Business Rhythms
ScaleUp Radio
On this week’s episode of ScaleUp Radio we have a great presentation and discussion, all centred around Business Rhythms. First of all, you’ll hear from Granger Forson explaining a little more about Business Rhythms; what they are, how we should approach them and the benefit that implementing them can bring to your business. Arguably, the Business Rhythm, alongside the 90 Day Planning that you will have heard us talk about before, is the most important part of running your business. Essentially, a Business Rhythm is a structure of daily, weekly and monthly meetings carefully...
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You Shouldn’t Try And Be All Things To All People - It Will Possibly Spell The End Of Your Business
ScaleUp Radio
On this week’s episode of ScaleUp Radio, I’m speaking to Ahmad Qayyum from Bluewater Accounting. Bluewater Accounting specialise in the property sector, working with all aspects of the industry - landlords, property investors, construction and trade businesses. Ahmad started the business in 2017 after working in the corporate sector, and now has a team of 9 serving 140 clients. As you listen to Ahmad’s scale up journey so far you’ll hear that he’s no stranger to risk, but it’s a risk that has definitely paid off. We covered an awful lot in our...
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I Knew Only A Little About Business - But A Lot About Sales
ScaleUp Radio
On this episode of ScaleUp Radio, I’ve gone back into the archives to look again at one of the great guests that we had. The respected author, speaker and expert on the subject of scaling up Jan Cavelle appeared on ScaleUp Radio. She is someone who definitely speaks from a place of experience, having run and scaled up a furniture business which started as purely a sales business - but ended up with 2 factories and 40 employees. The conversation is, without doubt, the most value-filled one that we’ve ever done on ScaleUp Radio. If you’re someone who is looking...
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The Happiness & Wellbeing of My Staff Come First - Even Before My Clients!
ScaleUp Radio
On this week’s episode of ScaleUp Radio, I speak to Helen Bower from Adder Bookkeeping. If you listen to some of the panel discussions that we’ve had in the past you might already be familiar with Helen’s voice - but we’ve never heard about her particular journey before. Helen started Adder Bookkeeping after doing a degree in Languages and found herself working in Exports. In 2000, life took a hand and she discovered a love of bookkeeping - and Adder Bookkeeping was born. It’s clear from our conversation that Helen is such a fun, lively character - but that...
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Cash Panel Discussion
ScaleUp Radio
Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of ScaleUp Radio. I’m Granger Forson and I’ve been listening back to the 150 or so episodes of ScaleUp Radio - and I wanted to bring you one that really caught my attention. I’m taking you back to February of 2020 to hear again from a couple of business owners discussing something that is pretty much the lifeblood of all businesses - cash. You’ll hear from two business owners who will bring their own unique take, along with their experiences and lessons learned, to talk about cash and it’s relationships with their business....
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The 7 Financial Levers
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On this episode of ScaleUp Radio, we have a great presentation and panel discussion, all centred around The 7 Financial Levers. You will have heard us talking about the Power Of Small Change in previous episodes. In fact, there’s a link to the episode all about the Power Of Small Change in the show notes. Briefly, the Power of Small Change is focusing on marginal improvement within your business; small and simple actions over a period of time, having a cumulative effect. The 7 Financial Levers are one of the tools that we use to identify a small change that we can enact,...
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It's All Bout Keeping Your Own Identity Within A Franchise
ScaleUp Radio
On this week’s episode of ScaleUp Radio we want to give you a chance to listen to some of the great content from the back catalogue of the podcast. Back in August of 2019, I spoke to Ian Priest from the Independent Banking Consultancy. It was a fascinating conversation, so we thought that we would give you a chance to hear it again. Ian has got incredible banking experience through his many years in the industry, and it was fascinating to hear about that transition from working for a big company, to working for a franchise. In this episode, we’ll cover:...
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How Scalable is Your Business?
ScaleUp Radio
On this weeks episode we join the latest ScaleUp club with the panel discussion and presentation around the theme of scalability and the TVR test. This is a great litmus test of business scalability! By learning what you should be prioritising in your business by applying the TVR test to your key products and services you can start to scale and accelerate your growth. Most of us get caught in what has been described as the owner's trap, essentially where we create a business that is over reliant on us. In this episode, Louise explains how to use the TVR framework to help break the cycle...
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It’s The Set Of Your Sails Rather Than The Direction Of The Wind That Determines Where You End Up
ScaleUp Radio
Welcome to this week’s episode of ScaleUp Radio, where I’ll be talking to Angela Podmore the founder and CEO of Kinetic PR. They are a PR consultancy that specialise in helping organisations to scale and have grown from local to international since they started in 2004. Angela is a real powerhouse of a business owner, and that comes across in this conversation as we cover so many subjects in just the first few minutes! Within this episode, though, is some genuine advice that you can put into practise on your business straight away. Just some of the highlights...
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A Chance Conversation Led Me To Buy The Business. Let Me Tell You What I Did Wrong
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On this episode of ScaleUp Radio, we hear from Simon O Gorman, the owner of Adapt IT. Adapt IT have been running since 2001, but Simon only took over the business in 2021, after family circumstances put him in touch with the owner, Martin, which led to a conversation about the business being for sale. In fact, one of the aspects of the conversation is talking to Simon about the process of acquiring Adept IT, which only happened during 2021. It’s a fascinating look at what goes into an acquisition, and some of the challenges that Simon faced. There’s also quite a bit...
info_outlineIt’s a unique business, certainly for ScaleUp Radio, in that it connects organisations and entrepreneurs with journalists, who are looking for help with a specific story or subject.
Rachel’s career trajectory is a fascinating one, including an incredibly successful franchise called Mums In Control, but it’s great to hear Rachel’s drive to help SME’s right across her career. This is undoubtedly her passion, and it’s refreshing to see that she’s managed to turn it into a successful business.
As always, there’s is a lot of ground covered in our conversation including:
- The very distinct difference between PR and Marketing, and what the power of the two is when it comes to your business
- Just because you might think that the story about your business isn’t of interest to anyone, doesn’t mean that a journalist won’t want to speak to you about it.
- Structure your business in a way that you can still survive, even if you lose your biggest client. Essentially, don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
- Sales and marketing is all rooted in relationships. Talking to one person, being the only contact for a client is so powerful.
Don’t think that this episode is only for people who work in the media, or are looking to be an ‘influencer’ - there are some genuinely practical pieces of advice from Rachel in our conversation that can be used in the marketing strategy of any sized business, no matter where they are in their scale up journey.
Rachel can be found here:
linkedin.com/in/rachaeltaplin
https://mediamatchmaker.co.uk/
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living by Dale Carnegie - https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-stop-worrying-and-start-living/dale-carnegie/9780749307233
Street Smart Franchising by Joe Matthews, Don DeBolt and Deb Percival - https://www.waterstones.com/book/street-smart-franchising-a-must-read-before-you-buy-a-franchise/joe-mathews/don-debolt/9781599184111
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-secret/rhonda-byrne/9781847370297
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-compound-effect/darren-hardy/9781593157241
Darren Daily -
https://darrenhardy.com/programs/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/darrendaily-on-demand/id1449270369
https://open.spotify.com/show/6SbwYXIuLf9XEv1lZ5a6p9?si=d6db0172044543a3