Rebel Entrepreneur

You have run a mini-experiment and launched your business! Yay. But the results have not been what you wanted so you keep going. You do everything we say on the podcast, you are pushing out there, positing, sharing, and being social, but you have been receiving a wall of SILENCE in return. You don't know what to do. Should you keep going despite the silence? Should you close the business? Should you get a job? You are trapped in business purgatory and don't know what to do. Join Alan as he coached Toby out of business purgatory and towards an answer to his mini-experiment!

How do you get your business featured in the press? Jon Card writes regularly for The Guardian, The Times, and The Daily Telegraph, and is the author of How to Make Your Company Famous. As a journalist, Jon interviewed many of the world’s foremost entrepreneurs. But there came a time when he realised it was time to start answering their questions, including: (1) "How do I get my business noticed by the media?" (2) "What do I have to do to get ready for media coverage?" and (3) "What’s the best way to contact journalists?"

Do deals really just come to you? Will people really just call you out of the blue and offer you business? Meet Elia Twigg, one of the listeners of the show who has just gone full time into her own company. We find out how she started, how she went from employee to part time on both business and when she finally made the choice to give up employment and go all in on her own business. Along the way we uncover tips, tricks, and business strategies that will help you to grow your business.

It is so tempting to spend money on Facebook adverts or Google adverts: the promised land of an advert that brings in customers and builds your business whilst you sleep. Countless adverts pop up in your timeline offering you these services: "Pay us and we will manage your adverts for you!" "Come on this course and we will teach you the 'secrets' of Facebook advertising!" Is it time to go all in? Or is it time to run a marketing mini experiment?

Is entrepreneurship the same the world over? Can you take a business school that worked in the UK and transpose it to France, Morocco, and then Colombia? Alan has spent 4 months in Colombia helping set up Rebel Business School Colombia and wondered what the journey had been like for the team on the ground actually doing the work. If you have ever wanted to launch a business or idea into a new marketplace, then join Alan as he finds out what it is really like, what worked, what didn't, and the emotional rollercoaster along the way!

Building a successful business takes daily marketing activity. People aren't just going to stumble across your business and buy. You need to get their attention, show them your product or service and ask them to buy. In this episode Alan coaches Adam from Craft Box Club UK to come up with marketing ideas, evaluate them and decide which ones to implement.

How did Rebel Business School start? Was it as easy as writing, selling and delivering a course? Dani Angel the co-founder of Rebel Colombia wanted to learn more about how Alan and Simon build Rebel Business School in the UK, the problems they faced and how they overcame them. This episode is packed full of motivational ideas, practical tips and insights that we hope will inspire you to keep going with your business ideas!

What happened to Adam's business after the session with Jennifer Vessels? We check in with Craft Box Club to find out what is happening with the sales, how the business is growing and how Adam is feeling. Check out https://craftboxclub.co.uk/ to see Adam's business and see what he sells as we work through what's happening next with his business.

How much time should you spend optimizing your website for search engines? Is search engine optimization a strategy worth following for small businesses to gain customers. After years of research and experimentation, Alan has amped up his efforts on his blog, to get to the top of the Google results. After the crash of a frustrating mini-experiment on people per hour, he asks Henry from The Rebel Business School team for help working out how to optimize his website for Google. In this episode, you can learn from Alan's mistakes and Henry's guidance on how to improve your website for the Google rankings.

What business is furthest from the high tech start-ups of Silicon Valley? Alan's answer was a craft business from Reading, Berkshire in the UK. In this episode Jennifer Vessels, an innovation expert from Silicon Valley who has worked with Google, Adobe and Netflix, takes what she has learnt and helps Adam from Craft Box Club in the UK with his business. We talk innovation, marketing and sales and how to apply the ideas to your business.