David Stone
Founder @Guru Marketing Limited
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WORK HISTORY
Founder @Guru Marketing Limited
I offered a full sales, marketing consultancy, training services to government programmes, corporates, SMEs, social enterprises, charities, FTSE, Nasdaq, MBA programmes and Business Schools including;Marketing, Sales and Telesales Strategy and Annual Plans, PR campaigns, marketing project management, training projects including:Beacon South West - an elite government boardroom / knowledge sharing network for the top 200 performing SMEs in the South West.Problem: low take up of membership programmeSolution: I freelanced as the Marketing Manager, creating and implementing a sales/marketing strategy to recruit over 200 new CEO & senior management within SME’s and corporates to the programme South West Manufacturing Advisory Services Devon, Somerset & CornwallProblem: low take up of consulting servicesSolution: I freelanced as the marketing manager creating a successful programme to recruit over 250 new businesses to purchase consulting services Great Western Research - a University led programme which invested in 50% funding PhD candidates for innovative projects within SW businessesThe problem: low awareness and take up of the matched funding by businesses to invest in a PhD research project. The Solution: I created new business initiatives to encourage take up within the corporate and SME sectors to match and recruit businesses with PhD innovation projects. A notable success included convincing our MP to host a House of Commons event, to which the press came and we gained a double page centre spread in the Observer education supplement, as well as Independent NewsPaper coverage, which also not only helped sell all remaining places but won a further £15m of government funding to secure the project’s future.Business Schools Included: Exeter MBA, Plymouth Business School, Dartington School of Social EntrepreneursCorporates and SMEshttps://youtu.be/_kgz4pRix2k?si=EDTrOBdOZVZ68DDg
EDUCATION
University of Birmingham
BA, French and Russian combined honours
University of Birmingham
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian and French
London Metropolitan University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
SKILLS
ABOUT DAVID STONE
1.) Interim Management & Consultancy Highly Experienced: I have multiple sector…
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