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Small Business, Big Network Liz Drury
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Small Business, Big Network is the podcast for small business owners who want better results from their networking.
I'm Liz Drury, a freelance voiceover artist who knows that if you're not working as much as you'd like, then networking could help!
The show is a mix of bite sized episodes on networking basics, and interviews with business owners who are successfully using networking to grow. There are lots of inspirational stories that will encourage you to get started or to keep going on your own networking journey.
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Network with your peers as well as other businesses
Nicola Auckland is a Business & Brand Photographer with a passion for the relationships formed between business owners, customer and brands.
After her corporate career ended during Covid, she turned her profitable side-hustle into fully fledged wedding photography business. Whilst she loved this, she knew something wasn't quite right (and it had little to do with the number of Ed Sheeran songs she had to listen to!) In January 2023 she took the decision to pivot her business, completely cut off her numerous wedding leads and exclusively offer business and branding photography.
She now offers personal branding photography to solopreneurs, branding photography to small businesses and corporate headshots to larger companies who prefer to have a photographer on-site. she also offers e-commerce product photography in a studio setting for her business customers with an online store.
You can find out more by visiting her website and LinkedIn profile.
https://www.nicolaaucklandphotography.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaaucklandphotography/
This episode is kindly sponsored by Yeseo.
SEO is BORING - but only when you're doing it wrong! Visit https://www.yeseo.io for a free consultation. -
ONLE - the network for people that like people!
James West is the co-founder of ONLE Networking - the online business network for people who like people. He met his wife Kelly while networking and they built ONLE on the belief that most people can be trusted to network without the rules and protocols that get in the way of running a business.
Based on his own experiences, James believes that the secret power of networking is to provide business owners with access to the meaningful connections that are vital to good mental health.
ONLE currently has 350 members spread across 22 UK groups and two in the US - the latter helping prove that geography is no longer a limitation of networking.
Experience "the business network for people who like people" by booking a complimentary visit to an ONLE networking group. Use the discount code: SBBM to claim your free £10 online meeting visit:
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Meditation, Garden Benches and Networking!
Camilla is a Vedic Meditation expert, based in Kent, UK
Camilla trained as a primary school teacher in 2000 and learnt to meditate when she was an Assistant Headteacher in an inner city London school.
After meditating, she worked as a gardening teacher in the Eden Project, a chef and cooking teacher in Sydney and then returned to the UK to live in the family home, Owletts, a National Trust property.
She recently left the class room and, armed with Sanskrit GCSE (grade A!) she began teaching adults - how to read and write Sanskrit (the Devanagari Script).
She runs cacao ceremonies and wellbeing retreats in Kent and Gloucestershire.
Meditation is still her favourite thing to teach.
She trained in India in 2014 with Thom Knoles, and currently supports advanced meditators across Europe preparing for teacher training.
She is Director of Herbert Baker Furniture and co-founder of Lost Crafts CIC - supporting arts and crafts and wellbeing for Neurdiverse families.
She lives with her son and 2 dogs at Owletts, (a National Trust property) where her family have lived since 1783.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-baker-meditation/
https://www.vedicmeditationbycamilla.co.uk
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Networking Creatively with Claire Waite Brown
Claire Waite Brown is the founder of the Creativity Found podcast where she interviews people about being creative in later life.
She has also built the Creativity Found website to help grown-ups find their creativity by listing courses, workshops, events, books, products and subscriptions with creativity at their heart.
In addition she has created a network to support and promote artistic and creative facilitators who help adults to get creative. Membership is more than just a listing on a website, and includes access to monthly online meetups to connect with likeminded creative facilitators and suppliers.
www.creativityfound.co.uk
Apple Podcasts Creativity Found and on all other podcast platforms
Instagram @creativityfoundpodcast YouTube @creativityfoundpodcast
Facebook @creativityfoundpodcast and Creativity Found group
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Bentin from The Creative Collective
Martin Whiskin and Ben Bowles (collectively known as Bentin) are the founders of The Creative Collective (TCC), an online networking group for people in creative industries.
Their motto is 'collaboration not competition' and their meetings regularly attract 30+ attendees which suggests it's an approach that works!
Find out more at:
www.thecreativecollectivenetworking.co.uk
Today's episode is kindly sponsored by Sheena Whyatt of Kapow! Sheena is a fantastic coach for small business owners who has just created an online library of fantastically useful business books which can be accessed for just £5.99 a month 😊 . Visit https://heroes.kapowme.com/superchargeclub to get your library card now. -
Podcasting helps with Know Like Trust - just like networking
In 2015, Debra decided to leave the corporate world and do something. Exactly what she was going to do was somewhat unclear! She decided to focus on smaller businesses and see if she could use her experience to support them. Having set up a website, she realised that she needed to get the message out which led to her joining various networking groups - a new and, initially somewhat uncomfortable, experience!
As her business progressed, Debra - like so many of us - tried to find her niche. Starting her own podcast in 2018 marked a turning point in her services. Recognising the challenges and obstacles that we can face when starting a podcast, Debra now provides 3 distinct services: Podcast Start, Podcast Refresh and Podcast Connect.
Find out more about Debra at www.bridgeroadconsultants.com.
Learn more about the Podcast Connector and sign up as either a podcaster or a guest:
https://bridgeroad.ac-page.com/Podcast-Connector-Founding-Membership
Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levittdebra/
Listen to Debra's original podcast, Bridging Gaps - The Business Podcast https://modusevolvere.com/podcasts/ (note this podcast has now stopped but there are many interesting interviews available)
Today's episode is kindly sponsored by Sheena Whyatt of Kapow! Sheena is a fantastic coach for small business owners who has just created an online library of fantastically useful business books which can be accessed for just £5.99 a month 😊 . Visit https://heroes.kapowme.com/superchargeclub to get your library card now.