Welcome to Chez Maurice

Last revision May 2025

Updated today by William Nicholls CEO Maltix Ltd

William has edited

Chez Maurice, is a zoom meeting place which is aimed to behave a bit like a Parisian café in perhaps the 1930s. You can drop in for a whole session, about an hour and a half, or come and go as you need.

Entry is by invitation and, in time, will probably be via a subscription model, but for now it’s free to all, as you will see below. However, there will be a group of founders who, subject to regular attendance, will be free for life. It’s purpose, is to talk about, and share, all things marketing. Problems, needs, new initiatives, basis and advanced principles: whatever the patrons, want to talk about!

It meets on:- 1st and 3rd Tuesday every month 10.30 to 12.00 GMT/BST as appropriate. 

William

To be re arranged by the new Chez Maurice manager ( please decide and inform [email protected] and [email protected]) 

Maltix Ltd will not pay for and maintain the Chez Maurice QR platform as before but a Lares VA Clerical can be appointed via HERE to create and maintain the Dynamic QR platform for Chez Maurice

In a sense, “Chez Maurice” is a tribe for Maurice and Melville Marketing ( defunct), but more importantly, it’s a space for marketers and those who need marketing to socialise, share ideas, and learn best practice, and funky new stuff, from others present.

The rules for entry are quite simple:- you (or whoever you want to invite for membership) provides their real name and other details and Registers at Melville Marketing and ticks the "Chez Maurice box" for what you want to receive (you can of course tick others but for C-M ,...). 

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William 

First Suggestion this is managed through Lares VA

That will give you access to reminders and the Chez Maurice WhatsApp group which is where stuff is shared  If you can’t trust group members, to do the right thing, please don’t join.

I do ORS too!

For those sessions:-

Bring problems, or queries, or, come to share new ideas and initiatives, affecting Marketing. Since this is effectively a networking or social environment, not a marketplace to pitch to; sales pitches are not welcome as are unsolicited elevator pitches.

However if you are networking properly, when you are in a networking event what happens is that when you find somebody interesting you ask them questions which might include who are you what you do what you hope to get from this meeting what sort of contacts are you looking for and last but not least how can I help you do that? If you are lucky and in the right room the person you are talking to will want to know the same thing from you.

So, to make everybody’s life easier, I suggest that all members put a bio, probably not more than 500 words, into the WhatsApp group and, in the same group, provide links to their own LinkedIn profiles or even better their eCard details Get here for free

William

My suggestion as an alternative to using a professional VA is that someone in the group manages a single free eCard and distributes the changes every week within the Chez Maurice WA group

From time to time, in the Zooms, I’ll be doing talks/presentations on, my takes on marketing, sales, and networking, but these will be driven by attendee’s wishes and concerns.

Guest presenters, and info sessions, are also on the cards where they add value to the group.

Please note that all meetings will be held under the Chatham House Rule

For the moment, these meetings are free and will be forever free for the first 20 applicants who will be our “Founders”.

To maintain Founder status an average of at least 1.5 meetings a month over 6 months rolling, will be required.

Any changes to this rule will be notified to all participants, if, and when, it changes.

If you want to understand where I’m coming from, and thus what some of the underlying themes for Chez Maurice are, then reading the following pages on the PWA replacing the website might prove useful. defunct

Now defunct

By all means, forward the link, to invite to this group, but all participants are required to complete this Registration Form 

Discussions happen and pitches are actively discouraged but eCard Bios are welcome

Any and all, relevant data, will be treated in line with DPA 2018 and or GDPR, as the case may be. Since Chez Maurice, is always in development, this page will be updated, from time to time. defunct

Maurice T Watts – BSc DMS DipM FInstSMM MCIM MIDM MIOD 

Marketing and Sales Director – Maltix Ltd and Melville Marketing now defunct

William 

Associated articles may well be broken from the now removed knowledge base