Mike Southon is the Editor-at-Large for the London Business Journal. Mike is a serially successful entrepreneur, best-selling business author and one of the world’s top business keynote speakers on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and sales.


The Beermat Entrepreneur

Mike is co-author with Chris West of The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat.

He has spoken at over 1,000 live events all over the world and provided face-to-face mentoring to over 1,000 entrepreneurs.

Find out more at www.beermat.biz


Mike is also expert in helping local government to be more commercial and entrepreneurial.

He has developed a practical road-map for how councils can move from dependency on grants and taxes to becoming a self-sufficient, profitable social enterprise.

Since 2011 he has been helping Aylesbury Vale District Council develop their vision (“Council Tax Free in 2023”) and new revenue models.

Click here for detail on Mike’s work and an article by former Minister of State for Housing and Local Government, Mark Prisk MP: Could your council become a social enterprise?

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Sales on a Beermat Extract – Mike’s Magic Email

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Emails are not intrusive, as the phone is, and have a good chance of getting read, unless they are spam or personal but verbose. Spam, of course, is now illegal, but…

Networking on a Beermat

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Many people are intimidated by selling, but everyone should be an evangelist for their company. Everyone should be able to enthuse about their company in a social situation and pick up any…

Sales on a Beermat Self Study Guide

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This workbook is for self-study, and you will acquire a great deal of sales knowledge by using it on your own. Even better, however is to work through it with a…

Record Breakers

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Everyone is looking for original ways of promoting their product, a good angle to make them stand out in a crowd. Suneet Tuli had an interesting idea: to get into…

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