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Robert's Views on Life, the Universe and everything he can't post on this website are now available here  

Kia Ora Rob have just purchased your book "The Life Plan"

"my wife and I are looking to enter the tourism trade and your book is helping us to organise ourselves in a much simplified way"

Te Miri & Te Awe Awe-Bevan (New Zealand)

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Books 

can 

change 

attitudes 

faster 

than 

any 

political 

campaign

  

 

If wielded with precision and sensitivity the pen really can be mightier than the sword. I have always been fascinated by the power of the written word and the way it can change the way we think and act. I am fortunate to have been published now by Hamlyn, Hodder & Stoughton and Prentice Hall, each an excellent partner in their way. My books are translated into many languages and I regularly hear from my readers around the world.
 

So far I have written:

‘Achieving Business Alchemy’ - Hodder & Stoughton, Aug 2002

‘Copywriting in a Week’ - Hodder & Stoughton, Nov 2003

‘How to Sell’ – Hamlyn, Aug 2004

‘The Entrepreneur’s Book of Checklists’ - Prentice Hall, Oct 2004 

‘The Life Plan’ - Prentice Hall, Nov 2006

‘Teach Yourself – Life at 50 for Men’, Hodder & Stoughton, Jan 2007

 ‘I Know Someone Like That’ - Turnpike Farm, Oct 2008 (Foreword by Stephen Fry)

‘Instant Entrepreneur’ Prentice Hall, Dec 2008

 

Right now I am working on a new business start-up guide that will be published in Summer 2009. I have also launched my own publishing business (a social enterprise) that focuses on works that will help people understand and value the diversity of experience and advantage that so enriches society today. 

I am also regularly commissioned to write for a wide range of publications. These include New Start - a magazine that covers regeneration, Third Sector - which is widely read in the charity world, Social Enterprise - which delives what is says on the cover, Start Your Business - the UK's leading business start-up title, Park Home Magazine - which is read by retired people.
 
I am not afraid to investigate and report on controversy and in my time have been commissioned to carry out some very diverse assignments. For example I researched then wrote a feature for the Independent about Gunther von Hagens and his company that turns donated corpses into teaching aids and artworks. I also wrote a balanced piece about a traveller who had been slated on BBC Watchdog for buying residential parks and terrorising the residents into leaving so that he could redevelop their homes. This one earned my some reader ‘hate mail’! There is a positive side to every story and sometimes, it needs to be written.

 

I am also quite skilful with a camera and so can modestly work myself as a photojournalist if pressed!

 
Testimonial

Lauretta has her own speed networking business called Cut to the Chase and has used the Entrepreneur's Book of Checklists to help her and her clients. Here's what she said:

"I've reread your book and it's proved very useful to me, providing me with plenty of inspiration, so much so that I would like to pass this inspiration on to the businesses that attend the events I run."

 
 

buy signed copies of my books here.

read some reviews here.

check out my Amazon reviews and ratings here.

 

  See me below talking about my book 'The Life Plan' 'live' on Canadian TV

 

 

    

 

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