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Staying awake at night

To introduce myself – I am Paul Lees one of the Directors of our company. I was also around at the start so that qualifies me as a founder.

our company is 5 years old and now quite a big operation so my role is now more strategic than operational (there are lots of very good people doing the operational roles).

Things that keep me awake at night (and I suppose therefore make good blog food) are:

•The impending number change (0870 ceases to pay a rebate from 1 Aug 2023)
•Getting (and staying) at position 1 for all of our keywords on Google – without resorting to black hat techniques
•Keeping tabs on the wider economy and business trends – which inevitably have an impact on our business
•Developing Powwnownow and allconferencecalls – increasing geographic coverage and additional facilities such as web conferencing and video conferencing

    • Tony Nicholls

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