Neil Wilkins Podcast

Focus where it counts in your LinkedIn personal profile . In this short workshop recording, Neil Wilkins explores some top tips that really work, for creating your personal profile as a central hub for your digital portfolio, to build your business, to create new connections and followers, or to find your next job. This workshop is part of the ongoing digital marketing apprenticeship support sessi...

"Never let a negotiation come down to one issue, because by definition, there is a winner and a loser" treelineinc.com  In this webinar recording for the Cambridge Marketing College Webinar Series 2021, Neil Wilkins discusses how to approach a negotiation, dealing with difficult others, using silence and importantly compromising with purpose.  Visit Cambridge Marketing College for more i...

I think this one is a really important and timely topic so I am sharing this as a bonus episode. It's part of a conversation with some apprentices at Cambridge Marketing College in Friday Focus, which is a weekly get-together to share information and ideas about important subjects affecting business and marketing today. As we emerge from restrictions our marketing and customer requirements have fu...

Want to learn how to be more persuasive in your communication? In this webinar recording, part of the Cambridge Marketing College personal development webinar series , Neil Wilkins takes us through the psychological principles and techniques we can use to become more authentically persuasive and to have more of a voice in communications and marketing situations. Subscribe to the Neil Wilkins Podca...

Here's the best technique for managing time and it doesn't take long to master it.  In this webinar recording, Neil Wilkins shares a simple yet powerful technique for prioritising the most important things in your life. When your boss shouts for something or others demand of you, this technique can help you to align everything in front of you to give you and others best value.  Time is y...

The Healing Power of Pleasure is the new book by Julia Paulette Hollenbery , featured in conversation in this Mindful Living Show episode of the Neil Wilkins Podcast.   The Healing Power of Pleasure is available in many book stores, including Amazon and Simon and Schuster .     Julia Paulette Hollenbery is an embodied spirituality teacher, author and mystic. Over 30 years she’s...

In this episode, Neil Wilkins talks to Helen Ward from Data Cubed about how to maximise the value of data within your business. Data has the power to transform your business both at a strategic and practical, day to day, level. Helen describes the use of a central point of data in your business as your business truth. Packed with tips and ideas, this is a highly valuable listen. Connect with Helen...

Here's a 'fly on the wall' behind the scenes glimpse of some of the conversations we have at Cambridge Marketing College in the digital marketing apprenticeship programme. For more details of the apprenticeship visit the College website . SEO is all about balancing being attractive to your customers at the same time as to search engines. So if you are a start-up, sole trader, micro business or sim...

Need to sharpen your presentation skills? I hope you'll agree that this is a good one… 45 minutes of skills ideas and a great 15 minute Q&A that’s not to be missed, as we discuss how to conquer nerves, pace your presentation and deal with the impossible audience question. This webinar recording is the third in the current Cambridge Marketing College fortnightly series... the next include Persu...

Clubhouse and now Greenroom, from Spotify... the social media world's attention is all over audio right now. Are you in the game? This might be the time to, at the very least, dive in and do some research on the possibilities...  This podcast is a recording of a lunchtime conversation about the potential of social audio... and did you know that there's a new Twitter audio feature?

You don't have a podcast in your marketing strategy? Let me explain why you might want to reconsider... it's never been a better time to start recording audio content... interviews, conversations, monologues... whatever is appropriate to convey your marketing messages and thought leadership. It's simple, low/no cost and there's an audience out there, hungry for every episode... 

There's never been a more important time to hone your communications skills, or at the very least, become more aware of how you appear to others, spot subtle body language cues and get win/win outcomes in your human engagements. In this webinar recording, Neil Wilkins presents Top 20 Communication Skills, webinar 2 in the latest Cambridge Marketing College personal development series. Subscribe to...

Nick Kemp is the Founder of IKIGAI Tribe , an international organisation that supports IKIGAI coaches and specialists as they bring this deep philosophy to life with their clients. Neil and Sonya Wilkins ( Neya ) explore how we have translated IKIGAI in the western world into a positive self development tool. However, Nick demonstrates that taken as a pure Japanese philosophy it can be so much dee...

Saying yes is easy and then we take the consequences. But sometimes it's the right thing to say no.  In this recording of a Friday Focus, which is a weekly gathering of some of the marketing apprentices studying with Cambridge Marketing College, we explore why it's hard to say no and share some tips for how to say no for everyone's benefit. To learn more about marketing apprenticeships at Cam...

Did you miss yesterday’s Marketing for SMEs webinar? If you did and you work in a micro, small or medium sized business, do have a listen and see what you think. I included a host of tips and observations that I’ve seen through 15 years of supporting SME clients with marketing services in a host of sectors from sport to tech. Did I miss anything? Am I accurate? DM or reply in the message thread to...

Neil Wilkins interviews Connor Banks about being gay at work and his experiences and perspectives of diversity and opinion, being a gay man and drag queen. Listen to the earlier interview with Connor Watch this episode on YouTube Subscribe to the Neil Wilkins Podcast for more episodes like this Visit Neil Wilkins Online for more content like this

I talk to Sales Training International founder and MD, Tracy Bedwell about how she uses LinkedIn as a core element in her sales pipeline. Tracy shares her top 3 tips for using LinkedIn for B2B sales and bearing in mind how well this LinkedIn LIVE went, I might suggest adding this as a 4th. For more details about Tracy and the training her team provides, visit Sales Training International .

Self-reflection is something that some of us find naturally easy and for others it can be quite alien. In this podcast I talk about a method of deeply listening when you turn the mirror on your self in a situation, in a conversation or in a decision. If you can self-reflect in the moment then you'll be living a present and mindful life. For most of us, it's about taking a moment after the situatio...

As we all emerge from global restrictions, Neil Wilkins and Brendan Llewellyn have a deep-dive conversation into whether the higher purpose of a business is part of the recovery process or if the reality of survival will take precedence. Neil and Brendan discuss a mindful recovery reset roadmap, part of the Mindful Collective Purpose Workshop programme and agree that growth and rebuilding is as mu...

In this webinar, recorded for Cambridge Marketing College , Neil Wilkins explains the important of marketing analysis and the constituent parts: Macro, Micro and Internal Analysis. This may sound quite a dry and acronym-ridden topic, but it in essence it is a simple and very powerful way to begin shaping the most profitable strategies and tactics for your business.  An organisation that fails...

Neil Wilkins talks to Balanced Life Coach, Laura Bentley about her work with women looking to return to work and how she uses IKIGAI and higher purpose as a focus to help people strike the perfect balance. For more details about Laura visit her website and this podcast is available on the Neil Wilkins Podcast through Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other channels. For more interviews and conversations...

When I lost £10,000 from investing in a business operating in a marketplace I knew relatively little about, I realised that I could have invested in myself. Had I spent the £10,000 on myself, where would I be today? What would I have learned? What experiences would I have benefitted from? If we choose to invest in ourselves we open up limitless opportunities for continuous professional and persona...

In this episode of The Mindful Business Show , Neil Wilkins talks to Sarah King, Founder of Loafspark, about compassionate leadership and the use of empathy in effective business communication.   Neil and Sarah discuss how the old management paradigm of 'boss and workers' no longer sits comfortably with purpose-led organisations.   To find out more about Sarah and her work, visit http://...

How do you take your personal brand and create a digital footprint that encourages engagement and results, using LinkedIn? In this webinar, part of the Cambridge Marketing College 'improve your marketing career' series, Neil Wilkins talks about the practical steps you can take to market your personal brand on LinkedIn.  Watch this episode (presentation slides available) on The Mindful Busines...

(Please excuse the low quality audio) In this podcast, Neil Wilkins reflects on the recent LGBTQ+ interview with Connor Banks . He discusses the concept of listening without prejudice and explores how difficult this is for humans who are pre-programmed to stereotype in order to make sense of the world around them. Concluding with the value of non-judgemental human to human interactions, Neil would...