The SME Growth Podcast by Wellmeadow

Are you struggling to create valuable content for your business? In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle dive into the world of content leveraging and share their most valuable lesson. They discuss the factors that contribute to capturing attention, such as trustworthiness, usefulness, and engagement. Learn more about the long-term benefits of content-driven inboun...

Are you an entrepreneur or a small business owner dealing with the challenges of having one dominant customer? On this week's episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle are joined by Glenn Aston to discuss his experiences with Ultra Furniture. In this episode, Glenn reflects on the hurdles they faced as a business with four equal shareholders and how they unintentionally...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, host Dave Parry is joined by guest Richard Llewellyn-Bell to discuss the current challenge of recruitment facing SMES and how recruiting military veterans could solve the issue. They discuss the pros and cons of hiring ex-military personnel, including their valuable skills such as leadership, resilience, and adaptability, as well as potential challenges s...

Join hosts Dave Parry and Richard Buckle from Wellmeadow Limited as they explore the world of generative AI, also known as gen AI, and its implications for small and medium-sized enterprises . In this quarterly AI update, discover how AI can drive growth and innovation for SMEs, enhance operational efficiency, and improve decision-making processes. Dave and Rich share their personal experiences wi...

In this episode of the SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the importance of SMEs completing a risk register. Whilst they are not legally required for every business, a risk register allows for businesses to be proactive on potential pain points and protect a business from potential detrimental problems. Check out our resources page for the template: ⁠https://www.wellmeadow.c...

Are you struggling to keep up with the demands of your business? Do you find yourself overwhelmed with emails, meetings, and tasks? Look no further! In this episode, Dave and Richard provide practical tips and tools for improving productivity in the workplace. In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Perry and Richard Buckle discuss productivity hacks and tips. They cover a range of topics,...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast Dave Parry and Richard Buckle are joined by Joe Lockley, co-founder of Brightstar. Joe shares how his program uses boxing education and mentoring to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Joe talks about the challenges of growing his business too fast and the fear that initially held him back from making key decisions. He emphasises the importan...

Productivity is the key to success for any small business. In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the challenges facing SMEs in terms of skills, infrastructure, business investment, and innovation, and the impact that is known as The Productivity Puzzle. Focussing on productivity and its impact on the economy, based on the Roger Martin-Fagg reports, they d...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, host Richard Buckle is joined by mental health professional Lisa Gunn discuss stress in the workplace as part of Stress Awareness Month. Lisa explains the concept of a "stress bucket" and emphasises the importance of managing stress well and allowing space for breaks to prevent chronic stress. They discuss the causes of stress in SMEs and the im...

In this special Shakespeare inspired episode, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle set themselves the challenge of discussing the different stages of growth for a business, but to celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday, the business stages are marked against Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man (from As You Like It). Are Dave and Rich up to the challenge of merging the worlds of SME Growth and Shake...

No SME owner expects their business to fail, but it could happen. In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle are joined by Phil Caudle for a candid conversation about his experiences with the downfall of his business and the potential insights he can give to other SMEs based on hindsight. This interview is a great listen to any SME, offering advice to any SME that fin...

The SME Growth Podcast hits 21 episodes! As discussed in the ⁠Modern Wisdom⁠ podcast, 90% of podcasts don't make it past three episodes, and of them, only 10% only make it to 21. So to celebrate being in the 1% of podcasts, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle reflect on their podcast journey and share some of their top tips for creating a podcast. If you are interested in what Wellmeadow does, head...

What is a qualifying sales process, and does every SME need to to utilise one? In short, no, but in this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the potential benefits of having a qualifying sales process focussing on BANT. Learn more about what BANT stands for, how it could be applied to an SME and how to take the BANT methodology even further with automation and...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss budgeting for business and whether or not every business even needs a budget. Learn more about the pitfalls of budgeting, what to consider to get the most out of your budget and ways to make a budget work best for your SME. If you are interested in what Wellmeadow does, head to our website: https://www.wellmeadow.co.u...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the benefits of a business implementing a CRM. They discuss the importance of a business having a CRM, discuss Wellmeadow's choice of CRM of HubSpot and doing some myth-busting on the negatives of CRMs. If you are interested in what Wellmeadow does, head to our website: https://www.wellmeadow.co.uk/

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss how businesses can use marketing as part of their recruitment process to attract top talent. The episode focusses on reviewing our own recruitment process, the benefits of creating content for your job applicants and how you can use the recruitment process to communicate your company vision. Take a look at our own Car...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the rise of AI technologies, and the impact this could have more on business. Learn more about some of the current AI software in the market, business applications for Chat GPT and what Dave and Rich think about the impact AI could have on businesses currently and in the future.  Take a look at Rich's blog, using...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the concept of a business strategy. Learn more about different frameworks to develop your business strategy, including lessons learnt from real life examples from our SME clients. This podcast is the perfect pairing to our previous episode on vision, you've established where your business is going, now it's time to wo...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the concept of a business vision. Learn more about the benefits to your SME for having a vision and how a vision can influence your business culture. They also cover whether every business needs a vision or not. Watch the Wellmeadow recruitment video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajehRd4-Jfk Download our free Colli...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the practise of Internal Marketing. Learn more about the benefits of internal marketing for your business, the challenges you may face as an SME utilising the technique and some real client examples of applications of internal marketing.  If you are interested in what Wellmeadow does, head to our website: https:/...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the concept of content leveraging. Focussing on creating content in both quality and quantity so an SME gets the most benefit from time invested into creating content. They also discuss the concept of TikTokification and the need of shortform content in your content strategy. If you want to read our blog comparing Tik...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle are joined by Seb Slater, Executive Director of Shrewsbury BID, to discuss his expertise in place marketing. Learn more about the process of marketing a place, specifically to Seb's experience in marketing Shrewsbury. A great listen to anyone interested in place marketing or Shrewsbury as a whole! Have a look at the work of S...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss marketing as a process. By systemising and outlining your marketing process it empower SMEs to make deliberate, calculated marketing choices which can help save time and money when implementing a marketing strategy. Dave and Rich also discuss the marketing process that Wellmeadow use called The Growth Generator. &nbsp...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the importance of SMEs setting themselves achievable goals for their business. By setting goals, it helps to drive your business forward as well as giving tangible milestones to measure business success upon. This podcast takes goal setting further than just SMART goals, the importance of metrics to measure success an...

In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss the importance of SMEs completing a content audit. Covering the basics of what a content audit is, how a business can conduct one and processes a SME can put in place to make a content audit easier. Most importantly, they discuss the benefits of a content audit for an SME and how this can help and improve a business'...