The UnNoticed Entrepreneur

Get Noticed! Send a text.Catherine Griffin, Founder of ImpactableX Analytics, has a vision to help entrepreneurs demonstrate the social impact of their business with data-driven projection models.Impact.able was developed by GoodCompany Ventures, an award-winning accelerator and innovation consortium. It has been used by leading social entrepreneurs, Impact Funds and Academics, including TSEF, Wharton, Stanford, USAID's Global Innovation Exchange, and Techstars, among several others.If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter here Please visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site: https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/ Find us on Twitter @eastwestpr Jim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr)Support the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Wisecracking entrepreneur and author Morry Morgan joins me from Beijing, and we talk about how he has made a behind the scenes TV show for the SchoolofHardKnockKnocks which features on Apple TV, and how to get rated on the Amazon operated international movie database positioning his comedy training school as the authority in Australia.trailer for this full episode hereSupport the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Wisecracking entrepreneur and author Morry Morgan joins me from Beijing, and we talk about how he has made a behind the scenes TV show for the SchoolofHardKnockKnocks which features on Apple TV, and how to get rated on the Amazon operated international movie database positioning his comedy training school as the authority in Australia. If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter here Please visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site: https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/ Find us on Twitter @eastwestpr Jim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr)Support the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Qnary and the BE Center for Global Communications (a shared initiative between Emerson College and The Blanquerna School of Communications), assert that the digital reputations of key executives should no longer be seen as mere window-dressing. In a report they said that reputations they should be considered as essential company assets that can be leveraged as part of a powerful and communicative business practice: one that has the potential to reach diverse groups in important, engaging ways.Founder and Chairman Bant Breen is on the show talking about how Qnary, and some findings from their research including that in Asia people who follow an executive on social media are 2x more likely to purchase from that company, and that its possible to post too much to social media.Bant and I talk about the technology platform which works by the symbiotic process between people and technology, including machine learning. They generate more content than the NYT!  We also talk pricing, it's less than US$1,000 per month, and solves a problem across all social media channels.If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter here Please visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site: https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/ Find us on Twitter @eastwestpr Jim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr) Support the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Trailer for the full episode hereQnary and the BE Center for Global Communications (a shared initiative between Emerson College and The Blanquerna School of Communications), assert that the digital reputations of key executives should no longer be seen as mere window-dressing. In a report they said that reputations they should be considered as essential company assets that can be leveraged as part of a powerful and communicative business practice: one that has the potential to reach diverse groups in important, engaging ways.Founder and Chairman Bant Breen is on the show talking about how Qnary, and some findings from their research including that in Asia people who follow an executive on social media are 2x more likely to purchase from that company, and that its possible to post too much to social media.Bant and I talk about the technology platform which works by the symbiotic process between people and technology, including machine learning. They generate more content than the NYT!  We also talk pricing, it's less than US$1,000 per month, and solves a problem across all social media channels.If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter here Please visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site: https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/ Find us on Twitter @eastwestpr Jim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr)Support the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Trailer for the full episode which covers:Companies are going to have to save the sanity of their staff from zoombification and they can do that not with the standard meeting and workforce platforms but with dedicated ones like ConnecTeam and Mo.Work.Co-Founder and CEO, Amir Nehemia,  says “We are on a mission to provide managers of all business types and sizes with the tools they need to communicate, operate, engage and run their deskless workforce.”The lines are officially blurred, tools will need to enable people to both do their work and to be engaged with the workplace and their colleagues regardless of location and composition of the workforce.On this podcast I dive into the many features of ConnecTeam which are being used by the 40,000 person St. Johns Ambulance Service, and also the British startup Mo.Work which emphasizes the importance of recognition and rewards, and has a feature to track corporate culture by the behaviour of the people within. If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter herePlease visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site:https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/Find us on Twitter @eastwestprJim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Companies are going to have to save the sanity of their staff from zoombification and they can do that not with the standard meeting and workforce platforms but with dedicated ones like ConnecTeam and Mo.Work.Co-Founder and CEO, Amir Nehemia,  says “We are on a mission to provide managers of all business types and sizes with the tools they need to communicate, operate, engage and run their deskless workforce.”The lines are officially blurred, tools will need to enable people to both do their work and to be engaged with the workplace and their colleagues regardless of location and composition of the workforce.On this podcast I dive into the many features of ConnecTeam which are being used by the 40,000 person St. Johns Ambulance Service, and also the British startup Mo.Work which emphasizes the importance of recognition and rewards, and has a feature to track corporate culture by the behaviour of the people within. If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter herePlease visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site:https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/Find us on Twitter @eastwestprJim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr)Support the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Trailer for the full show.Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Google Hangouts are all here to stay, but in my view what is missing from virtual working are three distinctly aesthetic elements of corporate culture: rituals; symbols; and myths.A UK company has just passed 1 million Microsoft Teams meetings in their organization of 40,000. As a result they've made accelerated progress on strategic goals, learnt a great deal including how virtual meetings are causing fatigue but also realigning how files are stored and structured, and that ultimately there is still a place for a real office with colleagues in it. MS announced in June 2020 a number of ways to make virtual events less exhausting. The new features include 'Together Mode', which places a live avatar of meeting participants in a virtual setting, and is aimed at making videoconferences feel more natural."It was totally motivated, conceived, prototyped, tested, and realized during the pandemic," said Jaron Lanier, scientist at Microsoft Research, speaking of Together Mode. "I suspect had it not been for the pandemic, it would have been years of testing and development to release something like this." In spite of all this COVID era progress, people still want to go back to the office to see their colleagues.However hard we try, technology isn't going to be as energizing as the physical world in my view because it lacks some basic human needs. I was listening to the story of the destruction of the Mar Elian Monastery in Syria by the ISIS forces. Once this 4th Century monastery was destroyed the Christian community dissipated after 1600 years of continuous inhabitation based around a building and remains of a sacred person.It says something about the need of people to belong and for the leaders of organizations to create symbols, rituals and myths which sustain people. So I raise the question about what business leaders can do to send the symbols of the company culture to their staff in their virtual offices; if there are to be millions more meetings we need to link teams not just with software but with culture.If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter herePlease visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site:https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/Find us on Twitter @eastwestprJim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Google Hangouts are all here to stay, but in my view what is missing from virtual working are three distinctly aesthetic elements of corporate culture: rituals; symbols; and myths.A UK company has just passed 1 million Microsoft Teams meetings in their organization of 40,000. As a result they've made accelerated progress on strategic goals, learnt a great deal including how virtual meetings are causing fatigue but also realigning how files are stored and structured, and that ultimately there is still a place for a real office with colleagues in it. MS announced in June 2020 a number of ways to make virtual events less exhausting. The new features include 'Together Mode', which places a live avatar of meeting participants in a virtual setting, and is aimed at making videoconferences feel more natural."It was totally motivated, conceived, prototyped, tested, and realized during the pandemic," said Jaron Lanier, scientist at Microsoft Research, speaking of Together Mode. "I suspect had it not been for the pandemic, it would have been years of testing and development to release something like this." In spite of all this COVID era progress, people still want to go back to the office to see their colleagues.However hard we try, technology isn't going to be as energizing as the physical world in my view because it lacks some basic human needs. I was listening to the story of the destruction of the Mar Elian Monastery in Syria by the ISIS forces. Once this 4th Century monastery was destroyed the Christian community dissipated after 1600 years of continuous inhabitation based around a building and remains of a sacred person.It says something about the need of people to belong and for the leaders of organizations to create symbols, rituals and myths which sustain people. So I raise the question about what business leaders can do to send the symbols of the company culture to their staff in their virtual offices; if there are to be millions more meetings we need to link teams not just with software but with culture.If you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter herePlease visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site:https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/Find us on Twitter @eastwestprJim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr)Support the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/

Get Noticed! Send a text.Trailer for the 20 mins podcast. Why does being on time, and managing our time matter so much to our reputation? Capterra has 68 time scheduling softwares listed which offer free trials; so what are you waiting for?German paper de Bild ran an article in 2018 and wrote "Once the pride of the German state that owns it and the envy of much of the rest of the world, to the [neighbouring] Swiss, who are annoyed by German unpunctuality because it messes up their own train timetable, we are becoming a joke,” Here are just 3 reasons why being on time matters:If you can't be on time, how can you give the customer confidence you will deliver on time?If you're late, it impacts all those around you who then can't get on with their work..thinks the Swiss trains.We never get time back...it's lost.[and the Swiss will laugh at you]On this episode I talk about the use of time scheduling software and some key considerations: Flexibility Calendar syncingPayment processingMultiple points of accessIntegrationsI mention some softwares in this podcast which you can use to get your schedules online and automated for free; after all the last thing you want is to be laughed at by the Swiss!Calendly.comAcuity.comTimify.comZoho.comIf you like this podcast, then subscribe to our newsletter herePlease visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site:https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/Find us on Twitter @eastwestprJim James is the Founder and Managing Director of the EASTWEST Public Relations Group. He recently returned to the UK after 25 years in Asia where he was an entrepreneur. Whilst running EASTWEST PR, he was the Vice-Chairmanof the British Chamber of Commerce in China, he also he introduced Morgansports cars to China, WAKE Drinks, founded the British Business Awards, The British Motorsport Festival, EO Beijing, and was the interim CEO of Lotus carsSupport the showSubscribe to my free newsletterhttps://www.theunnoticedentrepreneur.com/