The Labels Outlet is an online fashion retailer selling primarily on Amazon and eBay with a wide range of women’s and men’s clothing. We sell branded goods at discounted prices and also specialise in selling Ex High Street clothing from leading High Street brands. We offer new lines weekly in this fast moving business especially with our Ex High Street stock, where when it's gone it's gone.

After assessing hotel establishments for over 16 years, I can now offer my services direct to hotels, providing a bespoke questionnaire with feedback. But combined with this mystery hotel guest programme I can combine this with a website audit and social media audit highlighting both good and bad practices and gauging the hotel's presence on the web and social media platforms.

Grovelawn Limited has a portfolio of websites. I have been responsible for the developed and launch of these websites which focus primarily in the travel sector primarily as comparison engines, comparing multiple websites and then signposting customers to the cheapest deals and earning commission on sales achieved. Main areas car hire, airport parking and airport hotels.• Solely responsible for all search engine optimisation - consistently achieving page one position for competitive multiple major keyword search terms across Google, Bing and Yahoo.

• Developed and launched three travel insurance websites cheaptravelinsurance.com, bestskiinsurance.co.uk and bestbackpackersinsurance.co.uk.• Lead the direction of the business with annual turnover of £1/2 million, selling in the UK, online and call centre.• Solely responsible for all search engine optimisation - achieving page one position for competitive multiple major keyword search terms across Google, Bing and Yahoo and featured by Greenlight for high visibility in the travel insurance sector.• In charge of working with aggregators such as moneysupermarket and confused.• Overseeing the implementation of a bespoke back end software system designed for our business and aligned to Allianz our insurance underwriters.

• Developed and launched multiple websites in the travel sector primarily as comparison engines, comparing multiple websites and then signposting customers to the cheapest deals and earning commission on sales achieved. Main areas car hire, airport parking and airport hotels.• Developed and launched ferryonline.co.uk a ferry aggregator comparing ferry prices and selling direct to customers online and via call centre. In charge of opening accounts with the ferry operators and negotiating levels of commission.• Lead direction of the business with annual turnover of £1 million, selling in the UK, online and call centre.• Solely responsible for all search engine optimisation - achieving page one position for competitive multiple major keyword search terms across Google, Bing and Yahoo.• Solely responsible for all ppc across Google and Bing networks. Achieving excellent volume of sales at very low cost per acquisition, in comparison to similar companies in same sector.• Achieved number one ranking for ferry aggregators based on customer reviews with TrustPilot• Implementation of a bespoke back end software system designed for our business and incorporating a complete re-design of the website, new branding and content management system, scalable to incorporate multiple language websites.

• This was a voluntary role where I was initially invited to the board as a director and then a few years later elected as Chairman.• Directly involved in the overseeing and decision making regarding management fees and spend and up keep associated with the Abingdon Brewery Housing Development consisting of 120 units, mixed houses and flats and surrounding public areas for residents.• Overseeing, tendering and implementing a changeover in external managing agents to ensure that the residents received a highly professional quality property management company providing prudent financial planning, fast responsiveness to resident’s issues and value for money service.

• Developed and launched Grovelawn Financial a nationwide mortgage brokerage.• Directly regulated by the FSA we sourced mortgage products from the whole of the market and offered this service to customer’s fees free.• Overseeing this company, with 16 staff, including mortgage advisors and case manages, writing mortgage business of up to £110 million per year producing commission of £1/2 million. Building a client base of 3,000.• Overseeing and implementing compliance procedures as a financial regulated company and as an approved person by the FSA.• In charge of lead generation from our own websites and working in partnership with lead generation companies such as beatthatquote (now owned by Google).• In charge of search engine optimisation achieving page one position for multiple major keyword search terms.

• Set up and launched a vending machine proposition specifically for the hotel trade, dispensing items that are frequently forgotten when travelling.• Achieved sponsorship on each machine including product placement to ensure that each vending machine costing over £2,000 each could be delivered to each hotel at no cost. Sponsors included GSK, Reckitt Benckiser, Kodak and Gillette.• Implemented telemetry into each machine, this was brand new technology, working with BT and Medivend was shortlisted for the BT innovation awards in 2005.• Overseeing the implementation of card and note readers into machines, a new technology. • Overseeing the development of artwork on the machines to co-ordinate with hotel branding. Overseeing the bespoke manufacture of spirals ensuring configuration of some unusual products could be vended correctly.• In charge of opening new accounts inc. Hilton and Travel Inn.

• Set up, developed and launched the locum division for this already highly successful recruitment company, the first nursing agency to offer a full 24/7 365 days service. Ambition had already achieved the prestigious UK FastTrack 100 Number one position for fastest growing company in the UK for its nurses and carers. • In charge of recruiting Doctors/Consultants and developing a substantial client base to include NHS and private hospitals, GP surgeries, PCT’s, prisons and juvenile detention centres.• Setting rates to ensure a competitive advantage during initial launch. • In charge of PR, marketing and advertising the launch of this division.• Attending board meetings for the group providing full reports as to the progress of the new division.

• Set up and launched a mainstream greeting card publishing company. Initially with 60 designs. Culminating in annual ranges of over 200 designs.• In charge of design, print and sales. Recruiting sales agents to sell the cards to independent card shops and newsagents and I looked after all national accounts.• Opened national accounts with amongst others, Tesco where we had 96 lines, Sainsbury’s, Texaco and Clinton Cards.• Overseeing this company with 7 staff and 30 outworkers.

• Dealing in shares and gilts on the Stock Exchange. Executing trades on the market floor directly with jobbers for our clients. • Single transactions could be in excess of £1million and hundreds of transactions handled daily.

• Apprentice dealer (Blue Button) for 12 months. Collating prices, helping dealers, liaising with the stockbrokers of Astaire and Co. • Then passed exams with Stock Exchange board to become a dealer on the Stock Exchange market floor. Dealing in shares and gilts. Executing trades on the market floor directly with jobbers for our clients.

• Joined John Menzies (similar to W H Smith) as a management trainee after working previously as a Saturday boy. Worked in stationary, records and book department before managing the book department. • Achieved the highest turnover for John Menzies across the whole of the UK when launching ‘Bargain Books’ – imprints of books at a fraction of cover price. This at the time was innovative but can now be seen across all bookstores.