The Simpler Business Podcast with Marissa Roberts

In this episode, Marissa chats with Elizabeth Averyanova on how personal branding and impactful design can help you convert your audience into paying clients. Founder of Studio Classica,  Elizabeth is a brand strategist, digital marketing expert, web designer, and architectural designer who helps purpose-driven female entrepreneurs scale their businesses with impactful designs that attract dr...

Content is king. How many times have you heard that? It’s a cliche because it’s true. Regular content is the key to growing your reach and positioning yourself as an authority in your industry. Your content is how people discover you, how they get to you know you, find out what you’re good at, and how you can help them. When people understand how you can make their life easier, more comfortable, m...

If you’re tired of feeling tired, run down, crawling through your work day struggling to get things done, you'll find today's chat with Hope Pedraza on how to navigate your health and nutrition as a busy entrepreneur very helpful! Hope is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist,  Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and host of Hopeful and Wholesome Podcast. She helps career...

Tired of feeling stressed and burnt out? We start our businesses for more freedom but so many entrepreneurs find themselves working longer hours than ever before because they’re responsible for everything. If you’re up at midnight on your laptop while the rest of the family is asleep, if you’re thinking about work all day, every day, and you never take a day off, it’s time to simplify your approac...

Need a quick cash flow boost for your business? At The Simpler Business Podcast, we are all about the easy offer - simple product or service offers that convert well, take almost no effort to put together, and give a quick win for your client or customer. Here are  Marissa's favourite easy offers - let us know if you give one a try this week! Mentioned in this episode: Book like a Boss , Teac...

So many entrepreneurs are talking about how it’s getting harder and harder to stand out from the crowd online, and how frustrating it is to see their social media follower count or email list size go up by one, down by one, up by three, down by two! It can be really frustrating when you know you’ve got a great message to share and can help people, you just need to get in front of more of them. Lis...

If you struggle with consistent content creation, this episode is for you! Yes, we all know we need to create regular content to grow our businesses and develop relationships with our potential customers. We get it! So why do so many of us post and ghost, popping up every few weeks or months instead of daily or weekly? Maybe inspiration didn’t hit this week. Maybe motivation took a dive. Maybe imp...

Sometimes the start of the workday can feel so overwhelming!. The day stretches before you, the To Do list feels huge, you know everyone will be calling and emailing non stop, and you can’t wait until it’s time to finish up for the day, even though it has barely started! I hate having a whole workday in front of me. I can give about 2 hours of productivity and then I crave down time, so I’ve built...

What did you do for a living before you jumped into entrepreneurship? Corporate lawyer turned Eastern-influenced leadership and women’s empowerment expert, speaker, author, and socialpreneur Anjani Amriit went from crisis to contribution. After dedicating 20+ years to the cause in top law firms in the UK and Australia, with no personal strategies to manage the high-pressure environment, she burned...

Want to free up your time and mental load as an entrepreneur, and give yourself more time and opportunity to relax? Marissa has a list of ways to make running her business easier and it's her secret to only working 2 hour days, 4 days a week. Listen in to learn about each one and how you can implement them in your business! ------ Enjoyed this episode? Please subscribe, rate and review us on Spoti...

One size fits all business models do NOT work for those of us who are both entrepreneurs and introverts. If you’re wondering whether your quiet nature or your need to recharge regularly with plenty of alone time is going to get in the way of growing and scaling your business, this is the episode for you! Marissa chats with an intuitive business strategist and host of the League of Extraordinary In...

If you can find a way to really enjoy your work life as an entrepreneur, you’ll find it so much easier to show up consistently, build a genuine connection with your potential clients and customers, and sell your products and services without needing to be pushy or ”sale-sy”. Adding more joy, ease and flow to your business is the key to helping you grow and scale without burnout, and monetising you...

How do you feel about having difficult conversations as part of running your business? Entrepreneurs wear many different hats, jumping from one thing to another while trying to balance it all, and when things get tricky in one area, there can be a temptation to just gloss over it and hope it fixes itself so we can keep focusing on the feel-good parts of the business. The thing is, if you can get g...

Selling your product or service can feel like a huge hurdle when you’re first starting your business. There’s a lot riding on your ability to produce regular cash flow, to be able to cover your business expenses, pay yourself a living wage and start making profits! Often we’re so focused on selling one product or service successfully that we don’t realise there are actually a few simple tweaks we...

If you’re running and growing your business online, you already know that creating consistent content is the key to positioning yourself as one of the experts in your niche, increasing your visibility, and gaining the ‘know, like, and trust factor with your potential clients and customers. It makes sales much easier because you’re able to hit those 7-10 touchpoints to show your audience the benefi...

Many entrepreneurs know what it’s like to experience and struggle with brain fog - especially when we’re juggling our business with family life. We feel tired, stressed, forgetful, we have trouble focusing, it’s harder to make decisions quickly and to just get things done in general, which is so frustrating when you’ve started your own business for more freedom, but then you don’t have the energy...

Need a simple way to save time and stress in your service-based business? Running a service business is time-consuming by nature - you’re already spending hours doing work for your clients, and things like marketing and admin, plus you’re constantly sending quotes, invoices, having meetings, catching up on emails - that’s a lot to fit into your busy working week! Let’s make things a little smoothe...

It’s the start of a new year, and most entrepreneurs are planning their business and launch calendar for the next 12 months. They’re plugging in content strategy, cart open and close dates, email sequences, and more into their yearly plan, but there’s one really important thing a lot of entrepreneurs completely forget to schedule! Mentioned in this episode: Passive Products ------ Enjoyed this epi...

As an online entrepreneur, it’s very easy to get caught up in what everyone else is doing. You open up Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and you see the big names, the creators who seem to show up everywhere all the time.. how do they do it? If you’re a solopreneur or you’re only just starting to build your business, this can feel quite overwhelming. Thinking that you have to show up on every...

You know those days when it seems like there’s so much to do but no matter how hard you try, nothing seems to get done? It feels frustrating and overwhelming and can really derail your efforts and outcomes. In this episode, Marissa shares the easiest way to manage this kind of frustration and overwhelm. ------ Enjoyed this episode? Please subscribe, rate and review us on Spotify , Apple Podcasts o...

Want to create another income stream in 2022? Whether you’re looking to reduce your debt, increase your savings, or simply stop trading your time for money, there’s never been a better time to add an additional income stream to your business. In this episode, Marissa shares her tips on creating a new income stream the easy way, including how to determine what you can sell, types of products or ser...

Do you find yourself moving through your mornings on autopilot? Get up, get ready, get to work, sit down and start working.. and you just kind of feel like you're plodding through the day like a robot? Or do you find yourself spending the whole day putting out small fires that pop up unexpectedly? You don't have to get stuck in this kind of rut. In this episode, Marissa shares a very simple activi...

Feeling a little frantic about the upcoming Holiday season? In this episode, Marissa shares 3 little habits that will help you slow down, relax and enjoy Christmas time more this year. ------ Enjoyed this episode? Please subscribe, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast platform:  https://apple.co/2S3VTo3 --- Want to add passive income to your business? Download Mariss...

Is procrastination REALLY that bad for your business? In this episode, Marissa shares her insights on how procrastinating can actually be a good thing in your business and your life! ------ Enjoyed this episode? Please subscribe, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast platform:  https://apple.co/2S3VTo3 --- Want to add passive income to your business? Download Marissa'...

Most, if not all, entrepreneurs experience imposter syndrome, especially in the first few years of running our business, and not enough people are talking about it!  Sales and business development expert & NLP master trainer Chandell Labbozzetta joins Marissa in this episode to talk about exactly what imposter syndrome is, why it shows up, how it can hold us back if we don't address it, a...