General Interest
The upsides of working from home with three school-age daughters!
The modern workplace has changed significantly in recent years, with remote work becoming increasingly prevalent. This transformation has opened up new possibilities for parents, providing them with t…
The 5 Secrets of a productive day training for a triathlon or for a great day in recruitment!
Our 5 Favourite Easter Eggs (Not a Chocolate in Sight)
Easter is creeping ever nearer and with thoughts of a lovely long weekend, hollow chocolate produced en masse and the promise of warmer weather, we started thinking about the eponymous Easter Egg. But…
5 Signs It’s Friday in the Network Marketing Offices
We wait for it all week and it’s finally here. From the food and drinks to the office music – here’s a few signs that you can tell it’s Friday at Network Marketing! Even if you love your job, everyone…
3 Reasons Why Rugby is Still Great (despite the RWC results!)
I have to admit up front that I'm a big fan of rugby. I'm not an expert but love everything that the game stands for and the values that you see being engendered every Sunday morning in junior rugby -…
Hawksmoor – Manchester is Catching Up
On Friday we had the pleasure of taking David Walsh and Lucy Englefield to Hawksmoor on Deansgate for their promotion lunches. David has had a phenomenal first 18 months and has been promoted three ti…
Retail & Leisure Trends In 2015
Retailers are always trying to evolve the customer experience, and we see different trends crop up year upon year. For example, how big has mobile shopping become now?! Mobile E-commerce in 2014 was u…
Network Marketing's New Year Diet Guide
Here at Network Marketing Towers, we don't just have great marketing and digital job stats to share in our blog posts, we also love our food! So we thought we'd share some of that too. With many of us…
Amazing New Gym in Leeds Dock - It's Primal!
Being in the unfortunate position of having to use a gym to balance my otherwise excessive life of eating out too much and enjoying more than a few glasses of red wine , when I heard that a new gym wa…
Christmas Party 2014 - Brasserie Blanc Leeds Here We Come...
Having tried out just about every eatery in Leeds over the past 18 years for our Christmas lunches we thought we'd go back to the true home of Network Marketing. It was Brasserie Blanc, or more accura…
Friday Lunch In Leeds - Week 3
So, as you may know from previous blogs, us Leeds folk are quite partial to a Friday lunchtime out, the topic of which is generally discussed from Wednesday onwards…this week we were super organised a…
Our Top 10 Quotes for Success
Whilst we're all deluged with LinkedIn messages, tweets and Facebook updates with inspirational quotes, here at Network Marketing Towers we still love to read them to get us motivated, driven and pump…
Friday Lunch in Leeds - Week 2
The Bird & Beast, Leeds[/caption]Ohhhh we love a special treat on a Friday lunchtime and today’s treat was extraordinary! Our regular routine is that by about 9.00am on a Friday, Laura is eager to wor…
Friday Lunch in Leeds
Great food plays a big part in our lives here at Network Marketing Towers. We all look forward to lunches, especially to Fridays, the start of the weekend and a chance for all of us to splash out and…
We love a good gym session at Network Marketing Towers but a "Zero Sanity" Workout?
only takes 2 minutes. We hardly have to do anything and it guarantees amazing results. It's by this crazy American trainer from Creating Chaos. Take a look - it could work for your business. http://yo…
Marmite Cheese Slices - They Taste Like Feet!!!
Is this just really wrong? The idea that you could put marmite and cheese in to a slice an pre-pack it "ready to eat"? Here at Network Marketing Towers we just don't get it. Well, we did get it, just…
Dippy Eggs Just For Dippy People?
Being avid chefs here at Network Marketing Towers (well at least some of us), we were somewhat amazed that the classiest of 'fast-foods' has just been reinvented by Pork Farms. The 'Dippy Egg' is a re…
Monkeylectrics Light Up Your bike
Courtesy of our friends at Inkling we just had to share this great new technology called Monkeylights by Monkeylectrics. Now, we know we have a load of fanatical cyclists following our blog, not least…
Midlife Crisis - Not for our marathon runner Jonathan Robinson!
Approaching 40 isn’t necessarily a huge milestone for me. Yes it will be a chance to throw a big party and over indulge but growing older has generally just been about a number. I’ve seen the clichéd…
Have Leeds Trinity Missed A Trick?
I walked past the new Leeds Trinity shopping arcade when it opened a week or so ago (I didn't venture in...) and it was packed. The great and good of Leeds were there including the new "Mr Leeds", @st…
Secret Recordings, A Chef And The Home Office - A lesson for Agencies…
For this month’s post I thought I would do an actual case law update. This is not because I am short on material but because it coincides with two new cases that are both ‘legally interesting’ and wil…
A Desiderata for Network Marketing
For some reason we were talking about the poem Desiderata in the office recently. If you're not familiar with it then look it up - it's a great basis for living your life to the full.
Aston Martin Going Ga-Ga?
Maybe we should have titled this "Are Aston Martin Owners Going Ga-Ga" after we read about the latest Silver Cross pram being produced exclusively for Aston Martin.
Stop Slagging Off the Gritters - Elvis is on their side!
This video needs very little introduction but we'll do it anyway. Of all the thankless tasks in the UK economy, the role of the gritters must be near the top of the list. You see them gritting when th…
Getting Crafty - Stuff We Like to Do At The Weekend
Here at Network Marketing Towers we've got an eclectic mix of interests that we indulge in at the weekend when we're not finding people the best marketing and digital jobs in Yorkshire (or the world..…
Best Diets for 2013 - Network Marketing Style
Here at Network Marketing Towers we are at the epicentre of every fad diet you have ever heard about. We've stopped short of surgical operations so far but, in an attempt to be healthy we're looking a…
We like this - Yarn Bombing by Olek
LOVE! It's an oldie but a goodie, artist Olek takes on Wall Street. Olek is a New York based Guerrilla artist who specialises in yarn installations and sculptures. Except her work is anything but twee…
The Economic Cycle and the Bradley Wiggins Effect
During the summer, it was almost impossible to get away from the stars of British cycling, from Bradley Wiggins becoming the first Brit to win the Tour de France, then winning Olympic gold together wi…
The text message is all grown up
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Text, Happy birthday to you!! So, text messaging is 20 years old this week. It’s no longer a teenager and is now a proper adult, proba…
Love Your Bike - Love, Love, Love These Airless Tyres.
Here at Network Marketing Towers we've got the odd fanatical biker (TeeJay to name but one!) and quite a few of us like to dust off and oil up the old mountain bike at the weekend. So when we spotted…
Our "How to Guide" on avoiding a Christmas party hangover...
Depending on which supermarket you shop in, Christmas is almost here and we're not even in December! As much as Christmas Day and turkey are inevitable, so is the office Christmas party. Of course, yo…
All I Want For Christmas ... A Toy?
Just loved this ad for Red Letter Days and 'I Want a Toy'. It doesn't require much explanation - just watch and have a giggle...
The US Election - Are we really interested?
It’s the US presidential election today and we are seriously suffering from Obama/Romney fatigue here at Network Marketing Towers. I’m even watching a news special about it as I type this. But why are…
We like this. Stop motion + crochet = loveliness
A stop motion crocheted blue octopus - honestly, what's not to like? Though, spoiler, the ending is a bit sad. We have to confess to having a bit of a weakness for stop motion here at Network Marketin…
We like this
OK, so it’s not terribly practical, but how amazing is this cloud of light bulbs? It’s from an installation by the artist Cailind r c Brown. It’s made from 1,000 working lightbulbs and 5,000 burnt out…
Our Blog...
So, some of the more diligent of you may have noticed that there's been a few changes to our blog. We're in the middle of redevelopment and so things might not look quite right just yet. It's all to d…
Back Le Bid
After a truly inspirational event at Y12 on Wednesday we're 'Backing Le Bid' here at Network Marketing Towers. With some of our guys being keen cyclist we might even have a competitor if they start t…
Network Marketings own Milliner takes on Grazia Hat Factor
The Hat-Factor Ok, so it's not quite X-Factor but it's a big deal if you're into hats. Yes, it's Grazia magazines . Budding milliners have been queuing all morning as has our lovely Kate Jones of Mil…
Network Marketing Takes on Masterchef
On Monday night one of our intrepid team took on the challenge of ‘Masterchef’ in the kitchens of Franco Paldinis Brio Restaurant at Thorp Park, Leeds. Jeannette put herself up to learn the skills of…
Multiple Births at Network Marketing Towers
We are proud to announce the birth of our newest member to Network Marketing Team; Noah Darnell! Congratulations to Anna (from our sister company The Book) and Barry, her husband.
Our Creative Talent needs Your Vote!
Our very own Creative Talent at Network Marketing Towers needs your vote by Thursday at 6pm! Although we're in recruitment here at Network Marketing Towers we have more than a little genuine creativit…
Lunch on Living Social
So, today the team at Network Marketing went for a lovely lunch in Leeds using LivingSocial vouchers. We really enjoyed our meal and probably will return to that particular restaurant because th…
Mixed messages on the Economy........
So, this week it seems there's more doom and gloom on the horizon - Q2 growth down to 0.2% whilst some some experts were actually predicting negative growth and warning about the prospect of us headi…
Something Happy for a Friday
We're already a happy bunch at Network Marketing Towers however sometimes there are genuinely feel good videos we come across that give us that extra boost - well, here's one of them! It's not marketi…
Sometimes we just need a bit of a laugh..
Folks We blog about all sorts here at Network Marketing Towers - mostly work related or stuff we are doing for charity - we try to keep it relevant for the growing number of people are reading. Just…
Join in the Leeds Park Run!
Park Run is a free weekly 5k event, run by volunteers all over the UK. The runs start at 9am each Saturday – they’re really professionally done and you get emailed your time a few hours after the ru…
The Wall...
Date: 24th March 2011 Where: The Wall, Leeds Objective: Team Building Last month the Network Marketing team took a well deserved break from the office and headed over to The Wall in Leeds for some lig…
Feel Good Blog - Ted Williams
After statistically the most depressing day of the year (Monday 17th Jan), (although some argued yesterday that September was more depressing based on social media traffic trending 'suicide'!) I thoug…
Network Marketing Go Ape Videos - Having a Great Time!
Rather belatedly we have posted videos from our trip to Go Ape in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
We've had 4 full Boeing 747's visit our blog in 2010!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010
We don't like to blow our own trumpet but...
...when other people say positive things about us on open forums and we find out about it - we love to share it. The Leeds Forum is becoming a great resource for information about - yep, you guessed i…
Network Get Fit With Out-Fit
The team from Network Marketing got together in Roundhay Park in Leeds in August to work on some physical and cerebral challenges set by the Out-Fit company. Much fun was had!
The Day I Took To The Skies
It was always on my list as one of those things to do before I was 30...and with the big one, been and gone it was now time to take the plunge. Spurred on, in part by a longing desire to fulfil a life…
Network Marketing "Go Ape"!
The date: 1st July 2010 The location: Dalby Forest The objective: To enjoy a team building event that wasn't your usual "let's get drunk" and then bond...although obviously that did come later On a su…
England's World Cup Exit - Winners and Losers
What is the impact of England's World Cup Exit at the hands of Germany on business and commerce?
The Network Marketing Blog Launches
I've been blogging personally for some time now (it's me jonathanhirst.wordpress.com!) and so thought we should make a logical progression to a company blog. Now I am not going to try and fool you by…