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Five potential new investment markets for 2019

18/01/201902/11/2021 Administrator

Seeking out disruptive and challenging investment opportunities is my passion. At OMNIA, nothing is more important than making sure every investment opportunity is carefully selected and fully explored. Imagine you’d invested in Alphabet, Amazon or Netflix at the right time. The phenomenal success of these companies has revolutionised entertainment, e-commerce and many other aspects of day-to-day life. But what’s up next? Here are five potentially viable new investment markets. New…

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The importance of instinct in business

15/07/201825/09/2018 Administrator

Malcolm Gladwell, in his ground-breaking book ‘Blink’, made a great case for the importance of instinct in business. It argued against the long-standing and traditionally accepted idea that we make better decisions only after processing huge amounts of data, and instead showed how our best decisions are often those we make with our ‘gut’. And as the mountain of data we have available to help us to make more informed…

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Are good salespeople born or made? – Daniel Hansen on what makes for success

27/02/201815/03/2021 Administrator

I’ve met some remarkable sales people over the years – many of them, I’m pleased to say, who have been working for me. I’ve always believed that watching how people sell can give you some fascinating insights into their personality – it’s a great way to see how they operate, and to understand what makes them tick as people. As to whether they’re born, or made – well, that’s hard…

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How to expand your business abroad – growing and attracting customers in different countries

21/02/201830/07/2018 Administrator

There are plenty of great reasons why you should attempt to expand your business into new territories. Quite reasonably, it’s the goal of many new businesses – I know that in my case having a global footprint and all of the opportunities that can offer was certainly a big driver for me when I set up OMNIA initially. And over the years, as the company has expanded and new opportunities…

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How AI, VR and AR are creating the entertainment industry of tomorrow

31/01/201803/08/2018 Administrator

Here’s a prediction for you: good stories will never stop being important. I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, as it becomes more and more clear that the entertainment industry is going through yet another period of dramatic change. The new medium The transformation this time – driven, as always it seems in our modern world, by radically new technology – is from creating experiences that are simply watched,…

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Deal making 101 – for entrepreneurs.

31/01/201803/08/2018 Administrator

The recent political impasse in Washington, that saw the entire US government shut down after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a mutually acceptable agreement to keep everything running, reminded me again of just how fundamentally important deal making is – not just in politics, but of course in business too. Throughout my career as an entrepreneur, I’ve struck deals – some large, some small, some that I’ve been pleased…

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Intelligent business strategies

17/01/201803/08/2018 Administrator1 Comment

What exactly does an intelligent business strategy really look like in this day and age? It’s an important question, and one that I find myself thinking about a lot, particularly when I look at the way I communicate with my team. Of course, every business has to have a strategy of some sort – but in a world as volatile as today’s, are there some basic principles that can still…

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Straight talking networking for success

10/01/201803/08/2018 Administrator

I’ll admit it: I only know one way to do business – to take the personal approach. I’ve always talked about how I think the only way to be truly successful is to deal with people, not companies, and that still stands. It’s a way of working that has led me into a huge number of fascinating business relationships – some fruitful, some not so, but all have been a…

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How to do better business in 2018 and beyond

08/01/201803/08/2018 Administrator

The new year is always a time of reflection – a chance to look back on the year that has gone, to re-evaluate and to re-consider where you are. But it’s also a great opportunity to look ahead – and to think hard about what shape your business will take over the next 12 months. Here are just a few of the things I’ve been thinking about as we enter…

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How to be part of an innovative process daily

31/08/201703/08/2018 Administrator

We have a philosophy here at OMNIA – that innovation is a daily process – not just something that happens in a designated room, or during a specially arranged away day, or even only between certain people. The desire to innovate drives every single one of us – myself included – to try and find new answers to our clients’ needs. This journey of innovation is the bit of the…