Business Mastermind Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

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Paxton Gray is the CEO of 97th Floor, an award-winning software and digital marketing agency, with clients such as Discover, Celebrity Cruises and Salesforce. 

Paxton joins Gavin today to discuss his incredible business journey, and to give his invaluable insights into how best to attract, recruit and make the most of new talent, as well as the best ways in which you can optimise conversions on digital marketing campaigns using effective data analysis.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Serving the customer and adding value to their experience is not just about meeting needs, but about empowering them in ways that will help them grow.
• Nurturing a working environment built around results, focus and autonomy, increases retention by allowing workers to perform the job on their own terms. It also encourages innovations in 'efficiency'.
• Benefits and advantages, such as health and wellbeing, add to the sense of belonging and security among teams. By feeling cared for, workers begin to view the workplace as a second home.
• Sometimes traffic rates on sites slow to a halt. The way to squeeze more conversions from this is to use Conversion Rate Optimisations: looking at increasing conversions by looking at different metrics.

BEST MOMENTS

'The main goal was always “How do we provide the most value to our clients?”'

‘Everyone is intrinsically incentivised to find more efficient and better ways of doing things'

‘Good talent begets good talent'

'The marketing team don't work for your business - they work for your customers and clients'

VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Business Mastermind Podcast 

Paxton Gray LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paxtongray/

97th Floor - https://www.97thfloor.com

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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Gavin's special guest this week is Tom Kulzer, the CEO and Founder of Aweber, a business dedicated to delivering simple, effective email marketing solutions to small businesses wishing to grow and scale.

Through Tom's ingenuity, Aweber have served marketing solutions to over 100,000 businesses globally, and still operate upon the principle of connecting people first and foremost. 

Tom joins Gavin to discuss how the world has, and hasn't changed since Aweber began, and how an early internet business has stayed relevant in an ever-changing world.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Technologies are rapidly evolving, and so are the important websites in terms of customer presence, but the core principle of Aweber's business has always been about connecting people; a principle that has never changed.
• Change comes incrementally, and by constantly educating ourselves about business need and changing technologies.
• In virtual environments, the content is often more important than the people. Attendance for digital events have swiftly overtaken physical events in terms of attendance and engagement.
• There has to be risk and apprehension when implementing change. You know when you're doing something important and big, because your adrenaline tells you so.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It's really simple to this day; it's just that our tools change over time'

‘You have to listen to your customers, but also keep that innovative mind-set'

‘Do really well by your existing customers and they will tell other people about you'

‘Good change doesn't happen when you're comfortable'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

Tom Kulzer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkulzer/

Aweber - https://www.aweber.com

To book your copy of 'Survive And Thrive' visit https://www.surviveandthrive.cc/coming-soon1591762256

ABOUT THE GUEST

Rob Moore

Rob Moore is a triple best-selling Property Author, public speaker, entrepreneur, and multi-million- pound Property Investor.  He co- founded the UK's biggest property education company Progressive Property in 2006 with Mark Homer and has since helped over 100,000 entrepreneurs towards achieving the same, including consulting for many established multi-millionaires and keynoting at some of the UK's most important business events.

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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Rob Moore is the owner and founder of the biggest property training company in the UK, as well as the host and creator of two of the UK's biggest podcasts: 'The Disruptive Entrepreneur', and ‘Money'. On top of this, Rob is also a best-selling author, a hugely influential mentor, a prolific influencer and content creator, and a multi-millionaire property investor.

Rob joins Gavin today to discuss not just the effects of lockdown upon UK business, but the solutions and mind-set he has developed in order to ensure that he and his many business interests have not just survived, but thrived!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You can only control the things within your control. There's no sense in attempting to predict outcomes based on data you don't have. Influence your own destiny based on what you know.
• Circumventing obstacles and challenges is the art of developing a constructive mind-set. It is the practice of taking a measured view, and devising several different contingent strategies to deal with different eventualities.
• All problems, all solutions, all happiness, and all fulfilment, come from how we utilise our awareness. Many business problems stem from an imagined awareness in the past being projected onto our perceived future.
• Planning, in itself, is an act of self-belief. Many formulate strategies in order to see them through troubled times, but then lose their bravery when the time comes to deploy.
• The most successful realise that the bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. In the wake of solving problems, bigger problems arise, but so too do bigger chances for success.

BEST MOMENTS

‘The benefit of a plan is in the planning, not in the plan itself'

'99% of the things we worry about never actually happen'

‘You've got to have faith that what you don't know today, you can figure out tomorrow'

'The world's biggest problems are the entrepreneur's greatest opportunities'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

Rob Moore LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979/?originalSubdomain=uk

Rob Moore - https://robmoore.com

‘Money' and 'The Disruptive Entrepreneur' - https://robmoore.com/podcast/ 

To book your copy of 'Survive And Thrive' visit https://www.surviveandthrive.cc/coming-soon1591762256

ABOUT THE GUEST

Rob Moore

Rob Moore is a triple best-selling Property Author, public speaker, entrepreneur, and multi-million- pound Property Investor.  He co- founded the UK's biggest property education company Progressive Property in 2006 with Mark Homer and has since helped over 100,000 entrepreneurs towards achieving the same, including consulting for many established multi-millionaires and keynoting at some of the UK's most important business events.

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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Gavin is joined by Bissett FInancial Fitness founder, Tracy Bissett, to discuss managing your business cash-flow and finances as we move out of lockdown and towards the future.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Business owners who ignore the numbers and hope for the best are essentially putting their heads in the sand. Accountability and responsibility are of paramount importance.
• Planning for cash-flow has never been more important. COVID has demonstrated that businesses cannot survive without reserves to draw upon.
• There's nothing wrong with taking advantage of government schemes to build cash reserves, so long as they are used wisely and not frivolously.
• One of the best ways of combatting feelings of negativity, is to focus upon every single thing for which we should be thankful; food, clothing, shelter and prospects should not be taken for granted.

BEST MOMENTS

'The key is to ask for help so that you can master all of the things you don't know'

‘Businesses that plan for cashflow not only survive, but thrive!'

‘Do it thoughtfully - do it strategically'

‘You certainly need to be accountable and responsible for financial direction of your company'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

[email protected]

Bissett Financial Fitness - https://www.bissettfinancialfitness.com

Tracy Bissett Twitter - https://twitter.com/bissettfinfit

Bissett Financial Fitness LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/bissett-financial-fitness-inc./?trk=company_logo

Cash Coach - www.cashcoach.biz

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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Have you ever asked yourself the question: “Who are the ten most valuable people in your network right now?”

Today may be the time to explore the answer, as Gavin talks to Patrick Powers, the founder of the Entrepreneurs In London network, and the author of the book 'The New Marketing Manifesto', about what you should be doing for the people in your network to add the most value, and why now is the time to do it!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Too many businesses think that marketing is simply about grabbing someone's attention. Just because people know about you, doesn't mean that they will buy from you.
• Networking online requires us to be more proactive. We must shy away from being reactive. Finding a middle ground, and become valuable by being “aggressively friendly” 
• Comfort and acceptance come from perseverance, and forcing ourselves to push through the mental barriers holding us back.
• Grabbing someone's attention is much easier if you're doing something unique and different. By standing out, you become instantly fascinating, and more importantly, memorable!

BEST MOMENTS

‘Influence is all about understanding words and energy'

‘You have to work out to influence one person and make a sale'

‘Anything new is uncomfortable'

‘I won't connect people with each other unless I trust them'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

Patrick Powers - https://patrickmpowers.com

Patrick Powers LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmpowers/?originalSubdomain=uk

Founder Nation On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/FounderNation/

Entrepreneurs In London On Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/entrepreneursinlondon/

Get your three free chapters of Patrick's incredible new book by going to https://patrickmpowers.com/marketing-manifesto-sample/

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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