I joined a team from Propertymark to sleep out in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for Centrepoint. Cold, uncomfortable and worth every minute.
Neil Martin · Beats, Business & Life
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I didn’t need a website. I needed a funnel
A blog that reached a million sets of eyes and still didn’t work as a business. The lesson that changed how I thought about websites.
Sit down and shut up: the chatterbox who found the stage
Told to sit down and shut up from my first day at school. Now the stage feels like home. Here’s what happened in between.
Every torch is a light at the end of somebody’s tunnel
I asked an audience to wave their phone torches in the air, for three reasons. One was a selfie. The other two have stayed with me.
£25k in 24 hours for Promise Dreams
In 24 hours at Agent Rainmaker Live, a room of letting agents raised over £25k for Promise Dreams. People are awesome.
What the 1998 Data Protection Act taught me about GDPR
I worked on implementing the Data Protection Act in 1998. Twenty years on, GDPR worried me for lettings businesses, so I qualified and wrote a book.
100 miles in torrential rain for Maggie’s
A week after running 100 miles on muddy, hilly trails in torrential rain, I was close to £2,000 raised for Maggie’s. Here’s why asking mattered.
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Hi, I’m Neil
DJing since 1987, three decades in business, and the author of Done Beats Perfect. This is where I write it all down.










