Alan Carroll is back on Kickoff Sessions to provide a comprehensive overview of mortgages and property investing. Alan is a bank manager in Bank of Ireland with almost 20 years’ experience in finance and banking. He is both a chartered and professional banker from University College Dublin and offers a wealth of knowledge in personal finance and financial planning.

Check out my first episode here with Alan on personal finance, investing, markets and the economy.

Our discussion focused on everything relating to mortgages from the minimum requirements that must be met right up to repayments. Alan provides an in-depth explanation of the structure of mortgages and schemes to avail of for individuals. We discuss property investing and some things to consider before taking the leap. Lastly, we discuss how to restructure a mortgage and successfully sell your property.

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Gary Fox is host of The Entrepreneur Experiment podcast where he interviews some of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs to discover how they experiment with growing their business. Gary is also the founder of HostButlers, which caters for everything a host requires to provide a 5-star service to clients. HostButlers takes care of property listings, guest communications, check-ins, property cleanings, and anything else a host may request.

Our discussion focused on the key components of building a successful brand and marketing your product, company, or podcast. We dissect various marketing strategies to understand your target market and audience in more detail. Gary provides his advice on creating content to supplement your business and various methods to differentiate yourself. Lastly, we analyze the future of podcasting over the next couple of years.

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Aidan Corbett is CEO and co-founder of Wayflyer, an Irish eCommerce revenue-based financing and marketing analytics platform that recently raised $10.2M in seed capital funding. Founded in 2019 by Aidan and Jack Pierse, Wayflyer enables eCommerce brands to meet their potential by providing them with affordable capital up to $5M for advertising and inventory.

For eCommerce companies, this is an incredibly valuable opportunity to grow; no interest, no dilution, no warrants, no fixed repayment schedule, and no long-term commitment. Therefore, enabling eCommerce companies to scale quickly and meet their sales trajectory through tailored marketing and access to inventory requirements.

Our conversation focused on how to scale and build an online business, the opportunity for eCommerce merchants to avail of financing options and the potential benefits to this. Aidan provides his advice for early-stage business owners and how to find the correct product-market fit which enables merchants to scale through time.

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Part two of this mini series focuses on ten business ideas to generate an income online from unskilled to specialized. Part one explains three rational reasons to start a side business now.

Each business ideas has been selected based on low barriers to entry, almost zero upfront costs and opportunity to scale over time.

Whether you are looking to start a side business, unfortunately lost your job due to coronavirus, or you are just bored and want something new to try, each of these ideas provides a frictionless service that can begin immediately.

Timestamp:
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:25) - Unskilled Business Ideas
(08:41) - Skilled Business Ideas
(19:18) - Specialized Business Ideas

Resources:
Unskilled - eBay,  Audacity, GarageBand, Fiverr
Skilled - Teachable, Cambly
Specialized - ConvertKit, UpWork

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In this solo session, I outline three rational reasons to start a side business in 2021. I provide a detailed justification for each point, from both a personal and economic perspective and identify solutions to some of the blockers that have restricted people from starting ventures.

Whether you are looking to start a side business, unfortunately lost your job due to coronavirus, or you are just bored and want something new to try, there is something in here that applies to everyone.

This is a two-part series on starting a side business. Part two is on ten business ideas to generate an income online from unskilled to specialized. 

Some initial resources mentioned: Fiverr, UpWork, Shopify, Squarespace

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Mark Randall is a market veteran with over 40 years’ experience as a frontline broker for financial and commodities markets at a major investment bank. He has worked as a futures trader to institutional clients, the first technical analyst of NatWest and part of the first team within NatWest to understand and teach applications of options trading. Mark subsequently went on to become the director of EMEA business development at RBS and a lead driver of RBS futures corporate strategy.

In the latter stages of his career, Mark became more and more fascinated with the mental, emotional, psychological, and behavioural challenges people face when encountering risk and uncertainty in financial markets. This has resulted in him co-hosting the AlphaMind podcast, where he interviews experienced traders, investment professionals, analysts, psychologists, coaches, authors, and experts in fields relating to trading, financial markets, and risk.

With a huge surge in retail investors as of recently, I sat down with Mark to discuss the different aspects of trading and investing. From the average guy to the professional trader, what are the key principles that are required to be successful. We cover a range of topics such as emotional intelligence, risk management and strategies behind trading.

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*** Learn to Build a Website *** 

This episode is affiliated with Gary Melican Web Design, providing specialized web design, analytics, SEO, email marketing and conversion. Knowing how to build websites allows you to explore business ideas quickly and without the need to find and hire someone else. Move faster by learning to build your own website. This course is for exiting business owners, people with business ideas and people with a growth mindset. The common underlying trait between all these people is that they recognize a website is an essential piece of any business these days.

What you will learn in Gary’s intense 30-hour coursework includes; website set up, GDPR basics, creating web pages, Google Analytics and mobile optimization. For more information check out my episode with Gary Melican. 

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Subir Chowdhury is a bestselling author, business management consultant and CEO of ASI Consulting Group, a global leader in strategic initiatives, quality consulting, and training. Under Subir’s leadership, ASI Consulting Group have helped hundreds of clients around the world save billions of dollars and increase revenues. Subir has worked with many organizations, large and small, across various industries including manufacturing, healthcare, food, government, and non-profit organizations.

Subir's 15th book and USA Today bestseller ‘The Difference: When Good Enough Isn't Enough' has been praised by many leaders and authors such as Tony Robbins, Seth Godin, and Daniel H. Pink.

Our conversation focuses on the principles and practices of Subir’s book and what he has learned from over 20 years’ experience in a multitude of industries. He provides some thought-provoking advice for young professionals navigating their own path and how we can respond to setbacks presented by COVID-19. 

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*** Learn to Build a Website *** 

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Samson Williams is a senior economist at Milky Way Economy, anthropologist and co-host of The Space Economy. By the process of crowdfunding, Samson helps businesses and start-ups leverage RegCF ($5M) and RegA+ ($75M) capital raising to fuel growth in the space economy and other industries.

Samson is the author of the book: ‘Blockchain & The Space Economy’ and an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York and UNH School of Law in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, crowdfunding, and all things FinTech.

In a laidback and chill conversation, we discuss the recent surge in retail investing from Reddit’s WallStreetBets and Samson provides some stories from his career in crowdfunding. Most notably, his fascination with the space economy and the economics surrounding the industry.

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*** Learn to Build a Website *** 

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What you will learn in Gary’s intense 30-hour coursework includes; website set up, GDPR basics, creating web pages, Google Analytics and mobile optimization. For more information check out my episode with Gary Melican. 

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Alan Carroll is a bank manager in Bank of Ireland with almost 20 years’ experience in finance and banking. He is both a chartered and professional banker from University College Dublin and offers a wealth of knowledge in personal finance and financial planning.

We discuss all things personal finance from creating a savings strategy and understanding cashflows to designing an investment approach that suits your risk appetite. We take a look into the mortgage approval process, particularly from a buy to let perspective and if this is a viable option to create an alternative source of income. Lastly, Alan provides his thoughts on strategies SMEs can use to respond to COVID-19 and his economic outlook for 2021.

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*** Learn to Build a Website *** 

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Jason Sio is CEO and founder of Lizuna, an eCommerce fraud and risk analytical system integrated with Shopify. Jason graduated from the University of Hawaii with a BA in Japanese language studies and quickly relocated to Japan where he started his first company offering customers from overseas access to Japanese digital content.

Since 2018, Lizuna was selected to be a part of 500 Startup Kobe program and are the only fraud solution platform available on the Japanese Shopify App platform. Lizuna specialize in helping eCommerce merchants detect, reduce, and prevent fraud orders and bad actors while not losing out on legitimate customers. Therefore, increasing sales and profit by allowing merchants to customize the AI assisted fraud system to further increase its accuracy rate and automate fraud checks. 

Our conversation discusses how Jason moved to Japan and kicked off Lizuna. Jason provides his thoughts on the rapid increase in online fraud due to the effects of COVID-19 and the surge in eCommerce recently. Lastly, we take a look into 2021 predictions and how merchants can protect themselves from security issues going forward.

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*** Learn to Build a Website *** 

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What you will learn in Gary’s intense 30-hour coursework includes; website set up, GDPR basics, creating web pages, Google Analytics and mobile optimization. For more information check out my episode with Gary Melican. 

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