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What if we came together, uniting people around the world to be seen and heard regardless of where they live or the demographic they are in; people standing for the face of modern business and the face of the modern world?
Each year, new words get added into the dictionary as language evolves. It will come as no surprise that in 2020 the words that came into popular usage included coronavirus, covid, furlough, lockdown and social distancing.
Wouldn’t it be great if someone could categorically tell all of us business owners and entrepreneurs when everything is going to get better, when everything is going to go back to normal, then we would know there was an end in sight and everything would be okay! Imagine that …
In a year full of adversity and challenge an amazing line up of finalists for The Best Business Women Awards have been announced for 2020. This is cause for celebration as most businesses have faced their most turbulent year yet.
You cannot have failed to notice we are well and truly into the campaign season.
This morning I attended Mark Ritson’s mini MBA ‘The twelve traits of great Marketeers’. If you’ve not read Marketing Week you may not have heard of him, however many will have. He is their Virtual Marketing Professor, with super credentials, and a leading authority on Marketing and Brand (to give him a plug). And his columns and LinkedIn posts are certainly never dull! This morning’s webinar was a very enjoyable experience too.
There has been so much talk over the last few weeks about Diversity and Inclusion as the Black Lives Matter campaign has been so impactful and present on our news and social media feeds. You will have noticed that many larger companies, and certainly USA based companies, have made a statement supporting the BLM movement. But what can we do as Small and Medium Enterprises within the UK to show our support when it really matters?
It’s time to unveil our refreshed positioning as an agency. Focus7 is now officially The Brand-led Business Growth Agency. It’s something that’s always been part of our DNA, but a recent internal brand workshop activity has enabled us to really focus on what makes us special and different.
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week right now (May 13-19) and we at Focus7 have been putting our heads together to think up ways of marking it appropriately. The conversations have been fascinating, and we’ve shared lots of insights that have both surprised us; and inspired us to support each other more fully in the weeks and months ahead.
