Let's Get Down to Business

A4G Chartered Accountants
Let's Get Down to Business Podcast

Welcome to the Let’s Get Down to Business podcast. If you want to step up your game, overcome challenges or simply explore the avenue of how to grow your business, this is your one stop shop. Join us, A4G Chartered Accountants and Advisers as we provide food for thought and real actionable guidance to help your business maximise its full potential. It’s time to learn, time to grow, it’s time to get down to business.

  1. 11/11/2022

    Financial Traders - The importance of mindset when trading

    Due to the outstanding response to our last traders podcast, we decided to invite our client, Ross Maxwell, professional full-time trader, and Director of Key Zone Traders, onto our podcast to record a special episode.   Key Zone Traders is an online trading education company for new and existing traders. Ross focuses particularly on the importance of mindset in order to trade successfully. In the podcast he shares the story of one of his clients who had been making losses for over 10 years. Working with Ross, he made a consistent plan for trading and focused on making healthy mindset habits. The result? He’s been profitable for over 2 years now.   Listen to Caroline Ward (our very own financial traders Chartered Accountant and Adviser) ask Ross everything from how to start trading the right way, understanding what a draw down period is and how to keep a good mindset during it to how mindfulness helps him trade every day.   Once you’ve listened to and digested this podcast, you will be able to:   ✅ Understand what a draw down period is and how to keep a good mindset during it ✅ How to get into the right mindset for trading ✅ Importance of getting the right structure in place to take that pressure off ✅ How to start trading the right way ✅ How to develop the skills to identify when you’re feeling emotional so you can step back ✅ How mindfulness helps your trading ✅ Understand the importance of investing in trading education ✅ Find a strategy for trading and the importance of working on making one strategy successful    Let’s continue the conversation… A4G Accountants for Traders | LinkedIn | Website Book a free discovery call with one of our growth advisers Keyzone Traders | www.keyzonetraders.com | Ross@keyzonetraders.com Recommended reads The Chimp Paradox Trade Mindfully – Gary Dayton

    36 min
  2. 01/07/2022

    Episode 20 | How to get finance into your business

    This month, we are discussing the ways you can generate cash and/or finance into your business. Nowadays, there are so many ways to raise funds for your business, whether you’re just starting out, growing your business, or working on an expansion project… However, it isn’t just an easy as picking an off the shelf package and getting going. There are several considerations and risks that you will need to analyse ahead of taking out finance. To help clear up some of the fog around generating finance into your business, we fired some questions at Will Richardson, Partner at A4G sister company, A4G Growth. Will assists businesses to source the best forms of commercial finance and providing them with the advice they need to make sound business decisions.   By listening to this podcast, you will learn:  ✅ The most common ways small you can get into finance into your business and how to navigate these smoothly ✅ The importance of having a business plan, up to date management information and cash flow plan when getting finance ✅ Your finance options such as commercial finance, asset finance, invoice finance, stock finance, development loans, bridging finance, crowdfunding ✅ How to access finance options ✅ What programmes like incubators and accelerators are and when to choose this finance option ✅ How to generate cash with grants, what grants are available right now and how to overcome the hurdles ✅ Why you may choose investment over borrowing ✅ Practical advice on generating cash and raising finance   Let’s continue the conversation… Raising finance is part of our Business Breakthrough Growth Programme where we can create a personalised programme for you and your business to achieve growth, including generating cash and finance to reinvest into your business. Find out more about our Breakthrough Growth Programme here. Alternatively, download this PDF with all of our Business Breakthrough Programmes which you can share with your network.   A4G | LinkedIn | Facebook | Website | Email Sign up to our Breakthrough Growth Programme Book a free discovery call with one of our growth advisers Kent and Medway Growth Hub

    28 min
  3. 10/06/2022

    Episode 19 | Building a Marketing Strategy for Growth

    Why you should make marketing a priority in your business and how you can build a strong marketing strategy to support your growth strategy. Once you’ve listened to and digested this podcast, you will be able to: ✅ Know the difference between inbound, outbound and referral marketing ✅ Build an inbound marketing strategy ✅ Build an outbound strategy and which industries would benefit from this form of marketing ✅ Build a referral marketing strategy and how beneficial this method is for all industries ✅ Define your Unique Selling Point and use it within your marketing strategy to stand out ahead of your competitors ✅ Know the importance of thinking of Return on Investment when building your strategy and methods of marketing ✅ Budget for marketing (your time and money) ✅ Learn top tips from someone whose business has grown consecutively for 25+ years and helped countless others grow theirs Let’s continue the conversation… Marketing is part of our Business Breakthrough Growth Programme where we can create a personalised programme for you and your business to achieve growth, including building a marketing strategy. Find out more about our Breakthrough Growth Programme on our website. Alternatively, download this PDF with all of our Business Breakthrough Programmes which you can share with your network (that’s referral marketing ;)) A4G | LinkedIn | Facebook | Website | Email Sign up to our Breakthrough Growth Programme Book a free discovery call with one of our growth advisers Buy Accidental Millionaires

    41 min
  4. 06/05/2022

    Episode 18 | Creating a Growth Strategy with Simon Thompson (Relish) and Josh Curties (A4G)

    We’ve tackled the factors that may be limiting your growth and getting your mindset ready for growth, so now how are you actually going to do it? In this episode, you’ll learn how. This month, we’re joined by not one, but two guests! First, we’re joined by Simon Thompson is Managing Director of Relish, an agency who have been through a number of phases of growth over the last few years themselves and help many other consumer businesses grow their business by helping produce successful acquisition strategies. Simon will be sharing his insight into how knowing your ideal customer is key to fit into your growth plans. Our second guest is Josh Curties, Partner at A4G, who will talk to Charlotte about the practical considerations of how you actually go about choosing a strategy for growth. Once you’ve listened to and digested this podcast, you will be able to: ✅ Define your ideal customer and consumer   ✅ Know strategies to gain market advantage ✅ Analyse your customers’ needs and demand for your products/services ✅ Define your ideal customer and consumer   ✅ Breakdown your products and services to ascertain which ones are successful, performing or underperforming using the BCG matrix ✅ Consider your product lifecycle ✅ Use the ‘Five Forces’ strategic thinking process to analyse your business’ competitive environment and measure your competition intensity, attractiveness and profitability of an industry or market ✅ Use the Ansoff model to grow your business   Let’s continue the conversation… This episode goes into great detail surrounding the various growth models and how to create your own growth strategy for your business, including examples and case studies from our experiences helping other business’ grow their business.  If you want further help in building a growth strategy for your business, use the details below to get in touch with us or Relish.   A4G | LinkedIn | Facebook | Website | Email Sign up to our Breakthrough Growth Programme Book a free discovery call with one of our growth advisers Buy Accidental Millionaires Relish | Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter  Recommended reads   Porters 5 Forces

    57 min
  5. 01/04/2022

    Bonus episode: Accidental Millionaires Book Launch Special

    This month’s episode is a VERY exciting one! We’re joined by Managing Partner at A4G to celebrate the launch of his first ever book, Accidental Millionaires: The secret mindset successful business owners share with sporting legends.  To continue the excitement, we are also joined by two of Team GB’s most successful athletes, Steve Backley OBE and Roger Black MBE, who have worked with Malcolm for over 20 years and provided insight throughout the book. Accidental Millionaires is for business who hate standing still. Other than that, you could be anywhere on your business journey. You might be right at the start line full of enthusiasm and bursting with ideas. Maybe you’ve been going a year or two and are starting to feel a little disillusioned at the challenges you’re facing. Or perhaps you’ve been going for ten years or more and are stuck in a rut making little progress. By reading Accidental Millionaires and applying its content, you are as likely as possible that you’ll succeed in your chosen field. To get your hands on your own copy, head over to Amazon here. In this episode, Malcolm, Steve and Roger share:  How the idea behind the book came to life What the book is about The 5 sections of the book and what the readers will gain How the pandemic shifted their businesses Details of the mind-setting programme Biggest lesson learnt in business Advice on growing businesses How to get your hands on a copy of Accidental Millionaires A4G | LinkedIn | Facebook | Website | Email Buy Accidental Millionaires: The secret mindset successful business owners share with sporting legends here. Sign up to our Breakthrough Growth Programme Steve Backley OBE & Roger Black MBE | BackleyBlack website | Mind-Setting Programme

    39 min

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Welcome to the Let’s Get Down to Business podcast. If you want to step up your game, overcome challenges or simply explore the avenue of how to grow your business, this is your one stop shop. Join us, A4G Chartered Accountants and Advisers as we provide food for thought and real actionable guidance to help your business maximise its full potential. It’s time to learn, time to grow, it’s time to get down to business.

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