Finally some facts and figures that made me smile. You are 40 times more likely to give birth to twins than to click on a banner ad, or 31 times more likely to win the lottery and my personal favourite – 475 times more likely to survive a plane crash than click on a banner ad.

I had a 90 minute social media strategy meeting with a great guy called Andy Piper from a company called prosperityinvestments.co.uk They sell investment opportunities in exotic location property.  I had no idea this kind of investment opportunity existed so it was very interesting talking through his business in detail. Andy had originally made contact with me after seeing myself and Ian Mckendrick  deliver a presentation to around 100 business delegates at the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce in February 2010.

As we were talking through the various parts of his business I began to create ideas and mini campaigns in my mind that he would be able to take away and use straight away in getting his social media campaign underway.  Its really early days for Andy in terms of getting social media working for him as he is busy establishing his company, Im hopefull that one day if enough people allow me to share my ideas for their business I might be able to buy one of those beachside villa’s that Andy is selling!

Ithink it may be a while yet though! anyway, thanks to Andy for writing some genuinely appreciated words about what was a worthwhile afternoon’s work for both parties.

“How much information can you soak up in 90 minutes ?

Well that’s all the time that I spent in the company of the hugely creative and brilliant mind behind Mark Peters but I went away with my mind buzzing with creative ideas for taking the message of my business “viral”.

Mark has this amazing ability to see what others (of the less intuitively creative type) like myself just don’t see, and when this is combined with his considerable experience in the business world it makes for a marketing force to be reckoned with ! 

Thanks Mark for all those creative (and sometimes outright wacky) ideas that I will be putting into action in the coming weeks and months for my business”

Andy Piper - Prosperity Investments 

Cambridge UK 8th April 2010

Cambridge Hypnotherapist Luca Senatore has been inundated with requests to help clients overcome what seems to be a brand new phobia.  dubbed “ World Cup Anxiety “ the new phobia appears to be increasing at an alarming rate with requests for support coming from all over the UK.  Symptoms of “world cup anxiety” include  

• Lack of concentration at work in the 24 hour period preceding a big game
• A slightly increased resting heart rate for the period of the tournament
• Heightened emotional state and an impaired ability to deal rationally with common crisis
• Implications of the above symptoms can lead to further complications including problems with relationships and communication within the workplace or home

 Commenting on the alarming increase in the new phobia Luca Senatore, who specialises in weight related issues and phobias, commented “What we are seeing now is a phenomenon that has been manifesting itself in the minds of football fans for decades, it now appears to have built up strength almost like a pseudo virus to the point at which people are experiencing physical symptoms.  The appearance of a new phobia is always fascinating as each case I am seeing at the moment is also a different variation of the problem”

Mr Senatore and his Cambridge based Hypnotherapy practice have launched a tailor made phobia package aimed at solving these issues for any fan that feels they might be suffering already from world cup anxiety, “ It will normally only take me a couple of hours to achieve a complete cure of world cup anxiety in my clients, after treatment my clients would be able to sit through a world cup final penalty shootout between England and Brazil without a noticeable rise in heart BPM throughout “

"World Cup Anxiety" is here

Luca Senatore is available for interview and can be contacted at

Cambridge Hypnotherapy  - 01223 303 904

If you are in the Cambridgeshire area you can listen online at 107.9fm.  In the Ely area you can listen off our transmitter at the top of the Cathedral on 107.1fm.  If you are anywhere else in the country then you can listen online at http://www.star107.co.uk just click the listen live button at the top of the page.

The show runs every sunday between 9 and 10am.  Presented by Mark Peters and Ian Mckendrick.  You all know who I am but if you dont know Ian then find out how experienced in business he is by visiting his blog.

Helping us to launch the first show are …

Walter Herriot OBE

Dame Kelly Holmes OBE

Andrew Lansley MP CBE

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Twitter name is @thebhub.  If you are kind enough to talk about us on twitter please also use the hashtag #bhub in your tweets, that way we can easily find what is being said about the hub and from 9am this morning (7th March 2010) everyone that sends a tweet out with the #bhub hastag in it will go into a draw to win this months prize – a blackberry Curve with 2 months free UK airtime thanks to CBS Communications.

We are really interested in your feedback on the show, I am sure it will take us several weeks to get the show perfected but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.  please either contact us through the hub at http://www.markandian.com/businesshub or direct through the contact page on my blog.

One final point, this week we signed our show’s major sponsor – EACS.com

Please take a moment to visit their site, i think the layered video introduction to their company is fantastic.

The company is based in Kimbolton and is one of the most impressive IT setup’s I have ever seen, Thanks to them, the business hub is off to a great start.  We have more sponsorship and advertising opportunities in the Business Hub, if you would like to know more then get onto the site and request a Marketing Menu!  The Business hub’s goal is to help anyone in business Succeed.

The business hub is a web community that discusses everything about business interests and issues to provide the content for a weekly business show broadcast across Cambridgeshire on Star Radio and then online at www.star107.co.uk

We believe it is the most cutting edge and relevant business programme in the Uk today because all of the content is topical, current and gathered from real people doing real business across the region and beyond.

The first show will be broadcast on Sunday 7th March 9-10am and we are already getting close to running out of sponsorship and advertising opportunities in the show.

You can see whats going on at www.markandian.com/businesshub you can also follow the chatter on twitter by searching for the hashtag #bhub

Be great to see you online there soon.

I am very excited about the forthcoming training and presentation projects that will be giving you an insight into the world of storybranding© and its impossible to go into the detail here as there is a lot that I dont want to give away in the public arena.  However let me tease you with 3 areas in which storybranding© has a huge effect on social media response.

1 – Pro-active and Re-active campaigns. Its a fantastic way to cut through the background sweat and noise that increasingly clutters the marketplace.

2 – Consistent and continual content. It means that your brand not only stands out but it also creates your brand image in the viewers/readers minds more quickly.

3 – Its your Viral Gateway. Storybranding© must be the most cost effective and rewarding way to send your message viral in any marketplace you choose.

A full insight into the science behind story branding will be coming to a presentation near you very soon.  I am looking forward to working with Ian Mckendrick ( www.ianmckendrick.com ) on these projects, we are very near to the launch of www.markandian.com too.

As ever please leave any feedback, comments or questions about storybranding© I love em!

Mark

In the year 2000 the Eagle Radio station launched in Cambridge. Broadcasting on 107.9 it was the previous incarnation of my Radio station Star Radio.  The first song that was played on that day was Stephen Gately and New Beginning which was his brand new single.  An interview was done by one of our sister stations with Stephen and the audio you can hear here was of course never broadcast as it was the chat leading up to us using his song to launch the station.

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