Friday 2nd October · 8:00am to 9:15am · Holiday Inn, Leigh Sports Village, WN7 4JY

Your first one is free. After that, £10 inc a bacon barm

The people who change your business are rarely the ones you find online. They're in a room somewhere. A room you haven't walked into yet.

You already know this. You've built most of what you have through people. A referral here, a conversation there, someone who knew someone.

Word of mouth carried you a long way.

Lately it's gone a bit quiet, and you're not entirely sure where the next customer is coming from. You've probably tried a few things. LinkedIn. Maybe some email. Perhaps a bit of SEO. And if you're honest, none of it stuck.

It never put you in a room with a real person who needs what you do and is ready to talk about it this week.

That's what this breakfast is for.

What this is

'In by 8, out by 9.15' is a monthly breakfast for business owners. There will be no employees in the room and no recruiters. Owners only, running their own thing, carrying the same weight you carry.

It runs for exactly seventy five minutes. You're out by 9.15, on time, every time. That is the name of the event and it is the promise behind it.

Here is exactly what happens.

8:00 You arrive, grab a bacon barm and a coffee, and meet your host Gav Wall. Gav sets the intent for the room. What we're here for, how it works, and what good looks like.

8:15 One business owner in the room takes a ten minute speaking slot. Real expertise, relevant to growing your business, followed by ten minutes of open discussion. Every speaker is vetted, briefed and held to one topic and one point. If they run over, they're cut off. We mean it.

8:35 The timed rounds begin. Two minutes, one to one, then the timer goes and you move. No hovering by the coffee machine working out who to approach. You are told who you're sitting with and when to move, and you keep going until the time runs out.

9:00 The warm intro round. Fifteen minutes to go back to the two or three people who made you sit forward. You already know what they do. They already know what you do. You are straight past the small talk.

9:15 You leave, on time. You'll be in your car by twenty past, with names on paper, notes next to them, and a reason to pick the phone up on Monday. Your Friday is still sitting there exactly as you left it.

What you walk out with

Three timed one to one conversations, minimum. That is a floor I will put my name to on the worst possible morning.

In a full room of twenty, the clock gives you eight to ten. Three is the number I guarantee, because three is the bare minimum you will converse with.

Ten minutes of properly useful teaching from somebody who has actually done the thing, rather than somebody selling the thing.

Twenty business owners who now know your name, what you sell, and who to send your way.

That last one is the part most people miss, so let me say it plainly. The person sitting opposite you might never buy a thing from you. The forty businesses in their phone are a different matter. Every owner in that room is one conversation away from somebody who needs exactly what you do, and until you have sat in front of them for two minutes they have no reason to think of you.

Why this is different from the last one you went to

Most networking asks you to stand up and deliver a sixty second pitch to a room of strangers who are all busy rehearsing their own sixty second pitch. You leave with a fistful of cards and no idea who any of them are.

Here, the timer runs the room so you don't have to. The conversations are timed and structured, so nobody wastes your time and you don't waste theirs.

There is no contract like some other networking events. No attendance record or fines. And no awkward renewal call.

And to be straight with you, everybody in that room is looking for business, including the person sat opposite. That is the point of the morning. The format just means you find out inside two minutes whether the two of you are any use to each other, and then you both move on with your day.

The room is capped at twenty. That number is set by the clock rather than by marketing. Above twenty the timed rounds stop fitting into the time available, the format falls over, and the whole thing turns back into a room of people holding a coffee and hoping.

Your host

Gav Wall spent years doing what you're probably doing right now. Carrying the whole thing himself. The best technician in the building. The one nobody could replace.

He was a solicitor who was very good at his job and could not step away from it.

He now runs two law firms that operate completely without him.

He hosts this breakfast because he knows what it costs to build something on your own, and he knows what changes when you're finally in the right room with the right people.

The room runs on three rules. Do good, think good, speak good. Nobody gets put on the spot and nobody gets embarrassed.

Your first one is free, and here's the honest reason

This is a brand new eve

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