Entrepreneur Christian Azolan shares how he turned a passion for art into a full-time business. If you have a business idea, this is a webinar for you!

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In this Lunch and Learn webinar, entrepreneur 

 explains how he turned a passion for art into a full-time business.

If you have a business idea or are just getting started on your entrepreneurial journey, this is a webinar you will want to see!

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Do you want to win more business or investment?
Do you feel your company isn&apos;t getting noticed?
Or do you have a potential issue that you don&apos;t want to damage your reputation?
Hi, I&apos;m Jane and I run a public relations consultancy called <a href=&apos;https://www.positive-story.com/&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Positive Story</a>. I help companies in the engineering, infrastructure, technology and investment sectors to be seen, heard and to stand out from the competition.
I maximise business potential using targeted and focused PR campaigns. I also help companies to protect their reputation if there&apos;s an issue which could harm their business.
I&apos;ve helped dozens of companies, both large and small, to positively impact their bottom line - firms including Eurotunnel, Network Rail, RBS Group, BAE Systems and Bechtel.
After I ran a strategic PR campaign to promote one company&apos;s port construction and engineering expertise, its president received a call from a new client who had seen the media coverage and offered them a new contract on a port project in Louisiana.
I recently worked with a Dubai-based private equity company to promote their luxury residential development in Chelsea and help them win more investment. I achieved over 25 media articles around the world for that press release including coverage in their key media such as the <a href=&apos;https://www.standard.co.uk/business/chelsea-police-station-gulf-islamic-investments-john-gielgud-b979708.html&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Evening Standard</a> and Property Week.
My current clients include a solar energy developer with projects in the UK, USA, Chile and Australia, which is pivoting its business to become an owner-operator and an engineering tech start-up, which has developed the biggest advance in water treatment technology for 50 years.
I&apos;m passionate about using PR, particularly media relations, to drive business success. I love doing what I do - and I know I can help your business.
Contact me to organise a free 15-minute chat to find out how I can help you.

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When a crisis hits, Positive Story PR consultancy can work with you to develop a strategy to calm the situation, mitigate the risk and protect your reputation. My experience includes developing crisis communication strategies for protests, issues and fatalities on major construction projects, rogue employees and a Competition Commission investigation. I also helped to develop a proactive crisis communication strategy when illegal immigrants first started to cross the Channel Tunnel and managed m

In my 20s I set up a community arts charity and over the next decade raised almost a £1million for projects across London and beyond. By 2010 however the charity became unsustainable, not least thanks to the 2008 crash. It was time for a new direction.
I retrained as an accountant and in 2011 set up in practice, keen to bring my experience of running an enterprise to small business owners.
We are now a team of 6 and working with small business owners to create the business they want is still at the heart of the practice, through our Improving the Numbers programme. I have therefore worked with literally hundreds of business owners from a wide variety of sectors on their journey to create a business that gives them what they want. It is a great privilege as I know from my own development as business owner the difference that mentoring and accountability makes a business owner.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The work of supporting a business owners spills into every aspect of business, so although my core skills are in finance and accounting, I have a good grounding in all business functions. Although every business is a new challenge, there are some core skills, mindsets and processes that apply to all businesses.
Outside of work, I try to corral my children and find time to be creative.

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Damion Viney

In my 20s I set up a community arts charity and over the next decade raised almost a £1million for projects across London and beyond. By 2010 however the charity became unsustainable, not least thanks to the 2008 crash. It was time for a new direction.
I retrained as an accountant and in 2011 set up in practice, keen to bring my experience of running an enterprise to small business owners.
We are now a team of 6 and working with small business owners to create the business the

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