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Martin Hearn liked thisMartin Hearn liked thisI'm so pleased to say that after nearly a year of being 'between jobs', I've started today as Senior Technical Account Manager at Halon. It's pretty much my dream gig - working with customers and prospective customers of their email receiving and sending products. I'm also getting to work with three magnificent ex-SparkPost colleagues - Steve Tuck, Catherine Jannetta and Scott Habicht, MS, MBA - which couldn't make me happier! Thank you so much to the team there, especially Anders Berggren, for making me so welcome already. I've spent my first day at a conference in London, and I'm off to Berlin at the crack of dawn tomorrow to join everyone for a get-together. I'm not sure even the 6am flight is going to wipe the smile off my face :-)
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Martin Hearn liked thisMartin Hearn liked this🌍 Between April and June, we donated £41,708.88 ($56,607) to climate charities through our Penny for the Planet programme. That’s 1p (1.3c) for every ticket sold, and it adds up. 🌱 Thanks to Event Creators like you, our all-time donation total has now reached £654,851. Every festival, fundraiser and community gathering on Ticket Tailor helps protect the planet, proving that event ticketing can be simple, affordable and impactful. These donations go directly to our brilliant climate charity partners: Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Heal Rewilding, Rainforest Foundation UK, and Ocean Conservation Trust – each doing vital work to restore and protect our natural world. We're so proud to support a community that’s growing on purpose, and so grateful to you for choosing a platform that puts people and planet first 💚 #PennyForThePlanet #ClimateAction #EventCreators #BCorp #SustainableBusiness #GrowthOnPurpose
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Martin Hearn liked thisI’m excited to share that we made it to the winning stage of Channel 4 and B Lab UK s competition. You will catch our ad on telly later in the year 🙌 🥳 Huge thanks to Olivia Parker for taking the initiative to enter us in to the competition and impressing the judges with a really fun ad concept all the way through the process.Martin Hearn liked thisTICKET TAILOR IS COMING TO A TV NEAR YOU! We’re still pinching ourselves: back in March we applied to the Channel 4 x B Lab UK competition for the chance to win free TV advertising. Fast-forward three months and Olivia wowed a room of TV royalty and B Lab change-makers at Channel 4 HQ… and Ticket Tailor was crowned one of the five winners! 🎉 So, what does that mean? A slice of £600k worth of Channel 4 airtime, plus a special prime-time ad-break takeover in Q3 – helping us to supercharge our impact. We're so proud to have been selected alongside: Ancient + Brave | B Corp, Divine Chocolate UK, Tiny Rebel and Seep. And can’t wait to see all five ads lighting up living rooms later in the year and inspiring even more businesses to balance purpose with profit. #BCorp #Channel4 #BusinessForGood #GrowthOnPurpose #TicketTailor
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Martin Hearn liked this14 years deep and I still think we are just getting started. My alternative advice to young founders: Build a business you love to run with people you love to work with, constantly optimise for low complexity and low stress (knowing there will be plenty anyway), and if it works out your life will be richer than any investor or acquisition can make you. 2011 til infinity…Martin Hearn liked thisBlimey, 14 years already! 🎈 This month marks the anniversary of Jonny registering Ticket Tailor with Companies House – after weeks of late-night coding, his vision of creating a ticketing platform that didn't cost the earth, came into fruition. We’ve come such a long way since then, making ticketing easy and affordable for Event Creators around the world, while achieving far more than we ever could have dreamed. Some highlights from 2024: - 25m tickets issued with 34% YoY growth - 50k+ Event Creators using the platform - 150 new ticketing features launched - 100k+ support enquiries with <100s average response times - Our Penny for the Planet initiative passing £500k in donations to our 4 amazing charity partners - Reducing our carbon intensity to under 6gCO2e/ticket and offsetting every gram of it through high quality removals - The launch of EarthInvest, helping new businesses prioritise the planet To read more about our journey, check out our latest Impact Report. Right now, though, we’re off to tuck into this glorious cake from Luminary Bakery and celebrate how far we’ve come! Here's to the next chapter! #TicketTailor
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Martin Hearn liked thisMartin Hearn liked thisHere’s our 2024 wrap up and an exciting announcement 🐽 😝
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Martin Hearn liked thisMartin Hearn liked thisBooks and pillows? What is this fresh madness? Its the brilliant new Waterstones store inside John Lewis Oxford Street London. Check it!
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Martin Hearn liked thisMartin Hearn liked thisEDItEUR has published a minor update to #ONIX 3.1 to support a requirement in the upcoming EU General Product Safety Regulation. The updated ONIX 3.1.2 documentation is all available from the EDItEUR website https://lnkd.in/eyv2F6vP. A summary of what’s new is available at https://lnkd.in/eYuNAEH4
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