How To Write Effective Job Descriptions [and increase candidate quality overnight]

How To Write Effective Job Descriptions [and increase candidate quality overnight]

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, I’ve just been reading ‘The Sales Development Playbook’ by Trish Bertuzzi and it’s given me a brainwave that’s going to have applications across all of our recruiting. This (btw) is the beauty of reading as a regular part of your routine. You always end up finding something that can change the way […]

Should You Hire Friends And Family Or Not

Should You Hire Friends And Family Or Not

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Morning all, Today I want to talk about something that began with me involving first my father in my property adventures. In my mind, since entering the world of business – one of the big things I want to do is to use my success to help my family. Here’s practically how that has […]

The Dangers Of Disrupting A Solid Routine

The Dangers Of Disrupting A Solid Routine

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, Writing my first blog for several days (I think the last one was Wednesday). I’m seriously having withdrawal symptoms because amongst other things (such as trying to give half arsed advice where and when I can) – I use this as a platform to journal and share my thoughts with the world. […]

How To Build A Training Programme For Interns

How To Build A Training Programme For Interns

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, I want to talk about the development of the Pearl Lemon Placement programme and the people it’s producing and the way they are being produced. In terms of the long-term development of it’s people – Pearl Lemon has a training programme that it takes all of its young people on. The young […]

How To Embrace The Power Of Serendipity

How To Embrace The Power Of Serendipity

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Morning all, I’ve ‘randomly’ discovered Tom Peters and Lina Kaplan this morning. In the same way I discovered the books ‘Drawing on the right side of the brain’ and ‘The origin of consciousness….breakdown of the bicameral mind’ (books I’m staring at on my shelf right now). Book and literature I would ordinarily never come […]

How To Build A Business That Can Run Itself [The Pearl Lemon Way]

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Morning all, I’ve not blogged for a couple of days this week so I’m going to try and make it all back today. Pearl Lemon will be 4 years old in October and so to a degree even writing this blog seems a little nonsensical arguably because the business still doesn’t run itself yet. […]

Run Your Team Like Army Cadets To Get The Best Results

Run Your Team Like Army Cadets To Get The Best Results

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, I had an interesting turn of events this week when I was approached by two of my sales team – being told that basically ‘Deepak you’re too soft’. It’s been an interesting turn of events in respect of how to run an effective sales team. I have had a troop of sales […]

How To Be An Effective Leader Of A Team

How To Be An Effective Leader Of A Team

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Morning all, Here’s the time this morning and yet again I’m ‘off to the races’ when it comes to starting my day. I got this amazing (and unexpected message) from Chill – one of our team yesterday. Didn’t see it coming. It’s made me reflect upon some of the important qualities that I see […]

Unorthodox Productivity Hacks

Unorthodox-Producitivity-Hacks

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, It’s a little bit of a strange one this morning in terms of what I’m working on so I thought I’d take the time to share some of this with you. Basically, The last 24 hours have been really interesting from a productivity and focus standpoint – You might have read from […]

Focusmate Review – a growing accountability movement

Focusmate Review - a growing accountability movement

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Morning all, Later start today as I’m back from ‘holidays’ i.e the long weekend. I got back onto Focusmate today and thought I’d take the time to write up a review of it now that I’m 18 sessions into using it: First of all I should say that this won’t be a complete review […]

How To Build A Content Repurposing Funnel

How To Build A Content Repurposing Funnel

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, Here’s the time this morning, and today I want to talk about my content repurposing funnel. i.e how I take this blog and then repurpose it for LinkedIn as well as Medium. This happens via my writing coach Chris and ultimately begins with the simple act of producing content. So each morning […]

The Power Of The 20 minute Pomodoro Technique

Reading Time: 5 minutes   Morning all, Didn’t quite hit my 430am this morning (ended up getting out of bed at 515am) – but it’s challenging when you’ve got into bed late, have a partner who comes to bed a 2.20 am and then a cat that runs up and down your small flat half the night. But – […]

How To Write Even When You Don’t Feel Like It

How To Write Even When You Don't Feel Like It

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all! I’m going to try something very different today. I started writing a blog post before and stopped only 10% of the way through because well – it’s the same title as this blog post. I didn’t feel like writing lol. Even the thought of putting in my standard 20 minutes felt challenging. […]

Building My Investments; Brick By Brick

Building My Investments_ Brick By Brick

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, I just completed on my 6th property this week after it taking absolutely ages to come through (it’s been ongoing for months). I’m trying to complete on two more with a sourcing company I work with, and then that’ll be the end of my relationship with them. Yesterday I also had a […]

Trying To Build Organization Amongst The Chaos

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Hi guys, Been a couple of days since I’ve written a blog – and it feels like so much is happening internally. It’s complete chaos for sure. Let me try and break it down for you. So building my sales team continues to be super challenging. I’ve got a combination of people that are […]

Exploring My SEO Breakthroughs Of The Last Month

Exploring My SEO Breakthroughs Of The Last Month

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Morning all, Here’s the time, and I’m back from my holidays in Italy and it’s really nice to be back to work after being away. What I want to do today is to explore the different ‘breakthroughs’ I’ve been having when it comes to SEO so I can explore the differences that will make […]