#GrowNOW The Podcast

How does it feel leaving the comfort of Zoom business meetings? Are you happy to get back in the game of face to face meetings with potential clients or business partners?

But let’s step it up a bit! Providing you have your 29 seconds elevator pitch ready, you’ve met the right people that are interested in your service, now you have an important high-level meeting secured. How do you make sure it’s gonna be a successful one?

This episode focuses on what not to do and how not to act in order to face this challenges.

How do you introduce yourself and your business when you meet a potential new client and don’t have much time? Or better said, how good is your networking game? In situations where we don’t have the time to engage in meaningful discussions, how do we present ourselves in such a way that we convey the necessary information about our business?

Here at IMN Paris business club, we use the 29 seconds pitch, the perfect way to optimise our introduction and make sure we will be remembered.

In case you’ve blinked and you missed it, we are just stepping in the last quarter of 2022. We’ll be returning to the full active days and the most important months of the year, financially speaking. Everyone’s in a rush to close their business year at the level they expected when it started.

In addition, September can be a heavy month because we are “forced” so to speak, to find again the fast pace we had before the summer break. And this being 2 years after the COVID-19 outbreak, everyone is particularly tired and still recovering, if any health wise, then financial for sure.

For those looking for some guiding tips and ideas on how to get back to “moving mountains” type of energy, keep listening.

Have you checked for a sparkle in your eyes lately? Because that is one of the signs you are doing what you love, what motivates you, what energises you and your business.Who says that entrepreneurship is all grey and no flavour? Business can be fun also. If you believe so too, you are on the right podcast.:)

But the truth is, no matter how fulfilling and much fun your business is sometimes, it can be challenging. If you are not familiar with the term “lucky failures” , keep listening.

To celebrate our 100th episode of this season, we are looking at a topic that every entrepreneur finds himself wondering from time to time: how to know if the business they are in is the right one.

Usually after a break period as we just had now the summer holidays, it’s normal to make a quick scan of your business and sometimes if the numbers are not up to what we expect, we might start to wonder if we are on the right track, even in the right business. Sometimes is enough to analyse the way we feel in the moment the summer is over and we need to get back to “reality”. What are the feelings that come up? Excitement or depression? Feeling like you wanna take over the world or you wanna crawl under a blanket and hide?

This episode has a few ideas and hints on how to asses if what you do actually satisfies you and some steps on how to proceed with getting to the results you want from your business in these remaining months.

The old way of thinking, “if I stop working, my business will go down the drain” has been proven to be inefficient and mentally draining for most entrepreneurs . And our last 3 episodes have been exactly about this topic: how to enjoy taking breaks guilt free and how taking care of ourselves first is actually taking our business to the next level.

In business, old beliefs that no longer serve us, can trigger a sense and fear of scarcity. It is understandable that when we depend only on one source of revenue, our business, we can easily panic if that business fails.

What are some of those myths that we will be looking at today?

1. Success comes with hard work

2. It’s normal to struggle when you are an entrepreneur

3. Knowing what you want in life and be ready to pay the price

4. The family needs money and I’m doing the for them

The success of a small business is in direct correlation to the personal success of its owner, the person behind the brand. And we don’t mean money here, but more in terms of mental health, personal accomplishments and overall happiness level.

The entrepreneurial journey can be a struggle and more often than none, entrepreneurs will sacrifice their own well being in order to accomplish their goals. Some sacrifice is necessary, yes but not 100% struggle that can have consequences, leading up to feeling disconnected from themselves or their family.

So letting go of the business once in a while is more than welcome, especially in the summer when having time off is so normal for most people. This episode offers a few tips on how to enjoy your summer guilt free

As the saying goes: be clear about what you want and be ready to receive it. It works in coaching and life in general. Yet many of us go immediately in self doubt mode as soon as we receive the very thing we hope for.

As a marketing strategy, getting featured in a well established newspaper or magazine, can open many doors and create credibility around your business. This episode focuses on the tips and action that can help you land a successful print campaign.

It’s absolutely normal that we, as entrepreneurs, find ourselves sometimes bored and uninspired by our current business and so losing the enthusiasm and motivation that we started with. In moments like this, starting a new business seams like a great opportunity to gain back some motivation and find our mojo. But is this always the case? That a new adventure can equal success?

How do we search for THE IDEA, the next best thing that can inspire us again and eventually lead us to success? Today’s episode shares some great techniques to head into the right direction when thinking your next business move.