Defining Moments

I do think there’s a big part for luck to play in a successful business. For us, the luck that we experienced was my current business partner, Christian, and I actually meeting each other- a guy from down south and a Lancashire lass ending up in the same… read more

Lifestyle Story

In my personal life I’m much more relaxed. I get to spend more time with my daughter, and if she ever needs me I can go and pick her up from school. If she gets ill I can work from home.… read more

Mistake To Avoid

I think the biggest mistake we made was underestimating how fast we would grow. When we were looking at offices, we looked at two and thought it would be sensible to go for the smaller one. Eighteen months later we’re pretty much bursting at the seams… read more

Secret

We like to build a relationship with our clients. We’re very open and honest with them; we like to make it fun for them and allow them to trust us. Often the phone will ring and it’ll be a client, but not wanting to talk about their PR account, they… read more

Secret

I think you need to be flexible and open minded. If your mind is too set in one particular direction, that could be detrimental. Other than that, just enjoy it! If you take the leap, don’t let stress spoil what’s the most exciting time of your life.… read more

How I... Guide

Christian and I both agree that, as well as delivering a service for clients, understanding PR and being good at it, because the business is our baby, the biggest thing for us is that we want people in the team who understand our ethos, who work similarly… read more

Pearl Of Wisdom

I think the public perception of an entrepreneur is that they’ve got the right connections; they know the right people or they’ve got something that others don’t. What sets us apart is with fifteen years experience each, we understand our industry and we… read more

Challenge

I think making my own decisions has been my biggest challenge. Part of the reason why we set the company up was so we could make our own decisions, but you do still question every one you make. It’s very challenging not to have somebody above you to… read more

Challenge

When we grow in the future, I think one of the hardest challenges we’ll have to face will be ensuring that the ethos we’ve built into Quay2 remains and that we don’t drift away and lose sight of why we set the company up in the first place or what we… read more

Success

Financially, we were prepared to take a cut in what we were earning. We both worked out what we needed to survive and maintain mortgages, but actually both Christian and I were very pleasantly surprised about our billings in the first year. The business… read more

Success

On the client side, I get satisfaction from the fact that I know I’m doing a good job for them. It may not be done during the hours of 9 to 5, but the clients are also able to see the work happening and see the results coming so they’re happy with… read more

Success

What’s most important to us is that everything we do is satisfying as well. It’s satisfying to know that we’ve done this on our own, it’s satisfying to know that eighteen months down the line Christian and I still want the company to go in the right… read more

Aspiration

In the future, Christian and I both see ourselves moving in very much the same vein that we started off. A lot of our growth has been organic; it’s come from recommendations of people who we’ve done a good job for in the past, and we’d both like that to… read more

Support Story

We started by figuring out how we would fund the initial set up, office equipment etc, and looking into the kind of help that’s available for new business start ups. We were directed to Business Link, Starting Up Business and Building Up Business and we… read more

Support Story

I think if you want to start up in business, you need to involve your family, your friends and as many people as possible who can give you advice. We’ve been very lucky in that we’ve had support in every direction; support that has really made a… read more