Phone: 01273 201100 | Subscribe: info@mediacentre.org
Spring is coming, birds are singing, keyboards are tapping, faxes are faxing, business is blooming. The BMC welcomes you to the month of March, where opportunity wakes from it's winter slumber, feels fine and signs on the dotted line....
New meeting room available!
We have a new small meeting room available for hire in our Friese-Greene building. With it's central location it's ideal for private meetings, interviews and small business conferences.
For more information and prices click here!
DC Storm provides market leading web analytics and PPC optimisation technology to digital marketing agencies and direct to advertisers. They are currently recruiting a graduate level analyst to join their dynamic organisation. This is a great opportunity to gain experience within the digital search marketing industry, and gain a foothold in a growing company.
We currently have some spectacular office space and facilities offers for all clients. Firstly if you take extra office space you will get the first 2 months HALF PRICE, including not only the licence but all broadband and phone lines. This offer will allow companies to expand into extra space while reducing the cost for the initial stage, making it easier and more affordable. A selection of the office space we currently have available is;
Office of the Month FG
Suite 307 (415sq ft) - £1549.00+vat per month
click here for office flyaround
Middle Street:
Suite 302 (385sq ft) - £1449.00+vat per month
Suite 305 (270sq ft) - £999.00+vat per month
Suite 201 (211sq ft) - £779.00+vat per month
Office of the Month at Old Steine
Suite 201 (563sq ft) - £2099.00+vat per month
click here for office flyaround
Old Steine:
Suite LG01 (432sq ft) - £999.00+vat per month
Suite LG02 (497sq ft) - £1199.00+vat per month Lower Ground Floor (Suite LG01+LG02) (929sq ft) - £1999.00+vat per month Suite G02 (328sq ft) - £1199.00+vat per month
Suite 102 (140sq ft) - £449.00+vat per month
Suite 201 (563sq ft) - £2099.00+vat per month
Suite 503 (254sq ft) - £949.00+vat per month
If you are interested in any of the office space then please contact Carl on 01273 201375 or carl@mediacentre.org.
.jpg)
3 Men; 1 Flat and a Corpse, Friendships in flux, skeletons in closets - Do yourself a favour and go see Calolm MacGregor's New Play its FRANKLY OUTRAGEOUS. A dark comedy.
MARCH 9th-13th
8pm - 9.30pm
Brighton Media Centre, 15 - 17 Middle Street
£6.00 advanced via the website and £7.50 on the door
www.ticketsource.co.uk/smartypants
www.smartypantsproductions.org.uk
CAST
Calolm MacGregor
Sam Parsons
Mike Weedon
Directed by James Weisz
Written by Calolm MacGregor
Produced by Being Frank Productions in association with Smarty Pants Productions
.jpg)
The vivid paintings of Paula MacArthur are now on display at our Friese-Greene building on middle street.
Inspired by the sights of the coast, her brash canvasses depict the cheap thrills of the seaside in technicolor overload.
The controlled dripping and merging of viscous paint with translucent glazes combine to create images which are an exuberant
celebration of british holiday culture.
MacArthur has won the prestigious John Player Portrait Award at The National Portait Gallery and the John Moores Biennial at
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
She now enjoys living the rural life in West Kent.
The Brighton Media Centre is currently exhibiting the fantastic work of Mnkyvision, alias Mark Hooley, in our Friese-Greene building in Middle street.
Mark Hooley has been working as an artist in
He studied illustration, but turns his hand to design, painting and more recently screen-printing.
Using a variety of styles, he adopts different names for each, most notably MNKY.
Now working at Another Fine Mesh studio in Lewes and living in Glynde.
He enjoys the harsh weather with his family in front of the fire.
.gif)
Start date: Monday, March 15
Brighton Media Centre Gallery
General: 8-week course, from 6pm - 7:15pm
Beginner: 6-week course, from 7.30pm-8.30pm
If you spend all day hunched over a computer then your body (and brain) could really do with a little care and attention.
Stretch and strengthen your muscles and find a calmer state of mind at the end of a busy day by joining one of YogaJenny's "geek-friendly" yoga courses - the next one runs for 8 weeks and starts Monday March 15, from 6pm-7.15pm, £48.
Email gouldjen@gmail.com asap to reserve a place and for payment details.
Jenny's classes are suitable for all levels but if you're a complete beginner you might want to sign up for the Beginner 6-week course running from 7.30-8.30pm on the same night, also starting Mar 15, £36.
See www.yogajenny.com for more details.
.jpg)
Share the joy of books by joining in The Big Read. A whole city reading one book.
.jpg)
Treat your tastebuds to a plethora of ales, cider and perry from breweries all over the country.
http://www.sussexbeerfestival.co.uk/
.jpg)
.jpg)
Brighton Media Centre has now signed up to 10:10.
This is a national effort dedicated to getting people and companies to commit to taking measures to cut their CARBON FOOTPRINT by 10% within a 12 month time span.
The Environmental Issues our planet is facing need to be addressed rapidly and effectively. The major issue we are hearing so much about right now is the spectre of Global Warming, and how that is leading to climate changes that will be more extreme, and more dangerous to our way of life, than anything previously faced since the Ice Ages.
In order to achieve some useful results in a short time, this 10:10 initiative will give a practical move in the right direction. It will also raise awareness of how simple actions that anyone can take really do help, and it has been seen that once people get the idea that there is both a real problem, and a way to begin a real solution, they start to take more personal responsibility, and carry out these kinds of things at home, and persuade others to do so.
We need your help, from all our clients here at BMC, as you are the ones who use the energy that creates our joint Carbon Footprint. To reduce this, we will be promoting ways each company here at BMC can do things that we think will get us all to the full 10% in one year. This would be a major achievement, and give great satisfaction to anyone who is aware of the climate problems already. With over 40 companies here at the Media Centre, we can make a real impact.
You can find out more, and sign up online, at: www.1010uk.org
There are 4 measures that the 10:10 effort is focussed on: Electricity; Heating; Company Vehicle Fuel; Air Flights - only the first two generally apply to those at BMC. We are monitoring the energy use and waste in our buildings, so the sooner each company begins to take action on unnecessary energy use, the sooner we will see a reduction in that Carbon Footprint we are all creating!
Let Mr. Pareto Be Your Coach In 2010!
By Phil Jesson (Edited from FreshBusinessThinking.com)
Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist who developed a very exciting and important theory...........
logN = logA + mlogx
.........OK, so I lied about the word "exciting" but the theory is important and still resonates today (as you will see later).
First the history: Whilst working in the UK in 1897 Pareto identified that 80% of the wealth in England was in the hands of 20% of the people. In the fifties, Quality gurus like Juran and Deeming referred to the "Pareto Principle" as part of their work with American and Japanese companies. The Pareto Principle has since become one of our "laws of life" and there are many places where we can see evidence of it in our lives today:-
At work:
- 80% of absenteeism comes from 20% of the people
- 80% of perceived customer value comes from 20% of what you offer them
- 80% of what you achieve at work comes from 20% of the time spent at work
In society:
- 80% of famine, disease and poverty can be found in 20% of countries
- 80% of accidents are caused by 20% of drivers
- 80% of traffic jams occur on 20% of our roads
In life:
- 80% of your time is spent walking on 20% of your carpets
- 80% of surplus weight is caused by 20% of the things we eat
- 80% of our time on the phone is spent talking to 20% of the people in our address books (although you should abandon any theories on telephone behaviour if you have a teenage daughter!)
In business, the Pareto Principle can often feel counter-intuitive as we like to think that "all customers are important" or "all employees have the same value" or "all new enquires should be treated in the same way." This is not necessarily the case.
"There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal issues!"
What advice would Mr. Pareto give you if he was your business coach today? With his 80-20 thinking hat on, he would probably tell you to:-
1. Stay focused 20% of items on your things-to-list will make 80% of the difference in 2010. Strive for excellence in a few things rather than getting lost amongst the many things.
2. Track customer profitability. If 20% of your customers (group A) produce 80% of the profits and 80% of your customers (group B) produce 20% of your profits then group A are going to be 15-16 times more profitable than group B.
3. Water the seeds, not the weeds!
4. Don't be a perfectionist. 80% of your work will neither be appreciated nor valued.
5. Find out what customers really value. 20% of your customer offering will account for 80% of the value they receive.
6. Win over the key 20% of peopletry and win over the 20% of people who have a dramatic influence on the remaining 80% of their peers.
7. Win the winnable. What is the value of the proposals, quotations and presentations building up in your business pipeline? Mr. Pareto would tell you that 20% of these proposals are going to be 80% winnable. So don't spread your resources across all prospects - identify the ones that are winnable and pile in your resources to bring them on board. To quote Napoleon "March dispersed but fight concentrated!"
