A “grand tour of marketing” with stoic northern grump Rob Drummond, in a comprehensive radio interview. Rob covers storytelling, building trust, marketing automation tools and much more in this podcast, first broadcast in my Sheffield Live radio programme.
Don’t headbutt time; do get a bra that fits – new interviews
July 2, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Advice for social entrepreneurs from Pam Warhurst, founder of Incredible Edible: “don’t headbutt time.” And an interview with Lucy May Lingerie founders, Natalie Mosley and Paula Walsh, and with Plot44 Chair, Mark Ramsell. New radio show podcast.
Interviews: business resilience despite uncertainty plus an award-winning charity
June 27, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Ensure your business is protected, as far as possible, from the impact of uncertainty and learn from an accountant who has survived and thrived through five recessions (and helps his clients to do the same). Plus an award-winning charity has some great advice about how to engage and empower volunteers.
Predictions of business limbo: as robust as a reading of the rennet?
June 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
When the UK election exit polls were published on Thursday evening, I knew we were in for a long night. Many pollsters, pundits and media commentators had predicted a somewhat different result. Perhaps they would have been better using the ancient art of tyromancy to foretell the outcome. Tyromancy, in case for some reason you’re […]
Holding down an Octopus to build a British clothing brand
June 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Jilly and Neil Kapusi of Ushi discuss the journey of Ushiwear – which Jilly launched in 2008 and grew from a garage based hobby business to a thriving British hand printed brand, selling all over the world. How have they developed the brand and increased ecommerce sales – and what support did they get from the Google Digital Garage? Listen to the podcast here.
Digital strategy and business in South America: expertise from serial entrepreneur
May 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Interview with Jerónimo R. Santamarina, a serial digital entrepreneur and the Managing Partner EU at EYDOS Digital. Advice if you’re doing business in Latin America, plus developments in digital marketing, and how tools like programmatic ads and micro-segmentation will affect you.
Sheffield world-leading tech innovator says city abundant in skills
May 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Interview with Aldo Monteforte, CEO of The Floow (recently named winner of the Red Herring Top 100 Europe award). Aldo explained the business’ growth plans and commented on skills in the Sheffield City Region.
Vicky Fraser wants to turn you into a business superhero
March 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Running your own business? Always make sure your clients are happy? Great. But if those clients aren’t making you happy, don’t respect you or pay you on time (or want to pay you in fish and chips!) then you don’t really have a business, you have a pretty miserable job. And many freelancers and small […]
£25k investment for Research Retold
February 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Through Keep Your Fork Ltd, I’ve been supporting Research Retold, a business which turns complicated research documents into easily-digestible summaries – helping researchers to more effectively communicate their findings. So I’m delighted that Mihaela Gruia, Research Retold’s founder, was the winner in a competition to receive a £25k equity investment from UK Steel Enterprise through […]
Homelessness; fast-growth tech; social investment and more – new podcast
February 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
New podcast featuring Scott Woodley of Tutora – a fast growing tech firm connecting parents with tutors, and Mark Harvey of iD8 Photography, who’s co-organised a project to challenge visual representation of homelessness.
