Build your own Business - Andrew Ford

What's the best way to launch your own business? Well, to be honest, there are many different ways that will work. For mature corporate escapees, we believe it's building a small but reliable network working group around you. People who are running their own small businesses and so can understand you. People who might be able to refer you to others. And importantly those who are fun to have a drin...

Carl Rigoni, CEO & Founder of SixSix, joins us in Episode 35 of the Build Your Own Business Podcast to share the story behind how and why he set up his business and quit corporate. He shares his journey from university, his learnings, and his future plans. SixSix is a consulting practice that Carl has recently founded. Carl has had extensive practical experience in driving innovation framework...

CEO of the Synergen Group, Julian Carle, joins us in Episode 34 of the Build Your Own Business Podcast to talk to us about timelines for starting a business from scratch, time allocation for sales, business development and more. He also shares his journey from university to quitting corporate and starting his own business. Be inspired and listen now. What is covered in this episode: The services o...

Risk Management Expert, Lyndon Holland, joins us today in Episode 33 of the Build Your Own Business Podcast. Lyndon will share his knowledge and expertise on insurance and how to handle risks in your business and personal life. His 35-year experience and training in the insurance industry has allowed him to protect his clients’ business success with risk management programs and insurance advice ov...

In this solo episode, Andrew talks about the 3 main ways to scale a consultancy business over time. Tips and advice to use your knowledge to make more income than time per hour. We discuss the 3 stages of growing a consultancy business which are personal branding, business branding, and product innovation. Andrew shares his personal experiences with his business and gives us tips on how to improve...

New personal brand coach of Social Star, Elva Li, joins us in Episode 31 of the Build Your Own Business Podcast. Elva shares her inspiring story from growing up in Shanghai, moving to Australia to pursue further studies, and then quitting her job and following her passion. Her work today involves helping female entrepreneurs, like her,  create a personal brand that makes them feel confident online...

In this solo episode of the Build Your Own Business Podcast, Andrew talks about his plans for the launch of the BYOB Social Club where aspiring business owners can get involved, catch up with peers and like-minded people to form a community to help each other build their own business. One of the goals of the club is to address issues and the challenges that new corporate escapees face when startin...

Elliott works on a different flavor of project management. He drives positive organisational change through the delivery of fit for purpose services & solutions for companies. He has worked with well-known companies to transform their finance, IT and design practices. In this episode, he joins us to share his journey from being a corporate employee to building his own consulting business. What...

In this episode, Andrew discusses step 3 of leveraging your digital profile which is pitching. He goes through the Etraction pitching methodology and how it relates to the sales and content models. What is covered in this episode: What is pitching? The 5-step pitching methodology that Andrew uses and the explanation for each stage. His explanation of the 3 important middle steps of the pitching me...

Lynn Garbers , President of Eagle Achievements, shares her story from being an enterprising kid at the age of 8 to having a business and becoming a successful coach. She has educated herself through the process and has gone through several career switches before ending up doing what she really loved. And in this episode, she shares with us her interesting journey that led her to where she is today...

In this solo episode, we cover the step 2 of leveraging your digital profile by producing content that is helpful, valuable and creates traction. We discuss the importance of what, where and why we need to post your content. What is covered in this episode: Things you need to know about the business and business owner before creating their content Kinds of content that businesses can make and reco...

Mandy Nolton, Founder of Rec Relief and Managing Director at Rec People, shares her story in this episode and talks about her journey from university to building her own business and the experiences she went through getting to where she is today. Mandy is very passionate about her work with local government in the recreation and leisure space. She is currently in the process of building her new bu...

In this solo episode, we will continue talking about the 12-step process of building your own business, becoming a corporate escapee and building the lifestyle you want. We will focus on the first stage of leveraging your digital profile and what we need to do in this part of the process. What is covered in this episode: What is the Leverage stage and how does it relate to the first stage of the p...

Jordan D’Urbano, Director of Independent Closers Agency, joins us in this episode as we talk about his journey from starting as a coach, discovering his love for sales and then building his own business. What is covered in this episode: Jordan’s story of taking on his first paid job to building his own coaching business at 16 years old. Andrew and Jordan share their personal experiences that encou...

In this episode, Tracey Rojko, owner of The Philosopher’s Stone, joins me as we talk about her journey and business. We discuss how she helps people open their minds to alternative ways in managing their emotions and gives them the advice and tools they need. What is covered in this episode: Tracey shares her personal experience on her son’s night terrors and how this started her search for altern...

Welcome to season 2!  In this episode, we are starting off with myself speaking about: The importance of winning the SEO search for your name specifically and how to do it The difference between branding and digital marketing How to have a strong presence for your name by having a personal website The effect of SEO being geographically based when searching on search engines like Google Discussion...

Welcome to episode 20! Today I talk to Connor Gillivan who is the CMO of Freeeup.com. He is a young entrepreneur who has been successful in the internet space. In this episode I cover: Connor’s introduction about himself and the services of Freeup.com His first entrepreneurial journey, what he studied in college and how he got into the digital space The business partnership and agreement of FreeeU...

In episode 19 I talk about all personal social media - Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. I exclude LinkedIn which is our primary business tool while everything else is optional. In this episode I cover: Why Facebook is a very attractive proposition and why it is the new world TV system Advertising in Facebook based on analytics 3 Types of Facebooks and the information you need...

Today on the podcast I talk to Ben Carvosso, a coach for business owners, about his coaching business, taking pivots in your career and life and doing your life’s work. In this episode I cover: Work-Life Balance and why he doesn’t believe in it Ben’s work and business journey and stories of his ups and downs How he got clients in his chiropractic and radiology businesses by differentiating his bus...

On episode 17 I talk about my favorite social media, LinkedIn. We will talk about why LinkedIn is the best social media for aspiring entrepreneurs’ personal branding, how to use it and how to use it in conjunction with your other social media. In this episode I cover: How I discovered LinkedIn and realised its potential What is LinkedIn and what it is not? LinkedIn in the business context How to b...

On this episode I talk about Intentions - why they are a super important part of our process of setting our direction and achieving our goals. I  also share information about how to set intentions, its impacts and what  part of the 12-week process we use it for. In this episode I cover: Intentions, its difference from goals, and where it is used in the 12-step process Documenting your intentions H...

On this #BYOB episode we chat with Darren Taylor: author, speaker and CEO of  Taylor and Grace, a medium sized agency that invents or re-invents  brands for small and medium sized businesses. Darren shares his  story from being a regular employee and taking a marketing  apprenticeship to building his own branding business. He highlights the  importance of branding for a company, whether big or sma...

Today on the podcast we chat with Darren Bourke, a business coach, mentor and consultant to small and medium business owners for 15 years and author of The Fourth Moon. Darren shares his story from his humble beginnings as a regular employee to building and owning his successful business. He specialises in coaching business owners to replicate his lifestyle design using his tried and tested method...

Today on the podcast I talk about the fourth stage in the Attract process – Resources. There are three areas we focus on in the resources section - time, money and connections. In this episode I cover: The importance of focusing on those activities that you enjoy doing and get you into a state of flow The daily routine of writing out your intentions each day How to map out your time allocation Wri...

Today on the podcast we have a laugh with Morry Morgan as we explore his entrepreneurial story and what led him to cofound a comedy school having never been a comedian himself. He shares his learnings from living and owning a business in China and how his teaching background and an on-stage technical failure lead him to create The School of Hard Knock Knocks . What is covered in this episode: How...