I have learned only recently at a great cost that you must employ the best person that you can and if that means you have some kind of profit share then do it. Getting employment wrong, can cost you time, money, grow and can have a negative impact on your business. When I met and interviewed David recently he reinforced that to me.

Business planning

Your business will change as soon as you create it. A business pan rarely goes according to plan. Keeping an eye on costs is key and reviewing your monthly costs is essential if you are to survive.

Always look at your three month cost base and if you are not making money then ensure that you either decrease costs, increase sales or your GP to stay above water. Always remember that if your business makes 10% net profit after all expenses then for every £10,000 in turnover you achieve you earn £1000. Every £1000 that you spend requires you to turnover another £10,000 just to make it back.

Time and resources

Entrepreneurs work long hours and often take home less money than they were paid by the jobs they enjoyed prior to starting in business. I would advise that you have a second income while you build your business. The less you draw from the business, the stronger it will be in the long term.

Your resources are everything and the contacts that you make will help you grow your business. Business networking is an essential tool for any business owner and there are many business-networking opportunities for you to explore.

Business Networking

Business networking is a vital tool for your business. Get out and join as many business networks as you can. Entrepreneur networking will help you make new contacts that you can later use to your advantage.  Raw Business online offers free online business networking. Every registered member also receives a copy of Raw Business Magazine each month. Join as many networks as you can and make as many new contacts as you can.

Bradley Chapman

www.rawbusiness.com

Dr John Demartini interviewed by Bradley Chapman

It was one of my greatest pleasures to interview Dr John Demartini recently in London.I attended two of his seminars and was truly inspired by his amazing delivery and inspirational speech.

I read the book “The Secret” about five months ago and have been taken in by the Law of Attraction. Thinking positive can change your life. At times, especially in business we can get down when things do not go our way and running a business is not easy and becoming successful is an even greater challenge. Sometimes it can take us two, three or four attempts to get it right.

John was truly inspiring and it is no wonder that he has travelled the world spreading his words of wisdom. Here is my video with Dr John Demartini. Please feel free to comment below with your thoughts and experiences on the laws of attraction.

Raw Business Magazine interview extract:-

Dr John Demartini interviewed by Bradley Chapman

I read a book called “The Secret” a few months ago and it has had a profound effect on the way that I think, feel and act every day. The book is essentially about the Laws of Attraction and how by using positive thoughts, you can bring positive change into your life.

The book was suggested to me by Peter Boolkah, who is my Action Coach. I ordered the book and started to read it. The book talks about attraction and how simple the message is that like attracts. For so long that I had been sending out the wrong message. By sending out the wrong message and negative thoughts meant that I was attracting more negativity into my life.

It is so easy when you are facing adversity or have been going through challenges to turn your thoughts into a positive state, however when you do, some really interesting things can start to happen.

The last few years have been quite challenging for me both personally and in business. I am now at a point where I have started to turn a corner, but I still have to deal with some back issues. Despite the adversity that I have faced, I feel that the future is going to be ok. I have now accepted that the adversity is as John says “a balance of pleasure and pain”.

The funny thing about acceptance is once you decide to let go, new opportunities open up for us. I now believe that the things that I am currently doing every day are a pathway to where I am actually going to be in the future. In the past, I guess I was a little like a salmon swimming against the stream. I believe that in life, that we all have some kind of Achilles heel, the big question is whether we choose to deal with it or not.

Reading the secret has had a big impact on my life. One of the contributors is a guy called Dr John Demartini. I had no idea that I would be introduced to John, let alone have the opportunity to attend one of his events and interview him personally.

I attended two of his events in London recently and was totally inspired by his journey, his words and his ability to captivate an audience, inspiring them to take immediate action to change their lives – Forever!

Dr Demartini is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on human behaviour and personal development. He is the founder of the Demartini Institute, a private research and education organization with a curriculum of over 72 different courses covering multiple aspects of human development.

His trademarked methodologies, the Demartini Method and the Demartini Value Determination, are the culmination of 38 years of cross-disciplinary research and study. His work has been incorporated into human development industries across the world.

Dr Demartini travels 360 days a year to countries all over the globe, sharing his research and findings in all markets and sectors. He is the author of 40 books published in 28 different languages. He has produced over 50 CDs and DVDs covering subjects such as development in relationships, wealth, education and business. Each program is designed to assist people to activate leadership and empower themselves in all seven areas of their lives: Financial, physical, mental, vocational, spiritual, family and social.

I met up with John at a hotel in the Strand and spent about 45 minutes chatting to him, on and off the camera. This man has touched me in a way that I have never been touched before. You can view my Raw TV webcast interview with him by clicking on the player.

 

Please feel free to read the interview in our latest edition of Raw Business Magazine here:-

Raw Business Dr John Demartini Interview

Best Wishes Bradley
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Chelmsford Business Networking Club Launches

Event Title: Finding the Motivation Within

Speaker and Host: Bradley Chapman

Location: The Blue Bridge Restaurant – Writtle Chelmsford
Time: Breakfast Meetings 7.30am, Lunch Meetings 12.30pm
Duration 2.5 Hours

BOOK THIS EVENT

Learn about how to find the motivation and strength  NEEDED to GROW, SURVIVE and SUCCEED in business using positive motivation”.

In association with the Blue Group of restaurants and bars we have secured a high quality prestigious restaurant venue to launch the Monday Business Club hosted by myself and special guest speakers. We are running two events per month on Mondays – One breakfast and one lunch meeting, with further plans to launch evening business dinner events.

Would you like to feel motivated and inspired to be able to bring a positive impact to your business and move forward to success?

Have you ever felt that you have reached a stumbling block or obstacle to move your business forward?

As an entrepreneur have you ever felt like you are the only one who knows what you want to achieve?

If you do then this event is a must attend for you

Not only that I will teach you to:

Find the motivation that you did not know you had!
Take action and bring about positive change!
Find the confidence to do new things!
Let go of your inhibitions and set yourself free!

During the event you will:

Network with other like minded local business owners
Gain referrals and meet valuable business contact contacts
Make new friends
Discuss your business in a relaxed business networking atmosphere
Speed network to get your energy buzzing

After the event you will:
Leave with belly full of wonderful cooked breakfast or amazing lunch and start your week inspired and refreshed and ready to take your business to new heights

Don’t take my word for it – See me in action as the Key Speaker at thje Kent 2020 show - Bradley Chapman Live and Unleashed

The Agenda for the Event

7.30am – Registration and Meet & Greet Event Attendees
7.45am – Welcome from Event Host: Bradley Chapman
8.00am – Full English Breakfast
8.20pm –Speed Networking
8.45pm –Speaker: Bradley Chapman
9.30pm – Session Close

I look forward to seeing you at the event and enjoying an ealry morning business networking breakfast with you. I guarantee that you will leave inspired and motivated..

About Bradley Chapman

Bradley Chapman believes that “Everything is Possible” if you have the right mindset and motivation to support your dream, goals and vision. He has faced and overcome major adversity in both his personal life and the various businesses that he has owned, managed and built during his career. He believes that everyday people can achieve extraordinary things.

Bradley Chapman has over 20 years of business, business management and entrepreneurial experience. He has traded both in the UK and internationally for clients including Walt Disney, Wembley Stadium, Coca Cola, pop and rock groups including Oasis and The Spice Girls as well as supplying promotional products for major TV campaigns and leading UK brands.

Over the years Bradley has owned various businesses including an import and export business, retails shops, fast food catering businesses, clothing mail order, textiles manufacturing, wholesale and retail businesses and most recently Raw Business – The Entrepreneur Network including Business Networking and a Business Magazine called Raw Business Magazine. Bradley has interviewed and worked with some of the UK’s highest profile entrepreneurs.

Bradley has spoken at many events, both hosted by Raw and as a guest speaker for other organisations. Bradley’s first major speaking event as MD of Raw business was as a personal guest of Rachel Elnaugh at the British Library in Jan 2009. Bradley was speaking to 200 + Entrepreneurs about how people shouldn’t let others tell them they can’t do something. This was part of an Inspiring Entrepreneurs event titled “Business Nightmares”.

Bradley Chapman BIO

Contact Details:

Bradley 07775 877018

Email: me@bradleychapman.com

Raw Business – The Entrepreneur Network

If you are not a member of Raw Business then register online today absolutely free of charge to use our free networking website www.rawbusiness.com

Bradley Chapman – Online exclusive Business Coaching and Business Mentor Service

Sign up to my online personal mentoring service by clicking on the link below and become one of my exclusive subscribers. Monthly subscription is £25 – Find out how I can help you. Click the link below

http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/bradley-chapman-announces-online-business-mentoring-program-236.php

About our Attending Event Sponsors

Dyslexia Coaching - Come and see Gillian Woon of Dyslexia Coaching on her stand. Gillian has been a Raw Business member and supporter for over 3 years. Not only is Gillian a top quality business coach and dyslexia coach, she is also the author of the book “Inspiration: A Users Guide”, which can be purchased from Gillian’s stand at the event

Magnetic - Come and see Ray Padfield-Krala owner of Magnetic Ecology Ltd. Ray manufactures and sells his own brand of pain relief. Magnetic Therapy is recognised as a non-evasive natural therapy. It is not new and the ancient Egyptians and Greeks are known to have used magnetic therapy thousands of years ago. The Chinese and Japanese have used magnetic therapy again for thousands of years and even now magnets are used in hospitals and clinics.

Other Event Sponsors

Philip Martindale - Philip is the owner of Alcander . Alcander, based in South-East London, take a holistic approach to marketing its clients websites so they are not only made more visible on the search engines, but will also attract more click-throughs. We will remove any obstacles likely to get in the way of a site’s ability to engage with its viewer. Ultimately, you will get more customers reaching for the phone, completing your enquiry form or emailing you.

Peter Green - Peter is the owner of Performance for Growth . Performance for Growth is an independent UK management training and leadership development company based in Berkshire. Our small size enables us to provide excellent value for money and the reassurance that the people you meet will be the ones you or your team will be working with. We prioritise each client’s individual needs and will ensure we understand and take into account the specific details that matter to you

Venue Hosts

The Blue Group of Bars Restaurants and Night Clubs
www.thebluegroup.co.uk

The Blue Bridge Restaurant

Bradley Chapman launches online business coaching program

I received so many responses last week from business owners and entrepreneurs who asked for my help with their businesses. I was inspired by the sheer amount of people who will not give up the fight to make their businesses a success and the diversity of different business offerings. I received emails and calls from such a large range of business sectors that it has inspired me to offer online coaching to a larger audience at a more affordable price.

Not everybody can afford my personal mentoring fees and I want to be able to pass on my experience to you. As a result, I have decided to launch a remote cost effective business coaching and mentoring service to assist business owners where budgets may be tight.

My new coaching service costs only £25 per month and you can subscribe and unsubscribe when you like. Over the coming months I am going to deliver a series of secured access, live and recorded webcasts, newsletters and emails that will my pass my knowledge and passion on to YOU!

I will also provide you with my mobile number so that we can chat when you need to speak to me. It may well be that you need motivation or you may need my advice or just a bouncing board to help you make a decision.

If you are serious about your business and wish to succeed then subscribe to my new service and be prepared to have your mind opened up to a whole new world of opportunity. I will deliver my skill knowledge and attitude directly to you. You will be then be able to put them into action immediately delivering positive changes for your business.

What you will get for your money:-

• A weekly live webcast that all coaching subscribers can join in and ask questions which I will answer. Each week we will cover a new topic from social media to business angel investment. The webcasts will be recorded and can be viewed at a later date if you miss the live version.
• A weekly dedicated mentoring newsletter that delivers topical business support and mentoring advice direct to your inbox.
• Weekly updates of recommended suppliers and contacts that will help you move your business forward as well as free business solutions that you can use to your benefit.
• All monthly subscribers will be listed with links in my personal blog to promote their company and website.
• Free unlimited business articles can be added to my networks business articles sections giving you valuable back links to your website.
• Every subscriber will qualify for their own entrepreneur interview which will be placed on the Raw Business website Interviews Section
• You will receive my mobile number for motivational chats, business advice and general support as and when required.
• You can put forward specific requests to me for webcast topics that will help your business now and in the future.

Subscribe now to be added to my exclusive online coaching and business mentoring service:

Bradley Chapman – Business Coaching and Mentoring Service

Montlhy Payment : £25.00GBP – monthly Yearly saver : £250.00GBP – yearly

Areas we will be covering over the coming weeks:-Social Media – How to use it to your advantage
Recruiting staff – What to look for and what to avoid
Business Planning – How to avoid the cash flow trap
Websites – Building costs effective web solutions
Brand Development – Creating a brand that is remembered
Outsourcing – Keeping costs low
Purchasing – How to reduce your costs and keep your profits high
Motivation – How to find it, keep it and use a positive flow for your business
Finances – Finding the right business angel and or investor
Cash Flow Management – Can factoring help your business
E-marketing – Create regular newsletters to build your database
CRM systems – Are you using the right one to grow your business
Telecoms – Phone systems, virtual and geographic numbers
Other Areas that we will be covering Include:-

Sales and Sales operations
Sales/ Telesales Training
Sales Manager Training
Full KPI review
Incentives/ Commission Structures
Full Media pack design and distribution
Review employment contracts/ co protection
Full product review and overhaul
Look at existing and new routes to market via in house/field operatives
Establish and consolidate your client base
Outsourced sales option

Marketing Mix
Assess Brand Strengths and weaknesses
Bring the company in line with all social media marketing
Evaluate website – key words and SEO, CPC Data collection and control for marketing purposes
Look at ways of promoting your brand via my network and published magazines

Operations
Bring the company and team together to improve work rates and work ethics
Asses all areas looking at time/ costs and managing effectively
Weekly/ monthly heads of dept meetings to review current situ and implemented changes
Evaluate all purchasing costs 

I look forward to you joining my coaching sessions. Over the coming weeks I intend to connect my personal subscribers allowing them to network extensively with each other creating an inner circle of personally mentored business owners and entrepreneurs.

“One of my biggest successes was taking a company from £75k revenue per month to over £1.4 a month million a month within six months. I have over 20 years of direct business experience covering UK and overseas markets. I have direct high growth business experience that I am now offering to you”

Regards and Best Wishes
Bradley Chapman 

For all enquiries please email mentor@rawbusiness.com

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Bradley Chapman speaking at the Pre Conference Event for Kent 2020 Show

It is my great pleasure to announce that I will be speaking at the pre conference event for the Kent 2020 show in Kent, 29th March, on how to maximise your potential at trade shows. The event is going to be a blast and I am so wired at the moment that this session is going to raise the roof. Please find the details below and if you could attend, the Team at Best Business Events and myself would be pleased to see you there – If you would like to register at Raw Business please visit www.rawbusiness.com

Kent 2020 – Pre-Conference Event 29/03/2011 08:30

REGISTER NOW- Registration is free for this event

Description

Join in the largest networking event in the county where you will hear from a top business speaker on maximising the opportunities of Kent 2020. You will have yet another opportunity of meeting up with exhibitors along with registered delegates. A golden opportunity of promoting your business to hundreds.

FREE and exclusively for all registered delegates and exhibitors at Kent 2020 ‘11

Business Networking and Motivation
It will change your life

Maximise the opportunities of Kent 2020 using the power of business networking. A golden opportunity of promoting your business to hundreds – the largest networking event in the South East.

Presented by Bradley Chapman

	Bradley is engaging, passionate, insightful and a humorous speaker who brings businesses together with one goal in mind – to make them all successful at business.  He has over 20 years of business, business management and entrepreneurial business experience trading both in the UK and internationally for clients including Walt Disney, Wembley Stadium and Coca Cola. If I knew what I know now about the power of business networking I would have started years ago. I never dreamed that I would meet people like David and Jacqueline Gold, Charlie Mullins and Richard Fraleigh. The contacts that I now have means that I know just about everybody for everything. Everybody should network – it is now the essential business survival tool. ‘Bradley has great and personal insight into business and a wealth of anecdotes having interviewed many of our top business leaders’ Phil Hall, MD PHA Media Former Editor of The News of the World
	Just some of what Bradley will cover  • Belief is everything – How’s your Marmite? • Moving out of your comfort zones to discover the new you • What will networking do for your business? • Finding the motivation from within • The one penny motivation answer

Event Type:		Kent Event
When:		29/03/2011 08:30 to 10:30
Register:		29/03/2011 08:00
Venue:		Ramada Maidstone
Cost:		No charge

Bradley Chapman is the founder of www.rawbusiness.com – The Entrepreneur Network

MASTER YOUR DESTINY

Manifesting wealth and abundance should be easy.  However too often people are full of fear and anxiety and if you’re constantly worried about how things will turn out you are closing off the ways that money and abundance can actually come to you.

You shouldn’t have to struggle to make money or attract wealth.  Having more money makes your life easier and allows you to do many of the things you want.  But if you don’t have the wealth you want, if you’re not making the kind of money you want, if you’re not manifesting  wealth and abundance then you’re simply not sending out the right messages to have more of what you want.

Those messages are your thoughts and beliefs.  And whatever thoughts and beliefs you have about money and manifesting wealth will become a part of your life.

Unfortunately most people don’t believe they can make the kind of money they want and they don’t believe that they can be wealthy.

Why does this happen?

Well at some point in your life you developed a negative thinking pattern, This pattern was planted in your subconscious mind when you were younger and in all probability you’re not even aware of it.  You just know that you believe more in lack than you do in abundance.  That no matter how hard you try you just can’t ‘get ahead’.  That you don’t deserve it, you’re not worthy of it, that you have to struggle to succeed – and so you never achieve.

What’s happening is that your subconscious is creating your life based on those thoughts and beliefs.   You’re putting out the wrong signals.

Your subconscious simply follows your beliefs.  Negative or limiting beliefs about money have no purpose… they don’t let you get ahead or live the life you want and they certainly won’t let you become wealthy.

Those who succeed and enjoy their lives control their fear, they eliminate anxiety and panic by changing their focus and by thinking of how things will or can work out.   They have a belief in themselves and what they are worthy of.

If you’re crippled with fear it’s because you’re thinking of how things won’t work out or what could go wrong.

You don’t have enough information to be confident so your mind immediately focuses on what could go wrong.  No wonder you get scared.   Anybody would be crippled with fear if they focused on what could go wrong all the time.

So what do you do?

Change your thoughts.  Start thinking about how things could work out.  Push your mind to do things differently.  As your mind goes into a negative tailspin you feel trapped, you’re worried, uncertain, then the panic takes over, the fear cripples you and the anxiety overwhelms you. And if those worries are down to money – not having enough, not earning enough, not enough customers, whatever it might be, the more you think like that the worse it will become.

It’s not a way to live.

So what can you do?

Focus on what you want.  Think of how you would like things to turn out and fill your mind with thoughts of success.  If you stray, if your mind comes back and give you negative junk that leads to fear and anxiety change those thoughts.

Your subconscious mind will then pick up on these new thoughts and allow you to overcome the fear…  eliminate the anxiety and get rid of the panic attacks.

You need to eliminate and change any negative beliefs about money even if times are tough or if there’s a recession.

The truth is that in a recession people still make money.
People still find jobs in recessions.
Businesses do grow.
New businesses form during tough times.

Keep Changing those negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. Get rid of them.

How?

I help people change their negative thoughts and limiting beliefs with tapping, NLP and hypnotherapy.

When you have a thought that supports you those beliefs change .  It really is that simple

Getting rid of those negative beliefs once and for all, empowering yourself with positive powerful thoughts, doing this on a daily basis (the way you do when you worry !) going over and over things is THE ONLY WAY to bring changes in your life; bring you the life you want rather than what you’re struggling with.

Focus on what you want.  Feed your mind positive thoughts and create positive beliefs about making and building wealth quickly and easily

Negative self-beliefs thwart your self-image and cloud and shroud the light within.  You cannot live like that – You need to let your happy loving nature shine; let it out and be free.

In doing so you will find your life will change in all areas, and you will begin to manifest all your dreams with ease and start experiencing more of the love, happiness and successes you desire and deserve.

The truth is, you always deserve, whether you believe it or not, so you may as well believe it! Because…

The more you believe you deserve it all, the more you will receive

I can help you change those beliefs; I can help you move on, improve your life, make more money, give you confidence and self belief which will in turn bring you a brighter future.

Remember what you think about today becomes true for you tomorrow.

Get rid of those limiting beliefs before they cause more damage to your life.

CHANGE THE LIFE YOU HAVE FOR THE ONE YOU DESERVE

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Raw Business offers Entrepreneurs online networking facility

Following the announcement by Coalition Government Minister Mark Prisk that the funding for Business Link is to be halted, Raw Business, a private sector online business networking and publishing company, has made the decision to open its network to the whole of the UK business community free of charge.

Raw Business was founded in 2007 and aims to provide business owners and entrepreneurs with the tools, support and guidance they need to make their business a success. The online network aims to bring entrepreneurs and business owners together, enabling them to forge strong, lasting business relationships and is based on the most popular Social Networking models.

Historically, the network has had free and subscription based membership options but following the announcement by Mr Prisk, Raw Business MD Bradley Chapman has made the decision to open up the network. Bradley told us “Business owners and entrepreneurs can sometimes feel very isolated and not everyone is good at everything. A support mechanism where the experiences of other business owners can be shared, despite any rivalry, can really help to make the business community and the UK as whole, a better place.”

These sentiments were echoed by Government Minister Simon Burns who, in a statement to Raw Business said “The services offered and the opportunities presented through companies like Raw Business can potentially be a vital lifeline for business and entrepreneurs alike.

With austerity measures being introduced in public sector funded projects such as Business Link, it is good to see that the private sector is ready and willing to come together in these tough times. “

As well as the online network, Raw Business also publishes a monthly business magazine title raw Business Magazine written by business owners, for business owners but also including interviews with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. The magazine is now in its twelfth edition, has a print run of 15,000 and has both printed and digital versions.

For more information about the services on offer by Raw Business, please visit www.rawbusiness.com

David Gold – Successful Entrepreneur

I had the greatest pleasure today interviewing David Gold, Chairman of West Ham United FC, Ann Summers and former owner of Birmingham City FC and Sunday Sport Newspapers.

David Gold came up the hard way clawing his way from abject poverty growing up in London’s East End to become one of the UK wealthiest and most successful entrepreneurs. I met David at his home in Surrey today and spent an amazing two hours with him asking questions about his rise to success and what it took to get there.

We spoke about everything from poverty, pornography, West Ham United FC to Anne Summers and of course being an entrepreneur. At 73 years of age David is one of the youngest men i have had the pleasure to meet.

You can read an intro to my interview with David HERE. The full interview will be available on both the Raw Business website and Raw Business Magazine web site in a few days.

I wish to thank David for his time and for the kind gesture of the personal gift he gave me today. I will cherish my time with you for a long time to come.

Can I borrow your car David?

With Best Wishes
Bradley Chapman
www.rawbusiness.com
www.rawbusinessmagazine.com