Manchester Blog

The wisdom of Paul Calf explaining his worst nightmare scenario: “sitting next to Terry Christian on a long haul flight on one side ……… and another Terry Christian on the other.” There was a time when I thought Terry Christian was a professional Manc with an aggravating voice. This was in part owing to that [...]

Today I interviewed fellow marketer Robert Craven. The Financial Times called Robert the “Entreprenuer guru”, he’s owned and marketed his own restaurant and currently provides marketing advice without any “Business School Bollocks” across the country. Over the last two years Robert has been working with Barclays Bank right across Britian to deliver a series of [...]

I think “Remember Technorati Claim” should be emblazoned across my forehead! Of course Technorati is where bloggers can go to find interesting blogs to read. After all to paraphrase Technorati, “one of them must be worth reading.” And it completely slipped my mind to add this blog to it. Consequently finding Manchester Blog through Technorati isn’t as [...]

Yesterday I interviewed David Speakman who started his multi-million pound company Travel Counsellors from Atherton, near Bolton.  I spoke to David at his base in Spain where he now manages the Spanish arm of Travel Counsellors. If you’re interested in business I noted one gem on my business growth blog that every business needs to apply. The complete interview is [...]

Manchester Blog Awards 2007 has just been announced byManchizzle. Bloggers can nominate their own blogs! This must give us a chance. Entries (as a URL) to be sent in by the 7th Sept, in anticipation of the awards ceremony: Moho Live, Oldham Street, 7pm Wednesday October 10, free and there are cash prizes. Manchester Blog [...]

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows was the focus of our attention yesterday. Because Kay entered the children for a TV competition on Granada Reports last week and our three year old, Rachel, won the prize. And the prize was… To open Waterstone’s, Deansgate Harry Potter shelves at Midnight on Friday A copy of the hallowed book [...]

When the Manchester Evening News reports on a leak of a poll conducted by NOP I was interested to find that the leak shows that 57% agreed with the congestion charge when it was related to the ?3 billion cash for public transport. There’s lies, damned lies and Statistics. And in particular statistics relating to [...]

Manchester’s theatrical festival frenzy of the month starts on the 23rd July and runs until the 29th July. David Slack and Amanda Hennessy have been the tireless organisers behind it all. And since starting 4 years ago they’re now putting on 105 performances across Manchester city centre in a non-theatre venues. The Midland Hotel (Victoria Suite) [...]

Creative portal How Do in association with event planners Out There are launching an awards ceremony to celebrate all things football in the region. The awards dinner will be held on Monday 12th November at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, and will raise money for The New Children’s Hospital Appeal, a charity for which Phil and [...]

I was listening to xfm this morning and the presenter was reading out the latest sightings of Sabi Rock. First Quay Street and then Trinity Way in Salford. I do not know if this is a regular occurrence, but if you can get yourself talked about on radio by simply walking round with a sign [...]