Author
Mark’s debut book, Build It or Get Out, was born out of his experiences working in the Network Marketing industry. Having been involved for well over a decade, Mark eventually learned a number of essential lessons that led him to realise that this industry was not for him. In this thoughtful and humorous look at his personal time in Network Marketing, Mark has condensed his experience down to 7 essential lessons that will arm anyone who is just starting out in that industry, or thinking about joining a Network Marketing company, with everything they need to know to decide if this is the right opportunity for them.
Project Manager
Mark left Network Marketing with two things: a hunger to own his own business and a lot of debt! Mark is now the co-founder of his own IT consultancy business, which specialises in delivering data and management information projects. Mark has worked with a number of clients from a variety of industries, including financial services (Lloyds Banking Group, TSB and Zurich Financial Services), Energy (Bristol Energy and Smart DCC), Oil & Gas (Castrol / BP Lubricants) and legal (The Law Society). Mark is known for delivering IT projects to a business agenda and is that rare person in the IT world, who can interface effectively with both business and technology.
Town Crier
When not running his own business or writing books, Mark enjoys dressing up in 18th century clothing and shouting at people! As his home town’s official Town Crier, Mark gets to travel the world representing that town, Calne in Wiltshire, in competitions. Mark does this so he can be an ambassador for his home town and tell the world about its many virtues. It helps that many of the other town criers he has met are now among his best friends and some of the best people you will every meet. Of course, if he happens to take home a trophy or two, so much the better! Mark is the current Bermuda International Town Crier Champion, an achievement he first attained in 2015 and successfully defended in 2017.
About Mark Wylie
Mark has his heart in the wrong place — literally. A small defect at birth revealed that his heart lies slightly to one side of where it should be, a fact that always gave him some comfort as a young man should an enraged lover or crazed stalker have decided to go for him with a knife.
Mark has always been a passionate reader and was intrigued at an early age to discover that most authors seem to have had a huge variety of, often short-lived, jobs on their way to full-time authordom (authorness? authism? — no, that can’t be right)… on their way to becoming a full time author. To this end, Mark has worked as a hospital porter (until he nearly killed a patient on the operating table), a factory worker (until he was asked to stop being one due to sustaining chicken-related injuries), a barman (until he spent a week being investigated by the police for suspected theft… before they caught the real culprit) and a shop assistant in a Doctor Who specialist shop in London (until it went bust and he found himself helping the owner do a moonlight flit with the rest of the stock).
Mark lives in a small market town in Wiltshire, England with his wife and three sons. He owns his own consultancy business and works with high-profile clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, energy and oil & gas, specialising in leading business intelligence and management information projects. He is also his home town’s Town Crier and can often be found in various towns and cities during the summer months dressed in historical livery and taking part in town crier competitions. He hasn’t done too badly in these, truth be told, managing to win a number of competitions, including the prestigious Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers Championship. In 2012, he became the UK National Champion at the first time of asking. He was honoured to represent his town at the Bermuda International Town Criers Competition in 2015 and was delighted and humbled to win all three rounds of the competition to be named winner and Commonwealth Champion. He was even more delighted to be invited back in 2017 to defend his title, which he did. Mark is a bit chuffed about being a town crier, as you can probably tell.
About Mark Wylie
Mark has his heart in the wrong place – literally. A small defect at birth revealed that his heart lies slightly to one side of where it should be, a fact that always gave him some comfort as a young man should an enraged lover or crazed stalker decide to go for him with a knife.
Mark has always been a passionate reader and was intrigued at an early age to discover that most authors seem to have had a huge variety of, often short-lived, jobs on their way to full-time authordom (authorness? authism? – no, that can’t be right)… on their way to becoming a full time author. To this end, Mark has worked as a hospital porter (until he nearly killed a patient on the operating table), a factory worker (until he was asked to stop being one due to sustaining chicken-related injuries), a barman (until he spent a week being investigated by the police for suspected theft… before they caught the real culprit) and a shop assistant in a Doctor Who specialist shop in London (until it went bust and he found himself helping the owner do a moonlight flit with the rest of the stock).
Mark lives in a small market town in Wiltshire, England with his wife and three sons. He owns his own consultancy business and works with high-profile clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, energy and oil & gas, specialising in leading business intelligence and management information projects. He is also his home town’s Town Crier and can often be found in various towns and cities during the summer months dressed in historical livery and taking part in town crier competitions. He hasn’t done too badly in these, truth be told, managing to win a number of competitions, including the prestigious Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers Championship. In 2012, he became the UK National Champion at the first time of asking. He was honoured to represent his town at the Bermuda International Town Criers Competition in 2015 and was delighted and humbled to win all three rounds of the competition to be named winner and Commonwealth Champion. He was even more delighted to be invited back in 2017 to defend his title, which he did. Mark is a bit chuffed about being a town crier, as you can probably tell.
