Podcast My Business: Recent Episodes
Tony Skinner
In this conversation, Tony and Adriana discuss the evolvinglandscape of customer service, particularly in the wake of COVID-19.
They explore the importance of valuing customer experiences, the need for effective communication, and the role of accountability in servicedelivery.
Adriana emphasises the necessity of empowering staff toresolve issues and the impact of exceptional customer service on loyalty.
They also touch on the motivations behind customer choicesand propose solutions to the current crisis in customer service, highlighting the importance of empathy and connection in interactions.
The discussion concludes with a look at the future ofcustomer service in the age of AI.
In this engaging conversation, Tony and Alan Stevens explorethe intriguing connection between facial features and personality traits including how crows feet are good for you and your business.
They discuss how facial expressions can reveal insights intoa person's emotional state and character, supported by scientific research in neuroscience and psychology.
Alan shares practical tips for improving social interactionsand understanding the nuances of body language, emphasizing the importance of genuine engagement in conversations.
Adriana from Crowds Now shares her journey from being Hong Kong's youngest director at 16 to her diverse business experiences, emphasising the importance of ambition and not diluting oneself.
She highlighted the necessity of exceptional customerservice, citing Will Cordera's book "Unreasonable hospitality."Adriana criticised the current lazy mentality in businesses and stressed the importance of hiring for skill and will over qualifications.
She also discussed the misalignment between sales andoperations in businesses and the need for mutual fit and resilience in team dynamics.
In this podcast episode, Tony interviews Jonathan Guico from DIYPT.co.au discussing the philosophy behind personal training, the importance of long-term health, and the transition from a corporate career to personaltraining.
Jonathan emphasises the need for accountability in fitness, the inspiration behind the obesity epidemic in Australia, and practical health tips to build daily habits.
He also shares insights on starting a business and the importance of being adaptable in product development.
In this conversation, Tony and Alan Stevens discuss theconcept of 'quiet cracking,' a phenomenon where employees work hard but are not effective, leading to psychological issues.
They explore how business owners can identify signs of quietcracking, especially in remote work settings, and emphasise the importance of observing nonverbal cues.
The discussion highlights the financial impact of quietcracking on businesses and the necessity of creating a supportive work environment that fosters employee engagement and creativity.
Helens inspriring journey from losing her business through covid, to pivoting to online, even when others retired.
In this podcast episode, Tony interviews Helen Hancox, whoshares her journey from being a solo mother on social welfare to becoming a successful business coach.
Helen discusses the impact of COVID-19 on her business, while others retired her pivot to digital organisation, and the importance of effective filing systems.
She provides valuable tips for staying organised in adigital world and emphasises the need to understand one's business needs for better organisation.
As a proud media and marketing supporter of PrivacyAwareness Week we have 2 podcasts this week on the importance of protecting your privacy online especially for your business.
If you're an Australian business reading this, there's a 30%chance you will suffer a data breach.
In this podcast episode, Tony interviews Laetitia Bowden,the founder of Kicking Pixels, discussing her journey in the digital space and the importance of privacy in today's world.
Laetitia shares insights on how her company evolved and thecreation of Gatheroo, a tool designed to enhance privacy and productivity for businesses.
The conversation highlights the need for awareness regarding personal information sharing and the significance of cybersecurity measures.
In this conversation, Tony and Kristof Kasmer discuss theimportance of privacy awareness, especially in the context of technology and social media.
They explore the risks associated with oversharing personalinformation online, the implications of social engineering, and best practices for protecting one's privacy.
Kristof emphasizes the need for strong password management, the shared responsibility of data security between users and service providers, and the role of cookies in tracking user behaviour.
The discussion also touches on innovative technologies thatenhance privacy and security, concluding with a call for greater awareness and caution in sharing personal information online.
Australian C-suite exec Seb Brandt is cycling 4000kmacross America to shine the spotlight on the importance of taking time out to recharge, and to follow your dreams.
He is currently 700km into this 4000km, 3-month cycling ‘deliberate detour’ which aims to inspire others totake a purposeful pause to reset, avoid burn out, improve mental health and broaden life and leadership skills.
In this podcast episode, Tony and Sharon Stanley discuss the intricacies of customer management.
Focusing on the importance of effective communication, the role of surveys, onboarding processes, and strategies for building long-term client relationships.
Sharon emphasises the need for trust and understanding in client interactions, while also addressing the challenges businesses face in managing client expectations and maintaining engagement.
Alan Stevens, an expert in reading faces, discusses hisjourney to developing rapid trait profiling, a method to read people's personalities without asking questions.
He emphasises the importance of reading faces in businessfor building relationships and understanding colleagues.
Alan highlights the significance of eyebrows, body language,and non-verbal cues in communication.
He advises being honest and respectful, and notes thatfacial expressions and body language should align for authenticity.
Alan also touches on the impact of video framing and theimportance of context and clusters in interpreting facial cues.
Louise Ridlen, also known as the IT Lady, discusses herjourney from a 30-year IT consultant to founding her own business.
In this interview Louise Ridlen emphasises the importance of enjoying your work so you never work a day in your life.Initially named IT Lady, her company pivoted to Peppermint IT in 2024.
Louise highlights her charity work, whichhelps older Australians and connects schoolchildren to act as digital mentors.
Louise's motivation stems from her love for problem-solvingand the responsibility of paying her staff.
Tony Skinner from Podcast My Business and Brendan Lee from Be Digital Group discussed the current economic sentiment and the importance of sales over marketing.
Brendan, a career marketer, emphasized the need for salesconversion and the integration of marketing and sales strategies.
They highlighted the significance of influence in marketingand the importance of messaging congruency.
Brendan also discussed the role of AI in enhancing businessvalue and efficiency.
Tony shared insights on brand recognition and the impact ofmarketing on sales.
They concluded with tips on delivering value and thepotential of AI to free up human time for higher-value tasks.
Summary
In this podcast episode, Tony interviews Steve Hall, a coach specialising in helping fathers navigate the challenges of parenting and career alignment.
They discuss the importance of being an example for children, especially during their teenage years, and how to foster open communication.Steve emphasises the need for men to find purpose in their careers and lives beyond just working towards retirement.
The conversation also touches on the significance of engaging with teenagers on their terms and the value of expressing oneself through art and communication.
Takeaways
People know when they are being challenged and need help.
Men often focus on their careers when life gets tough.
Aligning your career can positively impact family life.
Dads should be examples rather than just advisors to their children.
Teenagers seek their own identity and need support to make choices.
Engaging in activities like gaming can strengthen father-son bonds.
Giving advice can create resistance; listening is more effective.
Finding purpose beyond retirement is crucial for fulfillment.
Artistic expression can be a valuable outlet for personal values.
Building trust with teenagers leads to better communication.
In this podcast episode, audiologist Karen Hirschausen discusses the significance of hearing in communication, the impact of hearing loss across various industries, and the importance of workplace accommodations for employees with hearing impairments.
She emphasises the role of technology in hearing protection and the need for regular hearing checks, especially for children.
The conversation also explores future trends in hearing and workplace communication, highlighting the importance of proactive measures to maintain hearing health.
00:00Introduction to Audiology and Hearing
02:09The Importance of Hearing in Communication
06:09Hearing Loss in Different Industries
09:56Workplace Accommodations for Hearing Impairments
13:52The Role of Technology in Hearing Protection
17:57Future Trends in Hearing and Workplace Communication
What happened Sensis and Yellow Pages?
In this follow up Podcast we discuss the evolution that allcompanies need to go through especially post Covid.
Elise Balsillie from Thryv discusses the evolution of their company, which supports small to medium businesses in Australia with cloud-based tools.
Thryv’s Business Centre product helped businesses duringCOVID-19 by improving efficiency.
Post-pandemic, businesses are focusing on growth, usingtechnology to streamline operations and drive efficiency.
Elise highlighted a case study of Megan O'Dell Alterations,which saw a 2.5x increase in turnover by adopting Thryv’s technology.
She emphasised the importance of addressing pain points and leveraging AI for simple tasks like managing online reviews. Thryv offers a free software, Command Centre, to centralise communication channels.
Tony Skinner discusses with John Ring the benefitsof claiming a UK State Pension for Australians and UK expats in Australia and New Zealand who have lived and worked in the UK.
John explains that individuals can maximize their UK State Pension by buying additional years of National Insurance contributions, with a current opportunity to buy 18 past years expiring on 5 April 2025, after which you can only buy six past years of NI contributions.
The standard rate for contributions is $1,700 per year, while the cheap rate is $350 per year. Tony, who worked in the UK for six years and Australia for four years before 2001, could potentially increase his annual pension from $4,200 to $17,000 by buying these additional years.
John's company, XtraPension, assists with the application process for a fee.
Note there is no guarantee to receive a UK pension.
Tyrone Wheeler, a coach from the UK, discusses his passionproject of helping men, particularly dads, improve their relationships with their own fathers.
Men can make it hard on themselves with maculine roles feeling love and affection. This has to stop.
Tyrone shares his personal journey of reconnecting with hisbiological father after 35 years, which led him to help others overcome the challenges he faced, such as confidence issues and self-doubt.
He emphasises the importance of being open to emotions and sharing them with one's children. Tyrone's coaching business aims to supportdads in healing their relationships, whether with a biological or positive father figure.
The conversation also touches on the evolving dynamicsbetween fathers and sons and the impact of modern technology on parenting.
Tyrone Wheeler's Introduction and Business Background
Tony Skinner welcomes Tyrone Wheeler to the podcast andintroduces him as a business owner from the UK with both traditional and coaching businesses.
Tyrone shares that his passion project is his coachingbusiness, where he helps other men, particularly dads, to become better dads by healing and rebuilding their relationships with their own fathers.
Tyrone explains that his personal experience of beingseparated from his biological father for 35 years and reconnecting with him later influenced his decision to help other dads.
He discusses the challenges he faced without a proper fatherfigure in his life, including issues with confidence and self-doubt, and how reconnecting with his dad changed his life.
Personal Journey and Impact of Reconnecting with HisFather
Tyrone recounts his personal journey of being separated from his father at a young age and reconnecting with him after 35 years.
He describes the detrimental effects of not having a fatherfigure in his life, including confidence issues and self-doubt.
Tyrone shares the life-changing moment of reconnecting with his father, where he could be himself without pretending, and how this experience inspired him to help other dads.
He emphasises the importance of healing and rebuildingrelationships with one's father, whether biological or a positive father figure.
Challenges and Rewards of Helping Other Dads
Tony Skinner comments on Tyrone's Scottish accent and thechallenges of helping other dads, especially those in Scotland, known for being hard-nosed.
Tyrone admits that initially, he doubted his decision tohelp other dads but feels now that he is doing the right thing, guided by his heart and soul.
Tony asks Tyrone about principles to improve relationshipsbetween fathers and their sons.
Tyrone advises being connected to one's emotions andfeelings, sharing them openly, and understanding their origins to improve relationships with children.
Evolution of Parenting and Modern Challenges
Tony and Tyrone discuss the evolution of parenting and theold paradigm of fathers and sons, where children were seen and not heard.
Tyrone notes the changes in parenting over time and theimportance of spending quality time with children, especially in the modern era with technology.
He mentions his own experience of having a 21-year-olddaughter and grandchildren, and how technology has made it more challenging for younger generations to raise kids.
Tony and Tyrone agree on the importance of supportingchildren and following one's heart, even if it means going against the grain.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Tony mentions the name of the podcast, "Healing Son-DadRelationships," and where listeners can find it, including Apple and Spotify.
Tyrone shares his final thoughts, emphasising the importanceof following one's heart and making the most of life.
Tony thanks Tyrone for the conversation and wishes him well.
Samantha from spendingmadeeasy.com.au and Tony discuss the importance of creating a spending plan rather than a budget,
the common problems people face with their finances, andthe benefits of monitoring and planning ahead.
Samantha explains how her business helps clients develop good financial habits and prioritise their expenses.
They also touch on the concept of saving and the rewards ofspending less. Overall, the conversation provides valuable insights and practical tips for managing personal finances.
Takeaways
Creating a spending plan is more effective than traditional budgeting for managing personal finances.
Monitoring expenses and planning ahead are key to achieving financial stability.
Many people are in denial about their financial situation and avoid confronting it.
Having the right support and guidance can help individuals develop good financial habits and make betterfinancial decisions.
Saving money and spending less can lead to long-term financial rewards.
Sound bites
00:00Introduction and Background
03:05The Benefits of a Spending Plan for Personal Finances
07:03Common Problems and Challenges with Personal Finances
09:20The Importance of Monitoring and Planning Ahead
12:32Developing Good Financial Habits and PrioritizingExpenses
15:07The Rewards of Saving and Spending Less
18:26Conclusion and Call to Action
Is it FAIR for the Government to CHARGE for access to SAFETY STANDARDS?
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For National Safety Month Tony Skinner speaks with Cameron Montgomery from the Australian Institute of Health and Safety (AIHS)
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Especially about the IMPORTANCE of workplace safety, with a call for access to standards being PROVIDED FOR FREE.
Braeden Rhys, a business strategist and coach, discusses the importance of authenticity and planning in business.
He emphasizes the need for practical experience over theoretical knowledge and warns against cheap,ineffective services.
Braeden shares his journey of gaining clients by offering free services and building a portfolio of 583 clients across various industries.
He stresses the importance of understanding business needs, planning for potential issues, and aintaining transparency.
Braeden offers free one-hour consultations to help businesses identify and address their problems, advocating for a flexible, cost-effective approach to growth.
In this conversation, Tony Skinner interviews Les fromNoLimitsToSuccess.com.au about the importance of business networking and the role of a business coach.
- Business networking is crucial for growth and success. Building connections with other people and businesses can lead to valuable opportunities.
- Giving value and helping others grow is essential in networking and business relationships.
- When looking for a business coach, it is important to find someone who has their own coach and has achieved success in their own business.
- Changing mindset and beliefs is key to making improvements and achieving success.
- Time is a valuable commodity that should be used efficiently. Speed of implementation and decision-making are important factors in achieving success. 00:00Introduction and Importance of Business Networking
02:22Giving Value and Helping Others Grow in Networking andBusiness
03:51 Fundamentals of Looking for a Business Coach
09:05 The Role of Mindset in Success
13:12 The Value of Time and Speed of Implementation
16:40 Modeling the Top 1% for Success
In this conversation, Tony Skinner interviews SimoneRobinson, a copywriter and marketing strategist. They discuss the importance of engaging headlines, networking, the role of messaging in marketing, the impact of artificialintelligence on copy writing, and tips for starting a business.
Simone emphasises the need for clear and compellingmessaging, the power of headlines, and the importance of understanding your target audience.
She also highlights the value of blending AI with human expertise in copywriting. Simone shares her unique background in psychology and her experience working in high-level marketing roles, which sets her apart inthe industry.
- Networking is crucial for business success, as it helps build connections and expand your reach beyond your local area.
- Clear and compelling messaging is essential in marketing, as it helps attract and resonate with your target audience.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful tool for copywriters, but it is not yet capable of fully replacing human copywriters, especially when it comes to creating unique and compelling messaging.
- When starting a business, it is important to focus on both networking and developing a strong skill set in your industry.
- Headlines play a critical role in capturing attention and should be given careful attention and testing.
- Understanding your target audience and their pain points is key to creating effective messaging and marketing strategies.
Tony and Jessica discuss the challenges of dealing with negativecomments on social media and the importance of empathy. The conversation concludes with the significance of rest, exercise, and connecting with nature for overall well-being.
16:24 Ignoring Nasty Comments on Social Media
17:33 Starting the Day with Gratitude
18:23 Being Empathetic and Understanding Others
20:00 Coping with Stress and Calming Down
21:14 Getting Proper Rest and Exercise
22:03 Finding Healing and Solace in Nature
23:01 The Benefits of Traveling and Experiencing DifferentCultures
25:32 Creating Your Own Family
26:19 Conclusion
Jessica shares her personal background and the inspirationbehind her book, 'The Quest for Family.' They also explore the role of nutrition in mental health and productivity, emphasizing the need for healthier food choices.
Jessica provides tips for eating well and highlights the impactof additives and excessive sugar intake.
They discuss the challenges of dealing with negativecomments on social media and the importance of empathy.
The conversation concludes with the significance of rest, exercise, and connecting with nature for overall well-being.
Takeaways
During the holiday season, it is important to prioritizemental health and healthy relationships.
Making healthier food choices can positively impact mentalhealth and productivity.
Ignoring negative comments on social media and focusing onempathy can help maintain a positive mindset.
Taking time for rest, exercise, and connecting with natureis essential for overall well-being.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:18 Stresses and Pressures of Christmas
01:36 Jessica's Background and Book
03:13 Building a Business Family
03:44 Importance of Mental Health in the Workplace
05:00 Making Healthy Food Choices
06:40 Setting Goals and Working Hard
08:39 Providing Healthy Options in the Workplace
09:56 The Impact of Unhealthy Eating on Health andProductivity
10:39 Making Choices for Mental and Overall Health
11:28 The Additives in Processed Foods
13:26 Tips for Eating Healthier
14:08 Avoiding Excessive Sugar Intake
Be more artistic, relax and help workplace productivity with these special tactile tablets.
Because we're made for one purpose from the very beginning 40 years ago, it's just made for drawing creativity, and make it as simple as we can.
It's a great tool to have your staff or even yourself use for even 5 minutes an hour. It helps your mind relax.
For young people Hospitality is the best place to start. It's, it opens up your communication skills, you've got to deal, you become a real team player, you don't turn up, you really let your team down.
You learn to deal with conflict,you get to read and deal with different types of people every day. So you know, you think those four things or five things I've just mentioned, if you're going to go down any leadership org and find out what great leaders have, they all have those traits.
And I always thought that there was a big opportunity to sort of educate people and train people to realize that there actually is a career path in hospitality outside your top tier hotels.
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You will get access to every fair deal as soon as its available.
Kyco is free to join, and we don’t share your information with anyone.
The problem with third party retailers is that their business models are unaligned with the business modelsof the suppliers and the products they’re selling. Joining
Who’s not making money? The insurance company or the supplier?
How does it actually work?
How car insurance companies are relying on people not switching -.
Is it worthwhile to use comparison sites?
No hidden fees until you get the product disclosure statement.
What are the benefits of having a consumer buying group?
The more people you have in the community, the more savings are assumed.
The problem with third partyretailers is that their business models are unaligned with the business modelsof the suppliers and the products they’re selling
Who’s not making money? Theinsurance company or the supplier?
How does it actually work?
How car insurance companies arerelying on people not switching -.
Is it worthwhile to usecomparison sites?
No hidden fees until you get theproduct disclosure statement.
What are the benefits of having aconsumer buying group?
The more people you have in thecommunity, the more savings are assumed.
Lighthouse Foundation is a youth homelessness service. It's been in operation for just on 30 years.
And it's an organization that really not only seeks to address and and youth homelessness as it currently exists, but to really work with the community, both private and public, to achieve not only a solution for the young people of today,
but certainly to do something about the sad but, unavoidable fact that there is an increase of young people in the next generation who come through to similar circumstances.
What is the lighthouse foundation?
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How do you use the term “youth”?
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Lighthouse seeks to make it easier for those who can’t provide that for themselves to find those pathways.
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Not every family is perfect by any means, but it’s your family.
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What’s the ways for a business to help?
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How to help people who are missing the basic needs of life.
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How can the community help?
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What are some things that we can help by looking out for?
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Don’t force the kids to kiss Auntie May.
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So the easiest way is to start a blank piece of paper for me, I'm going to also suggest you go get a whole bunch of colored pencils, because that's fun, that gets the mind going.
Because when you're stuck, just go pick up another color, and another color and another color and write it down.
But don't forget to think about all the community in your business and that's you, your business, your partner, your kids, your parents, your customers, your suppliers, everybody, what are the goals?
What are the things you do for them?
What are the achievements, what are the feelings you want these people to feel?
Why do you want to have to just regurgitate a bunch of stuff you've learned by rote?
So what we do instead is we connect our students with global companies small and large, and be involved in live projects that they have a problem in their business they want solve, so to serve a continually talking to business businesses globally to say, what is the problem in your business?
With the Landing Pad space for entrepeneurs here in Newcastle it's something very practical we can do to try and help de risk, by having a partnership like the landing pad with the University of Newcastle and the amazing facilities that it brings just to make it that little bit easier for somebody thinking of relocating to a regional city to take advantage of the better quality of life that a city like Newcastle is able to bring.
I can speak from personal experience as someone who has moved from Sydney to Newcastle 12 years ago that, you know, one of the reasons why we wanted to relocate was housing affordability, we love the beach, and we wanted to be close to the beach.
But if we wanted to stay in Sydney, we just seem to get further and further away from it. And the commute time. So I would take public transport, and it would be one hour each way from where I lived in suburban Sydney to Alexandria. And I was like is this what my life is going to be like, especially with young children but i had luckily married a Novocastrian.
And it was a somewhat easier transition to a leap of faith to move to Newcastle because I was sort of familiar with the layout, when you Newcastle initiative was up and running at that point, which supported creative entrepreneurs to access space for them to be able to operate from and that really interested me, but otherwise, I had no networks up here. And my background was marketing.
And, you know, while the COVID and hybrid work opportunities or being able to work 100% remotely, has really opened up the doors, I think, to people to consider moving to regional locations like Newcastle. And that's been demonstrated by those figures that Declan just outlined, yes, working from home is fantastic.
We all like being able to be in our pajamas while we take zoom calls or put a load of washing on during during lunch break. But ultimately, at the end of the day, were connected humans that need to be able to be in person with each other. And that's what the landing pad ultimately ultimately is able to provide is that face to face interactive connection into humans and people that are going through the same journey you are, particularly if you're starting a new business.
Danny Davis from lct.org.au joins us too discuss if the Federal Government delivered on a wellness or wellbeing budget?
Also we look at waste and covering your arse in the NDIS
But by being in control, you can make sure that you're not falling out of the sky on a regular basis. The cybersecurity risks, the innovation disruption risks are just not being met on a on a competent basis at this stage.
I mean, it's a bit of an accusation, but I think it's true. I think boards from what I have seen firsthand, and from the research that I've done as well, are generally just not engaged with the level of change and risk that is out there.
Delivery can be arranged not just same day but within a few hours.
Clients get notifications by text message, and so forth. They can literally watch him on the map driving through the streets to their own home. So it really does give a next level of visibility and in the event that they have a contact issue they can call him they can text the shipper and the shipper can text them and get back as well. Everything's marked for privacy, obviously. But it's a sort of level of service, you just don't get with other carriers
If you're doing that you feel great for your customers, they'll keep coming back when they log online. And notice that you can get delivery of your of your T shirt in a couple of hours, where, you know, a dress for the cocktail dress for the evening. You know, a lot of consumers want that.
And they'll take that up on the go, when they when they do receive the delivery. The commentary that we get is always really high, we ask our customers to rate the service. And we're sitting around that sort of 4.9 out of five
Yep, Australians are mad for what we call alternative milks, alt milks. They call it in the trade. And it's growing exponentially. and what's also interesting is each state has a little bit of a bias towards what their particular alt milk is.
Victorians have a strong bias for oat milk. And then New south Welsh people have a bias for almond milk. And then the Queenslanders have a bit of a bias still for soy milk, which was pretty much the original of alt milk that came on to the scene.
But you go to any cafe now Tony in their entire fridge is full of you've seen it, haven't you like the cardboard boxes of probably They're about six particular different types of milk. So it's pretty hard to manage that kind of inventory. But that's what customers demand now.
So if you had some quick tips for and we'll use that 20 year benchmark because again, it's I think it's what most of us start thinking about. If you're 20 years out, or between, say 20 years and then 10 years, what things do you think people should be doing to prepare for retirement.
Okay, the first thing that we must do, of course, is to make certain that we understand the financial implications, and have we got enough now, those who want to travel around the world every year and drive a Mercedes, they need a lot more than the person who says hey, I'm not interested in that.
So we've got to one understand the financial implication. So that's the first thing.
The second thing is we've got to develop the habits, so that we can successfully fill in 11,000 days. And the problem is this tony too many people in retirement. In fact, the average in Australia is watching screen time. That's telephone, tablets, computers, TV, and the big screen, nine hours a day, nine hours a day, they're watching television.
Now, I do not believe that it is reasonable or even sensible to spend all your life preparing for this time called retirement, saving money, getting ready, so that you can watch nine hours of television, I got to be joking. So that's a big one as well.
Physically fit. We must be physically fit. We know that there's these things like dementia and Alzheimer's and those types of things that are just around the corner for many, hey, but they're not. If you prepare well, in other words, anyone who is physically fit low on alcohol, plenty of exercise, good diet, and so on and so forth.
They do they attract dementia and Alzheimer's less than most people. Now, I'm not saying that you can avoid it, you can't avoid it. But you can delay it. So there are a couple of things that are really critical.
Again, web hosts will offer backups. But I recommend you do your own backups to either to OneDrive, or Google Drive or not on the website server. And the reason for this is that if the website server gets compromised, your backups will get compromised. And also the backups that website hosts offer. Some websites posted, you can get it back, like when you want it on demand others, it's just a disaster recovery backup.
So if the server goes down, they can bring it back up. But you can't just restore your own website. So make sure it's being backed up and make sure it's being backed up to another server just gives you that control and redundancy and safety. If something goes wrong, you can get everything back.
There are plenty of plugins out there that will do backups for you. And you just need to check when you're installing the plugin that it will backup to a third party sites. So one that I recommend is updraft might be Updraft Plus, that's that will do the backups, it will copy them to a third party server for you. They do have a free version, which I think allows you to backup to one destination. The premium version allows you to backup to more services. So you just need to check which one works for you the best.
I think people really underestimate how important exercise is for all around health and weight, around health and well being, but also our mental health and well being. So often people only exercise when they want to lose weight, for example.
But exercise is such an important tool for managing stress and anxiety, increasing our confidence, for helping us feel connected to others. So we've got an online platform.
So if you're on the country, it can be quite isolating.
If you can't get access to gyms, or you don't have time to go to the gym, you can join our community and get that sense of sense of community and purpose through your exercise, which is really important.
So having that planning was key. And that's something I think people will start doing more of now.
And it's something we learned in our growth, growth of our business was to plan better.
Think of what happens if the, you know, having the contingency plans of what if things go better than we expect?
Interview with Andy about how you can have sweet treat for yourself and the kids that is not bad for you and is sugar free.
Also some great tips to help other new business's.
So the purpose of our business is making sure that everyone can still enjoy sweet trees. But knowing that there is an alternative, now you can have that sweetness, but you don't need to have all the unsavory ingredients with it.
After all, who doesn't love a sweet treat?
And we'll go in with all this tech about antivirus and stuff. I have an example where one of the companies I was working for like 10 years ago as a big company, there was a Telstra subsidiary. I had to wipe his computer once a week, right. And I finally had a conversation with him. And his justification was, well, we have anti virus Matt, I would expect that it would just work all the time. And I said do you have seatbelts in your car? He's like, yeah, why? I said, do you just drive into trees all the time? He's like, Oh, no. Well, I mean, you can't expect anti viruses to stop everything, especially new threats come out every day.
We cover some great tips to help you take action and get more time. In this first part Les takes us through the first few letters of his e-book and we cover how to take action, through to the importance of having a buddy and breaks.
These simple tips will get you thinking and improving your day.
It's a double sided marketplace. And what we mean by that is that there are on the one side, lots of retailers right now, there's over a couple 100 retailers and there's over 100,000 products. And on the other side, there are the buyers, which are the ones that would come to the site to use it to furnish and fit out their spaces. So the idea behind https://www.sawce.com.au/ is to be the central dedicated online marketplace for furniture and fitouts.
We cover what actually is an emulsifier?
How to make commercial ice cream with less sugar with no arificial sweeteners.
What is vegan frozen dessert?
And how air is so critical to protecting the die for you flavours from Elato.
For example, on Breast Cancer we're down 98%, from April 2018, to 2020, which is very alarming, you know, only for one in 10, complete bowel cancer test kits as well. Like, there's a lot of statistics at the moment about this, which is really the driver for us in what we're doing at the moment with doctors.com.au
Join us for a truly inspirational story with Diem, a child refugee from Vietnam that now makes 100 % Australian vegan food that is now available in Woolworths and globally.
So, the definition it says as practicable, as possible.
We we look at whether we buy products, or we look at entertainment industry, so wherever possible,
we seek to exclude products or avoid entertainment, for example, which seek to exploit animals, Thats it in a nutshell,
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And I saw you using your forehead quite a bit then. Because I was going to say all the eyes sing to be predominant, but it's actually the forehead that seems to take up a large amount of space.
Is there such a thing as resting bitchface?
So face off, if I got a face transplant. Over time would my expressions now replace and go back onto the new face.
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Educate your staff
Backing up data
Ask your colleagues
MFA multi factor or two FA authentication
Stop using the same account on our email to use for online shopping services accounts, as we do for our personal banking services accounts.
We are talking about how restrictions impact your business as well. But what I'm thinking is that that's an opportunity. Because of course, once things start normalizing tradies they get busier again, they're going to need you even more once things return, and they get bombarded with work.
Of course, a podcast or video cast or video is about stories. You are someone who helps people realize the power of their stories and how to create stories that are more engaging, because there's so many stories out there, but what makes your story and my story so good.
So how do you help people with that?
We are joined by Christie of florandorder.com to discuss Time training and Goal strategising
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Strategies to help when things keep changing so much and the future is uncertain.
So as a general rule, what would be some tips to be better, organized and make better use of your time?
Providing an Omnichannel experience for your customers is becoming increasingly important.
With all the changes to shopping moving online with covid restrictions, a retail business needs to consider the full customer journey and experience.
Emarsys helps this experience with its apps offering a enhanced experience for your high value clients and improving engagement.
We are joined by Albert from Opentext.com to discuss adapting to global change and technology disruption by rethinking business strategy and seizing new digital capabilities in the cloud.
with so much data it is a real struggle to understand how to utilise it and create value and knowledge.
Questions asked include:
We all hear the cloud this thing out there somewhere. So how are you helping businesses to deal with that?
Using content and making it into a package usable that they can then use for marketing and other sorts of purposes.
In this episode we are joined by Todd Harper, CEO of Cancer Council Victoria to discuss the implications of Covid 19 and Cancer outcomes.
Questions asked include:
How are Covid lockdowns having an impact on cancer? Even under stress such as a lockdown is it a good time to quit?
What are the odds of catching cancer versus catching COVID?
Please share some tips on avoiding or lifestyle changes that can help you reduce the risk from catching cancer?
In this episode we are joined by Dr. Sarah White, the Director of www.quit.org.au
Quit is there to help all Australians improve their health, save money, protect their family and improve their lifestyle
Questions asked:
What do you put most of the success in reducing smoking rates in Australia down too?
Even under stress such as a lockdown is it a good time to quit?
I've got friends that claim that E Cigarettes are helping them, is this true?
In relation to Covid 19 and smoking. How does that impact health outcomes?
It's a bit crazy where we're coming up on 14 months of lockdown as as they call it here. They have different types of lockdowns. The current is like a general community lockdown where effectively its only essential travel. If you're working, then you're allowed to be outside. But otherwise, you really should be staying home and especially elderly or very young. So people under 16 and over 60 I believe it is, are not allowed to be out currently. So 14 months. It's Yeah, it's definitely a long time to be sort of stuck in stuck in the house for the majority of the time.
We interview Duncan as to how Sherpa could be called the Uber of deliversies as its all individually picked up and delivered same day.
The way it works is your order will go through our technology out to our network of Sherpas was 10,000 Sherpas we have across Australia. With the driver app waiting for orders, they will see the job accept the job because it's near their location, they will drive to the retail store, they'll pick up the goods, and they will drive the order to the customer's house or the customer's business wherever they've requested to deliver it.
So if you think about how Australia Post is moving millions and millions of passes around every day, we use technology to do it smarter and at a micro geography level, if you like so we match the Sherpas location, to the retail store. And we know the shipper can get there very quickly because we know where he is.
Today we have an interview with one of the most popular chicken brands in WA Chicken Treat. The chicken really flew out the door during covid and now they want to fly the coop and are looking for franchisees in the ACT and NSW.
Learn more about their success story in this podcast.
Ronald McDonald House Charities. Gives seriously ill children the best gift of all- their families. Please support the ceo walk in my shoes campaign.
With family in the country i know how difficult it would be when you have a seriously ill child needing treatment in a city hospital. Caring for other kids in the family, the costs of accomodation, food and transport would be too hard to even focus on when your child is receiving cancer or other serious forms of treatment.
RMHC helps with a supportive group environment as the families are picked up and put into a situation where they're away from their usual support networks and away from extended family and friends. As this becomes the new normal RMHC and other families staying their offer support in this time of crisis.
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At Pet Angel we're all compassionate people. We have empathy, and we all love what we do. And we all feel as though that we We can help the people. To be honest, we do focus on the pet, but the pet is deceased. So the people that the people that need the help are the owners of the pet. They need to be assured that their beloved pet is in good hands and well looked after in their afterlife.
Yes, I've actually seen a lot of projects struggle, because they haven't had the right team on board. I mean, I've seen projects go pear shaped, because for example, a great designer who was great at designing was promoted into a project management position, without having the proper training. And also there's far too much unnecessary pressure and stresses in the construction industry, because people are generally not good at project management. So this is why I actually set up my companies. I thought, after seeing so many products go wrong, and learning from those things. I thought I could help.
Clinical therapy is very, very serious thing. Because you're dealing with people's emotions and their thoughts and everything like that. So what it basically is, is just allowing your conscious mind rest, which then allows me to get down into your subconscious to give you positive reinforcement
Ready to grow your business then Peter Ellis business growing pains specialist can help.
So about 12 to 14%, of businesses that want to grow, more than half of them are actually stuck in between sizes. They're stuck between micro and small, or they're stuck between small and medium.
So what we're covering today is something that's quite interesting. Which is harnessing the power of reading people by reading their face. And it's more than just body language. Much more.
You dont have to be big to save big with couriers and ojnline deliveries. Get Support For Your Pack and Send Requirements. Since the early 2000's Chris has helped small business's. Even before Ebay became popular.
So in fact, getting us involved in your business planning and strategies means that hopefully, in the long term, you'll be spending time worrying about your business and not about regulators coming after you or your competition suing you, or anything like that.
Mia explains the importance of having your marketing strategy happening now and know your target market.
I think if people can just help the Australian cheese industry and also remember that there's dairy farmers that supply to all of these small cheese makers.
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Master the art of Presentation with Brenden of Master Talk. In this podcast he shares with us 5 tips to help you relax and enjoy public speaking.
Alison works in aged care, as an occupational therapist, and really knew and understood ,the challenges that families face as well as those working in the homes themselves. So Alison launched the first app for care homes. the agedcareapp.
And It just occurred to me that, you know, domestic violence survivors are especially vulnerable to identity theft. And the reason is because the the ex partner knows a lot about you, your ex partner knows a lot about you. And they knows and that gives them a really good head start on committing identity theft, identity theft.
Sarah From justsociale.org explains how to protect your rights online including from abusive former partners.
I think the big takeaway that I'd like to leave people with is, you know, don't eat small, don't ignore little problems because they do fester and become big problems. And, you know, if you're a leader of a small and medium business or a larger organization, you've got to appreciate that the little things that you do to invest in being a bit more proactive and preventative, can actually pay off in the long term. Your people that come to work every day in your organization, most of us come to work to do a good job. And we want to contribute and be our best and when we see other people misbehaving or doing the wrong thing, and then getting away with it. What that does is it basically it erodes our culture, but it makes us all think, why am I doing this? So as a leader, you know, you've got to see those things and go, right, I've got an obligation to take action on that. And particularly 98% of us are coming to work and doing a good job.
But it is really important that you go beyond just the Google of googling cybersecurity courses, speak to someone, make sure it's right for you. Because there's nothing worse than investing in training, finishing the course and working out that wasn't what I was looking for. So invest that time upfront, speak to someone that's got lots on offer, because it means they won't push you into one course. But specifically, I'd say that RESILIA frontline is very strong, and a good option to take care of, you know, all staff at all levels.
We are the number one by market cap listed, ASX pure play cyber security firm. I think almost anything can get hacked if the if the hacker is persistent enough. So it's important that you do have a sense of security, you understand the types of assets that you have, and they're appropriately protected. I think one of the myths in moving to the cloud is that security becomes somebody else's responsibility.
James from Egmont Honey has grown the business during the pandemic by focusing on quality. He Explains How Helicopters Help Bees Collect The Best NZ Manuka Honey
Please help us by booking artists for either live or via zoom, we can't wait to get back too before. We can't wait to being able to get in and play and entertain people and bring the joy and create singalongs and make people just have you know, the atmosphere changes with live music, the atmosphere changes to a really positive thing.
And for those who have had a child that screams endlessly in the evenings and has like excruciating belly pain no matter what you eat, no matter what you give them whether they're breastfed, you know regularly or whether they burb, there's so many issues, but colic is just so upsetting to watch and my mum being a naturopath and a medical herbalist. She'd helped me create clean tea.
Has your business been tricked and treated badly by covid, or treated and you have done well or even just ok? It has worked out well for Podcast My Business. Dont be shy there are always opportunities. Have you grabbed one?
it's very clear that when you do exercise more, that dopamine release that comes with it does help you feel better. And when you when you move a little bit more and you start to feel better, you're more motivated
The survey results have shown us that people are quite keen to get back to some semblance of normal, they just don't want to go back to the office full time
Managing your companies reputation Is like chasing a herd of wildebeest. You're chasing the herd of wildebeest and it changes direction and tramples you.
any senior leader business owner or executive can continue to navigate through what they're going through at the moment with with COVID and with change, and who knows where whether it'll be over the next six months. I think having that personal connection for yourself, and that personal clarity is just so important.
You've got to, you've got to be passionate about your business. And one thing I've learned with business, you cannot chase money, you can only invite it, and you invite it by being still being good at something, being passionate about it, and then telling others and then money comes to you.
Well, the vast majority of products don't have specific rules and regulations on them. I use my business to Try to educate different suppliers, importers, retailers, and so forth, and try to work with different parties to encourage them to do the right thing. There's actually quite a bit of good work going on by some of the business and industry associations. And I spend a bit of time with them to try to just kind of bring in a bit of self regulation.
So the cloud allows you to be able to work from anywhere, anyplace on any device. So it's everything is brought in a secure environment and it should be secured in multiple environments, not just one.
So even before you start, I have a lot of friends that talk about doing businesses and they want to know what the secret is. The secret is starting. It's not very sexy, and it's not up there with Einstein's theory. Just start and use your own money and just use enough money. So you don't, you know, get into hot water if you were to lose it. But if you start and you start to use your own money, you will learn very quickly what to do. And so just start and put your money in.
And so how you handle the crisis really depends on where you are there. But ultimately, you've got to always think about who is your customer? Who is that client? And how do you communicate with them?
But overwhelmingly as well, even those that are expecting to be able to work from home, don't really want to be working from home all the time. And people are starting to understand or appreciate the importance of some of the things that you need to do in work are easier to do face to face, and through collaboration face to face.
Through spoken word or through text alone in three days 90% of that information is lost. If you couple that information with imagery, then in three days 65% is retained. So you go from 10% retention to 55 or 65% retention, just by adding images and increase engagement.
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Remember, you've done it before in a different context. But this is this is another blip that you can ride out. This is just another roadblock but you overcame that first one which was so incredibly hard, which was just getting a business off the ground.
And then you can choose one of I think I put five different ones together, which where I'm basically just describing whether it's a beach resort, or whether it's a ski of snow holiday and taking you through the smells, the sounds, the actions, the things around you, and just letting your brain fill in the gaps and really, you know, feel the kind of good vibes of the holiday of your choice.
Well, I think we're all kind of staring at the future, and we're all making and placing bets on what that next set of innovations will be. Now, I think right now it's very unclear. So I think people are spreading their bets quite wide.
If you're at home or you've got some spare time, this is a nice opportunity just to stand back, I think, and say, "Well, where are those opportunities? What things can I do or perhaps my competitors doing that maybe I don't ever pay much attention to?" So this is a good opportunity. I think it's also an opportunity to talk to different partners and providers and talk to them about what trends and ideas they're seeing as well, because we're seeing that on scale in some areas. We're happy to talk to clients about what we see as opportunities.
So I went out and we interviewed 3,500 people in the business world to ask them, what is mental wellbeing? What is mental fitness in the workplace? And what we found out that stress and anxiety is the new norm. And some of the tools and techniques that I used to stay well, people need in everyday life. So we created Mentemia the app. For sport and business I think fail fast is a really good tip. So when you lose in rugby, you've got one day to sort it out and then you're onto the next game. And you've got to sort it out pretty quick. So fail fast, learn fast is also good for business.
Okay, so what are some principles that you've learned, from your time the military that could be easily applied to businesses? Well, I guess I had a bit of a think about this before and we have it there's a bit of a, there's a quote that's borrowed from I think it's from Dwight Eisenhower, which was the plan is nothing and planning is everything. And I think there's this notion in the military that you know, there's a, I suppose a perception of the military making a plan, having a strategy executing the plan and so successful. But what the reality is behind that at a tactical and strategic level is that the plan is just a living thing. And it's always changing
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Essentially, when women are pregnant, especially even leading up to pregnancy when they try to get pregnant when they're breastfeeding, it is recommended by health care professionals that they should be having a maximum amount of about 200 milligrams of caffeine a day.
I don't know if you've seen Monty Python's the meaning of life. I have It's been a while but I've definitely there's that scene where the pregnant mother is lying on the bed. And they've got the machine that goes ping and she says, What do I do Nothing dear. You're not qualified
And in the last round of research that we did, which was timed for the second week of July, so just as we're going into that second lockdown, that figure reduce, so now 41% are saying it's not the time to be hiring new staff so people, businesses are starting to think a little bit more around how they're going to come out of this. Sadly, I you know, the economic circumstance is such that there are a proportion of businesses we've got 15% who feel their business has little chance of remaining open after the crisis, but didn't that number, as horrible as it That is, if you wanted to 15% it's not you know, given the breadth and inequality of the impact of this pandemic. And it's not as bigger number as perhaps we might have expected. And again, that's perception of what small business owners are saying. So there's a general feeling of optimism that by hook or by crook, definetly coming out the other end. even with physical contact 78% of people are avoiding handshaking again. That means that there's 22% of people who are still shaking hands.
Okay, essentially, a buyer's agent is, I guess the opposite to a selling agent. So everyone who's selling a property generally has a real estate agent who's selling the property on their behalf. a buyer's agent actually represents the buyer of a property so instead of just going straight to the real estate agent and trying to negotiate on a property through them, you actually use a buyer's agent who can actually find the exact property that you're looking for, and negotiate on the price and terms.
And we do have the page on your website under shop where you can buy the fantastic book, how to build a multimillion dollar property portfolio from a 40 k deposit. And, you know, I don't have anything like you'd have a I think, but we both started off with a small deposit. So it can actually be done.
We are talking about the updates, job keeper in particular and the exposure for businesses on COVID-19. We're doing this one as a special update.
Yeah, so job keeping change 21st of July was announced by Treasury. And the changes are that there's a gradual scaling down with the job keeper payment. But it's also recognizing that some of the part timers getting being paid on the job keeper, were in fact earning more money than they did beforehand. So there was a rebalancing of the payments from a job keeper perspective to employees.
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Invoice finance just provides upfront payments to you for your invoices. So effectively you're using the assets on your balance sheet, which are your invoices. just bringing the payment forward to you, you're getting your money faster.
I'm thinking about growing this business, for example, in different ways. And I guess it depends on your appetite to risk so would you say, now's a good time to take on some risk? If especially if competitors are falling by the wayside?
That's a really good question. Because the moment you start thinking about limits, of course, everyone has their own So our beliefs are essentially on buttons and off buttons that tell us what we can and what we can't do, they're not necessarily true. In fact, there's a real clue in the word belief. There's the word lie right in the middle. And what is true for someone can be completely untrue for somebody else. But if we believe that something is not possible, we will not pursue it.
But it was the biggest lesson that I learned. And that was to keep testing contact forms or any forms on the website and to have other ways for people to contact you. I've heard a lot of internet marketers saying, you know, you just need a landing page and run your business. Now, people want to know who you are. They want to know that they can trust you. And the best way they get can get to know you, like you and trust you is if you have a website that addresses their concerns and their problems.
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Interview with David from Soldonline.com.au. There's too many businesses that are relying upon the traditional methods of doing their business. And unfortunately, I think they're being left behind. So every business I can think of needs to embrace technological innovation of some description, too remain relevant. There are a couple of things that have happened during this COVID-19 disaster and one of them is that agents have been forced to actually have more meaningful conversations with their potential buyers.
But I also love working with millennials as well because what you do with your finances in your 20s and 30s is going to make far more of a difference in what you do in your 50s and 60 So you can go on my website and there is a link to a budgeting course and that's for $25 it's distributed through Udemy. And for two hours, you can go through that course yourself and learn how to budget properly
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Certainly in the move to online and the there's various ways of the new economy moving forward and what have you. But one of the things is that you do help businesses in the cloud, and in the cloud is still fairly well, I would say, unknown for people, but people don't understand it enough. So it's that whole concept of work anytime, anywhere, right? The cloud has allowed for us to get the data that you needed in the right place at the right time. And that could be effectively you in front of your machine at home in Lane cove, as you said, or you could have previously been in an office.
Essentially what the event has done is compressed what might have been five years of adaption of technology and new systems into a very short timeframe. Something that we've always focused on in the business, I've seen really great organizations within my sector lose their relevancy because they can't evolve or don't want to evolve with changing times. So quite early on in the piece and made it a business of ours to make sure we're a little bit ahead of the curve, or at least we like to think so. And then the next thing was to start to really tap into how you, again, make yourself useful.
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And certainly there's all discipline, a lot of things in common with martial arts and running a business. On Zoom when you're looking when you're talking about legwork, and balance and everything else and you can only see half the equation how did that go? Well I got really good at telling the kids that I could tell that their feet weren't pointing the right direction based on which way their hips were pointing by looking at their shoulders which drove them nuts.
But then the other part is yes, putting money aside to be able to pay yourself As the owner of the business and as an employee of the business that you know, you're doing the daily work, you want to make sure that you're getting paid for that I've got this awesome business I've been working with with growing sales, but they say to me, you know, there's no money there's no cash in the business at the end at the bank account at the end. have each month and you can, is that what you help with? Yeah
Why would you want to spend two years living on a boat with three kids? Being brave enough and prepared enough to go and see what's next, especially after the event that we've just had. What would inspire others to go and do something like that? Yeah, that's a good question So it's scary, I get that. But when you do take that leap, and you know, it's very cliché and people would have heard it all before, but when you step out of your comfort zone, that's where all the good stuff happens.
James talks about the importance of being able to pivot rapidly to grab opportunities. As well as preparing an exit strategy when you write your initial business plan.
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The NDIS scheme is something that was implemented a few years ago and SDA stands for specialist disability accommodation, and it is a $700 million funding stream within the broader NDIS scheme which stands for national disability insurance scheme. And basically that provides some $200 billion worth of services across the board for people with disabilities and the SDA services a select group who are eligible to have disabled housing.
That's why it's a win win. So the investor is being incentivized the government is effectively the 15% yield comes from three income streams. And one of those income streams is the actual rental so the rental is three times more than what you would receive from an able-bodied tenant.
I help women to put down the fork and pick up their life. So I help busy women who self sabotage is I helped them to lose weight and eat with freedom, while liberating them from their inner critic There are times when you can't possibly do everything. We've just had our event, the crisis that's changed the world for everybody. Now is the time to head back up. Pick up that barbell and put down that fork.
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All right. So what we're talking about today is SMSF or self managed super funds. That's for people who don't go into the industry or non industry super funds that most people get through their employers itself. So let's just jump straight into it. What are the benefits of a self managed Superfund? ● So yeah, one of the common misconceptions with super is that it's well, it's all mine anyway. So I'm entitled to be able to use however I want to, and it's to some extent, but there are certain no no's with your own super. ● with self managed super funds and the rules and regulations. They actually can change quite frequently. The goalposts continually move and that's part of the reason why a lot of accountants find it hard to keep up with so you need a specialist
The main purpose of choosing an architect is to help you translate your design into reality. ● What happens in the renovation space often is that people know what they think they want. But in the meantime, I'll also draw three other ideas of what you could potentially do that will still give you that outcome that may work better for you. So it's trying to give them different ideas in the space that they've got and what can often what can be approved a council approval and other things as well.
● But again, if you've done if you've built your bill or designed your building to be two meters higher than it's supposed to be, council are going to come back and say, well, you're blocking the sunlight. You can't do it. But if you designed it exactly how it's supposed to be, and there's not really a complaint
I even mastered the art of online site auditing. So I can come into your premises and do a fire and safety audit and I just sent you a zoom link, and you can show me around and I don't have to visit your site ● We're going to have to teach Homer Simpson. And that's who we're targeting. If he doesn't work for you, he'll come in as a client and he can ruin your business. So you've got to be prepared that whatever you do, whatever protections you put around your business, you're factoring in for Homer Simpson
● Change your attitude to money by performing with money, how to perform under pressure, understanding what your drivers are and guiding you to maximize your ability to actually make money, how to you know how to make it, keep it and grow it. This is the secret.
● Hit that reset button and take control of your finances. You don't want to be a slave to the corporate world, and this is aperfect opportunity to press the reset button and take back control. align yourself with the type of work that is fulfilling that rewards you you'll be surprised how much your income will increase with less effort.
● Maria is a voice coach. And certainly if you're doing podcasts voice is critical to success. is. It is critical and important . To give it a go, at least because I think it's a bit confronting for a lot of people when we talk about their voice.
● Voice is water. So when you're speaking, there's all these water molecules coming out of your mouth. So we're 90% water, that's what vocal cords are. And the more water you drink, the stronger you'll be able to speak and the longer you could speak for a longer period of time.
Anita from advancedfinance.com.au talking mortgages during the current C R A P event. You are getting a lot of buyers coming out going right what what bargains are out there. What can we get this property for? And it certainly created a little bit of activity, I kind of expected the property market would have gone way down during the event but I haven't seen really much downturn at all.
● Borrowers really need to be in really stable employment and have secure positions to be able to take out a mortgage and I think that's probably Responsible Lending Anyway, you really don't want to be taking out a new loan that's going to end up in hardship down the track. So you definitely need to be in stable employment ● Yeah. So luckily, the ABA have announced that anyone that did make hardship arrangements before they got behind, it won't be listed on your credit rating. And we do believe it won't impact your ability to borrow down the track. So you did the right thing. It's definitely good to get in touch beforehand.
Looking at, the suite of services that you offer, you could become a company's marketing department, pretty much all of it ● We do specialize in printers, we have a 20 year background in all sorts of print. But we also design digitally so in the digital space in helping you with your idioms and your templates, and, and all of those sorts of things. So we are a whole solutions company. ● we are graphic designers and visual communicators working with multi nationals to start ups and small business's And we want to help you to brief a designer to save you time and money.
Mark from Costless payment solutions mentions if I can give you back, some if not all of the bank fees well, that's going to have an impact on the quality of life that I would think that you would like to have for your family. ● zero bank fees ● maybe a subscription to software or a bank was justified some two years ago, but you no longer need that subscription now, but you just haven't gotten around and cancelling it now would be that sort of time to do so
Lenka FX2freedom.com.au talks about Forex trading which is trading foreign currencies against each other, or using a instrument called CFDs. So contract for difference. I teach them how to create an income from the cash with foreign exchange, trading. Working five hours a week
Ucidity.com.au is an end to end marketing agency. So the way we usually describe it is we go all the way until Pay Per Click ● From your brand strategy getting your brand, right and then online, how it represents on your website and through to your digital marketing ● We build strategies around that integrating your CRM as well so you can track and manage and have oversight over everything that's happening and you see what delivers
Peter from Pair Planning explains how Pair stands for Planning Accountability Implement Review ● Business owners should be doing the work that adds value to the business and doing a routine function like bookkeeping is not adding value to the typical business ● More than traditional consulting, where you helping clients with actual solutions, we actually help them implement things in the business, but also holding them accountable
Adrian from Brivvio introduces us to his app for social video, that when you record your video, your branding is applied and captions are generated automatically ● Perfect for Vlogging ● Speech recognition software has come a long way so we're using that technology to listen to your voice as you're recording the video and turn that into the captions that we see at the bottom of the screen ● Designed for short videos on social etc.
Kalli from blownawayhair.com.au has some very special low toxin hair products that I know women and men are going to love.
We are joined By Simon Spicer of Business Australia to discuss the Government's Covid 19 Support Packages. For more than 190 years, Business Australia has stood by business owners - untying legal knots, boosting efficiency, advocating for better conditions and helping them grow. ● Formerly known as the NSW Business Chamber, today we operate across the country. From major cities to country centres. From the smallest start-up to the largest corporation. ● All governments at all levels, whether it's federal, state and local, have really recognized the significant implications of the event, and I'll just run through the main ones because it is very complicated
Today we're talking about marketing automation with Tim from winmoreclients.com.au ● So what sort of business is best to be using marketing automation? Any business with relationships can benefit from automation. ● people in business are saying I've got to get online. What have you been doing for the last 10 years or five years? If you're not online? Automation can help with this.
Todays interview is with Anne Mckeown from anne m c k e o w n.com And we're having a chat about how to cope with change, which is pretty relevant at the moment ●in looking at the conscious and unconscious mind, It is changing even with this time and people have got change going on in their lives all the time. I think we just don't see it on mass like this usually ● So when I start screaming and yelling and get upset, is that my unconscious or conscious mind? ● Using our senses, so we can use the body to impact the mind. And we can use the mind to impact the body. ● So it's anne@2mpower.co If you want to email me, I actually offer a free 20 minute session for people to find out more.
Todays interview is with Ben from Scribe copywriting and the importance of utilising a professional copywriter. How this can help your SEO, email campaigns and getting more content out and about. Also is writing like a 5th grader a good idea. ● improve your business's online presence. ● What is the readability scale. ● What is K I S S. Calls to action: ● www. scribecopywriting.com.au
Todays interview is with Kathleen from Powerup Your Marketing and the importance of valuing your offering and to get out and market, especially NOW. Marketing now is the best thing you could be doing with your time. That is the only thing you should be doing with your time, is getting out there and market yourself. Paint the shopfront!
Todays podcast I interview allan from Encoreaccounting.com.au who has distiled many of the business support packages, and all the different ways that they work for different types of businesses which has and continues to be a minefield.
We chat with Chantal Gerady, a Facebook strategist who empowers business owners with the skills and strategy to successfully manage their own Facebook profiles to generate an actual result. So not about you just making friends, but actually, resulting in funds at the end of the day. What would be the best industries that you think would suit Facebook differently? We cover: ● The importance of a content calender ● Should you be doing Facebook paid ads ● What would be the best industries that you think would suit Facebook differently? Social calender available at: https://chantalgerardy.activehosted.com/f/5
In this final episode with Paul we look at the fast and furious issue of website speed. how important is it and should i improve it?
We contuinue with Paul and chat about the importance of website maintenance. An important area that frequently gets forgotten once your website goes live.
Paul Batagglia from Digital Junction takes us through some website security tips and and strategies
Hi and welcome to the Podcast My Business show. In upcoming episodes we will offer Business News, Tips, Strategies, insights, stories and more from a variety of small and medium sized business' These could be foot health tips from a podiatrist, mortgage advice from a mortgage broker or even advice on the importance of website speed.