Micro-consult

What it is

• A 1-2 hour session with the podcast team or a guest who specialises in this area.
• Join us on Zoom and let’s push through this thing holding you up, however confidential.
• Anyone is welcome, whether you are a business, a comms pro, founder, team member or anyone else who needs advice in this space.
• No pitch decks, no “brand discovery exercises”, no five-week workshops. Just one focused conversation to crack one problem today.

Who uses it

Maybe you are about to launch something or help someone else launch something?
Maybe you’ve got a campaign that is just not working as well as you though and you want to understand why.

Maybe you’re juggling multiple ideas and just want to discuss them with someone who won’t judge you and has no stake in your project, but still understands the pressures.

This session is designed to do one thing: Give you clarity.

What happens during the session

• Based on what you tell us we’ll connect you with Richard (if he’s available) or a guest who specialises in this area.
• You’ll talk about what’s actually going on with you.
• Then we’ll help you strip it down to what matters and what doesn’t.
• Together, we’ll work out how to frame the story or campaign, so it gets noticed or work through ways to solve the problem.
• You’ll leave with a focused direction and a few clear next steps.

This is about dropping off the weight of the issue and then building momentum that leads to action.

You can book as much time as you need.

Who is it for?

This works best for these types of people:

• Comms or marketing people who need someone to bounce ideas off in confidence
• Founders of startups trying to work out their story pitch
• Organisations about to put something out into the world, but who are not sure how it’s going to land
• People with half a dozen tactics, and they are unsure what to focus on
• Anyone who doesn’t need someone to do it for them, just someone who can show them the line through the noise and get things on track

Why this exists

Among the guests who have appeared on the podcast there are thousands of years of comms experience.

Richard alone has spent 25 years working in journalism, politics, PR and tech, often as the person expected to make sense of a mess and turn it into something the public, press or stakeholders will actually care about.

These sessions are about tapping into this experience.

Richard himself has run them for many years with founders, comms pros and organisations, conducting them in all sorts of places from boardrooms, online and even in nightclubs but now thanks to technology we can do them anywhere in the world.

Nothing is off limits, but generally, people reach out who are in a situation where they have a lot of ideas but need help breaking through something.

There is no pre-meeting. We just book an hour or two and dive in.

If you are looking for something more, that, of course, is possible too.

Cost

How to book

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