After our usual formalities which included a shorter than normal queue for the wonderful Friday morning breakfast, it was off with the 60 second round. Starting off this week was Paul Marmor who presented Sherrards Solicitors to the group, and told us that they can help in all criminal matters.

A rare early sighting this morning was Hiten Thaker from Revolution. He has been a good boy this week and managed to turn up early, thus being second in the sixty-second round. He is looking for the branding communications and marketing managers in large companies.

Alexis Garnaut-Miller from the Happiness Centre is look for therapists to train at the happiness centres very own stress management programmes.

Gavin Morton-Holmes from Destiny Plc offers a digital pen that replaces triplicate forms that companies use on a regular basis. This information goes from pen to PC immediately – like magic! Gavin is looking for commercial insurance brokers.

Lewis Malka of Joseph Sterling is looking for couples that are getting engaged. He told us today that there are still plenty of people who forget about their wedding rings until the last minute. It is not unheard of for him to get a phone call on Thursday from clients who are getting married on the weekend panicking that they forgot to sort out their rings. Unbelievable, but true! What a rock.

The beautiful blue eyed, curly haired Louise Hassett of Delfont Mackintosh Theatres is looking for contacts at Nikon hospitalities to offer their wonderful packages to. In particular Calendar Girls, which has just opened in one of their theatres. Meet the cast with champagne. Let her entertain you.

Our Chairman Mike Nightingale of Green Park Insurance gave a wonderful example of a client who spent a long time on the comparison websites, checking and unchecking boxes, only to find that the variables did not match what he was looking for. “If you would have called me earlier” said Mike, “I could have saved you a lot of time”. Here ends the lesson!

Fiona Gale of Only Connect Solutions, marketing and communications agencies with a strong slant on corporate social responsibility. Her company advises businesses across a whole range of industry sectors on how to set themselves apart and effectively communicate their offering. Only Connect work with strategic partners and bring in industry experts appropriate to each project; they are also very well connected with government and the press (The Sunday Times and The Telegraph to mention just two). Does their approach work? YES.

Caroline Hampstead, our dark haired diva, is a copywriter, and this week is looking for marketing and communications companies who need to condense their blurb into 160 characters for a short and to the point effective campaign.

Christian Ingelsev from Danesoft is looking for introductions to people who run camps for kids. He believes the best way for these companies to find out more about their clients, is for them to have surveys in place.

Jamie Denham from Sliced Bread Animation is looking for people who want to reinvent their products. Thus saving expense in launching new products that haven’t been tested yet. Also an introduction into Branding Agencies would be great.

Kirsty Joly from Perfectly Tempered, the tasty chocolatier with a soft centre is looking for something a bit different this week. She and a friend of hers want to be put in touch with someone who can teach them to play the harmonica. We look forward to a rendition very soon!

David Coburn of BRX is a welcome addition to this mornings meeting. He was telling us about some great industries that have joined BRX in his different groups such as opticians and telephone answering companies. This week he is looking for a travel agent to join our Bond Street group.

Sadly there was no George Metcalfe this week. He took a well-earned brake in Spain and had the beautiful Bianca standing in for him. She informed us that George would help anyone looking for a confidant to speak to.

Roy Duncan from RG Duncan offers recruitment solutions for Accountancy and Book Keeping Staff and is looking to meet people who have a business to sell. He has contacts who are looking to buy and can put them in touch with each other.

George Emsden from In2Consulting is looking to help people who have had bad news in the family. If you know anyone who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness such as cancer, and they need some financial advise, put them in touch with George.

Michael Sinclair from China One Call is looking for companies who need their Health & Safety guidelines translated into Chinese. Also people who want their website translated into Chinese. They may not want to attract clients from that part of the world, but as a tip, it will help improve your Google ranking.

We had the pleasure of the pretty representative of HSBC this week Laura Firestone. She is looking for any retailers who use a PDQ terminal. She would like to contact them and offer to review their tariffs with a view of offering them a better rate and a better service through her bank.

If you are going away for business or pleasure, then speak to Mab Ayyub from Olive Communications. The thing we all dread is coming home to a large phone bill as a result of international roaming. A good example of how to save money would be to send an mms instead of an sms as these can be half the price. Thanks for the tip.

Our accountant we can count on Martin Dunne from Sayers Butterworth is looking for people who want an accountant that goes the extra mile. He is looking for owners of businesses who are looking to review their accountants and want someone to take the over the running of their books so they can concentrate on running their business.

And finally it was our very own Richard Houldsworth of Splatt Print who gave us a very lively and interactive 10-minute presentation this morning. The winners received a bar of horrible chocolate. He would be very interested in helping newly engaged and soon to be married couples sort out some unique wedding stationery all at cost effective pricing due to their in house print factory. However the bulk of his presentation was taken up explaining the difference in litho and digital printing and how a new tool on the market for large manufacturing companies, who produce brochures, can help small businesses by having a web to print account. This enables the small business to order the manufacturers brochure with their logo and name on in small quantities so they stand out from their competition. An excellent and informative presentation!
Lets all make a big effort to bring Richard more referrals next week.

Our referral round this week brought in 39 referrals. A good number considering there were a few absentees without a sub. Make sure that during the week you make an effort to follow up on those referrals. The person is expecting your call and is waiting to hear from you.

Well all that’s left is for me to say is Ciao. Until we meet next week though, I would like to leave you with a thought which I hope will inspire you.
“The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently and your life will change”.