Make Your Mark Blog

Hi there! Shed here… Marvellous to be with you…

***STOP PRESS: THE SUN IS OUT***

I know it’s rare for us in Britain to see the rays of our nearest thermonuclear star, but it’s rather baffling that when we finally do get a day or two of full-on ‘get the lotion or we’ll all look like lobsters’ sunshine…

…that WE ALL HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT?!!

“Lovely day isn’t it…”

“Great weather eh…”

“Isn’t it hot…phew!…”

This phenomenon - which I’ll call: ‘SUN-BELIEVABLY BORING CONVERSATION’ - has inspired me to create a new novelty product…see what you think:

Role Models ……what it is all about.

Well first of all I am the New Role Models Manager here at Make Your Mark.

Here at Make Your Mark we will be sharing much more inspiring stories of the beginning of the enterprise journey.

We will be exploring what it’s like to be a parent of an entrepreneur getting the background knowledge of what it’s really like to support our great entrepreneurs the highs and the lows. This is a chance influence others parents who might be about to take a step into the unknowns of supporting an entrepreneur.

Who’s a clever bird then?…

Greetings! Shed here… Wonderful to be with you.

Recently I was hugely honoured to have fronted the ‘IDEAS MASH UP’ competition for MAKE YOUR MARK…

The clever team at MAKE YOUR MARK took one of the success tips contained in my latest book ‘IDEAS MAN’ and turned it into a thrilling contest where students from around Britain had to combine two (normally separate) ideas together to create a brand new, and very exciting, business concept. The prize for the winning entry was a whopping £2,000, more than enough to get most ideas to the next stage so that they can attract a partner or the investment to launch to market.

Waking up to snow on Monday I was both excited (hey it’s not every day we get to play in 8 inches of snow) and disappointed because I didn’t want it to dampen enthusiasm for Make Your Mark with a Tenner - our fab new enterprise initiative.

So I decided to combine the two (snow + tenner - was that an Ideas Mashup oh yes) and set a challenge for people to create a Tenner-related snowman. The challenge was set to MYM staff and also via Twitter, where we have 400+ followers all desperate to make a snowman no doubt.