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A light-hearted business podcast with expert guests offering advice and info for small business owners, directors and employees in the UK.
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In this episode Sunil and James chat to the inspirational, Brett Denton, Founder of Kvell Fitness and Nutrition and Your Heroic Business.Brett talks about his journey to success, how he has always sought guidance to help him grow and develop his businesses and offers some great advice to all you small business owners.Make sure you listen to his five tips to help you succeed. Check out his website - www.yourheroicbusiness.com
Welcome to a very special webinar edition of the Small Biz Banter podcast. In this episode, we are joined by an amazing panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons for Small Businesses of Tech Disruptors and Innovators.James hosted the podcast and Sunil offered his expertise on the panel and joining him was Farooq Raja the Founder of AIRPA, an Integrated Platform as a Service that connects businesses' tech systems Andrew Yung a Senior Manager of the Digital Transformation team at the global consultancy, BDO And last but not least Will Farnell, CoFounder of App Advisory Plus, Author of the Digital Firm and consultant and mentor to accounting firms
James and Sunil chat with Karen Barrett - founder of unbiased.co.uk, a money advice website. Karen discusses how she successfully scaled up her business, gained investment and hurdles she has had to overcome as her business has grown.She also offers some great advice on managing money, taking risks, investing and being a woman in a perceived male-orientated industry.
Sunil and James chat with Mark Brown about Psybersafe, how important cyber security and GDPR compliance is to small businesses in the UK and how their behaviour-changing online training programme helps keep businesses owners stay cyber safe.Mark also offers some really useful tips and advice to help small businesses stay safe online and ensure they protect their client data and their employees and limit the impact of cyber attacks.
Sunil and James chat with Nicola about HR Caddy, how they have helped small businesses navigate the pandemic and how they are now helping them with moving staff back to the office. We also discuss the importance of getting HR advice before it is too late, how businesses need to be more resilient with their staff and her favourite perks including chocolate hobnobs and red wine.
Sunil and James chat with Kyle about App Advisory Plus, - an independent app database for accountants and bookkeepers and how it helps accountants to advise and support SMEs in the UK and become more automated and manage many different aspects of their business.They also discuss what 2022 holds for businesses, how tech is helping and who has the worst screen time and how to lower yours.
In this episode, Sunil and James chat with Charlie Cook, who is the founder of Rightcharge - a UK based start-up that helps Electric Vehicle drivers find the right charge point and energy tariff combination for their home or business charging needs.They discuss how the influx of Electric Vehicles and the legislation is impacting businesses and the future of energy consumption in the UK.
In this episode, Sunil and James chat to Jules Robertson, the co-founder of Tally Market, a brilliant solution that enables businesses to book thousands of workspaces across the UK.We discuss the new hybrid model and how businesses are using Tally Market to have a regular office space on a part-time basis and how owners are adapting to the new working environment. We also discuss events and parties and how the demand for this is surging as people want to meet face-to-face and network again.
In this episode, Sunil and James chat with Richard Osborne, the founder of the UK Business Forum about his journey to setting up the forum and he went on to sell the forum and eventually buy it back.We talk about side hustles, entrepreneurs and how the forum is being redesigned to attract thousands of amazing young business owners in the UK.
Sunil and James chat to Nicola Weedall and Hector Macandrew - Co-founders of Hydr, a new invoice financing solution that offers small businesses payment upfront for their invoices on a simple fixed fee basis, helping with cash flow and credit control.They discuss invoices, how to get paid and how critical cash flow can be for small businesses. The founders also talk about their journey to launching Hydr and talk about some of the SMEs they have helped.
In this episode, Sunil and James chat with Lee Nathan who is the Regional Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in the South West and is also the Founder of Shopli, a marketplace for independent retailers across the UK. They discuss supporting local businesses and how the pandemic has changed the public's attitude to local communities and how Shopli is helping thousands of independent businesses across the UK.
Sunil and James chat with Oliver Prill - CEO of Tide Bank about Tide Bank and how the bank is supporting UK SMEs with a simple portfolio of solutions to making banking and finances easy.They discuss the pandemic, future plans for Tide and how the bank is expanding into the Indian market next year.
Sunil and James chat with Amber Ainsley Pritchard, the Group Editor at Shard Media about how the B2B media sector has adapted to the pandemic and what the future holds for networking and rewards events. Amber talks in-depth about how business owners are keen to get back out and network and go to events with demand at pre-pandemic levels.
Sunil and James chat with Karen Watkins, the Founder of Rowan HR Consultancy about vital an HR strategy is for Small Businesses in the new normal and as many businesses try and implement the Hybrid Model.
A special episode of the Small Biz Banter podcast. This week we hosted a live webinar where we discussed the 'Top Risk to small Business over the next 12 months' and we were honoured to be joined by an amazing panel of experts and also a live audience. The webinar was hosted by James and Sunil joined the panel of experts for this episode - Panel Sunil Nigam – CEO ExpenseOnDemandNadia Kadhim – CEO Naq CyberJohn Miller – COO Addition FinanceCatherine Hawkes – Royds Withy King
Sunil and James chat with Oliver Woolley, the founder and CEO of Envestors about the investment platform and how they have helped small businesses across the UK by connecting them with their network of seasoned investors.Oliver also offer some advice to start-ups and SMEs on how to get investment and what the process involves.
Sunil and James chat with Catherine Hawkes an Employment Lawyer from Royds Withy King about how COVID and remote working has changed the employment sector and what small business owners need to consider when adapting to the new normal and new hybrid models.
Sunil and James chat with Catherine Erdly about The Resilient Retail Club, why she launched it and what the future of small and local retail is in a post-pandemic UK.
In this episode James and Sunil chat with John Miller COO and Graham Davies CEO from Addition who offer an outsourced finance company for small businesses.We discuss their unique solution for SMEs and our experiences of working in large organisations compared to small businesses and startups.
Small Biz Banter this week goes international as Sunil and James are joined by Nadia Kadhim. Based in Amsterdam, she is the CEO of Naq Cyber and talks about how Naq is helping UK SMEs with cyber security and GDPR.She offers some really interesting and useful insights for small business owners on how to manage your online security and become GDPR compliant which is a must listen!
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