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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (GMT)
This is the fifth meeting of the London Business Book Club
A monthly meet up to swap, give away, recommend and talk about business books. The kind of books that have taught you, motivated you, inspired you, improved your understanding of psychology, sociology or other ologys.
The speaker for this meeting is Will King, serial entrepreneur, founder of King of Shaves and writer of new book "How To Build a Great Business in Tough Times"
About Will King
Back in 1992, during the last recession, Will King was a salesman who had just been made redundant. Suffering from razor burn, he was unable to find a product on the market to solve his shaving problems. Suspecting lots of men must be experiencing the same misery, and with more time on his hands, Will decided to solve the problem himself. He used different mixtures of his girlfriend’s essential oils to perfect his own shaving oil, hand-filling the first 10,000 bottles at his basin, and King of Shaves was born. From such humble beginnings, King of Shaves has grown to become a multi-million pound business, second only to Gillette in the UK . In 2008 a King of Shaves product was sold every 3 seconds.
About his Book
How to Build a Great Business in Tough Times reveals
One of the important parts of the book club is “Swap Time”. Bring along a book (or two) that you recommend to swap with other members. You get to swap back at the next meeting or contact your swapee direct to unswap once you’ve read the book.
Attendees are a mixture of senior managers and professionals mostly working in agencies and creative industries, branding, marketing and communications.
The venue is the upstairs lounge at the Slug and Lettuce Pub in 19/20 Hanover Street. Westminster, London, W1S 1YR. Nearest tube is Oxford Circus http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/
We will be charging a mere £4 (plus booking fee) for advance tickets or £5 on the door for this event. Just to cover the venue hire charge, noone is making a profit.
If you haven't already don't forget to check out our previous speakers:
LBBC1: Maurice De Castro's author of Hamster to Harmony. I've been saying to myself GET OFF THE WHEEL ever since www.hamstertoharmony.com. Buy the book at amazon: http://tinyurl.com/yfzokqw
LBBC2: Mark Earls author of The Herd, how to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature. Find out the hidden truth of who we are at http://herd.typepad.com Buy the book at Amazon : http://tinyurl.com/lpcrkz
LBBC3: Jonathan Salem Baskin author of Branding Only Works on Cattle. Read his brilliant contrarian rants on branding and marketing at www.baskinbrand.com and http://dimbulb.typepad.com/ Buy the book at Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/yzkndl8
LBBC4: Penny Power, founder of Ecademy, social media expert and author of "Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me". Read her blog at http://www.knowmelikemefollowme.com/ Buy the book at http://tinyurl.com/yazv9rk
For information of future events join The London Business Book Club group on facebook , Linkedin or meetup.com. Add pictures of you or one of your colleague reading a business book that has most inspired them
See you there business bookworms,
Catherine Crawley
London Business Book Club
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