Paul Bentham
@paulbenthamesq.bsky.social
Looking for somewhere that isn’t Mos Eiseley…
Well, we haven’t had a fortnight since the clocks went back and I’m already ‘welcoming’ the first cold of the winter. Pushing back against the squelchiness and disconcerting nasal noises with a Lempsip - with an added splodge of manuka honey…
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Well, we haven’t had a fortnight since the clocks went back and I’m already ‘welcoming’ the first cold of the winter. Pushing back against the squelchiness and disconcerting nasal noises with a Lempsip - with an added splodge of manuka honey…
It blows my mind that, less than 48 hours after Paul McCartney played US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Vikings played an NFL game held there. 🤯
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It blows my mind that, less than 48 hours after Paul McCartney played US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Vikings played an NFL game held there. 🤯
In The Party Stand at Old Trafford…
July 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In The Party Stand at Old Trafford…
Can't let the passing of Metal royalty go unmarked by one of the best riffs ever.
I saw someone describing the Villa Park gig as #Ozzy sat before his followers, celebrating his life, wearing black - he attended his own funeral, "just about the most Metal thing you can do". Well played, Oz!
I saw someone describing the Villa Park gig as #Ozzy sat before his followers, celebrating his life, wearing black - he attended his own funeral, "just about the most Metal thing you can do". Well played, Oz!
July 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Can't let the passing of Metal royalty go unmarked by one of the best riffs ever.
I saw someone describing the Villa Park gig as #Ozzy sat before his followers, celebrating his life, wearing black - he attended his own funeral, "just about the most Metal thing you can do". Well played, Oz!
I saw someone describing the Villa Park gig as #Ozzy sat before his followers, celebrating his life, wearing black - he attended his own funeral, "just about the most Metal thing you can do". Well played, Oz!
Draught excluder becomes draught includer… 🌞🥵
July 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Draught excluder becomes draught includer… 🌞🥵
Had an amazing night watching Holly Johnson in Liverpool, last night. Awoke to learn that, 40 years after this masterpiece, it’s sadly just as true today as ever it was, thanks to (in Holly’s words) “that orange knobhead”…
June 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Had an amazing night watching Holly Johnson in Liverpool, last night. Awoke to learn that, 40 years after this masterpiece, it’s sadly just as true today as ever it was, thanks to (in Holly’s words) “that orange knobhead”…
After weeks of treating my car like a bin wagon, time to reward it at CJ Auto Spa in #appleybridge.
🧽 Full clean & freshen, inside & out
🎓 Expert advice on paintwork protection
💐 Choice of air freshening scent.
+ Free 🛜 wi-fi & 🎬 entertainment provided while I wait… 👍
🧽 Full clean & freshen, inside & out
🎓 Expert advice on paintwork protection
💐 Choice of air freshening scent.
+ Free 🛜 wi-fi & 🎬 entertainment provided while I wait… 👍
June 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
After weeks of treating my car like a bin wagon, time to reward it at CJ Auto Spa in #appleybridge.
🧽 Full clean & freshen, inside & out
🎓 Expert advice on paintwork protection
💐 Choice of air freshening scent.
+ Free 🛜 wi-fi & 🎬 entertainment provided while I wait… 👍
🧽 Full clean & freshen, inside & out
🎓 Expert advice on paintwork protection
💐 Choice of air freshening scent.
+ Free 🛜 wi-fi & 🎬 entertainment provided while I wait… 👍
First swallow of the year…
April 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM
First swallow of the year…
I’ve visited the US many times over the last 30-odd years: East coast, West Coast, Midwest, Mountains & South. I’d love to return there in future but while it remains under the yoke of the current administration it’s not the place I fell in love with. And it seems many agree.
April 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I’ve visited the US many times over the last 30-odd years: East coast, West Coast, Midwest, Mountains & South. I’d love to return there in future but while it remains under the yoke of the current administration it’s not the place I fell in love with. And it seems many agree.
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
January 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
When I was a kid I was given the programme to the 1969 European Cup semi-final (2nd leg) between Manchester United and AC Milan. It featured this official photo of the United team, presumably taken the summer before, the holders of the trophy…
January 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
When I was a kid I was given the programme to the 1969 European Cup semi-final (2nd leg) between Manchester United and AC Milan. It featured this official photo of the United team, presumably taken the summer before, the holders of the trophy…
In 2018, we took a road trip around California, with a few nights in Los Angeles. We stayed in a swanky AirBnB in Los Feliz, just down the hill from the Griffith Observatory, with views of Downtown LA from the garden. It’s awful to see the city besieged by fire. I wish all Angelinos strength & luck.
January 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
In 2018, we took a road trip around California, with a few nights in Los Angeles. We stayed in a swanky AirBnB in Los Feliz, just down the hill from the Griffith Observatory, with views of Downtown LA from the garden. It’s awful to see the city besieged by fire. I wish all Angelinos strength & luck.
Now that neither Meta nor X fact check content, I can confirm that I am OFFICIALLY the best guitarist in the world… 🤟🎸🤟🏆
January 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Now that neither Meta nor X fact check content, I can confirm that I am OFFICIALLY the best guitarist in the world… 🤟🎸🤟🏆
Here’s a picture of one of my favourite birds, a nuthatch, using our window feeder, this morning. Have a look at those powerful feet and sharp claws that enable it to become one of the very few species that can travel forwards *down* a tree-trunk. 👌
December 29, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Here’s a picture of one of my favourite birds, a nuthatch, using our window feeder, this morning. Have a look at those powerful feet and sharp claws that enable it to become one of the very few species that can travel forwards *down* a tree-trunk. 👌
I wish you all a brilliant Christmas and a productive New Year - especially anyone who has liked/shared/commented. If any of the preceding 23 doors have made you think differently, here’s what to do next…
Door 24: Call To Action - What next? Click here now…
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Door 24: Call To Action - What next? Click here now…
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December 24, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I wish you all a brilliant Christmas and a productive New Year - especially anyone who has liked/shared/commented. If any of the preceding 23 doors have made you think differently, here’s what to do next…
Door 24: Call To Action - What next? Click here now…
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Door 24: Call To Action - What next? Click here now…
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It should be the most fundamental requirement of any Marketing function to quantify the value of its activities to the business. But it requires accountability at every level.
Door 23: ROI - What is it? How is it calculated? What does it prove? Find out here…
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Door 23: ROI - What is it? How is it calculated? What does it prove? Find out here…
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December 23, 2024 at 7:27 PM
It should be the most fundamental requirement of any Marketing function to quantify the value of its activities to the business. But it requires accountability at every level.
Door 23: ROI - What is it? How is it calculated? What does it prove? Find out here…
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Door 23: ROI - What is it? How is it calculated? What does it prove? Find out here…
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If the implications of this sort of silliness aren’t worrying the bejaysus out of you, I’m going to suggest you’re not fully aware of what has been unleashed by the voters of the US…
December 22, 2024 at 11:21 PM
If the implications of this sort of silliness aren’t worrying the bejaysus out of you, I’m going to suggest you’re not fully aware of what has been unleashed by the voters of the US…
We’re all familiar with them but how many of us actually stand back and do them? And even then, isn’t it better done by someone not ‘too close’ to the business?
Door 22: S/W/O/T - What can you lose? What can you gain? Find out more here…
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Door 22: S/W/O/T - What can you lose? What can you gain? Find out more here…
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December 22, 2024 at 9:52 PM
We’re all familiar with them but how many of us actually stand back and do them? And even then, isn’t it better done by someone not ‘too close’ to the business?
Door 22: S/W/O/T - What can you lose? What can you gain? Find out more here…
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Door 22: S/W/O/T - What can you lose? What can you gain? Find out more here…
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Your website is your window on the world and the content on there is your shop window display. Is it fair to ask Chris from Accounts to refresh it for you?
Door 21: WordPress & other CMS - Just because anyone ‘can’, does it mean anyone ‘should’? Find out more here…
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Door 21: WordPress & other CMS - Just because anyone ‘can’, does it mean anyone ‘should’? Find out more here…
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December 21, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Your website is your window on the world and the content on there is your shop window display. Is it fair to ask Chris from Accounts to refresh it for you?
Door 21: WordPress & other CMS - Just because anyone ‘can’, does it mean anyone ‘should’? Find out more here…
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Door 21: WordPress & other CMS - Just because anyone ‘can’, does it mean anyone ‘should’? Find out more here…
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If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, are your graphics saying enough? Or do you feel unable to ask for something more visually arresting than you’re being given?
Door 20: Graphic Design - Does your imagery fit your image? Find out more here…
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Door 20: Graphic Design - Does your imagery fit your image? Find out more here…
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December 20, 2024 at 10:42 PM
If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, are your graphics saying enough? Or do you feel unable to ask for something more visually arresting than you’re being given?
Door 20: Graphic Design - Does your imagery fit your image? Find out more here…
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Door 20: Graphic Design - Does your imagery fit your image? Find out more here…
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“Marketing is story-telling” say many of its luminaries. And yet the term “story-telling” is used frequently every Oscar Night. That can’t be a coincidence.
Door 19: Video Production - Are you telling your story effectively? Find out more here…
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Door 19: Video Production - Are you telling your story effectively? Find out more here…
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December 19, 2024 at 11:40 PM
“Marketing is story-telling” say many of its luminaries. And yet the term “story-telling” is used frequently every Oscar Night. That can’t be a coincidence.
Door 19: Video Production - Are you telling your story effectively? Find out more here…
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Door 19: Video Production - Are you telling your story effectively? Find out more here…
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A defining problem: why do we insist on treating customers according to what we’ve decided they ‘are’, not in terms of what they ‘do’?
Door 18: Customer Focus - Why are tramlines used as a proxy for clouds? Find out more here…
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Door 18: Customer Focus - Why are tramlines used as a proxy for clouds? Find out more here…
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December 18, 2024 at 9:12 PM
A defining problem: why do we insist on treating customers according to what we’ve decided they ‘are’, not in terms of what they ‘do’?
Door 18: Customer Focus - Why are tramlines used as a proxy for clouds? Find out more here…
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Door 18: Customer Focus - Why are tramlines used as a proxy for clouds? Find out more here…
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Do you place a value on life experience? I didn’t always - but why would I have valued experience, when I didn’t have it?
Door 17: Life Experience - Is it worth considering for an unforgiving minute? Find out more here…
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Door 17: Life Experience - Is it worth considering for an unforgiving minute? Find out more here…
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December 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Do you place a value on life experience? I didn’t always - but why would I have valued experience, when I didn’t have it?
Door 17: Life Experience - Is it worth considering for an unforgiving minute? Find out more here…
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Door 17: Life Experience - Is it worth considering for an unforgiving minute? Find out more here…
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If you’ve ever used the term “Mickey Mouse” to describe an ineffective, ill-defined process, Walt Disney would like a word. And you’d do well to listen and learn.
Door 16: Process Mapping - Why should a flow chart get you animated? Find out more here…
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Door 16: Process Mapping - Why should a flow chart get you animated? Find out more here…
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December 16, 2024 at 6:37 AM
If you’ve ever used the term “Mickey Mouse” to describe an ineffective, ill-defined process, Walt Disney would like a word. And you’d do well to listen and learn.
Door 16: Process Mapping - Why should a flow chart get you animated? Find out more here…
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Door 16: Process Mapping - Why should a flow chart get you animated? Find out more here…
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You can use comms to order people to do certain things or simply tell them you exist. Neither are likely to be as successful as creating a context in which you can gain their affinity.
Door 15: Concepts - Are we all speaking the same language? Find out here…
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Door 15: Concepts - Are we all speaking the same language? Find out here…
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December 15, 2024 at 2:15 PM
You can use comms to order people to do certain things or simply tell them you exist. Neither are likely to be as successful as creating a context in which you can gain their affinity.
Door 15: Concepts - Are we all speaking the same language? Find out here…
resonation.biz/2024/12/15/1...
Door 15: Concepts - Are we all speaking the same language? Find out here…
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