Lottie

Our mission is to "Elevate later life"

Lottie is a marketplace that helps individuals looking for later life care by finding them the best care home or retirement home.

Lottie has now expanded nationwide and become leading marketplace in the care sector. 

Found has been launched as a CRM and Occupancy for for the later living sector

Seniorcare was developed out of the Lottie platform and is now the leading eldercare employee benefit in the UK

Co-Founder

Found CRM

Found CRM by Lottie 

A cloud-based care home operation software, mapped and built specifically to the care and retirement industries unique customer journey and supports care homes with CRM, Occupancy, Administration and Finance

Found results in a higher conversion rate, better attribution of marketing spend, saved time and ultimately high occupancy.

Seniorcare by Lottie

The UK's only dedicated eldercare solution which helps employees find care for their elderly loved ones. 

We support individuals in understanding care, in funding care and ultimately in finding the perfect home care or care home solution for a loved one.

Verb Brands

Founder (Business Acquired by Croud)

The Leading Performance & Creative Marketing Agency for Luxury & Premium Brands. 

VERB Brands is a luxury digital marketing agency which helps brands reach affluent & HNW audiences through data, creative & media. We support brands across their search, media buying, social media & creative content.

VERB works exclusively with the leading luxury and premium brands in the world. 

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In 2013, while at university, I launched VERB with the sole aim to build the leading agency for luxury and premium brands. 

In 2017, Verb Brands Limited acquired DBD Media Limited and merged the business into the wider Verb offering. DBD was a 30 people strong and one of the first SEO and PPC agencies in London, established in 2000.

December 2021, Verb Brands was acquired by Croud Inc and LDC in an 8 figure deal, giving Verb international scale and technology to help our luxury and premium brand’s grow.

Chris stepped down as CEO to focus on new projects.

Founder & CEO

HEAT

Investor

303 London

Proteus Property

Acquisitions Manager

CBS Corporation

Broadcast Journalist

Chris is the Co Founder of The Lottie Organisation (including Found CRM & Seniorcare)

Lottie is a health tech business that is designed to "Elevate later life".

Described as the air b and b for care homes. Lottie supports individuals looking for the right care home and ensures that the family and the resident get the best care possible at the best price possible. 

Found CRM is the leading CRM & Occupancy software for care homes & retirement living communities

Seniorcare offer the UK's leading eldercare employee benefit solution, and help your employees understand, find and fund care for their elderly loved ones.

Verb Brands

Chris Donnelly is the founder of Verb Brands. 

VERB is a luxury digital marketing agency that drives strategy, growth, and revenue. The world’s only luxury data-driven, creative media agency, VERB provides full service performance marketing  for luxury and premium brands. Based in London, Manchester, New York, and Shanghai. 

Chris led the business as CEO from 2013 until 2021 until the business was acquired by Croud. 

Speaking / Press / PR Enquiries: Contact: chris.donnelly@lottie.org

99% of people won't look at this. 

Google has just released a free learning path for Generative AI..

With 9 separate courses. 

This is game changing education. 

👉 Intro to Generative AI
👉 Intro to Large Language Models
👉 Intro to Responsible AI
👉 Intro to Image Generation
👉 Encoder-Decoder Architecture
👉 Attention Mechanism
👉 Transformer Models and BERT Model
👉 Create Image Captioning Models
👉 Intro to Generative AI Studio

Link to the courses in the comment section

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I’ve spent 100+ hours trying every AI tool out there.

Don’t waste your time.

Here are the top 7 tools that improve my productivity everyday: 

1. 
The Original: ChatGPT

If prompted correctly, it will save you dozens of hours. 

ChatGPT is now a critical part of my research and writing process. 

My top three prompts are: 

👉 The 80/20 principle to learn much faster:

"I want to learn about [input topic]. Find and share the most important 20% of learnings on this topic that will help me understand 80% of it."

👉 Improve your writing by asking for feedback:

(Copy and paste your writing)

And type “I want you to proofread my writing. Fix any spelling or grammar mistakes and make suggestions to improve the quality and clarity of my writing”

👉 Get instant, articulate summaries of documents and articles

Type “I want you to, summarise the text and give me a bullet point breakdown of the key points and facts” 

(Copy and paste article)

2. Grain

Grain gives a transcription of my video calls

This saves so much time in note taking and then following up for clarification. 

This improves communication enormously as well. You can just send highlighted sections to anyone who didn’t attend or those afterwards who want notes. 

3. Otter.ai

Otter is the holy grail for people who have ideas when they aren’t at the desk ! 

If you are walking down the road or just not at your desk, just speak into Otter and the app will transcribe what you are saying in real-time and makes the notes available to yourself and your team later on

4. Speechify 

I am predominantly an audio learner so this app is incredible for me. 

The app will just read out information to me. I quite like closing my eyes and just listening to a topic

If I’m feeling particularly bored and struggling to concentrate, I’ll get Snoop Dog to read it to me

5. GPT for Sheets & Docs

Having the power of GPT inside these documents is slightly mind blowing. You can use it for all sorts of tasks from; writing, editing, extracting, cleaning, translating, summarising, outlining, explaining and more

6. Glasp

Take a long video, click the browser extension and immediately you’ll get a quick summary of all of the key points. 

7. Compose AI 

Compose anything in Gmail & Google Docs

Automate replies on LinkedIn posts and Whatsapps

Compose emails for Gmail

Rephrase your own messages for Gmail and LInkedIn for better language and structure

My most used prompt in my gmail message compose box is “write (insert name) a professional email saying I cannot make the meeting at 4pm, but I will be available at 5pm and 6pm if they want to send me a calendar invite” and it will generate me a beautiful email with perfect spelling and grammar. 

Bonus:

AskYourPDF

Share a link to a PDF and ask ChatGPT any questions about the PDF. 

It can summarise the PDF immediately but also specific questions about dates, numbers and facts.

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A note to employers

Annual leave should not be used for: 

- Being ill 
- Doctors or medical appointments
- The death of a loved one or a funeral
- Your child being ill or having a medical appointment
- A mental health day 

Lead with empathy and trust and create policies that provide people flexibility. 

A note to employers

Its 2023 and work events should be completely accessible to:

1. People with children 
2. People who are remote workers
3. People who don't drink
4. People who aren't neurotypical

It is not the responsibility of the individual to change behaviour or incur financial burden, it is on the company to create an inclusive environment for all their team.

This post about being a “good manager” reached 82,181 likes on LinkedIn..

Here are the 5 steps to becoming a world-class manager


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Do not let one setback distract you from your progress. 

Zoom out. 


Everything looks different when we have perspective.

This goes for anything - especially work on yourself. Setbacks are bound to happen. 

Progress is not always linear. 

Sometimes it can feel like nothing is happening. 

Over time, the progress and growth becomes obvious. 

Do not limit yourself to what you have always been good at. 

There is so much possibility for you. 

Sometimes you need to zoom out to appreciate how far you have come. 

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It’s more than okay if you don’t want to be an entrepreneur.

Because entrepreneurship isn’t the only respectable career path - despite what people on social media would have you believe.

Lots of my friends think that being one actually sounds like a nightmare. So they work 9-5s.

They are still some of the most impressive people I’ve ever met. They still achieve insane things and they still have phenomenal careers.

‘Entrepreneurs’ might be the loudest people online at the moment, but they are definitely not more hard-working, more destined for success, or more worthy of recognition than anyone else who turns up to work every day and gives it their absolute best.

1 out of every 400 pitch decks is successful funded.

Here is the 10 page blueprint that world-class investors are looking for:

I ran a leading global agency for 10 years. Now I run a global brand.

Here is 5 steps to get replies when reaching out to your dream clients:

Teams need support, trust, and security for their best work. 

Here's a 5-page blueprint to create psychological safety:

Culture is not bean bags, free beer or a free subscription to a mediation app

Culture is...

If you want to feel like a superhuman: ‍

A good manager can change your life.

The impact of a good manager extends far beyond your day to day work.

It impacts your progression, your development and your learning of skills.

It impacts your confidence and your motivation to take on more responsibility and progression.

A good manager creates a positive working environment where everyone, from extroverts to introverts, feels safe speaking out and contributing .

They can help you chart your career, create balance in your life and really grow as a person.

If you are a manager, be the manager you wish you had. 

Why I am leaning towards Bard over ChatGPT

3 core reasons to choose Bard

1. Realtime internet connectivity

Bard is connected to the internet in real time.

ChatGPT does not have real time access for most users.

You can ask Bard questions in real time about trends, events and topics whereas ChatGPT cannot help here.

This is by far the most standout point as Bard is internet enabled and free..

2. Image input

Bard will allow you input images

ChatGPT is text only input

This means that with Bard, you can ask for context on imagery (where it was taken or summarise what is happening in the image) and you can ask it to generate your captions for imagery if you are creating content.

3. Summarising websites

Bard has access to the internet so you can ask it to give you a breakdown on a web page, an article, a complex paper or even a long form piece of content.

ChatGPT can do this through plugins to an extent but Bard gives far greater context and relevancy due to real time access. 

7 science backed rules to stop procrastination and improve output

So many leaders just assume communication is a one way street. 

True leadership and effective communication requires listening, learning and implementing. 

Just remember 

Millionaire, CEO, Founder, C Suite, Managing Director, Director and Manager all mean sod all. 

You will be remembered by how you treat others. 

Follow these three people and actually change habits quickly.

I have digested more LinkedIn content and influencer content than most. These three actually make a difference to my life, the way I think and my own personal outcomes. Tune in, follow and listen. 

1. Justin Welsh
"The Diversified Solopreneur", who gives a unique perspective that you don't have to build for size, or scale, but instead you should focus on optimising for what you enjoy in life and utilise digital tools to create diversified income streams. 

2. Dan Go 
"Body transformation coach to entrepreneurs" who gives incredibly practical advice on being healthy and improving habits in a modern world with a busy schedule. An incredible blend of bite sized reminders and instruction content on how to seek out and implement marginal gains for your health. 

3. Eric Partaker
"The CEO Coach", who creates stunning content helping entrepreneurs and leaders reach peak performance in their work and lives.

My 1st business took 10 years to reach an 8 figure valuation, my 2nd business took 1 year.

Here are 10 things my 32 year old self would tell my 22 year old self. 

1. Action, feedback and iteration are better than "perfect".
2. A small team beats a big team every day of the week.
3. Hire for passion and culture.
4. Start niche because not everyone is your target market. 
5. Focus on my personal brand earlier.
6. Scale comes from brilliant repetition.  
7. You can tell everything you need to know about someone, by how they treat service staff.
8. Hard work is not "overrated". 99.9% of people who are successful have worked hard. 
9. Mentors are excellent at cutting down learning curves but you need different mentors for different stages. 
10. Recharge properly: see friends and family more, keep fit and have more hobbies. 

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