QR in the Music industry

QR connects to the latest Progressive Web APP (PWA)

It’s rare to see an artist employ an emerging new technology in a marketing campaign for a new album.

The campaign gets a lot of press because it’s new and different, but their marketing Companies simply dont understand the power of QR

Fans caught on immediately and the downloads went ballistic along with the real time scan and click reports.

People do music on their phone, it where it’s at! the speed and complete phone friendly experience of this new emerging phone tech is a show stopper!

QR codes are 40 years old but the recording industry have only just recently began experimenting with how to incorporate the technology into album promotional campaigns and on-site event activities.

One of the most prominent uses occurred when Lupe Fiasco used QR codes in ramping up the promotion for his new album.

ref: Billboard magazine:

Atlantic Records printed a QR code on stickers, postcards and posters and even projected a large version of the code against City buildings.

The code launched a mobile Progressive Web App where fans could pre-order the album, as well as access new exclusive content each week until the album arrived via phone notifications.

CEO of Maltix Ltd Will Nicholls:

“Combining QR and captivating copy to the all new Maltix PhoneSite and PWA is a revelation for the music industry”

” Touch it and you’ve got it Maltix PWA technology is simply shared off a book mark and requires no APP download”

“You need to give them a reason to get out their phone, scan that code and be excited about what’s on the other side”

The most obvious reflection of this is at pop concerts like Glastonbury where QR codes are being used to offer discounts on concessions, and by artists discounted merchandise and VIP seating.

It was rumoured that a prominent group gave access to a one off recording via a projected QR live on stage and received 80,000 scans and Mp3 downloads in 4 minutes!

“Captivating one liners and succinct copy with a clear call to action quadruples scan and PWA share rates”

Maltix are targeting the music industry for multi and integrated PhoneSite and PWA subscription deals.

Subscription QR on Hoodies 

Connectedly Woke is typical of a new generation Apparel company who offer good quality well priced garments with a QR connected to a Phonesite owned by the client.

Via Maltix Virtual Assistant CHAT, they can change their music or social media mood depending on their circumstance.

Going to a Business event ? lets reflect that with a survey or a shop, or automated data collection.

Going to a concert ? change your QR to the music you want to share.

Going to a rally ? offer feedback or ratings maybe point to Social media you want promoted.

The list here is actually endless, your garments QR can completely change, it all depends on where you are wearing it!

Friends, family, video ? Connectedly Woke garments are a lifestyle revolution.

Touch Click or SCAN

Moving from Mouse to Touch

Website reporting systems confirm the trend that people are doing all their business on their phone.

The Mouse has gone down the rabbit hole


Trends eh?

Just listen to the logic.


Business is now intertwined into a social media rabbit hole, agree?


So moving small business from mouse to touch is a wise move when connecting the phone user to your business. 

Welcome to Maltix, our mission is to be the bridge between Entrepreneurs and SMEs, the business processes they need to run their businesses, and the tech available to make that happen.

We know what business systems you need in order to make networking, sales, prospecting, advertising, social media, and the rest, work for you and your business.

We also know what, state-of-the-art technology, including AI, CRM, PWAs, SFP’s, and more, is out there to deliver those systems and how to put them together to make them work for you.

Our mission is to make sure that you can use that tech to run your business without having to learn much about it, other than what buttons to push to get the job done. 

For those that don’t even have the time or inclination to do that, we provide a whole team of human Virtual Assistants to do the job for you, for a small fee, and available 24×7 free, to answer queries.

We know we can do this and provide it, in an easy to pay for, cost effective, monthly subscription, to suit the way small businesses work.

If this is how you would like to work, I or my team will be happy to talk you through it.

Maurice T Watts Director

SCAN here for a free holiday to the Maldives

That got your attention didn’t it?

How about : Enter this free £5000 holiday for two: SCAN HERE

But would you scan if it was just a picture and QR ? I doubt

QR without copy doth butter no parsnips as they say.

Adding the copy to a face is even more human isn’t it?

Hello my name is Kalinga

Imagine Kalinga giving you a run down of the holiday competition and after 20 seconds she asks you to CLICK HERE and fill in your details, I would wouldn’t you?

Kelinga is a professional ACTRESS avatar and she utters the words she is given in 80 accents and languages, her name could be Annabelle, whatever you choose.

Are you getting the picture?

QR is just a window and can be connected to a myriad of phone tech components.

Kelinga would be on the video platform connected to a “CLICK HERE” Smart Form Page

QR landing platforms
QR landing platforms

Dynamic QR is a subscription service from Maltix why is that ?

Much like a website, you own the QR URL and it is connected to landing pages built for the smartphone (Obvious really, you scan on a phone not a PC)

This means that all the components that connect to create a QR solution can be changed AFTER print.

So the look and feel of the QR can change as well, along with the call to action.

The landing page can also be changed after print and what it connects to and anything within it.

Smart Form Pages and their monetisation can be changed within the subscription service as well.

Connection to a CRM and all the training is also a subscription service.

Smart Form Page examples

QR landing page examples

Business cards are a brilliant option to start your online stationery revolution.

Click or Scan and click the call to action button to see how you can monetise your business card just like this one.

meet luna
meet Luna click or scan

Blog written by William Nicholls MD Maltix.co.uk

Click or scan

Never mind the quality feel the width

A comedy programme from the 60’s but quite apt in the clash of data knowledge for 2023.

The stakes have never been higher for businesses to become data-driven as they battle against a perfect storm of challenges.

Customers have unprecedented product choices across geographies, regulations are increasing, competition is growing fiercer.

Never mind the quality feel the width

Applied effectively, data gives business the agility to succeed against all odds.

Data-driven small businesses have a secret advantage over neighbouring small business competition.

“Data valuation on the balance sheet will be worth a great deal of money when you consider the lifetime of the client”

Same sector competing business.

Scenarios help explain data success and data failure.

A question for you : which device is being targeted here ?

Lets compare 2 public houses by firstly looking at the basics for success.

The Nags Head and the Rose and Crown

Captivating one liners, copy and call to action ensure QR enablement.

Options with customers for repeat business.

Hand outs : “Book your table for 10 or more in January 2023 using this £50 voucher, SCAN now”

Phone Voucher: “Scan and share this QR Voucher for £50 off your January table booking”

QR social media link “Scan and share this QR Voucher for £50 off your January table booking”

QR social media link “Scan and share this EVENT QR to claim £50 off your January table booking”

Email: “Open this email for a £50 gift from the Nags Head”

SMS QR link “£50 gift from the Nags Head, claim today”

Daily APP notification: Nags Head Pizza takeaway deal of the day, order before midnight”

Never mind the quality feel the width

Routine QR data collection can be automated to a central management system for a secure and compliant system.

When you encourage past clients to submit their data, then they will return for repeat business again and again:

And this is completely irrespective of the business sector.

  • Food App event

Would you like some ideas for your sector?

Lets talk, write a blog or two and have some fun on the way.

Managing prospects at a show: A conversation.

Business cards from maltix

A conversation on WhatsApp

Hi Mike. If you wanted to impart information or collect specific information at a show In multiple ways, what message would be important for you to get across ?
I’m curious for your sector
That we are specialists in the franchise sector and work with franchisors as an outsource partner
Do you do any other shows or face to face outside of franchising ?
I attend the Business Show and the Asian Jewish Annual Show
Ok
If you could get more detail from a prospect’s potential needs, what questions would you ask ?
To both Franchisors and Franchisees Do you have any outstanding debts To Franchisors Do you need any of the following outsourced services Franchisee Audits Benchmarking Financial Analysis and Business Valuation
And what could you give them that would get their attention?
No Collection No Fee Debt Collection
Third Party Audit
Independent Valuations
Outsource services they do not do in house

So the bulk of a concise message could be handled with an elevator pitch
And their response data could be managed and calibrated for more information or maybe invite them to a learning event ?
Well it’s all on the website and this is what I say on the phone to prospects
I don’t envisage a learning event
An event was just a suggestion
Just saying
Prospects want to understand that we are professional
Let me put together a scenario for you
Let me know what you think.

It’s based on immediacy of information that fits easily onto a phone in situ.

“Once they leave the show, maybe it’s too late”

Get a smarter hook in place so you can weave your magic on the day
Ok
Imagine your business card, flyer, pull up
If we assume the number one device at any meeting is the phone, then the logic of comms should be phone based. The fastest way onto any phone is QR, it takes one second to load and its tech is 100% phone designed. Im going to send bits of logic without reinventing stuff that already works for clients, hopefully we can build a picture for you.


This is a vCard https://qrco.de/bdVDQv and is designed to be sent through the smartphone network
When you click on it, all of Michelle’s details are there without error
Ok great
Download to your phone please
she is now within your phone 😉
Done very good
You can also share her details
perfect, this turns your phone into her business card distribution
Question
This saves the data
?

My Most Trusted Trainer
My Most Trusted Trainer

Come to that in a bit
on her business card it looks like above
What about follow up
Aha I’m coming to that
This type of QR also has a reporting system, so you will know exactly how many times its been scanned or clicked

My vCard has over 1300 scans in 4 months
I understand
So how is this better than a CRM like HubSpot ?

And how does that translate into work ?


I’m coming to that, but a CRM has to connect to data or it can be added via vCard directly into any CRM, but Maltix systems automate this with a handshake key.


Ok I have to go out now
I have explosive interest, but not from website or linked in,
Let’s set up a zoom
Anytime next week

[10:54, 30/12/2022] William Nicholls: Will do!

Sent more after Mike left the chat:
The next few bits are advanced solutions, but i’m pretty sure its going to be important for you.

serviced vcard
Serviced subscription vCard


Link to my vCard https://qrco.de/bcMZTi
I want you to imagine this on your business card, pull ups, flyers, stationery, billing, EVERYWHERE you print plus all your email signatures.

On subscription, you own it, its look and feel and all the information within. It can be changed at any time. This means you can print and never worry that stuff is out of date.
Now it gets more interesting.

Imagine the reverse of your Business card.

Here is where Actor Avatars and Videography do your pitch. Built specifically for social media and the smartphone. But it works anywhere. Again with a live link and reporting system.

An example or two

MMT training book now
MMT training book now

https://qrco.de/bdVqzx

meet luna
Meet Luna

https://qrco.de/bdKnvo



Luna does all my heavy lifting, she gets 200 scans a week all over the world
This is the print copy we recommend. QR only you will notice.


Using Michelle Elevator pitch as an example, lets look at the CALL to ACTION

My Most Trusted
My Most Trusted

https://qrco.de/bdVqzx

On this example the QR call to action is different to the first example but the scan takes you to the same page.
The CTA action button says Book your training and that takes the prospect to a Secure Smart Form Page.

This one in fact https://maltix.wufoo.com/forms/referrals-and-warm-introductions/

Click and take a look


This page can take payment and take her calendly bookings.
It’s automated to her bank account and all the data is recorded inside her CRM using https://


AND its automatically segmented inside her CRM for newsletters using another integration Maltix recommended.
[10:58, 30/12/2022] William Nicholls: Meeting Booked

A conversation with Megan Johnson-Zucaro

I’ve been waiting so long to talk to Megan, what a conversation! Just prior to our call I had taken Dipsy and Flopsy for a walk around my village in T-shirt and shorts on Gozo, reflecting on my mothers explanation of the terrible weather in the UK and super scary heat in the US, China and the Med

Dipsy
Dipsy

I was excited to talk to Megan plus the fact that she lives in the glamorous Beverly Hills, home to Tom Sellick.

Beverley hills chunked me to a film that I haven’t seen for 30 years, Three men and a baby with Mr. Tom Selleck, {shot in Toronto I believe} I remember, Tom had quite an effect!

Megan Johnson-Zucaro a helper a lover a giver.

The first thing that struck me about Megan was her openness.

She revels in this natural share of her world, the word candidness was invented for the likes of Megan, she’s 100% direct with no fluff.

An American business woman whose knocks and experiences would likely never come through from a British interviewee, she told it straight between your eyes, I love that.

Just out of her 40’s this Minnesota country girl reminisced about how she became a fashion model at 13 and developed a burgeoning fascination with TV.

After university, she launched into a young career on the ABC news desk, editor, reporter and news anchor, it was here she began to discover the egos and alter egos of fellow reporters.

This critical time forged her career path in latter years, she fell in love with reporting live TV and a man.

Life moved along, still quite quite young married to a pilot that forced regular relocation, her three kids arrived one year after the other.

Career change

Megan decided to get into the mortgage and finance sector by becoming a planner she worked in a large office and inevitably there was a slowdown and the company was sold.

The repercussions of this forged a career change into Real Estate on Beverley hills.

At last stability arrived and for five years it fitted in really well with raising her kids, but the effects of 25 years of marriage brought Megan to a conclusion that her marriage was over.

New relationships bring change

Megan’s natural hunting ground is on stage, up front and she has a natural ability to suck up criticism, never get offended.

Not that I saw her body language because we had sound issues on the call, which necessitated Megan to hold her phone to her ear.

When I mentioned the importance of a physical business card and the theater of handing a card to someone for the first time, her body just quaked with agreement.

My suggestion was to put together an Elevator pitch on the reverse of her business cards via a dynamic QR within a new PhoneSite

That way we can make changes years from now, her business card will never go out of date.

L’Église écossaise, Kirk, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Catholic I didn’t ask

It’s not the religion, it’s the faith

Her Church her Gods plan and her ecclesiastic friends are core, its integral to her belief systems, charity, love, family, finance and that was the driving force, the impetus for her re engagement with the real love of her working life, her new production Co.

Her awesome visions are crystal clear.

She help people share their stories on TV, through events, books and hosting and speaking at other peoples Events

Talk to Megan about your Interviews your film production your podcasts, she’s great!

Every BLOG I conduct has three words I think are succinct with the interviewee, here goes, but I also have a fourth!

Adept , Adroit, Deft, Respected

Journalist-TV Podcast Virtual Host Producer Production Manager

BUSINESS CARD Soaring Summit Working with people LISTEN

Blog conducted and compiled by William Nicholls

PhoneSite’s from Maltix built on the day with vCard connected to QR on subscription for change £25 $25 €25

Elevator pitch example included

meet luna
Meet Luna

Print with impunity

A conversation with Michelle Scott.

MSVA

Fast track My Most Trusted trainer and relationship builder extraordinaire.

Michelle Scott
Michelle Scott

You can feel experience in a conversation can’t you?

Michelle imparts infectious enthusiasm partnered with absolute belief that business on the smartphone has moved into a completely new era.

One of four kids growing up in South Africa her father worked in a goldmine and her mother had 32 boys aged 6 to 18 in her house at a large children’s home, she ran it with an iron fist.

Michelle’s inherent feistiness inherited from her mother, and the considered thought process of her father are admirable traits.

After schooling Michelle studied fashion design, and quickly realised she enjoyed the process side and the psychological side of people in business.

Feeling her need to grow and discover people in life she’s she switched jobs including spells as a switchboard operator and a bartender in a nightclub.

But it wasn’t until she started to be involved in the Florist industry and working closely with senior management she began to realise importance of relationship management.

It’s core to her thinking process core to her career growth and one particular woman poured emotional problems into her work which again helped her to learn how to work with senior management in other industries, including estate agents and landscaping.

So, with this experience and core confidence she reveled the interview process, and it took her exactly where she wanted to be, the rewards were good

The only thing that didn’t really work out was a short space of time working in a hotel, but apart from that she’s forged a career with huge administration skills, interpersonal skills and above all relationship building skills.

Getting married and moving to the coast.

Michelle loves Mossel Bay near the Klein Brak river bordering the Garden Route National park, a beautiful part of the world, she loves watching the whales in the mornings.

Earlier in the year she bumped into Scott Cundill of My Most Trusted and she just knew instinctively this was her vocation, she would say that My Most Trusted {MMT} has changed her life.

TRAIN THE TRAINER

It’s a big role on the fast track training program and Michelle is fastidious.

The benefits

Michelle’s clients are looking to reduce their marketing costs and increasingly they are focusing on return on marketing investment. She is moving ahead of the trend for quality relationship building and warm lead generation.

Although my most trusted is a simple to operate proven system for creating warm leads, it requires time training yourself, her clients haven’t got the time and they want to quickly implement MMT succinctly and precisely.

She confidently exclaims that any business can generate 1500 warm leads a year PER LinkedIn account without a hint of selling.

Her fast track training program instills the habit of use.

Her quickly delivered training guarantees anybody using the My Most Trusted platform will absolutely fly.

Maltix Partner

Intrinsic to her belief that the smartphone has become the number one business tool, she’s also smart enough to see the adoption of small business problem solving using Dynamic QR landing pages.

Implementing professional in situ QR solutions has been a rapid learning curve for her and she’s very excited about getting these solutions into her business community.

Her leading question is “What keeps you up at night ?” we have a solution.

These QR are going on the side of her car !

Click or SCAN

My Most Trusted Trainer
My Most Trusted Trainer

VIDEO explainer for My Most Trusted

My Most Trusted
My Most Trusted

A conversation with Lis Hoyte BA (Hons) MSc. Author

Lis Hoyte
Lis Hoyte
Lis Hoyte CLICK to BUY her book

My first impressions of this wonderful woman are her very fast talking and visual skills.

Tucked away in a back bedroom for a bit of peace and quiet with a woolly hat on told me that it was quite a cold day in the UK today and she agreed.

A mother of three kids plus step kids, she launched into a whistle stop tour at breakneck speed that challenged my short hand skills, thats a first !

The self help tools for Coercive control in any relationship

Empowering men and women in controlling relationships.

Lis helps Women and Men to ‘Break Free’ from Coercive Controlling relationships.

Her belief system is chiseled from her own experience with a thoughts on realising your own ‘Power’ with less focus on the perpetrators actions which can ultimately hinder.

After experiencing this type of abuse for nearly 2 decades Lis wants to spread awareness of coercive control on different platforms in order to create new beginnings and build new models to support those experiencing this type of abuse. 

Her first book was called Break Free my journey, and she talked about her personal journey over the last 18 years and how this has helped her develop and precipitate change in peoples mindsets.

She spoke at length of abusive relationships that are put onto children from any gender and the damage that causes in parenting relationships.

This inspirational work is forging her new book focusing on children with tools and ideas to empower children on their transformational journey of change with disjointed parenting.

Lis spoke about co-parenting within coercive controlling adults, and a unhealthy propensity or obsession to turn children against the protective parent. Using children as pawns inside an already baffling relationship.

Super encouraging

What’s super encouraging is that the book stands a great chance of entering the national UK curriculum. Its being tested with three local schools for national quality assurance thereafter.

I asked questions about her views on the judiciary system and we both agreed that the system is divisive citing a recent story on Malta.

A woman was actually murdered last week by her abusive estranged husband.

Court cases and divisive lawyers rolling on for months or years, ineffective policing.

Stuck in the middle of all these problems are the children.

Lis asked this question, do social services fully understand coercive control and have they got the skills to recognise?

From experience, her opinion is they filter problems into layers within the fabric of social services and that that hinders effective process.

We agreed a resounding NO on the capability of courts to facilitate a healthy outcome for children.

Lis is very focused on self-help and she actually helps protective parents put together historical abuse information for court cases.

We share a vision of connecting her books to the readership through Dynamic QR codes, The smartphone is the key to this success.

We shared the wonderful idea that she can hold events one on one with her readership or run events with up to 100 potential people on any call for free using Google Meet organised on a new smart phone event platform built by Maltix, the first of its kind.

In order for Lis to be in better position to make this project fly she became a certificated speaker in May 2021.

3 things about Lis: Courageous: Emotionally intelligent: Quick !

Lis Hoyte
Lis Hoyte

Website

Linkedin:

A conversation with John  Ambra

VP sales TAWK The largest CHAT room on the planet

Business tech blog for small business from Maltix online stationery.

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Online stationery

In preparation for a google meet call next week to some contacts via Marc Jarret’s WhatsApp networking group, I thought an introductory BLOG would be useful.

Eight years ago, I decided to install a chat room into my WordPress maltix.co.uk website, I was recommended TAWK and have used it ever since without a hitch and also use the App.

A couple of years ago, a group of us banded together as Partners within the My Most Trusted programme through Scott Cundill.

We became a self help support group, the idea was we would learn much quicker collectively than individually.

As ringleader, I set up a SLACK system where we could share and manage vast quantities of email correspondence and documentation.

We began integrating technology we were using, especially Google Meet for up to 100 people for free, a brilliant tool and so easy to use to this day.

It was during this time that we began to realise there was a lot more to TAWK than met the eye, so I invited the very modest John Ambra into our sessions.

A conversation with John Ambra, nonchalance Aussie style

Lovely relaxed conversation with John this morning, the sales VP from Tawk the largest chat room on the planet.

John is an unassuming man with an interesting background in direct sales.

He started off as a door-to-door knife salesman and his party trick even today is to cut a five cent coin in half using the very same knife from 20 years ago.

That’s the value of selling something that’s worth $1200 I guess.

After university he set up a small business being a DJ and with his parents help put some money into the musical equipment, he then got more and more into direct sales.

The mindset of commission only

I’m with John, the best sales people in the world are commission only.

To be excellent earning through cold calling commission takes its toll.

You don’t hear of people talking about the benefits of commission only and the personal growth you need to experience to get really good at your job.

Jump forward to a 21 year old John starting his own sales company with some big US Brands.

After nine years and loads and loads of different types of products, boutiques etc over 120 people were on his team, commission only.

After 9 years running his own company, a good friend of his Rob began to talk about the next stages within his CHAT room creation called TAWK, on New Year’s Eve 2017 the stage was set.

Rob was looking to refocus on his company and needed somebody to take over sales within a couple of days over a percolated coffee, John and his brother committed to TAWK

In 2018 a big change came into John‘s life because he decided to shut down his sales company, that was tough for him, but he needed change.

John said it was really interesting going to work with people he had known since primary school, including their wives!

A bootstrap company with numbers that take your breath away.

Numbers trip of the tongue with John, nonchalantly announcing that the dashboard attracts 4000 new clients a day and they have got 7 million users.

Tawk controls 20% of the marketplace and they get regular offers for the sale of the company, it aint happening, the journey has a long way to go.

And the strapline hasn’t changed from day one “Forever FREE”

I asked how they make money, a bit cheeky maybe ? not at all replies John.

There are elements in place that make money.

Many business account managers employ TAWK chat operatives for a dollar an hour and then there’s the VA service to let you become more productive by freeing up time.

There’s also a White Label offering if you’re not familiar it allows you to brand other peoples technology within your own brand, a seamless provision of service.

Tawk has also added video screen share and very sophisticated CRM

2023 is a real big year for growth adding more tools and more value into into the system.

John confidently predicts that the integrated services of TAWK will become the biggest business operating system on the planet.

With 2.9 billion widget transactions a month on Tawk, you cannot possibly doubt that.

Next year this CHAT room moves into SMS and email ability to seamlessly interact all your channels in one place.

WhatsApp Facebook Instagram, website, App all in one place with more integration of in situ payments and in chat payments.

This is the exact same spirit of in situ smartphone business we keep on about.

There are more exciting announcements on the horizon moving towards crypto-based payments as well perfect for small business.

It’s easy to see business adopting TAWK as a one stop shop, one place to login into in the morning, everything you and your clients converse about all in one place.

3 Words about John: Gritty. Generous. Intune

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Add EVENT to the diaries you use and share via you phone.

Chat room coaching
Chat room coaching

A conversation with Debbie Bryan

Debbie Bryan Taj Mahal

Motor vehicles are very important, I bought mine from a lady who was leaving Gozo and was desperate for the sale.

I drunkenly negotiated down to 6000 euro, that was 10 years ago.

After all this time, I’m not convinced electric cars are the answer, maybe hybrid, I’m really not sure, and why change ? I can hardly get into 3rd gear on this tiny island.

I do have a fantasy car, yes the 30 year old MG RV8 supercar with a 3.9 litre Range Rover engine, but it’s a time for reality not fantasy, nothing worse than a silver haired man in an open top sports car.

10 years on, the French eh?

You can imagine the advertising for this Renault convertible of mine 10 years ago. It would’ve said wonderful things about the performance, comfort and economic ability.

But with 60,000 miles on the clock and the inevitable niggles of a older car, I don’t suppose Renault themselves would appreciate my advertising patter, conjured up whilst negotiating a heavy storm this morning.

Fairweather windscreen wipers

Fairweather windscreen wipers from your Renault dealer today!

It’s quite ridiculous that windscreen wipers perform beautifully when it’s dry but simply stop when it’s raining. Or indeed that the entire front section of the car has to be removed to replace a light bulb and indicator light, the French eh?

A conversation with Debbie Bryan

Debbie Bryan Taj Mahal
Debbie Bryan Taj Mahal

https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbiebryanmotivationalcoach

Had a wonderful call with Debbie Bryan today, international motivational speaker and personal coach.

Grounded in a past career with sales teams and busy gym hair salons it was a pleasure to talk to her and we will talk again soon with our common brogue of Somerset and Wiltshire.

We agree on so much and I always know, whatever, it’s gonna be an easy conversation, we both sing from the same hymn sheet on life and attitude to life.

Sore arse and stiff sand

We launched into talking about her charity trip to India.

A trip in trepidation for a lady in her mid fifties, the challenge of 360 km trip across India.

40 to 50 miles a day on the pushbike starts to get into your nether regions, broken roads, deep sand but never a broken spirit.

Debbie was inspired by friends who took a similar trip in Brazil a couple years ago and she’s already planning for a Vietnam Cambodia trip maybe next year.

Crash bang wallop

When you consider 12 years ago Debbie was involved in a terrible accident that nearly removed her ability to walk, raising £1500 for charity on a sponsored pushbike ride across India sounds unlikely.

But thats the spirit of the woman, self motivation and driven energy.

On her trip she was inspired by the people who came out of their houses and off their fields to touch her blonde hair and take selfies.

Despite the poverty everybody’s got a smile and a smart phone !

Target setting and talking to the trees.

On a trip like this their are the inevitable lows, and those lows can resonate to fellow cyclists.

So Debbie made wishes, she talked to the trees, get through this and something nice might appear, however unlikely!

“I wonder if I will get a glass of wine tonight” ” Maybe some ice cream” “Perhaps there will be porridge on the breakfast menu ” ” oooh chicken would be nice”

We spoke about what happens in life when you ask for things because nearly every occasion there was wine there was chicken there was ice cream.

There was even porridge waiting for her at her accommodation, and that made the stiff ride through the sand worthwhile.

Debbie is an an atomist a bit like me she believes in that, if you talk to the entities around you, you’ll get what you want in life.

I would say Debbie is resilient, a problem solver who believes in herself and the motivation of others.

BLOG written and posted by William Nicholls

Serviced QR specialist.

“Dont lose business to your competitors because you are invisible on the smartphone”

SCAN on your phone to see Blue circle to add to phone and White circle to share on social media.

If you are reading this blog on your phone then CLICK the image

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