Archive for March, 2010

Outsourcing

March 29, 2010

For the last few months we’ve been working with a firm in India to assist us with bookkeeping. Not only has this been great value, we’ve also found a very professional relationship and timely and quality response. We’ve now extended this into a mandate to redesign and build the sevenmen.com website, and it looks like [...]

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Elixir is an angel

March 26, 2010

One of Seven Men’s investments, and main business involvements is in Elixir Incubation, or “Elixir“. This is effectively a business angel fund, aimed at UK startups. We also provide mentoring support, and office space, and the weight of resources and talent held within the businesses associated with the shareholders – such as MWB Business Exchange, [...]

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Vision remembered

March 15, 2010

Vision leaks. It’s a fact. You may start with a very clear understanding of where you want to go, and communicate that, but you need to reinforce it to everyone involved, as well as to yourself, on a regular basis. We started Seven Men because we wanted to do something in business that was about [...]

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Release Time, Enjoy Freedom

March 12, 2010

Well we got there with our new Expediens slogan, just in time to send all the latest material to the designer. A simple process of writing out in longhand what it was that we wanted to say, followed by splitting that into sections and then picking a word for each section – and then seeing [...]

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Sloganeering

March 10, 2010

One of the brain stretching tasks of the last week has been to revisit the slogan for Expediens, our affordable lifestyle management business. The current slogan is “reclaim your time“, which is clear, simple and appropriate for a business that helps people and companies through taking on tasks, errands, research and bookings of all sorts, [...]

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Five great ventures

March 3, 2010

Loving the ideas and practice behind five ventures making a difference:
- Karbon, an Aussie film and documentary maker producing ideas and telling stories that change culture
- Envia Foundation, helping bring change to Costa Rica
- Red Button Design with its amazing water filtration product ROSS
- Plywood People
- Blood Water Mission

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Learning about failures

March 1, 2010

In the start of Seth Godin’s book “The Dip”, he refers to the oft heard quote of “winners don’t quit” and rubbishes it, pointing out that winners are usually strategic quitters, knowing when to stick and when to fold. We’ve been through a period at the start of this year where we have reviewed where [...]

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