28Jun 2024

Business Networking Meeting

'10 Minute Tip' by Brian Hardie - Fractional Chief Marketing Officer - 7am until 9:30am

Brian Hardie from The Marketing Centre leads a team of fractional Chief Marketing Officers. He helps ambitious business owners like you accelerate their growth. Brian works on a fractional basis so that ambitious business leaders benefit from genuine marketing expertise at a fraction of the cost.

Brian believes in ‘giving’ and will always refer connections to members of his trusted network.

Brian has a 30 year business to business marketing background including The Royal Mail, Capita, Hays and TNT. He knows the logistics, technology and security sectors really well. He’s a Marketing Director that’s used to working with profit driven businesses requiring a great return on investment from all their marketing spend.

Brian always loves to hear from any business owners and directors who need growth. He’s open to exploring how some focussed, pragmatic and outcome driven marketing expertise can help you drive new customers and greater profitability quickly.

An ideal client for Brian is an ambitious business with revenue between £3m to £30m, which is keen to explore new growth strategies. If you know someone like that ask them to contact Brian

What are your next steps?

If this tip resonates and you would like to know more you can email Brian at brian.hardie@themarketingcentre.com or call him on 07557 004 355.

Brian has a great offer for all attendees.

If your business is looking for inspiration, pragmatic advice and commercial outcomes book a free marketing audit at this link

https://calendly.com/brian-hardie/free-marketing-audit

You’ll receive a FREE 2 hour marketing health check that will identify clear recommendations and sources of support.

Brian also has an extensive network, and is very happy to share advice and suggestions with his connections. He runs the FORE Business Marlow group combining opportunities and golf every month at Harleyford Golf Club or at 90 venues nationwide.

If you are a business owner who likes golf, contact Brian as a free game is on offer at Harleyford near Marlow over the summer.


About the conversation:

How to ask for and gain more referrals with confidence.

Discover how to ask for referrals and avoid that awkward conversation.


You know that referrals are a great source of new business opportunities. Sadly, many business owners struggle to receive as many as they need.

This is frequently down to a real reluctance to ask your satisfied customers and connections for an introduction to their close contacts. Does the way you do this feel a bit forced or awkward?

I his 10 Minute Tip, Brian Hardie will share some easy pragmatic examples that you can quickly adopt and adapt to work well for you. After a little practice, you’ll be able to try this out over the next week. Would your business benefit from receiving at least one more referral a week?

If you’d love to feel more comfortable asking for referrals then this tip will be just right for you.

You’ll receive some top tips and you'll leave the room with confidence and a clear plan of action to ‘ask’ for a referral in the next week.

Although this session is a no brainer, many people feel awkward asking the right questions. This tip will help you sharpen your questions designed to target more of the right referrals.

Becoming regarded as a Trusted Advisor will mean you’ll receive many more referrals. Attending this session will help you become much more effective at generating amazing new introductions.