Garry Hunt
High Functioning Nerd | 1994 World Conker Champion | Immortal Quizmaster
About me
I’m a handsome, capable and exceedingly humble dad of two *horrible* children. To help contribute to their (and my own) continued survival I have been forced to gain over 10 years experience in digital design, marketing and event management. As a prolific freelancer I had the opportunity to work with a number of fantastic local companies, community groups, organisations and even (a hopeful) member of parliament.
My ability to design kick-ass digital content, improve business processes with digital skills and manage the s##t out of your event is unparalleled by anyone within a 10 yard radius. Most importantly I’m an autodidact (and unashamed Taylor Swift fan) that understands the value of sharing skills. I’m a proud, lifelong nerd, geek, dork… (whatever word you want to use) and my passion for technology has existed for as long as I can remember. I’ve been fortunate that my work and personal life have almost always enabled me to be surrounded by people that feel the same as I do about promoting the South West as a hub for innovation and expertise in the Technology and Digital sectors.
My two children (11 & 12) are constantly making unreasonable demands and giving me new problems to solve. They’re my proudest achievements and the most rewarding challenge of every day. If you’ve ever spent more than an hour with any young people this should be more than enough to convince you of my patience, organisational and communications skills as well as my ability to deal with any situation that could arise.
Special Skills
Event management… including speaker management, streaming and onsite technical support
Graphic design and website design with WordPress
Quizmaster
Can do ‘You’re Welcome’ rap, featured in the Disney movie ‘Moana’
Traditional and digital marketing for events, crowdfunding and community organisations
Can eat an entire pack of chocolate Hobnobs in one sitting
Using digital tools to facilitate problems solving
Digital skills training and planning
Blog
Moustache meeting
January is, by all accounts, a rubbish month. It's cold, you're poor and the last time you saw daylight was sometime in October. If it was a person, it would probably be Logan Paul. When I was tasked with running the first team meeting of February - I knew it had to...
When is failure NOT a failure
Safe to say that the ending to last night (9th January) was not the one we all hoped for and expected. It may be a cliche, but we really do learn more from failure than we do success. The UK, and Europe’s, first rocket launch was not a total home run last night due to...
Tips for writing an awesome blog
Writing a blog is a great method for marketing your business. You'll be seen as a expert in your field if you're writing regular, relevant and interesting blogs. It also adds the human element to your marketing mix. And, as cliched as the statement is, people really...
Why I use WordPress
In the past WordPress has been (rightly so) demonized for many things; site speed, security, usability and many more. I've been using WordPress for over 5 years now and I've either worked my way around these things or done what is necessary to "fix" them. But I'm here...
What I learnt in my Third Year
In what has become an annual tradition, I'm about to take a look back at the previous year and see what went well and what (if anything) I have learnt. For those new readers you can read parts 1&2 here and here. For me at least, my third year in business could...
Making the most of networking
Networking, love it or loathe it your business will benefit from you doing it. It might bring you new customers, it might give you different business and personal opportunities or it might just give you a like minded bunch of people to talk to and socialise with (by...
What I learnt in my second year
Following the groundbreaking blog I posted last year. Here's the eagerly anticipated follow up… Two years into running my own business and it feels like I've learnt more than I ever did during almost 14 years of being an employee. If you're starting your own business...
Five things you might not think about when starting your own business
Now that I'm almost two years into running Sonic digital communications I've learnt quite a lot from both my own and other peoples experience. There's a few things that everyone knows to do and there's a few that are a little less obvious: Your email address This is...