Business Built Freedom

Enhancing Your Business With Madeline Clift

There are always new strategies to help you maximize your success rate, whether you are just starting your business or if you have been running one for quite some time. Consistent improvements to enhance your business are critical to its success and sustainability. The few things to consider are professional development, high-quality products and services, customer support, and reliable IT support. Always remember that no matter what category your business falls in, the most important measure to consider is to provide your employees and customers with extreme value. Providing value in the lives of your customers and employees is significant when thinking about creating lasting business success. This might be challenging at first but as long as you believe in your ability and your technological foundation, everything will work as it is. In this episode, Madeline Clift talks about the most effective ways to enhance your business.

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Niching Your Business With Kirsty-Lee Roberts

When you open and run a business in a unique industry, it is important to differentiate yourself from the competition and win over your audience. Entrepreneurs should find a specific business niche to target a market strategy, and the broader the market, the more businesses you can serve. You should also find a niche in your industry that has unmet needs and select your target clients, define an underserved need, research your customer base, create your business plan and market your business to a specific audience. The good news is, If you think of a specific product that serves one of your unique needs, it can probably be classified as a niche business idea. And in today's episode, we've got Kirsty-Lee and she's going to discuss niching the current position of Australia's financials. 

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Why Are Smart People Smart and Dumb People Dumb?

For some, having an omnipresent digital version of ourselves has been easy. Thanks to the pervasiveness of advanced technology and wireless Internet, there is barely any question that goes unanswered and no demand for knowledge clarification is not affirmed. Because of the privilege of accessibility, we all feel that we are the go-to-person and we act as though we have been everywhere and that we have experienced everything. We forget that it is possible to recognize individual differences when it comes to learning ability. We must admit that many of us feel like we are left out or that we are having difficult times catching up because we put limits on our potential. But there are ways to improve ourselves and learn new things. In this episode, Joshua Lewis shares with us how we can change up our personal choices to improve learning. 

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Creating Awesome Teams with Zoe Routh

In today's episode, Zoe Routh of Inner Compass talks about how to better your business. You may be in a position where you're worried about possibly a looming recession (or maybe you're not). Some businesses we have been working with have gone from 30–50 employees down to 3–5, so it's scary times. But Zoe is an expert when it comes to building relationships and making sure the relationships you have with your teams and with yourself are on point. She helps leaders manage that kind of process and its effects on their people, instead of cutting expenses and other business decisions.

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Updating Hardware When Data is in the Cloud

Has the cloud changed how we update our hardware? It's a great question that we're asked. People seem to think that because all their data is in the cloud, they don't need to upgrade their computers and they can just use the cheapest, dirtiest piece of thing that they've ever seen. The truth is you can't. If anything, it needs to be more powerful than before and the reason is with all your stuff in a traditional sense, when there was a server that was hyper-powered super duper and it allowed for any of the things that needed to be done, that is where the processing house was and then what would happen is the data would shoot through to your computer and your computer would just be a display for it really. So it didn't need to be that powerful.

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Amazing Marketing Automation with Avon Collis

Most of you have read a lot about automation here and how great it is for your business. After all, automation revolves around making sure that you've got a process that works. In this episode, Avon Collis from Relevate shares amazing marketing automation while keeping it human, such as a bot that's not trying to talk or sound like a human but just trying to understand the human process that they go through because we should never automate the human elements. A huge part of automation is people who are doing bits and pieces to ensure that the processes don't break. In other cases, it goes the other way around. The process is there to make sure the human doesn't break. Listen to the podcast to learn more about marketing and automation. 

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

The Art of Listening With Oscar Trimboli

Have you ever experienced attending a conference but you were on your mobile phone the whole time and was never connected with the speaker? Or maybe you experienced something similar like the person next to you was opening up about how his/her day went but you weren't listening and missed most of the important points of the entire conversation. In this episode, Oscar Trimboli shares the methods and techniques we can apply to be a better listeners. We will also discuss how listening can be a crucial part of being successful. 

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Forecasting Your Business Numbers with Leschen Smaller

Our special guest in this episode is Leschen Smaller from Element Business and Accounting Solutions. How come so many businesses have collapsed? Where have they gone? Why didn't they save for a rainy day? These are just some of the questions we have in mind and Leschen is here to enlighten us. She explains the 13-week cash flow and talks more about getting projections for when your cash is coming in and when your cash is going out⁠—something that is certainly important and that has been highlighted through this whole COVID crisis thing. Normally, businesses might save a little bit for a rainy day, but Leschen shares a better way to stay afloat in times of crisis: forecasting. Read more or listen to the podcast!  

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Covid Created Customers With Julie Bannister

In this episode, Julie Bannister from BforB shares with us how we could take advantage of the current pandemic when we cannot do face-to-face business networking⁠—when we have to pivot, change, and go online. As Julie puts it, it's not the end and it doesn't mean we won't come out the other side of this pandemic or that we can't also grow in this time. In fact, many members of BforB have been looking at how they can take things online, sell their products online, or do other things so that they can stay afloat in this time. Julie has been doing some special stuff with businesses for years and several different flavours. She helps businesses grow and thrive. And who wouldn't want to grow and thrive at a time like now?

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.

Helping Yourself With Bob Burg

In this episode, my special guest is Bob Burg. He has changed my life and the way that I do business. The Go-Giver is one of the first self-help books that I read, and it had a massive influence on me. 

To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.