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Making the Pitch
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Excerpt from Chapter 7 of “Pond Business: How to Succeed Across the Atlantic” by Mark Sutherland, available from Dunrobin Publishing on Amazon and Amazon UK and in bookstores in the UK and the US. Let’s be direct (a very un-British thing for me to do). If an American comes to Britain to pitch their…
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I Didn’t Mean to Give that Impression
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Excerpt from Chapter 5 of “Pond Business: How to Succeed Across the Atlantic” by Mark Sutherland, available from Dunrobin Publishing on Amazon and Amazon UK and in bookstores in the UK and the US. One key element both countries must keep at the top of their minds is the fact that difference in perspective…
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UK/US Business Etiquette & Small Talk
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Excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Pond Business: How to Succeed Across the Atlantic” by Mark Sutherland, available from Dunrobin Publishing on Amazon and Amazon UK and in bookstores in the UK and the US. As we have already established, American and British ways of communicating and doing business are different. Business people, and especially…
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UK/US Cultural Differences
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Excerpt from Chapter 2 of “Pond Business: How to Succeed Across the Atlantic” by Mark Sutherland, available from Dunrobin Publishing on Amazon and Amazon UK and in bookstores in the UK and the US. Ricky Gervais, the British award-winning comedian, wrote a rather interesting article for Time in November 2011 that gives us a…
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Pond Business: How to Succeed Across the Atlantic
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Pond Business, my latest book, releases today! This is a book that has been 30 years in the making. Ever since immigrating to the US from the UK, I have been driven by a desire for others to see the opportunities that exist a short hop across the Atlantic, or The Pond as I…
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An amazing, fascinating and enlightening read on Winston Churchill & Fulton, MO
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I just finished Mr. White’s book, “Our Supreme Task,” about 5 minutes ago and I must say it was a rather fascinating, inspiring and informative read. As a British expat myself, living equidistant from Fulton, Missouri as Mr, White, albeit in the other direction, I have had a vague awareness of the importance of…
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Aviation Day at the St. Louis Science Center – March 9, 2013
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I’m honored to have been asked to sign copies of my Being a Blue Angel book and chat with people at the St. Louis Science Center’s Aviation Day, this Saturday, March 9th. And I know just meeting my wife and I, and getting a copy of Being a Blue Angel: Every Kid’s Guide to…
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Dunrobin Releases Second Novel from St. Louis Author Glynn Young
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On Black Friday, Dunrobin Publishing released “A Light Shining,” the second novel by St. Louis’ Glynn Young, and a sequel to Young’s 2011 novel, Dancing Priest. In Dancing Priest, Michael Kent faced tragedy and triumph, love and loss, was called as an Anglican priest, became an international Olympic hero, discovered his connections to the British…
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Dunrobin Releases Story of a Scottish Lad’s Journey to the White House
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David T. Macfarlane is a Scotsman. He is an American. He is a chef. He is a veteran. And his story, “Ginger,” just released from Dunrobin Publishing, is a story of abuse, hardship, hard work, passion and never taking no for an answer. “Ginger is a boy who never gave up. A boy who…
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But Then Everything Changed…
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An excerpt from Chapter 16 of Dancing Priest by Glynn Young, as Michael Kent leads the British cycling team during the Olympic Games. Stage four, the final stage into the western suburbs of Athens and the Olympic Stadium, was the most grueling. Fully three-fourths was through mountains, the two-lane road snaking its way around,…