busy, busy, busy

Good grief August has gone by in the blink of an eye.
And there was me thinking it was AdLand's quiet month!

So in August I did lots of consulting days with my regular clients, they're a lovely bunch . . .

• Simon Webb
• Process Photography
• Jonathan Knowles

I did lots of work with Dean Belcher and am really excited to see how his new website turns out.

Started working with Jonathan Ford too, who is just fabulous if you don't know his work already go and look.

And caught up with Philip Gatward.

In fact I had over 25 client meetings last month. And even found time to direct a set of online commercials for Dolce Gusto with Tribe Marketing & Jack Flynn.

As well as the usual time eaters I have to contend with like estimates, social media strategies, WI meetings :) 

Think I need a rest now!

Creative Advice Network

As most of you know I am the co-founder & a director of Creative Advice Network.

Well hopefully most of you know :)

For the past year CAN has acted more as a hub company for me and my business partner Marc.
People come to us and generally they filter either to my consulting branch or to Marc's accounting & financial business at A.E.L. 

But now with our lovely new logo and a few things up my sleeve I am slowly but surely moving my freelance consulting solely under the CAN banner.
It feels like the right time to do it too. I've always been a firm believer of letting things take their own time to grow, never rushing decisions, certainly not in business. And this formative year for CAN has allowed me and Marc to see what we had created and where we wanted to take it to next.

So go and have a look at our website here <==   and keep an eye out for new developments over the coming months.
Oh! And follow us on twitter too :)

Just one of the many things we can help you with.

A great project to crowd fund

A lot of you will know Marc Wilson and his ongoing project The Last Stand.
But did you know you can now get involved to help him crowd fund it's next steps through emphais.is ?

Have a look at Marc's videos here & get involved ==>

Glugged!

So I Glugged and survived. Phew!
It was certainly my biggest audience to date, with over 300 in the room and a TV link up sending my waffling wisdom into the other room to a couple hundred more.
 
Huge thanks to Nick & Jenny for inviting me down.

Glugging

Tonight I am heading over to Cargo to flap my gums in front of those fabulous Gluggers.

With the evenings focus on Creative Startups I was honoured to be asked by co-host Jenny Theolin to sign up as a speaker.

“Creative Startups” celebrates all the new talent, start-ups, new business, up and coming talent and well established big hitters like Morag Myerscough in there too, as they talk about setting up, the challenges and the stuff you never get to hear about."

And with our new Creative Advice Network logo newly launched it feels like a great time to chat to people about the work CAN does and how we got to where we are. Snappily in 15mins, and hopefully not punctuated by my usual enthusiastic Portsmouth swears :)

There are a few tickets left so grab them here <== quick and I'll see you tonight.