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MID Communications CEO, Danny Simpson, feeling good about the new Stakehill Head Office

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MID Communications CEO, Danny Simpson, feeling good about the new Head Office.

We made a brilliant leap forward with our new Home and Head Office, Link House.

We are nearly ready to move into our new head office, Link House, on Stakehill Industrial Estate.  This week in preparation for our completion of the top floor, we held a business event for the local businesses on Stakehill.

We invited all the local businesses from the estate, along with Rochdale council, and Rochdale development agency.

We had some amazing support from Carol Hopkins and her team, so huge thanks to them for their support.

The event was led by Emma Robinson who is a project officer for the Rochdale Development Agency.  It was a great breakfast event which had a solid turn out for its first time.

We had a fantastic range of speakers which included Manchester Transport to the towns CCTV management and Northwest Highways, all speaking about the positive changes proposed for Stakehill.

We also spoke about the exciting upcoming Rochdale Business Awards, which are now open for nominations, especially the retailer of the year category.

This is our award category we have constructed this year for Rochdale’s independent retailers to shout about how amazing they really are.

Please look at the categories here and get your application in, a great opportunity for any business to showcase your business and your amazing people.

It was great to host this in our newly constructed Training room when we complete we will be offering out to local businesses on the estate to use for free.  This is a great meeting or training facility, to help support local businesses.

Official Opening Coming Soon.

I am excited to host our official opening of the building sometime in August, as we attempt to bring a host of the Boroughs networking groups together to meet each other to make more new connections.

A few to mention who have shown their support early for the event already are, Rochdale football club business club, Oldham Business 100, Rochdale Development Agency, Rochdale Council, The Rochdale Ambassadors, with social media partners #rochdalehour.

I am proud to confirm Newly Elected MP Tony Lloyd attendance, along with the New Mayor of Rochdale.

It is so exciting, and fantastic to have such great support locally, this shows again that Rochdale’s public and private sectors along with local politician are all supporting new growth and businesses in Rochdale.

This is great to see, the town really does start to come alive with a whole host of positive events to come.

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O2 Rochdale feeling good about festival

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O2 Rochdale feeling good about festival

Digital communications chain O2 Rochdale is backing this summer’s Rochdale Feel Good Festival.

The O2 store, based in Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre will be an official festival partner, promoting the event to their customers across the region and having a presence at the festival itself, welcome O2 Rochdale!!
During the festival, O2 Guru’s will be on hand to give free tech advice to festival goers and they’ll be demonstrating the very latest in virtual reality technology. The deal will also see O2 Rochdale’s logo on festival marketing.  The team will be running an exclusive competition during the event to win tickets for other top music gigs which you can enter by sharing your festival photos on Twitter using #FEELGOODGURU

Danny Simpson, Chief Executive of O2 Rochdale who is a resident of said: “It’s great to support this amazing local event for our store, and our customers. It gives me an immense amount of pride, growing up in Rochdale was great, and I am now able to give back to the town and our amazing customers, by our organisation supporting this amazing Event.  We will be getting the public excited about tech, with our Digital Wizards, our Guru’s from our store Team, to showcase VR, tech, and offer free and impartial help, advice, on all things Tech.”

“We’re very excited about this year’s festival which is a superb event for the area. O2 Rochdale is committed to the local community and is pleased to support this event which is bringing over twenty acts and stacks of family entertainment into town.”

Councillor Janet Emsley, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, community and culture at Rochdale Borough Council who visited the O2 Rochdale store to meet the team this week said: “Local investment and support from our partners such as 02 Rochdale helps the council deliver this fantastic event, and provide an opportunity for thousands of families to come and enjoy performances that will appeal to young and old alike.”

Rochdale Feel Good Festival returns on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 August, for another showcase of entertainment, food and culture.

The festival which is celebrating its 10th birthday will include live music across indoor venues, the main stage sponsored by The Flying Horse Hotel, a quality food court and family entertainment.

The main stage will be headlined by Razorlight, on a packed two-day line-up which also includes Manchester’s Baked A La Ska, RedFaces, Pacific, Daft Punk The Tribute, Marbelhead Johnson,  plus more to be announced.

The festival is funded by the Council together with sponsorship from The Flying Horse Hotel, Rochdale Football Club, Metrolink, O2 Rochdale, The Royal Toby, Rochdale Town Centre Management and Rochdale Sixth Form College.

For more visit, www.rochdalefeelgoodfestival.co.uk, go to www.facebook.com/feelgoodfestival or connect with the festival on Twitter @FeelGoodFest @MIDCOMMS @dannyMIDsimpson

O2 and McDonald’s Franchisors seek Social Media Superstars

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O2 and McDonald’s Franchisors seek Social Media Superstars

Two of Manchester’s leading franchisors are looking for social media apprentices to join their Manchester based teams.

McDonald’s franchise, McDonald’s Manchester City Centre and O2 franchise, MID Communications, are looking for young people from the local area to help establish their social media accounts.

A selection boot camp for the roles will be held at The Juice Academy, the UK’s first industry-led social media apprenticeship programme, on the morning of Tuesday 18th July in Manchester.

As part of their day-to-day role, the chosen apprentices will play a vital part in social media and digital strategy for their franchise, bringing to life lessons learnt from the training programme.

Danny Simpson, CEO of MID Communications, said: “We are really excited to welcome our new apprentice, who we are sure will help us work towards our goal of being a leader within O2 franchise in the UK.

“This will be a great opportunity for any young person, to help us drive the MID Communications Brand along with the exciting, national family loved O2 brand, with its award winning product and services. We can’t wait to meet them at the boot camp.”

Apprentices will receive a package including a £9,000 salary and a graduation bonus of £2,500 while gaining a level 3 qualification in Digital Marketing, as well as a level 4 award in Digital Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. They will also be given coding lessons from Northcoders.

Alongside this, the apprentices will gain sound industry advice and insight from PR and marketing specialists while training concurrently at The Juice Academy.

There are 22 other employers attending the boot camp, including Manchester Airport, events space Victoria Warehouse and football betting site, Redarmybets, and more businesses wanting to join.

For more information or to apply for the apprenticeship, please visit www.juiceacademy.co.uk or email georgia.fitzgerald@juiceacademy.co.uk

Twitter: @Danny Simpson

MID Communications Makes E3 Final

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MID Communications SHORTLISTED for 2017 E3 Business Awards along with their Head of HR & Operations Jennifer Hulme  

Manchester based Telecoms O2 franchise MID Communications, and their Head of HR & Operations, Jennifer Hulme have been shortlisted as finalists in the 2017 E3 Business Awards, which will be held at the Macron Stadium in Bolton on Thursday 13th July 2017.

The company, which is one of the largest Independent O2 Franchises in the Northwest was selected from amongst hundreds of nominees to become finalists in the prestigious Customer Service category.
Jennifer, a member of MID Communications leadership team, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Outstanding Women in Business 2017 category.

Speaking on behalf of the company, CEO Danny Simpson said: “We are all really pleased that the business has been recognised in the category of Customer Service. The team work hard to ensure we offer the best possible service with excellent in-store customer experience every day.

We are passionate about the service we provide in a challenging retail environment and have pushed ourselves to be different on the high street to really set us apart from our competition.  To get the recognition for this by making the final is a huge honour”

 

He went on to comment on Jennifer Hulme’s selection “Jennifer is a massive part of our business.  She works diligently every day driving for results for our business.

Jennifer is an amazing and strong professional person who has made a huge impact on our business, and continues to strive for excellence.

Jennifer is a great leader both in an out of MID communications.  The CIPD, and the institute of HR are fortunate to have such a strong ambassador for the profession and the role.

I know she will make a great role model for all future women in business and HR professional’s.  I wish her all the luck for the night.”

 

“Each year, it becomes more of an achievement to win a finalist’s place,” said Mubarak Chati, Managing Director of 1 Events Media, who host the E3 Awards.

“Every year since we’ve started, we’ve seen an increase in nominations and a corresponding increase in quality. This year, across all seventeen award categories, we’ve seen an increase of around 18% on last year.”

“We’ve had nominations from throughout the North West and we’ve seen real strength in all areas. One of the big surprises has been the number of entries from new businesses and women in business.

 It’s always been a key purpose of the Awards to celebrate the achievement of all parts of the community – not just the mainstream –  women, charities and social enterprises coming forward in such numbers is very gratifying indeed.”

 

“Given the number and the high standard of entries, we certainly gave the Nominations Panel a difficult job. They have risen to the challenge, though, and their final selections represent the very best of the whole North West region.

For MID Communications and Jennifer Hulme to have been named as a finalist’s for 2017 is an achievement of which they should be very proud.”

 

More information about MID Communications and Jennifer can be found on its website – www.midcommunications.com – or by calling 0161 683 5771.

More information about the E3 Business Awards, including a full list of finalists, can be found at www.e3businessawards.co.uk.

Danny Simpson – Business Boxing Pride, Passion, Persistence

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Stop Competing Start Winning – Pride, Passion, Persistence

For those of you that know me you will know I am passionate about my 3 P’s – Pride, Passion and Persistence.  I love to tell and show people how these words, with there behavioural meanings and disciplines are vital to ensure success in life but more specifically in business.

Boxing is another passion of mine and also a great illustration of my 3 P’s;  as a result I would like to show you how you can apply Pride, Passion and Persistence into your everyday Business and Personal life, and be successful.

I am a HUGE Anthony Joshua Fan, he is an amazing sports personality and in my opinion could be as great a personality as Mohamed Ali. Every so often a rare talent enters their field and achieves great accolades and showcases their profession unbelievably well.  I think of people like Tiger Woods in Golf, Lewis Hamilton in F1, Cristiano Ronaldo in Football, etc.

     

I believe Joshua is going to be that legend for boxing.  Joshua is humble, grounded and has immense pride for boxing, as made him who he is today; passion with a love for winning and persistent, showing a real climb to success through good times and bad.

We watched our new Boxing Champion Anthony Joshua, defeat Klitschko in front of a sold out 90,000 Wembley crowd, and a box office record of television fans.  I believe he showcased the 3 P’s beautifully, as he always does.

Anthony Joshua showed exceptional mental strength, plenty of heart and resilience in the ring that Saturday night

Joshua started as he always does confident yet reserved as he settled into his surroundings, and the fight.  Joshua knocked Klitschko down in the 5th round and we all we thought he might have done it here, but the mighty Klitschko rose to his feet, to fight on.  Klitschko then took Joshua down in the 6th round.  Most of all I believe until this point, Joshua stuck to his plan, and looked confident.  While just like some businesses, Joshua got knocked down, and found himself in potential trouble.

Joshua got up and started to go through a process I believe every champion goes through at some point when competing. He did NOT, and was NOT going to lose right there in front of his 90,000 fans, his team and his watchers.  Pride, Passion and persistence got him off the canvas.

Passion for the sport, his past and his desire to win made him continue on through the remaining rounds.  He figured out what he needed to do to win the fight, whilst venturing into uncharted boxing territory.

Persistence and self belief allowed Joshua keep taking the punches and start to think smart about what his new strategy should be. In Anthony’s mind it was never in doubt that he would win; I believe he would have continued to get up time and time again. Through some tough criticism from the commentary with some people doubting if he could hold on and come back he persevered.

A strong mind, a strong team and the 3 P’s embedded in his way of working I believe was the reason Joshua went onto win, and become a bigger champion.

Consequently don’t allow worry in life or business to creep in when you get knocked down, or knocked back.  We must pick ourselves up, and keep going, reflecting on what happened.  As a result making sure you have the best people around you, with people who support you is also a huge part of winning.  Therefore remove negative vibes, and people from your life, choose winning attitudes and positive mindset, and don’t settle for anything else if you want to win.

Seems like you will always get people who have an opinion, and sometimes doubters, but channel this energy and apply it as focus to your goals, and you WILL SUCCEED…

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