The Humble Entrepreneur Podcast

Its a very simple thing, especially in this lockdown. And we all know that selling on Facebook or social media is the thing to do. After all its free advertising etc right? We wrong, people don't want to buy your stuff #buymystuff, and this is the reason why they don't. 

As entrepreneurs we are great at the startup phase of the business. The blue sky thinking, and the energy for getting the product or service up of the ground and running. This is a BLASTCAST episode so short, sharp and directly to the point.  But down the line once systems, and procedures start to be required and need putting in place. The level of detail required is generally to great for th...

We all know that mastermind groups are peer to peer mentoring and that they will move you business forwards fastest. I this episode I discuss the 7 benefits of mastermind groups and why your small business should be in one. The 7 elements are: 1) Removes the loneliness of business 2) Makes you level up and grow 3) Increases accountability 4) Networking 5) Outsiders perspective 6) Access to feedbac...

In life as well as in business so many of us are wasting money. The difference is in business the sums wasted are much bigger. Most businesses are guilty of wasting either resources or money and the bigger the business the great the values involved are. In the early start up days, we are used to boot strapping everything we can and getting creative on things. As business grows we become lazy. But...

We have all come across customer we wish we did not have. The lure of the paycheck was to great and we signed them up even thought we know we should not have done so.  I talk about the five different types of customers we should all steer well clear of, even if the paycheck is to great. the Five types of customers are:  1) Slow Payers 2) Clients with Poor Reputations 3) Poor Communicator...

So there are a great many business myths out there and they are just that! In this episode we discuss 7 common myths that are around small and startup businesses as well as BIGGER businesses.  These are the 7 myths: 1. The customer is always right. 2. Build it, and they will come. 3. Be active on all social networks. 4. Spend money to make money 5.  Under-promise and over-deliver. 6. &nb...

Don’t over anticipate the situation. The anticipation is often worse than the real-life event. The real-life event is never as bad as we anticipate in our minds. Its just what we build it up to be. And we in our own minds create a false future based on our over anticipation of events. There are five keys things that over anticipation robs you of, which I discuss here in this episode. Let me know i...

Many people question me on what are the benefits of running a podcasts. They often don't see what you get from it as unless its sponsored you do not always get a direct income from it. They see that its all expense and not get back, which is simply not the case. I talk about what benefits I get from podcasting, which are the same as many other people that run podcasts get. And trust me there are a...

We are all to guilty of saying yes to often!  We all need to learn to say no, and here are five key reasons to say no more often. Learning to say no is a skill we have to develop over time, and in doing so it will give us many benefits along the way. We are used to saying yes to please others but it can be harmful not to be more assertive. And imagine what you can do with all that free time.

Success is something that you have to define for yourself, and no one can do it for you. Many of us chase career titles, money, or social status — and yet we don’t feel successful when we get those things. In this age of online and everything now, we all assume we can and should in fact be a overnight success. But it is never to late to start over again and be successful, or to even start. Many su...

How many different streams of income do you personally know of? Millionaires and wealthy people across the country know these seven and use a variety of them to generate income for themselves . There is so much talk about get rich quick schemes and overnight successes due to the current climate conditions with COVID~19 that it is useful for you to know and explore all of the streams of income avai...

Little things you do (and don't do) can exhaust you both mentally and physically, which can make getting through your day a pain. Do you feel constantly exhausted and worn-out and don't understand why? The reason is that we tend to maintain habits that drain our energy, and we don't know how to avoid them. But the solution is very easy - it only takes the will to do it. I discuss 7 key habits that...

7 sacrifices every entrepreneur will encounter + a bonus 8th one that you will struglle with whilst scaling you brand or business! We will all struggle with the seven things, but you are not alone! I personally thing many of us that are trying to scale our business will struggle with them, but we are never happy to talk about them. We almost see them as failure... So the more we can all acknowledg...

Your success is never guaranteed. Whatever success you'll enjoy in your business needs to be achieved, and is not a given. With tv show like the dragons den creating PR Puff and popularising entrepreneurial lifestyles, people things success is easy or guaranteed. Which is simply not the case you still have to put the hard work and graft in.   

This year see's the 16th year for us in the main ventilation busy, with all of the ups and downs, lessons and learning, successes and failures along the way of that 16 year journey. In this episode I discuss 5 keys lessons learnt along the way, as since 2005 starting out the landscape of business has changed so dramatically. And none more so than in the last year! But one thing is for sure its bee...

I hind sight there are many things we will look back on a regret. Some for good and some for bad, but this is a story of a event I added. It was a great night, truly one which memory's are made from. And I suspect I will never get a chance to attend a event like it again. I had such a great night that my mind was closed to all the other opportunities that the night could have offered apart from cr...

There is no such thing as a self made man or woman, there is always a team behind them, even if its just the support wife or husband. To many people are into personal glorification, and trophy hunting. And it needs to stop!

Now I know many of you will say the you have already done a podcast episode on facebook lives. Which is entirely true, and was one of the most downloaded episodes ever! So I hear you asking, why do it again. Well whilst some of the things have not changed many things have, especially with Facebook itself. They have completely updated their metrics on video lengths etc and reach and you need to kno...

I want to get some great guest on board on this podcast to interview, take a listen and let me know if you want to or know someone that you can connect me with!

In this current client and lockdown, holding yourself and your business accountable is ever increasing difficult! This episode was originally the 5 things I do to make myself and businesses accountable that work. But I got so much feedback from my community on what works for them, that I did a further update. Which then includes 3 fur ways to help you are your business be more accountable. Please...

In this episode I discuss the three big things you can do to build your business fast, generating more leads and sales, that cost you noting only your time! Everyone wants to generate more leads and sales right? Well follow these three steps and you will do so without actually have to spend any money and only some of your time. Besides they are free so what do you have to lose?  Nothing... Thats t...

So all I see is people giving it the big on about what hours they are working, like a badge of honour! People getting up and being so productive 10x'ing at 5am in the morning. Yet In truth they are just up and d!cking about on facebook. The real key to working hours is discussed in this rant episode and also the need not to fit in with what other are telling you!

In this episode I runt through the 12 tips, tricks and hack to re-purpose you social media like a pro! You think all of the top social media influencers are always one facebook and posting, but they are not! They are being very clever and leveraging one post across all platforms and here is how you can do it also. This will save you time on social media and also get you better reach and gain more...

My 80/20 principle for posting on facebook, to make sure its not Spam! To many people are chucking out content on facebook but most of it is spam to people following you, follow this simple rule from me to ensure you are engaging and not spamming!

Trust is a fragile thing — slow to gain, quick to lose, and even slower to regain.   You need to build trust with people before they will buy from you, especially on social media. Would you loan someone money you don’t trust!? in this Episode we discuss the 4 main reasons you need to build trust in the sales process and also what you can do that will help to build trust with your customer and clie...