Jo Herrings Adventures

When I searched for Hens Night activities Bill Clinton was not really a name that came to mind, but Google had other ideas. As I searched using keys words like Burlesque and Pole Dancing it sent me to the Groupon site promoting Bill Clinton, keynote speaker at Entrepreneur 2012 . Now after 4 days at the conference seeing the focus on Internet Marketing makes me think their staff have an interesting use of the key words on Google Adwords. Shrugging aside the randomness of my discovery, I was delighted to spend a few days with The Hen at the Entrepreneur 2012 conference listening to Entrepreneurs from various sectors, making stupendous amounts of money that seemed rather soulless to this vagabond. The final day however was a Question Time format with a number of various business leaders and academics from across the UK to add value and a little bit of credibility to the conference. Discussion points included Diversity & Equality, Motivation & Inspiration. The Influen...

Pushing into Day 3 of the 4 day Entrepreneurs 2012 Conference and with security for the former leader of the free world there was again no schedule posted so I was playing roulette with attending Day 3 hoping for some insight into life and business, that might knock a cog in my thick noggin into place. Kate Hardcastle drew our attention to the heart of any business, Customer Service . Kate offered a compelling and interesting presentation to start the day about how we as consumers feel about our own personal experience with customer service. She slapped Richard Branson (without naming him directly merely showing images of red dressed flight attendants and other flight cues) for writing a book on Customer Service but disappointing her on several occasions. She told of pulling her daughter out of day care (something I can only imagine is a pretty big decision) after they failed to ask her how she felt in a survey instead asking positively geared questions. She talked about profe...

The Entrepreneur 2012 Conference at Excel pushed onto Day 2 and after Day 1 I was starting to go a bit loopy. I hadn't sat and listened to anything so capitalist in years and it was starting to play on my vagrant mind. Burlesque with Bill Clinton was really all I had signed up for so all of this was a random side show I guess. Not to mention a Himalayan injury to my tail bone was starting to give me jip. Reading Hap Working the World between speakers To Kick off Day 2 the Conference MC  Raymond Aaron an accomplished author of both the Chicken Soup for the Soul and Dummies Guide To  franchises put it very simply by preaching " stop being in a sea of sameness " and that frankly  you are no one until you have a book . Just the 2 days before I had received a copy of my University friends first book " Hap Working the World ". Just being able to say Hap has written a book elevates peoples opinion of him. As I listened to Raymond talk of the most powerfu...

I was surfing the internet trying to plan my friends hens party using search words like "hens party", "pole dancing", "girls night" and "burlesque" and Google directed me to a page titled "Bill Clinton". The associated page was for the infamous voucher company Groupon who were selling heavily discounted conference tickets where Mr Clinton was a keynote speaker for a mere £17.  I recognised the bargain and I with plenty of time on my hands at the moment, Dianne (the hen) and I signed up for the 4 day Entrepreneur 2012 conference at London's Excel. What simply seemed a  nice distraction from job hunting and the confines of my house, where the walls feel like they are closing in on me some days, would turn out to be the most emotionally stirring 4 days since I have been back in London.  On Day 1 we were whipped into a frenzy by a Motivational speaker Andy Harrington , a tale of rags to riches. Andy was once a Churchill Insura...