The Next 100 Days Podcast

Which Systems Do You Need To Fix First? If you are in a complete and utter mess, putting a system in place makes things manageable and doable. Marina Darlow, an expert in systems, joins The Next 100 Days Podcast for the second time and discusses how emotions and systems interweave. Marina has launched a new course and set up her own podcast. Better at Business. Listen to Marina here: https://bette...

Does your business model require you to bid for work? Is your success rate as good as you might like? This podcast is all about writing bids. We pose the question - how do you create a winning bid? Writing Bids: How to Create a Winning Bid This podcast is all about writing bids. The Next 100 Days Podcast often covers generating leads and closing sales. For many businesses, generating leads isn't w...

How people make choices. Daniel Burstein from MECLABS Institute, based in Jacksonville, Florida, explains some of the insight drawn from over 20,000 marketing experiments into understanding how people make choices, particularly on the live laboratory of the internet. Lessons that no marketing professional should miss out upon.

The Direct Mail Solution Craig Simpson is the co-author of The Direct Mail Solution and a bone fide direct mail solution expert. The Direct Mail Solution is a book written to help business owners build a lead-generating, sales-driving, money-making direct mail campaign. His co-author is Dan Kennedy. The Direct Mail Solution:      https://www.amazon.co.uk/Direct-Mail-Solution-Lead-Generating-Sales-...

If you don't like making smalltalk and you struggle with networking then Maria Granovsky has some great news for you. Introverts can have great networks too. So whats networking for introverts all about? About Maria Granovsky Maria Granovsky helps professional women who hate face to face networking build successful careers through network via social media. This subject is near and dear to Maria. I...

Do you take time out to celebrate your successes? Do you make sure your team gets the recognition it deserves? Are you confident the people around you feel appreciated? Minoti Parikh from this pampered life shows us how to celebrate success. About Minoti Parikh Minoti Parikh, the Founder of This Pampered Life has facilitated more than 1500 corporate events across 20 countries over the last 12 year...

Have you ever considered how to make more of your investment portfolio? Or perhaps you have a business with big potential that needs investors? Kealan Doyle tells us all about venture capital investing and how a venture capital fund operates. About Kealan Doyle Kealan Doyle from Symvan Capital, an award-winning EIS/SEIS technology venture capital fund manager, joins The Next 100 Days Podcast to ex...

Does your business stop you having the life you want? Jeremy Frandsen tells us all about lifestyle design and how to make your business fit your lifestyle and not the other way round. About Jeremy Frandsen Jeremy Frandsen is our special guest to celebrate our 100th episode of The Next 100 Days. We’re delighted that Jeremy joins us all the way from Salt Lake City, Utah. Our podcast arose as a resul...

Do you want to get better at public relations? Perhaps grab some media opportunities? In this episode, Krystal Covington shares some great PR tips for small businesses. About Krystal Covington Krystal Covington helps businesses by developing strategic marketing and PR plans to reach new audiences. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband. We got to know Krystal through Christopher...

Do you want to increase your productivity by 50%. Camille Preston shows us how to create more flow, and tells us that, once in a state of flow we are 7 times more productive than normal. So do you want to create more flow in your life? How to Create More Flow As Camille says the world needs flow now more than ever before. Flow allows you to organise your life around practices of intrinsic value: h...

What Should You Focus on in Your Marketing Message? What’s our marketing message going to be? It’s a question faced by every marketer when they contemplate how they’ll attract custom. The first step is to recognise the tools at your disposal: your knowledge of your target audience’s hopes, dreams, desires and emotions; and your knowledge of your product. Your marketing message connects the two. He...

Do you want to learn how one of the fastest growing eco friendly businesses in the USA inspires it's customers? We find out from Christopher Fous of Woobamboo Christopher Fous, pronounced like you’d say most, but with an “f” and no “t”! Or close. Christopher runs Woobamboo in Cape Coral, south west Florida, USA. We spoke to him at 9am his time and it was a balmy 23oc/74 of. Not too shabby for Nove...

Do you need to create a marketing offer? Graham gives us a masterclass in how to do it. A Marketing Offer Gets Motion. Your marketing offer needs to be compelling enough to get your customer or prospect to take action.  In particular, your offer needs to get prospects into motion in two directions. You want your best prospects moving towards you and those who are unsuited moving away from you. A g...

Do you coach people? Do you have staff you need to develop? If you just answered "yes" then this episode is for you. Michael Bungay Stanier joins us to talk about his book "The Coaching Habit: Say Less; Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever" . Michael has an English father and Scottish Grandmother. Yet, despite this, he lives in Toronto and he’s Australian! Michael’s book: The Coaching Habi...

John Lamerton is a best-selling author; entrepreneur; and mentor to small businesses. He hails from Devon and is a passionate Plymouth Argyle fan. John has just published a new book Big Ideas for Small Businesses and joins the podcast to tell us about the personal journey that inspires the book. John Lamerton started off as a civil servant and became a self-taught marketer. It was the early 2000s...

Has your business growth stalled? Can't work out why? The Entrepreneur's Yoda specialises in helping you find out why and then getting you back on track. About Lonnie Sciambi Lonnie L. Sciambi, “The Entrepreneur’s Yoda,” is Managing Director and CEO of Small Business Force, LLC and author of the best-selling book, “Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success.” Lonnie hails from New Jersey. Lonnie has had a...

Are you interested in creating a membership business model? Its a great way of building a strong relationship with your customers and securing a recurring revenue stream. Many think of a membership business as a great route to passive income. Our Guest Mike Morrison is an expert on the membership business model and tells us it can be very rewarding, but to do it well there's very little thats pass...

What does your ideal client look like? Patrick McGloughlin helps accountancy practices answer that exact question. He has been helping accountancy practices attract their ideal clients for 19 years. His business is Accounting for Growth is based in Loughborough in Leicestershire. He specialises in marketing for accountants in public practice. What he has to share with us is relevant not just to ac...

Are you ready for the changes to data protection law. We thought it was high time for a GDPR update. Rosemary Smith, from Opt-4 joined us around a year ago, and her podcast on GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulations, really engaged our listeners. She’s still our top download. It’s a very hot topic (you can listen again here). Time for a GDPR update So, we thought it would be great to have...

Have you thought about using video in your business? Its much easer and costs much less than you might first think. This week's guest on the next 100 days podcast, Mark Orr, shows us how you can begin to use video in your business. And all you need is the smartphone already in your pocket.......... About Mark Orr Mark Orr runs PocketVideoSchool.com, a production and training business based in the...

Do you want to work less and earn more? Des Vadgama tells us how to secure high ticket clients. Clients who are prepared to pay 5 figures for your services. Des Vadgama is of Indian heritage. His name is thought to come from the Portuguese explorer Vasco  da Gama!. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama In this episode, Des discusses how you secure high ticket clients. Des Vadgama – How he go...

Have you ever considered becoming a non executive director? Not sure what it involves, or how to make it happen? On this week's show we talk to Anne Watson. Anne is one of the UK’s leading experts on becoming a Non Executive Director, and she gives us a great insight into the do's and dont's of becoming a non executive director. Anne’s career to date. Anne claims to have lived a long time! Her fir...

Fed up of chasing clients for payment? In this episode we look at ways you can automate customer billing and get paid in advance of doing the work. We examine two tools that Kevin is using in his business to do this. Acuity Schedule  and MemberPress. So, listen in and find out how you can transform your customer billing in the next 100 days. Why transform your customer billing? In the traditional...

On this weeks show we look at the lessons learned in the third sector mentoring and coaching young people can be transferred directly into the workplace. Karol Thornton from Yorkshire Mentoring and Youth In Mind tells us all about it.

Do you need a fresh approach to marketing that will really make a difference in the next 100 days? Yes? then agile marketing might be the right answer for you. Shane Redding joins us to talk about agile marketing and using data to drive your marketing success, and she gives us some really practical tips on what to do in the next 100 days. About Shane Redding Shane Redding is a consultant, trainer...