In this latest and greatest episode, Jamie talks about the new trend of allowing the customer to split payments,  Mat banishes halloween nightmares away with a brand new spray, and both of them disagree with good old Coco.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very expensive.

This week, Jamie’s poorly but talks about content marketing, Mat examines crimes against small business, and both of them get to grips with the topic of jealousy and whether it’s ever of any use. 

Show notes

Call for help in tackling small business crime 

The race to build a flying electric taxi 

What is content marketing?

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Antisthenes

With his co-host’s return, Jamie takes the opportunity to talk about cute sofa names (and why they sell so well), Mat explains the intricacies of whisky in a dishwasher tablet format, SEO comes up squarely on the 1st page, and both of them gush over Mt Everest’s most enigmatic pioneer.

Show notes:

“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.'There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron... If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.”

—George Mallory

Read the article here: https://www.iwoca.co.uk/finance-explained/business-overdraft/

Stepping up to the plate, Mark covers for Mat this week, Jamie gets Northwich and Norwich mixed up, we cover why being front of mind is one of the most important laws of marketing, and we also head to Japan for today's brilliant or bonkers quote.

Show notes

Northwich business owner turns 80 and says she's no plans to slow down yet

Meet the Sno-flex  

“I no naka no kawazu, taikai wo sirazu”

A frog in a well never knows the vast ocean

Music: Death of Lovers by John Hall | Opsound

Read the full article here: https://www.iwoca.co.uk/finance-explained/working-capital/

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

In our 10th ‘anniversary’ episode Mat correctly guesses the only county in England that doesn’t have a McDonald’s, Jamie tries to explain why plastic that only comes out at night is a good idea, and they both fail to agree if teleportation is a good idea or not.

More than a third of UK bank branches have closed since 2015

England's only county without a McDonald's

Vampire plastic

Reasons not to buy hoverboards

What is a credit facility?

“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”

“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” —Winnie-the-Pooh

Music John Hall | Death of Lovers | Opsound

Today, Mat runs us through the ins and outs of hunting licenses (the auction finance kind), a joke about helium balloons goes straight over Jamie’s head, and Saint Augustine weighs in on the topic of trying new things.

News

Recession, what recession? Small businesses are doing good 

Helium shortage: 'Prices just keep going up and up' 

Innovations

Wearable diabetes sensor

Rockit Rocker

Finance Explained

Auction finance explained

Quotes

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. “

—Ernest Hemingway

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

—Saint Augustine

Now with exciting new recording equipment, Jamie gets stuck into the pros and cons of a cashless society, Mat explains another unusually named device – which is most definitely not a black box for your phone – and both of them can’t figure out when Leonardo Da Vinci went dinosaur hunting.

Compare the best business bank accounts

“My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

– Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Leonardo Da Vinci)

Audio: Death of Lovers, John Hall | Opsound