The Lapdesk Conference Folder

One of the people who came to the Morgan PR seminar on 'The Secrets of Great PR' at the Berkshire Business Show was entrepreneur Paul Gomm, who sought me out afterwards and was kind enough to tell my how inspired he had been by my talk.

I have to say after talking to him I too was inspired by his Lapdesk invention, which banishes the tricky balancing of a pad on your knee with an innovative piece of design.

I the best traditions of 'Dragon's Den' I asked Paul for his pitch - after establishing that a patent had been applied for!

Paul explained: "The Lapdesk was initially designed to meet the needs of business men and women who attend meetings and conferences and require a facility to make notes and to store documents and information in a secure yet portable format.

"It overcomes the main disadvantage of a traditional conference folder, due to it’s unique internal support system which creates the perfect angled writing surface on which to write or simply to rest a book or magazine on to read. Once the all-round zip is opened and the side supports secured, the Lapdesk is designed to sit comfortably on the user’s lap. This enables the user to maintain a healthy posture whilst sitting and avoids the user having to cross their legs repeatedly, to obtain the ideal angle on which to write – the downside with a traditional conference folder.

"The Lapdesk is quite unique and so versatile that it can be used by anyone who is travelling and needs a flat angled surface on which to write or perhaps rest a book,it creates the ideal angle on which to rest a laptop to reduce strain on the user’s wrists whilst typing, children can use it for working at home or whilst in the car and it is particularly beneficial for wheelchair users.

"Inside, there is a good sized pocket for retaining A4 documents, plus pockets to retain CDs, business cards and credit cards, plus a space for the user’s pen.

"The lie-flat handle on the outside allows the Lapdesk to be placed on a table and it can also be used as a mini-lectern, for displaying notes whilst speaking, to add that professional finish to any presentation."

It was fun to see the stir that his demonstration created, for his is a product that sells itself - indeed if you are interested it retails at just £34.99 and can be bought online by clicking here

Secrets of Great Public Relations Revealed at the Berkshire Business Show

After months of planning the Berkshire Business Show finally got underway today - and is still on tomorrow, so not too late to visit!

You are however too late to hear me reveal 'The Secrets of Great Public Relations' which was the opening seminar and attracted an audience of around 15 people into the small lecture theatre at the Newbury College venue.

I was introduced by the marathon running public speaker extraordinaire Jim Ewan (he runs marathons - I''m not suggesting his public speaking runs on!) who said some kind words referring to how I got him splashed on Meridian Television earlier in the year when he ran across the Saraha Desert for charity!

The audience was made up of some familiar faces and plenty of new ones too and I was thrilled that some of those sought me out afterwards and I look forward to working with them in the near future.

Naturally I praised blogging as an essential part of any public relations campaign and (almost) seamlessly cut to a pre-recorded video segment of the PowerPoint presentation, which you can see below:



I had to laugh - one of the audience, Accountant Paul Pointer from Freeman Baker Associates quipped it looked like a hostage video! What do you think?

I'm back at the show tomorrow and will bring you more news then.

The Day the Music Died

Morgan PR has directed readers to the wise writings of the self-styled Internet Psychologist Graham Jones numerous times before; indeed it was a seminar given by Graham that prompted me to launch this blog a dizzying nine months ago.

Well today he has posted an insightful piece on the demise of the music industry - and how much responsiblity lies with the music retailers for failing to respond to diminishing CD sales and how they should have responded better to the evolving market and coped with the impact of online sales. Anyway, follow the link above and you can read for yourself.

If you would like to hear Graham talk he is one of the speakers at the forthcoming Berkshire Business Show where he will be explaining how to get more business from the internet. I would thoroughly recommend that you take the opportunity to hear him speak.

So now you have reasons to visit both days - On the 11th July Morgan PR open the seminar series with a talk promising to reveal The Secrets of Great Public Relations and then the next day at 1030 you can catch Graham's tantalising talk.