Growth Podcast with Emmie Faust

Martin Brown, CEO of Elephants Child, and I talking all things Growth 📈

Martin helps founders of SME's scale and create successful outcomes to stimulate and enable their lives.

Tune in to hear us talk about the following:

✅ How to plan for the exit and selling your business. It's worth planning in advance for this time so that you always have choices.

✅ What happens when you lose your passion for your business?

✅ Opening up clients to the art of what is possible - what could you achieve?

✅ Martin believes that 2021 is going to be a great year for lots of businesses

✅ Marketing your business and finding opportunities during the pandemic

✅ Why a strategy is so important - it gives you clarity on what you should and should not be doing. Its often saying no that is critical to growth.

✅ Pivoting in a pandemic - taking offline services online

✅ Martin likes to work to a 3-year timeline for planning

✅ Why it's important to get an outside perspective to leverage knowledge and support for growth.

What do you think? Did any of this resonate with you or help?

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Marketing should create value and a profit, not create a dent on the balance sheet. Join me today when I talk to marketing expert and trainer, Peter Sumpton - Chartered Marketer, to talk about all things marketing

Peter’s two favourite Marketing quotes are:

➡︎ ‘People like us, do things like this’ by Seth Godin

➡︎ ‘The most human company always wins’ by Mark Schafer

Come and join us and learn

✅ Why marketing strategy is so important and what it means

✅ Customer Journey and why it's key to success

✅ What marketing looks like in 2021

✅ Marketing tips for scaling businesses

Peter’s two favourite Marketing quotes are:

‘People like us, do things like this’

Seth Godin

‘The most human company always wins’

Mark Schafer

Want to know how to grow your dream business?

Create a live event with 100 paying attendees?

Ria is a TV presenter and founder of Wonder Women TV. I'm going to be talking to Ria about:

✅ Where the idea for Wonder Women TV came from

✅Why she decided to have an advisory board (I’m part of that)

✅ How her advisory board has helped her grow

✅The mentoring programme she has set up for Wonder Women TV and why its important to have a mentor

✅ And the long-term plans for Wonder Women TV

https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6772900261636653056/

If you're a coach, consultant, or service-based entrepreneur this is for you!

I had a great chat today with Steve Auchettl, one of my work friends, whom I've known for quite some time - we've worked on a couple of projects together and I love his quizzes!

On today's LinkedIn Live Steve and I are talking all about using quizzes for lead gen. Mine is in the pipeline (delayed by my side by COVID 😫) but I know how valuable they can be.

We were talking about:

✅ Why quizzes work so well for service-based businesses

✅ Steve shared a couple of stories about clients that are using quizzes and why it's working so well for them

✅ How his own business wins new clients

✅ And some top tips on getting your quiz to deliver fab results

Have you got a quiz? Do you want one?

Straight after this, we were off to Clubhouse for The Scale-up Room that I host at 12:30. You're welcome to join me there every week and here on LinkedIn Live at 12 noon. >> https://lnkd.in/d-8-KrH

See you there

PS Want to check out Steve Auchettl quiz >> https://lnkd.in/duhZccC

I was chatting with Anthony Rose founder of SeedLegals an amazing platform that helps startups and investors complete the legals needed to build, grow and fund their business, at a fraction of the cost of using a law firm.

We talked about

✅ How Anthony you came up with the idea for Seedlegals

✅ Why it is much needed

✅ The problem that he is solving

✅ The most effective marketing channel or strategy for acquiring new customers

✅ How he is helping both investors and founders to get funded faster and more cost-effectively

So many of my clients and connections use Seedlegals (and in fact I've used it too as an investor) - I'm blown away by how they make it all seem so simple!

Straight after that at 12:30 Anthony came and joined me in The Scale-up Room with Hannah Forbes and 👋 Reza Hooda FCA CTA 😎 where we were talking all things scale-up. Come and join in the fun on Clubhouse every Thursday at 12:30 @emmie just follow me and hit the little alarm symbol and you'll be notified when I'm live.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emmiefaust_on-todays-linkedin-live-i-was-chatting-with-activity-6768095065651875840-VdUQ

On today's Live I'm talking with agency owner Jessie Healy all about niching and why it's been a key part of her agency growth.

It's definitely a topic that comes up time and time again - to niche or not to niche. It's been a tricky one for me too as I have experience across so many different areas but I too have decided to niche down to working solely with service-based businesses.

Come and listen in as Jessie shares her tips and insight for success.

We talked:

✅ Niching and why that has worked so well for Jessie

✅ Standing out in a crowded market

✅ Jessie's strategy for growth - how she gets new clients

✅ The importance of working on your business, not just in your business.

In this episode, I'm talking with Dan Murray-Serter a serial entrepreneur & podcast host.

He's the Co-Founder of Braincare company Heights (which recently completed a record-breaking crowdfund) and host of the UK's number 1 business podcast Secret Leaders.

We talked about Braincare and the importance of looking after our brain and Dan shared his story as to how the idea for the business was born.

I've got to be honest that I've never really thought about Braincare that much but after my chat with Dan it's most certainly on my agenda!

Are you resisting taking action?

Being in constant planning mode can distract us from putting ourselves out there and taking action.

The compound effect of taking action can be massive (in a good way!) but it's sometimes difficult to remember that when we're starting out with a new project.

10 years ago I started blogging and I got to 25K unique monthly readers in just over a year - ranking no 1 for my industry and 5K Twitter followers. But I can still remember my first blog with no readers!

In this episode, I'll share get some tips as to how you get going on whatever it is you have been resisting.

There is so much value in getting help when you are a founder. Whether that be a mentor, non-exec director (NED), advisor or a consultant.

Mentors have often been there and might be one step ahead of you and can share their expertise and learning and support.

Where are you lacking skills and expertise? What help do you need?