Quick (and not so quick) Hacks To Build A Freedom Business

Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, The time is 8.58 on Tue 12th October and I’m back again with another update on my journey to build a freedom business. Let me walk you through exactly what I mean by that: Right now my focus is on getting Pearl Lemon into a place where it can run entirely independently of […]

The Importance Of Setting Up Robust Review Processes

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, Much later than I normally start when it comes to writing these – but today I’m determined to get at least two done by hook or by crook. It’s been really interesting to review the calls of some of the sales team to understand more about what’s happening on the phones. And […]

The Impact Of Switching From Mac To Windows For A Month Now

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, Here’s the time this morning and I’m still figuring out how to effectively use my Lenovo Thinkpad. I’m growing more and more fond of this machine as it’s basically as powerful as my old Macbook and only half the price. I’m already half thinking about getting the most powerful Lenovo on the […]

The Tactical Advantage Of Having A Filipino and Indian Base For Your Agency

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, Glad to be back at it this morning. Although I’m actually getting to the point of writing a little later than planned. Nonetheless. It’s 620am and whilst none of the UK/USA team are awake/working (it’s 01.23 am EDT) – it’s 1324 in the Philippines and 1054 in India. This means that by […]

Deciding To Build A Recruitment Agency

Reading Time: 3 minutes Afternoon all, Here’s the time and I wanted to hammer out this blog as best as I can as I’m excited about the fact I’ve decided to formally begin thinking about building a recruitment agency. For a while now – many people have commented upon how unorthodox our recruitment process is and how we’re able […]

How To Develop Patience In Business

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, I’m writing this from my Lenovo thinkpad which I’m beginning to enjoy using more and more. It feels good to be getting used to using a Windows machine. I also enjoy the fact it’s so cheap for something relatively powerful (16GB RAM) given I just forked out £3,000+ for a Macbook (which […]

B2B Sales Growth Versus B2C Sales Growth For Pearl Lemon Leads?

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Morning all, I had something of a brainwave last night when I was thinking about one of our campaigns for Pearl Lemon Leads. So we’ve got an American realty client who we’re cold calling for at the moment. Now what’s interesting about this campaign is several things: It’s business to consumer In this regard […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]