Wendy Dashwood-Quick – founder of SocialMii is a published Author, Blogger, Copywriter, Social Media Trainer and Online Strategist and Coach. You can follow her on Twitter @Dashwood.
Wendy is based in Essex and began her career at the age of 19 as a Girl Friday in a large Advertising Agency in the West End of London. Following that she worked in a variety of industries in the public and private sectors throughout her career, including Legal, Insurance, IT and Education.
Wendy has over 7 years experience as a Personal Coach. Throughout this time she picked up extension knowledge about marketing a business online, which eventually led her into the world of Social Media, writing and blogging.
Wendy now helps small businesses increase their profits by teaching them the principles and strategies involved in marketing their businesses online using Social Media – especially blogging. Wendy uses straightforward techniques that help her clients learn to enjoy and even love Social Marketing, without being overwhelmed by all the buzz words and jargon.
As a keen writer and blogger Wendy published her first book in 2009 “Discover Yourself on the YellowBrick Road”, following years of study into Self Development. She is also the author of several e-books.
In her spare time Wendy loves Flamenco and trained briefly with Joaquin Grillo – one of Spain’s most celebrated Flamenco dancers. Watch a dance lesson here
Wendy has always been very keen on music and took up the cello age the age of 11 and studied with Sylvia Mann (former Principal Cellist with the BBC Radio Orchestra). As a teenager she toured Europe as a cellist, as part of a scratch orchestra of young musicians, and appeared at St Michael’s Cave in Gibraltar, concert halls in Santander and Vigo in Spain. She also performed in the final of the annual Music For Youth Festival at the Royal Albert Hall. She’s also appeared throughout East Anglia as a member of the Essex
Symphony Orchestra performing everything from Gershwin to Mahler. She also performed at the Thaxted Music Festival with the ESO. She is also a former member of the Brentwood Philharmonic Orchestra
Things you don’t know about Wendy
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Wendy cheated death 3 times. She miraculously survived birth despite being deprived of oxygen for over 20 minutes. As an infant she was more or less written off as ‘backward’ by her teachers, but later discovered she had a gift for athletics and eventually went on to compete at County level as a Sprinter.
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Later she had a Near Death Experience following major surgery in 1995
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In 1996 Wendy had a narrow escape from a runaway car which crashed through the plate-glass window of a shop she was in at the time
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Her Great Grandfather William Worboys spent most of his career as a Train Driver on the Flying Scotsman – the most famous steam train in the world. On 30th November 1934 he took this historic train into the record books, when it became first steam train ever to travel at over 100 mph.
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Wendy’s Grandfather Captain Harold Quick skippered the Marconi
Research Vessel the Elettra II on its voyages around the North Sea during the 1960′s. Both the Elettra I and Elettra II yachts were used as test beds and
demonstrations for equipment designed by MWT/Marconi Communications Marine Development Group. -
Never one to shy away from a challenge, Wendy abseiled down a waterfall, and a 110 ft office block for charity in 2007
