Rachel Hayward from Ask the Chameleon, Marco Fappiano from Motion Vehicles and I did a car share to the Derbyshire Police’s Marketing Derby Event, and we thought it might be fun to do a sort of Podcast.
With that in mind, we all met up, got in the car and put the mic on to see how it went. Apologies for the road noise on this one, I promise our next “episode” will be a lot better.
On the way to the event, we had a chat about what “business networking” is, our experiences with it and we shared some tips on how we approach events & talking to new people:
On our way back, we recap’d the event & how we put some of our tidbits from our earlier chat in to play and the effect doing so had:
All in all, I think this went really well for a few reasons:
- It helped focus our own minds on our marketing strategies
- We all learned something from each other
- In a really small way, we helped reduce our environmental impact by sharing a car for a journey
As and when the opportunity presents itself again, we’ll definitely be doing this again. (Lessons have been learned about how to cut out the road noise as well, so bear with us. :))
If you’ve got a topic you’d like our views on, or you want to take part in a Car Chat yourself, please feel free to get in touch.
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Podcast with Rachel Hayward – Small Business 100
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Car Share Podcast – East Midlands Chamber’s Summer Celebration
/in Uncategorised /by Owen ContiIn the run up to the East Midlands Chamber’s Summer Celebration event, Amanda Strong (from Mercia Image Print) posted on LinkedIn offering a car share. At the time of the offer, our first Car Share Podcast wasn’t quite live, but by the time the event came around we had just published – so I was a bit cheeky and asked Amanda and Sarah Loates (from LoatesHR) if they’d like to take part in a new one.
They kindly agreed and we recorded our chat on the way back from the event, where we discussed what we take the word “entrepreneur” to means to each of us, and some of the challenges that people face when running a business.
I would’ve loved to include the whole conversation, but the journey was a good 30 minutes, so I’ve edited it all down to 11 minutes for a single podcast.
I’m still on the look out for topics for new podcasts, along with guests to take part. If you have any suggestions, or would like to get involved (it doesn’t have to be in a car :)) please feel free to get in touch.
Owen
Car Share – Podcast
/in Uncategorised /by Owen ContiRachel Hayward from Ask the Chameleon, Marco Fappiano from Motion Vehicles and I did a car share to the Derbyshire Police’s Marketing Derby Event, and we thought it might be fun to do a sort of Podcast.
With that in mind, we all met up, got in the car and put the mic on to see how it went. Apologies for the road noise on this one, I promise our next “episode” will be a lot better.
On the way to the event, we had a chat about what “business networking” is, our experiences with it and we shared some tips on how we approach events & talking to new people:
On our way back, we recap’d the event & how we put some of our tidbits from our earlier chat in to play and the effect doing so had:
All in all, I think this went really well for a few reasons:
As and when the opportunity presents itself again, we’ll definitely be doing this again. (Lessons have been learned about how to cut out the road noise as well, so bear with us. :))
If you’ve got a topic you’d like our views on, or you want to take part in a Car Chat yourself, please feel free to get in touch.