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Sole Construction Consultants – what do you need? #constconsult

The day after I let our clients and consultants know I was setting up a freelance marketing and business development consultancy, I got a call from a project manager colleague who wanted a chat. He pointed out that after spent fifteen years as a lone construction consultant he remained frustrated at the way his breadth [...]

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The Business Case for Collaboration in a Recession – But who buys?

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Yesterday I was in London for some meetings (more about them another time) and I was able to go along to an event organised by Bernie Mitchell in the evening at which Don Ward, CEO of Constructing Excellence, gave a talk entitled ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’ – a great slogan borrowed from the Obama [...]

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Consultants Marketing to Architects – An Alternative Strategy to the Push

I recently posted this on a Linkedin Group and thought it might be of interest here as well. The discussion was started by the marketing manager at a firm of structural and civil engineers in London. She wanted to know about marketing to architects in London. Here is my reply. Hi Alison, Can I answer [...]

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Community Land Trusts – 2011 Conference – Are you going? #CLT11

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Last June I had the pleasure to attend the CLT10 conference and heard Grant Shapps talk about the Community Right to Build for the first time. I wrote at the time about how not for profit development trusts including the CLTs should talk to the construction industry, including architects and developers, about how to make [...]

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Twitter is a Serious Business Tool

Twitter has a reputation for being trivial, yet while thousands of professionals in construction, finance, business and law are using it, but only some of them leverage it as a powerful strategic networking tool. Why does it work for them, and how do they do it? I run a practice of architects in London, Essex [...]

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Community Land Trusts: Lets start Talking to the Enemy

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If there’s one thing I know about Community Land Trusts now it is that they are made up of people who have got off their backsides and done something. If you put aside your prejudices, that’s pretty much the model of the entrepreneur property developer, really. Something very interesting is going to happen to the [...]

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630 Architects on the Twitter League

As you are no doubt aware, in January this year I set up a league of architects on twitter, and when I started there were only a few dozen. Thanks to the enthusiasm of so many people, architects and not, we have now found over 600 tweeting architects, students and practices in the league. You [...]

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