Maurice T WattsBSc DMS DipM FInstSMM MCIM MIDM
Maurice started his working life on an electronics bench building prototype communications systems, became a Sales Engineer with large corporates (Dexion, GEC-General Signal, Honeywell Control systems, ENM [Rank Industrial] and STC) for 10 years, and then ran an ITeC for 4 years training and helping young adults (16 – 19 years) get good jobs in the IT industry - He succeeded about 200 times!
Since 1983 he has helped people, and organisations, big and small, with their marketing - as an employee, contractor, director and consultant.
He won the First Prize in the London Tourist Board’s President’s Marketing Award in 1988, gained Diplomas in Marketing and Management, Certificates in Teaching Further & Higher Education and Adults and became FInstSMM, MCIM and MIDM, and also created and presented an original white paper on “The uses of Psychometric Principles in Marketing” to the WLH Branch of the CIM in 1994.
He graduated from Salford University with an honours degree in Electronics in 1973 specialising in Computing, Digital Circuits, Communications, Physical Electronics, Mathematics and German.
He started Melville Marketing, in 1990, working with organisations who often did not have a full-time Marketing Manager or who needed research, consultancy and many other aspects of Marketing. Most of his time has been spent working with IT companies and SMEs.
He previously owned Wattron and Wattron Marketing who were the forerunners of Melville Marketing and still has an interest in Ronin Services who are a research organisation.
He has been a Board Director of Kalms Associates Ltd and Potentials Plus Ltd. and resigned, in good standing, some years ago.
He is presently a partner and Founder of Zen Cafes working with the other founders to create a network of business clusters founded on principles of Authentic Business, Sustainable Business, Fair trade, Ethical Trade, Cooperation and mutual support and concern for the environment
He is a committed Networker and does speaking engagements featuring presentations on Profiling and customer acquisition and an interactive engagement called “Marketing with Maurice—A conversation” which allows the audience to explore and learn about any marketing issue that concerns or interests them.
He supports various charities and is currently he marketing adviser and committee member for the One World Party charity initiative:-
The One World Party Charity Project organises events on a one world theme, providing training and education to benefit women and children on 3 continents. At these events people can Network with other businesses in a multi-cultural party atmosphere and at the same time make a difference to the lives of people in need in Africa, Brazil & India .
His other interests include Marketing, T'ai Chi, Boats, Haiku, Ballooning, Border Collies, Scotland, Alternatives, Reiki, Badminton, Scuba Diving, Massage, Art, Music, IT, Networks, Motorcycles, France and Psychometrics.
A keen Ecademy member and BlackStar member more details may be found on his Ecademy Profile
He can also be found on:
Business Scene
Expert Consultants Network (ECN)
Ecademy
FaceBook
InterNations
Linkedin
MySpace
Ryse
Sustainable Futures Foundation
Twitter
Xing
You tube
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