Episode 100 - The Century Edition - Tom Murphy, super entrepreneur and founder of podcast sponsor De Facto Shaving Oil

On our 100th edition who better to have on as a guest but the man whose support via one of his companies, De Facto Shaving Oil, has made the podcast (Best Business Podcast nominated) possible. Tom Murphy has been in business 'for longer than he cares to remember'.


He set up his main company Pamex, a pharmacy distributor having been made redundant (very nastily) from his MD job...and the rest is history, as they say. He now has 27 people working for him across Ireland and more recently the UK (part of his retirement plan!). Tom gives a masterclass on how to look after the customer, why and how to write a letter, how to respond to job seekers, how to find business opportunities (mobile carwash anyone?), the importance of 'getting off the island' and queries why SMEs are so badly treated in his eyes.

Find out why his 'hire in heartbeat' choices are:

Lee Iacocca

Professor Martin Curley

Chuck Blakeman, author of 'Making Money is Killing your Business'.


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