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Mmm… Tallowin, that's an unusual name! Where does it come
from?
That is the usual response I get when introducing myself.
Actually as far as we know it dates back to Norfolk wool merchants.
Anyway, hi, I am Rod Tallowin. I started my business career
in 1976 doing electronics R & D for a medical engineering
company. The company was expanding and within a couple of
weeks I was asked if I could help with the sales, within a
few years becoming National Sales & Marketing Manager and
then Export Sales Manager.
In 1984 after a takeover by a large American company I switched
roles again to take financial control of the company eventually
becoming Finance and then Operations Director. Meanwhile,
in 1986 I computerised the finance and operations of the company,
and at that time decided I wanted to write software. So, I
taught myself C programming and subsequently produced software
for various group companies. Then in the early 90's I started
dabbling with the internet.
I met my wife, Penny Parks, in 1985 who over the next few
years established herself as a leading psychotherapist internationally
in the field of Child Abuse. (See www.ppfoundation.org
for further information.) Psychology has always been an interest
of mine and I subsequently took some psychotherapy training.
As a master NLP practitioner my wife introduced to in NLP
which I have studied with a particular focus on motivation,
leadership and marketing.
In 1998 I left the company to spend more time developing
my computing skills and soon joined a computer services company
to add software and internet services to their services portfolio
and setting up as an Internet Service Provider. I took over
as Managing Director and merged the company with an Internet
Portal company that required an ISP with our level of programming
skills. As part of the portal I set up what is probably still
the UK's largest privately owned free email service with emails
available across over 15000 domains. Having increased the
size of the business 5 fold and doubling margins I left to
set up my own business development consultancy in early 2002.
However, because of my extensive programming and internet
skills and experience, website development has inevitably
always been a big part of what I do.
With the advent of on-line marketing, traditional marketing
methods are now rapidly changing. It is becoming an exciting,
albeit complex area where getting it right can significantly
reward companies of all types, shapes and sizes, in a more
tightly controlled, cost effective way. By focusing on this
discipline I bring to my clients my complete portfolio of
business, internet, financial, psychology/motivational, sales
and marketing experience to bear on my primary core competence
- maximising client potential.
Is that a unique offering or what? - and only a telephone
call (01728 861228) or email rod@tallowin.com
away.
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