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Dixon Jones, Internet Marketeer

Dixon Jones is the managing director of an Internet Marketing company and has a decade of experience marketing online, primarily above the line, building Receptional up from a start-up in my front room to a reasonable size. From near the start I did this with David to build a team of 15 Internet Marketing Consultants last time I counted and little sign of a slow down. The office has now become so tight that the landlord has agreed to build a considerable extension that would more than double our floor space. I don’t think he wants us to leave.

Other of Dixon Jones accolades (or chains, depending on your point of view) in the world of Internet Marketing include being a moderator on Webmasterworld which most webmasters have heard of. If you haven’t, I guess you are not a webmaster. To be fair, nor am I these days. I am an Internet marketer – but I don’t know how an Internet marketer can really understand the nuances of the Internet Marketing world without at least some understanding of web-servers and CMS systems.

I also get to talk a bit. Sometimes I “um” and “ah” too much, but people keep inviting me back anyway.

Dixon Jones, Murder Mystery Writer

Apart from Receptional I once used to write and run Murder Mystery Games for corporations. I gave up writing them and sold most of my games off some years back, but I kept a few and sell them online through another company Murder Mystery Games.

Now that I am starting to find my feet running businesses online, I recently set up a company for myself which will act as a vehicle to run new ventures online, either of my own making or of other peoples’. It’s kind of an investment vehicle I guess, although I would be better bringing a decade of experience running start-ups on the Internet (and 20 years of experience running start-ups from before the Internet) than bringing cash. I can’t say all the ideas that this business is getting into – and I have no idea which (if any) will succeed, but I’m looking at:

• using a mobile phone technology for learning languages
• an idea for getting kids into space (metaphorically AND literally)
• a way to harness an index a news source not previously indexed on the engines

If you would like me to be a small part of your own wacky (or not so wacky) idea, I’ll take a look – but time is not something I am readily able to give up. I like what I do at Receptional Internet Marketing and wasn’t planning on jumping ship!

Dixon Jones, after Hours

I got married in 1998 to Marie and still remember the three week honeymoon in the Dominican Republic like it was yesterday. She’s my rock and my motivation. I am a lucky man,  for sure.

I live about 10 minutes from work by car – 25 minutes by bicycle and about the same if i get so drunk I need to take the train. On the whole I leave the house about the same time as my two kids go to school and most people in the office leave at 5:00 PM. To be fair I tend to work a bit later, but that’s just me. I’m still home well before most dads in my village.

I live close enough to London to be able to see my big clients but avoid it if I can. It’s no place for a family.

My hobbies include Chess (I played for my county last year); Mountain Biking (although I have to admit that in my 40s it is getting harder) and my orange car…

I have also decided that I need to get a big closer to mother nature, so have started a vegetable patch!