Get Off Your Arse: Straight Talking Business Advice: Brad Burton Shows You How to be Successful, by Using Guerilla Marketing, Networking and a Goya Attitude

by Brad Burton

Brad Burton takes us on a personal rollercoaster ride, from telling his employer to shove his job up his arse, £25,000 in debt and no income, to MD of a fast-growing national business.

Genres: Business

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 2009

About the author

1973, born, Salford, Dad left, primary school, BMX bikes, roleplaying games, computer games, class clown, no qualifi cations, shop boy, girls, chalet cleaner, nightclubbing, pothead, more girls, games journalist, became a Dad, shot at, moved to Somerset, depressed, dole, more pot, shop manager, blagged CV head of marketing, dole, Director, Oxford sucked, dole, 3 days away from bankruptcy, Dad again, depressed, maisonette above a chippy, married, employed, shove job up arse, self-employed, depression, skint, skint, skint, whinging wife, Dad again, 4Networking, stopped smoking pot, bluffi ng, struggling, speaking, author, still skint, skint, skint, Dad yet again, 5,000+ events a year, uh oh, UK’s #1 motivational business speaker, bought dream Range Rover Sport, still waiting to be found out, sold dream Range Rover Sport, author again, people are buying them, scratches head, stabbed in the back. Twice. Burned out, near divorce, crisis averted, just, snapped up by top publisher for 3rd book, still waiting to be found out, Dad again, a daughter this time – uh oh, Audi driver, BradCamps, Ferrero Rochers, buzzing, blue tick, blue tick, more 5 stars on
Amazon, still UK’s #1 motivational business speaker. Time to quit? Now What? 4th book, no longer skint, no longer depressed, actually quite balanced and happy. Wife still whinging. FFS.

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As a small business owner Brad has suffered all of the worries, challenges and indignities of launching a business (in massive personal debt and having to deliver pizzas in the early days).

Brad knows what it's like and tells it how it is.

Not as thick as he looks, Brad was told "It'll never work" and has answered his critics in the best possible way - by proving them wrong and spearheading the fastest growing business breakfast network, 4Networking, who run over 5,000 joined up networking events across the UK each year! Oh yea and they now have groups opening in Australia.

Next stop, all around the world.

He's generally regarded as the UK's #1 Motivational Business Speaker and is the author of three books so far, all of which are "self help/biz books for people who don't like self help/biz books", his unique approach to business, life is also found in his writing, his books are written with a raw honesty, the likes of which most authors would be unwilling to share.

Life. Business. Just Got Easier [2013] Is his latest.

A book which he believes will help the reader change their Life, Business, Direction, Thinking... All four? Maybe.


Get Off Your Arse [2009] - is Brad's must-read inspirational story of how he went from his boxroom to the boardroom as MD of 4Networking. With over 200 rave reviews on Amazon, averaging 4.7 out of 5, this was the publishing sensation of the year.

Get Off Your Arse Too [2011] - Brad Burton is back, sharing his unique and raw look at life/business and how everything happens for a reason, even the s**tty stuff... GOYA2, repeated the success of the first book.

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very different take on the business book. 4Networking MD Brad Burton tells it like it is, from the lows of waiting for the phone to ring to the highs of every small success in business. Definitely worth reading.

[Urthwild Darkness Beckons · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought it was funny, well presented and not boring. Most certainly it will force some people to, 'get off their arses'.

[Jack Oughton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brad is both hilarious and honest. As a self employed person I really 'felt' this one. Recommended to all people who are already/are considering going into business for themselves.

[Dougie Brimson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant motivational book. Very different from the norm and all the better for it!