5 Follow Up Questions

Thank you for your application for the role as Assistant to Bryony Thomas, we are keen to hear more about you.

Please download the background briefing document below, then watch the video to respond to our five follow up questions.

You can submit your video using the form underneath the video.

Step 1

Step 2

Watch this video then read the questions below:

 

Those questions are:

1. Tell us about someone you particularly enjoyed working with in the past and what made it work so well.
2. What do you need in a role to truly thrive?
3. Tell us about your levels of tech literacy and how you’ve approached learning new systems in the past.
4. What stood out to you on the background as the biggest challenge and how would you address that.
5. Anything you want us to particularly know about you.

Please note that we would like videos to be under 10 minutes long and the file size needs to be no larger than 300Mb

Step 3

Submit your video! Videos must be received by midnight on Friday 4th February 2022.

The Bucket Lady

Bryony Thomas is one of the UK’s foremost marketing thinkers. She is the author of Watertight Marketing, which has been in its best-sellers list consistently for over five years, with no gimmicks. This ground-breaking book has been described variously as “the entrepreneurs’ essential marketing manual”, “a work of genius”, and “a licence to print money”. Centred on replacing the ubiquitous sales funnel diagram with a better metaphor of a Bucket, Funnels and Taps, Bryony is often known as The Bucket Lady.

The Elephant Spotter

She has a disarmingly honest working style, that means that people have often seen her as a marketing confidante more than a consultant. Landing as the divisional director of marketing for FTSE 100 company, Experian, at the age of 28, Bryony quickly developed a knack for asking the questions that matter. If there’s something that needs addressing, you’ll find Bryony pointing to it. This earned her the nick-name, The Elephant Spotter

The Multi-Million Pound Cat Thief

Bryony is also an in-demand professional speaker for business audiences wanting to understand how to deliver sustainable sales results. Whether it’s a boardroom, team day, or a large conference venue, Bryony can be trusted to inspire, engage and entertain. But, more importantly people will leave her talks with immediate actions to take. She has a unique and memorable speaking style, and is often heard describing how to build multi-million pound businesses in the same way as you’d steal your neighbour’s cat. And so, is known as The Multi-Million Pound Cat Thief.

Bryony’s Journey

In 2008, Bryony started the journey towards what is today the Watertight Marketing Methodology, working with ambitious growing businesses delivering 12-month marketing transformation programmes. Through her book, her speaking, her events and her hands-on support, Bryony Thomas now gives small business owners the clarity and the structure to step off the roller coaster. To get their marketing to put their business on a sustainable upward curve. Bryony Thomas is The Watertight Marketer.

She does all this part-time around her family, and can be often found playing in the sand pit with her daughter or snuggled up with her soppy grey tom cat, Dylan.

Oh, and, she also loves a strong cup of tea. Milk, no sugar. And, if you’re getting the biscuits in, Bryony will have a pink wafer!

Award-Winning Marketing Speaker for Business Events

Bryony Thomas is an energetic marketing speaker who shows businesses and entrepreneurs how to take calm, confident, control of their business growth. Her speaking style is no-nonsense and direct. She doesn’t shy away from tough subjects, and makes highly effective use of memorable analogies to make her advice stick. Bryony has a real skill for adapting her content to suit the needs of her audience, both through thorough preparation, and by being extremely quick-witted and responsive to the audience in front of her.

It all makes sense!!

Robs W 
Robs W

“Bryony recently spoke at a event for leaders in the South West – Leaders Connect. She blew me away. Her speaking style is dynamic, energetic, personable and easy to understand (non of that typical marketing jargon!). Afterwards, a few of the event delegates, myself included, described feeling a sense of relief that we don’t need to plough endless time and funds into new marketing tools (turning on many taps!) and instead need to focus on fixing any leaks in the bucket. Bryony gave practical and tangible ways of doing this, that were also cost effective – perfect for a group of busy leaders, many from Non-Profit organisations with limited budgets. I can’t recommend Bryony highly enough. She is a top-rate speaker and marketing guru.”

Charly White

The Profit Priority Profile is a brilliant way to not only spot gaps but communicate gaps in business and marketing.

Caroline Goatley Marketing Manager, EMEA - Reflexis Inc.
Caroline Goatley

“Hands down the best book on marketing there is. I work with a organisations large and small and I always recommend this book as way of scientifically marketing products and services. There’s no fluff only easy to use, easy to implement ideas and concepts.”

Joe Leech Product / UX Coach, Author & Keynote Speaker
Joe Leech

Very good facilitation. Peter engaged the audience well and stepped us through the leaks in a clear and concise manner. I think the Touchpoint Leak™ Assessment is a very clear and simple tool to identify areas of focus on a potentially very broad and confusing topic. I identified a number of clear actions to take away to improve my marketing approach.

Duncan Hodgson Silver Bullet Business Training
Duncan Hodgson

Marketing Author

Bryony Thomas is a prolific and inspiring writer on marketing. Bryony’s articles range from highly instructive ‘how to’ style information, perfect for the marketer or business owner wanting to roll their sleeves up, to more conceptual missives for the marketing professional. Her articles regularly appear in the business press. Bryony is also the author of ‘Watertight Marketing – delivering long-term sales results’.

“[The Ask Almost Anything surgery] was an incredibly useful and valuable session – more than worth the membership fee for this alone!”

Rebecca Wise Marketing Manager, Premier Heating Solutions
Rebecca Wise

“A huge thanks you for your workshop on Saturday. It was a really engaging session and I came away with a clear idea of what to work on next and lots of ideas.”

Stephanie Martinez-Hill Events Officer of the ITI Western Regional Group
Stephanie Martinez-Hill
“Thank you Rachael, for an excellent and thought provoking presentation and debate – as always.”
Steve Fordham Technical Manager
Steve Fordham

“The Club helps me find the right time to do things and has really helped me focus on what needs to be done, when.”

Liz Davidson CMO, QRoutes
Liz Davidson

“Watertight gave us a common language to use in the business. It’s given the marketing and sales teams a language that they can understand, and they can use when working together.”

Simon King Director, Inside Travel Group
Simon King