Essex Business Forum Guest Blog by Terry Maylin 09/01/2025
There were 20 of us today with an addition of a guest Kory who is a courier. In Aidans’ absence Scott G stood in for Aidan as Chairperson and Terry stood in for Scott . Scott also stood in for Ben as he was incapacitated.
The Performance League
On the performance league Terry Announced that for the shortened month of December Nick Cooke won the December performance league and he was heartily congratulated for it.
Education Presentation
Scott gave an excellent education slot explaining that a new social media initiative is being undertaken to promote the group and particularly to look for guests for the vacant categories and also that up to 15 individual members will also be promoted each month with the top 15 from the performance league being those that are promoted- a good reason for members to push themselves as high up the performance league as possible by doing those things that gain you points!
New Member Induction & Existing Member Renewal
On the membership news front Terry Maylin confirmed that Paul Corrigan has now been with us a year and after due consideration the membership committee voted unanimously to renew his membership and Terry reminded Paul that he is now eligible to apply for the mark of excellence.
Scott kicked off the next part of the meeting and announced that we are going to nominate the next person, rather than work our way through a list- which always ensures that members have to listen up.
The 60 Second Round
Tina Walker kicked us off as she was awarding the Oscar and she likened what she does to peeling an onion- not that she makes you cry but there are lots of layers to what she does.
Paul Booth reminded us all that our Self assessment tax returns are due shortly and that his company still have room for a few more clients to do theirs.
Joshusa Ayettey told us that he needs to get in at the very early stages of a clients project for the design and then planning stages before any work can begin.
Still on the property side, Leann Reason reminded us that she can do what Phil and Kirsty do on Love it or list it and help you love your house again by clever and careful design.
Paul Dulieu reminded us that he is about to undertake his training to be a celebrant as although this is not strictly necessary he wants to do it to be the best he can be.
Paul Corrigan told us that his company are offering a 10% discount on works this month and in addition with every boiler service they are offering a free home survey of the plumbing system in the house to boot.
Scott told us about a relatively inexpensive marketing initiative that he can assist with including social media and google business posts.
Shannon standing in for Clara Downton told us that this year will be “interesting” in terms of interest rates!
Finally Howard wants clients to contact him before the end of the financial year so that they can use up this years investment allowance with Isa’s and pension contributions top of his list.
10-minute presentation by Terry Maylin
Paul Dulieu introduced this weeks 10 minute speaker Terry Maylin at TM Law.
Terry then told us about the personal injury work that he enjoys doing and the reasons why he gets satisfaction from not only getting a proper award of compensation for his clients but also as much rehabilitation as possible so that they can get their lives back on track after life changing injuries.
This weeks statistics and points of note
The referral and testimonial round yielded 17 new referral opportunities for business and around £6500 worth of business passed today.
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Announcements
Following the announcement of the wine quiz in February, Leann reminded her property colleagues of a short synergy meeting today with the 6th February set for the first real meeting of the property synergy group- very exciting.
A lively and well attended meeting was brought to and end by Scott in his role and he breathed a huge sigh of relief!
Well done Scott it seemed like you were doing everything !
Great turnout and lovely to see our visitor who I hope comes back next week.
it was great to be back and networking with everyone again. Well done Terry on a really interesting presentation.
That was interesting to learn about Terry’s expertise…not to mention the danger of sweetcorn!! The video is so useful if you’re not able to attend. See you next week and well done to everyone today.
Sorry to miss you all today!! And well done to Terry for a great 10 minutes and Scott for a fab education slot on how we can all help grow the group!
Looking forward to seeing you all next week when I’m back in the land of the healthy ha ha!! 😝
Great to be back. It was a fabulous meeting this morning, as always. Fascinating 10 minutes Terry!
Great meeting so interesting to hear about Terrys work on personal injury.
Great to see you all this morning, I’m sure the coffee tasted nicer also!
Loved Terry’s 10 mins, could have happily sat there for 20 minutes listening to him!
Looking forward to seeing you all next week
Terry’s 10 minutes was really interesting – although I hope it’s a service none of us will need! Great meeting today as always.
Great meeting today with a visitor, let’s hope Coby joins. Well done Scott in standing in for Aidan, brilliant 10 minutes from Terry. See you all next week.
Brilliant 10 minutes Terry, once again I hope I don’t need your services but if I do i wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to come to you! Really interesting presentation.
Good to be back and see everyone again, and well done to Scott and Terry for managing the top table!
Just watch the video from the meeting. Looks like I missed a great first meeting of 2025. I am really sorry I could not make it. See you all at the next meeting
Great to be back!! A great 10 minutes from Terry to start us off for the year. A great reminder in Scott’s education slot. Looking forward to collaborating with you all for another year.