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Hello & Welcome TO ISSUE #012 2020 EDITION
Hello and welcome to the 2020 edition of our Magazine! We hope you've all had a great start to the year; we have high hopes for this year and can’t wait to share our plans in celebration of the start of this new decade!!
Hello and welcome to the 2020 edition of our
expands, we need to find the right people to start
Magazine! We hope you have had a fantastic
running our new offices, and we’re really looking
opening quarter and we are looking forward to
forward to bringing on board some fresh talent.
sharing with you the latest success stories and plans for the next few months - it's an exciting time!
Before we get started, we would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest members of the team!
After a somewhat ‘tumultuous’ year in terms of
Introducing Natalia, Kristina, Pierce, Amber and
politics and the media, there has been a noticeable
Sarah who have recently joined our recruitment
shift
processing
department - we are really looking forward to
information. As opposed to simply guzzling down
working with you! Congratulations are also in order
the latest headlines, blindly absorbing buzzwords
to Magda, Josh, Vik, Mike and Paul who have all
and filling our brains with misinformation, it is more
been promoted to Crew Leader and we are very
important than ever to scrutinise what we read. We
excited to see what the next quarter brings for
must focus on activating our sense of autonomy,
everybody!
in
throwing
our
approach
away
habitual
towards
modes
of
passive
engagement and pledging to move forwards with curiosity, with hard work and with hope. How does this relate to Direct Sales? Well, our line of work is all about engaging with the public, communication, and forming connections with the public. Whilst this ‘digital age’ opens up a world of possibility in terms of accessibility and connecting with people across the globe, it also interrupts our human-to-human contact time. What we love about this industry is the face-to-face engagement. Every door we knock on offers up a unique conversation and therefore we
are
required
to
appreciate,
observe
and
understand the person with whom we are engaging. Our industry is all about subjectivity; noticing the individual amongst the group and making an effort
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to make each conversation feel special. In this edition of the magazine, we will be taking a more in depth look at Social Media and what is
Five countries - fifty cities five years
means to be ‘on-brand’, not just as a company, but as an individual; how do you want to present your own version of ‘Entrepreneur’ to the public and what will you choose to share with your audience? We will also be looking at new methods of recruitment, sharing with you alternative modes of headhunting and the benefits of reaching out to people from a whole wealth of backgrounds. As the company
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Welcome From Fran Colam... The end of last year was the best quarter we've ever had and we ended up raising over £7.4 million for different charities. We experienced huge bursts of progression with lots of teams hitting personal bests and smashing their targets, so congratulations all! The new office over in Bristol - Promotions Company, headed by Phil Reid - was one of the big achievements of 2019; in less than a year he has lead the company to an extraordinary place and we can’t wait to see what’s next for the team. Now our main focus over the last quarter has been recruitment. We’ve been talking to our target market in a different way and have been making an effort to think about how we can do things differently. We want to break the mould and so we have been real students lately, constantly updating our approach and up-skilling our practise. We’ve been running workshops, inviting in guest speakers - Sam Rathling from LinkedIn and Chris Taylor from Instagram and really focussing on ensuring that everybody, company-wide, has the skills and strategy in place to meet this expansion with energy, commitment and dedication. It’s an incredibly exciting time.
