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Beats, Business & Life
Proud Dad and family man. A lifelong obsession with music. 3 decades in business and technology. Stuff about this thing called life that I’m still figuring out.
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An Example or a Warning
For years the picture I kept of my dad was a hospital bed. What I found when I looked again, and why every life is an example or a warning.
Whose Opinion of You Gets the Final Say?
One review of my book still rings louder than every DM. Why Marcus Aurelius says that happens, and a simple way to give your own opinion the final say.
Commission Breath: Would You Say Your Marketing Face to Face?
Hopkins said advertising is salesmanship. A coach called the problem commission breath. A face to face test you can run on any post or web page.
This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix), and why it starts with you
Two lines from Missy Elliott’s verse on This Is Me, the track I pick for quiet confidence, and why backing yourself starts with you.
Track by TrackA soundtrack for Today
This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix), and why it starts with you
Two lines from Missy Elliott’s verse on This Is Me, the track I pick for quiet confidence, and why backing yourself starts with you.
Previous tracks
Lovely Day (DJ Eleven Remix Do-Over): Bill Withers Meets Biz Markie
Bill Withers over Marley Marl’s beat for Biz Markie. You won’t find this DJ Eleven do-over on Spotify, so here are the two records behind it, and why I use it to close a set.
Pie N Mash by The Skinner Brothers: All My Favourite Music in One Band
Arctic Monkeys and The White Stripes crossed with The Specials, The Beat and a bit of The Prodigy. The Skinner Brothers tick every box for me, and Pie N Mash is the one I keep going back to.
Can’t Stand Losing You, and the DJ who gave me the record
The first record I ever owned, I didn’t buy. A DJ at a family party gave it to me. Why that white 7-inch is still on my shelf, and what it taught a four-year-old about asking.
Track by Track: Morning
My own song this time. The story behind Morning, a Dust and Data love song about two cups and the start of a day, and why I think the little things matter most.
Beats
From the Decks
A lifetime of following music down the rabbit hole. The beats, the lyrics, the samples… but more than anything, how it makes you feel.
Sunday Selector
Sunday Selector: Kid Once
Some songs you don’t remember learning. They were just there, on the radio and in the playground, and forty-odd years later they still are.
That’s this playlist. Twenty tracks from the late seventies and early eighties, my primary school and even pre-school years. I couldn’t tell you where I first heard every one of them, but they’re all songs I’ve gone back to again and again since.
read more…This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix), and why it starts with you
Two lines from Missy Elliott’s verse on This Is Me, the track I pick for quiet confidence, and why backing yourself starts with you.
Lovely Day (DJ Eleven Remix Do-Over): Bill Withers Meets Biz Markie
Bill Withers over Marley Marl’s beat for Biz Markie. You won’t find this DJ Eleven do-over on Spotify, so here are the two records behind it, and why I use it to close a set.
Business
Business In Plain English
Some of it’s about tech. Some of it’s about teams. All of it’s about the conversation that changes everything.
Commission Breath: Would You Say Your Marketing Face to Face?
Hopkins said advertising is salesmanship. A coach called the problem commission breath. A face to face test you can run on any post or web page.
The best coworker you know doesn’t need to be asked
Sierra’s AI teammate stays quiet most of the time, then speaks up with a fix. What a good AI colleague looks like for a small team.
Do More Than They Asked For and the Money Tends to Follow
Lessons from my 2019 summit on surprising customers, and on asking for proper money once you’ve solved their actual problem.
Life
Everything Else
The stuff off the clock. Good food, fresh threads, and trying to be a bit better than yesterday.
An Example or a Warning
For years the picture I kept of my dad was a hospital bed. What I found when I looked again, and why every life is an example or a warning.
Whose Opinion of You Gets the Final Say?
One review of my book still rings louder than every DM. Why Marcus Aurelius says that happens, and a simple way to give your own opinion the final say.
The people who shaped me before I’d ever met them
In 2016 I made a list of people who’d changed my life without ever meeting me. Who was on it, what each one gave me, and a question that might help you find your own list.
About
Hi, I’m Neil
I got my first turntables in 1987, when I was 12, and I’ve been playing records to people ever since. I’ve been in business for three decades and I wrote a book called Done Beats Perfect. This is where I write it all down.
By day I’m Director of Marketing & Edutainment at ActionCOACH UK.
DJing since 1987Three decades in businessAuthor, Done Beats Perfect
The book
Done Beats Perfect
A short, honest book about putting things off, and how to stop. Paperback, Kindle, or the audiobook read by me.
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