BIP Chat with Penny Power OBE

Penny Power OBE

Penny Power OBE introduces 'BIP Chat', interviews with our BIP100 Club experts. BIP stands for 'Business is Personal' and that is what we are all about. BIP100 exists to support experts and small business owners who would like to belong to a smaller community and grow their skills and confidence so they can build a stronger business, with more predictability and enjoyment. www.bip100.club

  1. Sep 17

    BIP Chat with Tash Rebuck - How to Fall in Love with Sales

    Penny chats to Tash Rebuck, founder of The Good Sales Company and Sales Expert, who has spent over a decade leading B2B sales teams. In this chat, Penny and Tash discussed why people hate sales and how business owners avoid it to their own detriment, even sales people are untrained and unmotivated. They discuss how integral sales is to every business and how finding the right strategy that fits with your culture and values is key to happy and successful teams and ultimately consistently growing revenue. Tash shares the tips and tricks learnt over a decade of leading B2B sales teams that increase conversion, reduce sales cycles and help leaders and founders fall in love with sales. They cover: Why sales has such a bad reputation, and how to reframe it as a positive, learnable skill for solving problems and building confidence The training gap: around 70% of salespeople have never had any formal sales training The "non-salesy" approach: understanding a customer's problem first, rather than "pitch slapping" people at networking events Why persistence pays off: 80% of deals are signed after five follow-ups, yet most business owners give up after one or two The three real fears behind sales resistance: fear of rejection, fear of damaging your reputation, and simple self-doubt Being upfront with pricing in the meeting itself, so you can react and adapt in real time Why closing is often as simple as asking a direct question: "Do you want to move forward?" Using free discovery calls to uncover a client's real challenges and offer a tailored solution You can connect with Tash here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tashrebuck/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tash_rebuck/ Website: https://thegoodsalescompany.com/ Book a call: https://calendly.com/tash-rebuck/30min If you'd like to find out more about how to join the BIP100 community of experts, visit our website here: https://www.bip100.club

    BIP Chat with Tash Rebuck - How to Fall in Love with Sales
  2. 07/04/2025

    BIP Chat with Tim Meadows-Smith - Bringing Lost Joy to Founders

    Penny chats to Tim Meadows-Smith, an Enterprisation Architect, with Multiple Non-Executive Director and Chairman roles. Tim is a Champion of StartUp Suffolk and Investment Partner at K2 Business Partners and saves businesses by making them work productively. As Tim says, "Exceptional, positive, tenacious, problem-solving people should be joyous, not trapped, and not failing. We don’t have a distressed business turnaround industry, we have a liquidation industry, and it’s wrong." During this chat, Tim and Penny discuss: - the startup culture that leaves great people stranded for want of honest conversations and some support in spreading the relatively simple processes which sustain enterprise. - how people hope, intend, to found a business to do things better, but usually create a job with a terrible boss, and it really doesn’t have to be that way. - why the most common sign of a business that is on the road to going bust is agreeing to invoice finance, of factoring. Giving up most of your margin to get money in a bit sooner. Tim explains how if he can get to businesses first he can help them get out of the arrangement and on a sustainable footing. They think they want money, which is like a drug, they actually need process and strategy to build enterprise. Instead of liquidation, keeping unsecured creditors tied to assets gives a strong chance of recovery, rather than a domino-effect of misery. You can connect with our expert here: www.linkedin.com/in/timmeadowssmithbusinessdoctor To find out more about connecting with the BIP100 community of experts, please visit our website: https://bip100.club/members-directory/

    BIP Chat with Tim Meadows-Smith - Bringing Lost Joy to Founders

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Penny Power OBE introduces 'BIP Chat', interviews with our BIP100 Club experts. BIP stands for 'Business is Personal' and that is what we are all about. BIP100 exists to support experts and small business owners who would like to belong to a smaller community and grow their skills and confidence so they can build a stronger business, with more predictability and enjoyment. www.bip100.club