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Eight things I know now that I wish I’d known then. Richard Harpin, Founder & CEO, Homeserve

Hear from Richard Harpin on how he started and successfully exited his business with a £4 billion sale.

I moved to the UK a very long time ago (so called friends tell me I am now more British than Canadian!) and now very much see England as home. My life is a mixture of spending time with friends, borrowing the most beautiful dog (be warned - I may be a tad smitten with him!), working with business buddies as we try to grow our businesses and endeavouring to get back into horse back riding which I miss immensely.

Like many, I am a huge tennis fan for the 2 weeks of the year that Wimbledon is on!

I have a <a href=&apos;http://itunes.bridginggaps.uk/&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>podcast </a>which is partially business and partially pleasure as I really love speaking to so many different inspiring business owners.

In spare time, I experiment with my creative side by creating new patterns and designs and enjoy photography as well.

I now combine my experience of planning, love of technology and talking by working with people and businesses to launch their own podcasts.

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Next Generation: Growing your business together

A group for all Next Generation participants. Join other likeminded entrepreneurs and trainers to learn how to stick to weekly goals and be held accountable for your business! If you’re not part of the Next Generation Bootcamp but would like to connect with like-minded business owners, don’t worry, there’s a group for you too!

My dedication to Writing has put me to the extreme, whereby the access it gives me enhances my skills and allows me to support writers. I am passionate about history, past events, people, and nature. I love to read. I get through plenty of hours of reading and writing each week. My debut novel,&apos; The Depth of Mischief &apos;, was published in 2019. It&apos;s an excellent read— which has its setting in Sudan with a traversing of lives to Europe and America. Another novel will soon be published.
Having a Master&apos;s in Creative Writing provides a positive resource to help authors with their intended book launch. I&apos;m seeking more and more authors to experience this incredible journey.
I have a website which delivers core integration between customers and services, networks, blogs, writers&apos; groups, forums, events, and activities. Our creative writing group, writers&apos; #virtual platform, meets fortnightly, where many talents come together and express their abilities.
I am the founder of Exposure Book Launch, which helps authors to launch their books on a virtual platform with an audience. Exposure Book Launch strives within a formidable concept, that is, to grow and reach out to authors and markets. It is a global digital network with eCommerce platforms. We also provide an expert memoir-writing service.
The book launch with an author was a remarkable success. The testimonials express delight and the extent of enjoyment of the event. I will continue to host book launches in-person or virtually so that authors can experience the journey that their books can take them. There are other benefits for writers at Exposure Book Launch, so in case it is not time to launch the fortnightly writing group, podcasts, open Mic and much more to inspire Writing.

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Hi, guys welcome my name is <ins>Giorgi Hind</ins>
&nbsp;I am an entrepreneur and have various different skills and experience in building businesses from scratch and buying companies.
but It wasn&apos;t always like that let me tell you&nbsp;
when I was younger and I was at school I couldn&apos;t read and write and was dyslexic and came out of school with no qualification&apos;s it was a tough time for me but, luckily I didn&apos;t let that stop me because I knew I wanted more in life.
I started off with a construction company, as I studied carpentry when I was 17 and I set up a company in my 20s and grew it to a successful size and took on construction projects up to 6 figures + carrying out many different building projects from commercial to residential and housing development. I then bought a service company in my mid-20s in the cleaning and maintenance sector we had over 70 employees and 60 active contracts.&nbsp;

I believe what truly drives me to be successful and grow my businesses was my journey of self-understanding and self-discovery in myself. The more I understood about myself the more powerful I become in my life and I truly understand that everything that we want to achieve in our life comes from within us.&nbsp;
Everything that we do in our lives and what we want to achieve comes down to our level of thinking which I started to understand in my early 20s after becoming more self-aware and studying the mind and how we operate as a being,
&nbsp;the greatest technology and intellectual intelligence lives within us it just understands how to access it. it&apos;s there and lying dormant.

through my coaching programs I implement different structures within different areas of your business, such as sales marketing communication statistics and analytic management and administrative management, but what really sets me apart from most business development companies out there is we have a unique process that allows you to overcome barriers that you can face in yourself and raise your level of awareness. you can have the best service in the world but let&apos;s face it, if you haven&apos;t fully harnessed the power of how your own mind works you&apos;ll never be as truly productive as you can be.&nbsp;
Your business is a self-expression of you and this is what we put together in my coaching programs.

But to give you some background on some of the results that you can achieve in your business well we guarantee a 65% increase in your sales conversions only if you follow the program exactly how it should be and if you still don&apos;t see results I work for free!

Giorgi Hind

Hi, guys welcome my name is <ins>Giorgi Hind</ins>
&nbsp;I am an entrepreneur and have various different skills and experience in building businesses from scratch and buying companies.
but It wasn&apos;t always like that let me tell you&nbsp;
when I was younger and I was at school I couldn&apos;t read and write and was dyslexic and came out of school with no qualification&apos;s it was a tough time for me but, luckily I didn&apos;t let that stop me becaus

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