Just a small point: we’re not a pure consultancy now, nor do we want to be :)
We have Steve, Edd, Telmo, Joshua and Matt working on designing and building real online stuff – including a very substantial social network for a niche group.

But in recent times the growth has been much more in our consulting services.

For us it’s really important to help clients from inception (training, strategy and research) all the way through to delivery and then into promotion and marketing – so the range of areas we work in has both narrowed (social media) and broadened into a stack of services.

Our positioning will continue to evolve. More on that another time!

Thanks for the positives dude.

I was admittedly confused the other day when I visited the Nice People page and saw that nearly all positions now include the term ‘Director’ or ‘Consultant’; I was rather puzzled since I wasn’t aware of your new direction as a ‘pure’ consultancy.

It makes sense for you to move this way given where you’ve positioned yourselves over the last two years, but I can’t help feel a little sad too. I didn’t see this as the direction NM would go when I left 2.5 years ago — so I guess I left at the right time or I wouldn’t have had a job there today anyway ;-)

It’s clearly worked really well to re-position yourselves in the social media space and capitalise on your expertise in this brave new world. Good luck for the future, and good luck too to those who had to be let go. Must have been a really tough time, but hopefully everyone will find new opportunities in moving on.

Keep it up!
Julius