That day changed my life. At the time I was global head of product marketing in the software & services division of Nokia. Then Steve Jobs took to the stage in California, reinvented the mobile phone and changed the world. In an instant Nokia had gone from an innovative leader with a 52% market share to outdated dinosaur.
We struggled on for a couple of years, but ultimately my division and over 15,000 of my fellow Nokians were made redundant. On top of that, the share price (and all our share options) plummeted from $40 to $9 before the company was eventually sold to Microsoft for a song. I did what so many ex-executives do in these situations - I took my pay-off and built a recording studio in the garden.
We struggled on for a couple of years, but ultimately my division and over 15,000 of my fellow Nokians were made redundant. On top of that, the share price (and all our share options) plummeted from $40 to $9 before the company was eventually sold to Microsoft for a song. I did what so many ex-executives do in these situations - I took my pay-off and built a recording studio in the garden.
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Ian Walford
Oct 22, 2021
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Billy is absolutely brilliant at what he does. Second to none. Built us a brand new beautiful website from scratch and has continued working with us to promote it ever since. We have had so many complimentary comments from customers about the website. Nothing is ever too much trouble, he is infinitely patient, and always available to help with queries and questions. A perfectionist who is totally proactive. We cannot recommend him highly enough and look forward to continuing to work with him for many years to come.
Lavender Cottage
Mar 14, 2021
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It has been great working with Billy to sort my website out, he’s not only professional but is full of ideas and genuinely gives his all to what he is doing and it’s also done efficiently with no need to hassle or chase up- if he says he’ll do it consider it done!! Billy is also great at explaining things and putting up with my lack of technological understanding so I cannot recommend him highly enough and wouldn’t hesitate to use him again and will definitely be passing on his details to others!
Tintworx Torquay
Mar 07, 2021
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Billy is a true professional and boy does he know his stuff. He took our thoughts, then either added to or agreed with them. Then directed us and taught us so much about websites and google. His help and professional knowledge has been excellent. We are not only very happy with our website, but we now understand how to move forward with it... Thank you Billy.
Paul The Phantom Matthews
Dec 20, 2020
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Positive: Quality
Billy is a true professional....everything he does is perfection, because he takes complete pride in his product, whether it be web design, marketing, music and video production, sound engineering - the list of his expertise goes on and on....! And.......he gets results too......👍👍👍.......so what more could one wish for!!
Billy is a true professional....everything he does is perfection, because he takes complete pride in his product, whether it be web design, marketing, music and video production, sound engineering - the list of his expertise goes on and on....! And.......he gets results too......👍👍👍.......so what more could one wish for!!
Wizardjeans Sally Allen
Aug 23, 2020
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Liquidmotion
Aug 11, 2020
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Del Healy
Jul 24, 2020
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I can't thank Billy at Lets Get Digital enough for his help, support, patience and incredible knowledge during the re-design of my recent website. I had my crazy ideas and he was able to tone them down and work with me in a logical and professional manner whilst also helping me enormously through the minefield of website jargon. He also constantly reminded me of the need for the site to not just look lovely, but to work as well - which indeed it does. He is my go-to website guy!
Jason Hancock
Jul 07, 2020
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What can I say about Billy absolutely fantastic from start to finish attention to detail but the best bit even though he’s built your website which I get great comments about all the time it doesn’t stop there over the last two years he keeps on tweaking I’m working on it to make things even better in regards to your Google searches my wed page Peakdecking.co.uk Comes in right at the top of Google searches sometimes Out ranking my suppliers which are big global companies at no extra cost a true wizard
Simon Gilboy
May 30, 2018
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