1 hr 4 min
Dan Pearce Owner & CEO Travel Trade Gazette – Struggling actor to Media Boss Brave Bold Brilliant Podcast
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- Entrepreneurship
In this episode, Jeannette talks to Dan Pearce, who is the CEO and owner of TTG Media. They talk about how he started out as an actor then switched to working for newspapers and magazines, via English language teaching in Italy, before joining TTG, taking part in a management buyout and becoming the CEO.
Dan and Jeannette discuss how thinking out of the box, diversifying, and being more inclusive have helped the business to thrive. He explains how TTG is working to make travel smarter, better, and fairer. Dan covers how the CoVid crisis hastened their development online, starting a membership offering and having a loyal motivated team has enabled them to stay strong through the pandemic.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Being nimble enabled Dan to make a success of a business that previously was under performing.
Diversifying further into digital and the events field has helped TTG to grow.
Business owners need to answer the question of why they exist, to provide focus.
Having a clear vision keeps you on course. Before you decide to do something, you pause and ask yourself if it fits in with your vision.
As a leader you need to surround yourself with the right people, you can't know and do everything.
Belief and resilience go hand in hand, they keep you going when things go wrong.
Getting through hard times in your personal life helps you to build resilience that you can benefit from in your business life.
Blind optimism is not good. But you do need to be stoic. To know that you will prevail, and things will pan out in the long-term.
In business, it is important not to spread yourself too thinly.
You need to focus on the things that bring you the biggest wins.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Be open-minded enough to educate yourself´
‘Your personal life can really inform your business life´
‘You´ve got to back the winners and learn as much as you can about those things’
'Making travel smarter, better and fairer'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast series
www.ttgmedia.com
ABOUT THE GUEST
Daniel Pearce is CEO and owner of TTG Media. He started his 25-year media career in newspapers before getting into B2B magazines and joining the Travel Trade Gazette as editor, quickly becoming their brand director. Daniel then led a management buy-out and set up TTG Media as a wholly independent business. Since then, TTG Media has gone from strength to strength, launching a string of new initiatives including the TTG Top 50 Travel Agencies, TTG LGBT events, the TTG Luxury Travel Awards, the TTG Luxury Travel Summit, the TTG Diversity & Inclusion in Travel conference and most recently TTG+.
In April 2019 the business saw a rebrand under a new vision for a ‘Smarter, Better, Fairer’ travel industry – and new investment in print publishing, with TTG magazine, now monthly, still at the heart of the industry 67 years after its first edition. In November 2019 TTG Media was named Independent Publishing Company of the Year at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards, while in May 2020 TTG was named Business Media Brand of the Year at the Campaign Publishing Awards.Daniel celebrates 25 years in media in 2021, following a career working in local newspapers and for media businesses large and small including Reed Business Information and UBM, in B2B sectors including retail and hospitality. Prior to that Daniel enjoyed a number of past lives including a brief period as an actor, a toy salesman and two years teaching English in the south of Italy.
GUEST CONTACT METHOD
Twitter
LinkedIn
dpearce@tdgmedia.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with nearly 30 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other bus
In this episode, Jeannette talks to Dan Pearce, who is the CEO and owner of TTG Media. They talk about how he started out as an actor then switched to working for newspapers and magazines, via English language teaching in Italy, before joining TTG, taking part in a management buyout and becoming the CEO.
Dan and Jeannette discuss how thinking out of the box, diversifying, and being more inclusive have helped the business to thrive. He explains how TTG is working to make travel smarter, better, and fairer. Dan covers how the CoVid crisis hastened their development online, starting a membership offering and having a loyal motivated team has enabled them to stay strong through the pandemic.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Being nimble enabled Dan to make a success of a business that previously was under performing.
Diversifying further into digital and the events field has helped TTG to grow.
Business owners need to answer the question of why they exist, to provide focus.
Having a clear vision keeps you on course. Before you decide to do something, you pause and ask yourself if it fits in with your vision.
As a leader you need to surround yourself with the right people, you can't know and do everything.
Belief and resilience go hand in hand, they keep you going when things go wrong.
Getting through hard times in your personal life helps you to build resilience that you can benefit from in your business life.
Blind optimism is not good. But you do need to be stoic. To know that you will prevail, and things will pan out in the long-term.
In business, it is important not to spread yourself too thinly.
You need to focus on the things that bring you the biggest wins.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Be open-minded enough to educate yourself´
‘Your personal life can really inform your business life´
‘You´ve got to back the winners and learn as much as you can about those things’
'Making travel smarter, better and fairer'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast series
www.ttgmedia.com
ABOUT THE GUEST
Daniel Pearce is CEO and owner of TTG Media. He started his 25-year media career in newspapers before getting into B2B magazines and joining the Travel Trade Gazette as editor, quickly becoming their brand director. Daniel then led a management buy-out and set up TTG Media as a wholly independent business. Since then, TTG Media has gone from strength to strength, launching a string of new initiatives including the TTG Top 50 Travel Agencies, TTG LGBT events, the TTG Luxury Travel Awards, the TTG Luxury Travel Summit, the TTG Diversity & Inclusion in Travel conference and most recently TTG+.
In April 2019 the business saw a rebrand under a new vision for a ‘Smarter, Better, Fairer’ travel industry – and new investment in print publishing, with TTG magazine, now monthly, still at the heart of the industry 67 years after its first edition. In November 2019 TTG Media was named Independent Publishing Company of the Year at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards, while in May 2020 TTG was named Business Media Brand of the Year at the Campaign Publishing Awards.Daniel celebrates 25 years in media in 2021, following a career working in local newspapers and for media businesses large and small including Reed Business Information and UBM, in B2B sectors including retail and hospitality. Prior to that Daniel enjoyed a number of past lives including a brief period as an actor, a toy salesman and two years teaching English in the south of Italy.
GUEST CONTACT METHOD
Twitter
LinkedIn
dpearce@tdgmedia.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with nearly 30 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other bus
1 hr 4 min