Dixon Jones is the managing director of an Internet Marketing company and has a decade of experience marketing online, primarily above the line.
(OK - I’m going into the first person now, as this is my personal blog, not the corporate one.)
I built 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 strong 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 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 Maketing 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.
Other Business Interests
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!
After Hours
I am so lucky… 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…
