Share Your Story

Share Your Story

By Michael de Groot - @stayingaliveukBusinessEducationSelf-ImprovementCareers
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Share Your Story episodes

  • Bob Roopra - MedTech Consultant and Innovator
    Bob is the founder of Roopra Medtech Consulting. He provides Proof of concept and commercialisation guidance for medical technologies, emerging in the diagnostic healthcare space. His aim is to help new and existing organisations develop sustainable business plans with clear value propositions for their brand and products. But more importantly Bob calls himself an innovator who ensures a focus on the desired outcome and direction with a fearless approach for doing things differently, if needed. His motivations are delivering sustainable long term business and client outcomes, by challenging them to consider their needs for today and the future when developing their strategies.
    1 hr 5 min
  • 0016: Jamie Shanks - Social Selling CEO
    Jamie is one of the world’s leading Social Selling experts. He has personally built Social Selling solutions in nearly every industry, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. Before starting his first sales agency, Jamie was the Director of Sales at two SaaS software companies – Captive Channel Corp. and Firmex Inc., building their businesses from infancy to profitability. Jamie is also the author of the book Social Selling Mastery and has delivered keynotes in dozens of cities across 6 continents, for brands such as Thomson Reuters, Oracle, Direct Energy, Lenovo and Intel.
    42 min
  • 0015: Rob Ball - Consultant and Meaning of Life Coach
    Rob Is a coach and consultant, mainly in people related aspects of business, such as change leadership, teamwork and leadership. Rob’s career was mainly in senior HR roles, notably in MG Rover Group and GKN. Since 2009 he has been running his own businesses Naturally Concerned (for Alison) Ltd in the UK and Coaching by the Balls LLC, based in Oklahoma, USA. He is also an author and speaker, especially on the theme of purpose and meaning in life.
    1 hr
  • 0014: Phil Gerbyshak - Digital Marketer, Sales Trainer and Podcast Host
    Phil delivers training programs to integrate social selling and technology to grow businesses. He is the chief digital officer for Vengreso, where he works with sales teams to help them lead more confidently and communicate more effectively across digital platforms and generations. Phil enables sales people to augment existing sales processes with LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook social selling micro-tactics and teaches them how to use technology in more effective ways. He also provides coaching and consulting to grow your business online and offline.
    My favourite quote by Phil is ‘make the right friends first do business last’.
    53 min
  • 0013: Scott Watson - Emotional Intelligence Coach and Trainer
    An international consultant, executive coach and leadership speaker with extensive knowledge and experience in developing emotionally intelligent leaders and managers, clients enjoy Scott’s collaborative, results-focused and incisive collaboration.
    Scott’s extensive, in-depth research in to leadership, entrepreneurship and business optimisation has successfully identified the methods, beliefs, habits and standards leaders and entrepreneurs must understand and emulate to achieve the level of personal effectiveness and business success they want and need. And clients, and their organisations benefit greatly from this extremely effective yet little known support. Appointed by business leaders and human resources directors globally to optimise the effectiveness of leaders, managers and teams, clients include General Electric, Radisson BLU Hotels & Resorts, AXA, DHL Express, TNT Post, Ministry of Defence (UK) and many other organisations.
    55 min
  • 0012: Rebecca Bell - Strategic Communicator and Marketing Expert
    Rebecca is driven by the challenge of making positive change happen in technology and digital business via effective communications, marketing and stakeholder engagement. With more than 20 years' experience across a range of marketing, strategic planning, communications, sales acceleration and enablement disciplines, she excels in building teams and strategies that accelerate business success and create advocacy. Her focus is on getting things right in 3 areas:
    1. The right comms or marketing strategy
    2. Communications, content and messaging which delivers impact
    3. Creating strong engagement with your audiences
    55 min
  • 0011: Kate Nankivell - Business Development and Social Selling Specialist
    After many years of experience in corporate key account management and business development Kate started her social media business Force of Nature. Force of Nature reflects her passion for understanding the needs and goals of business and business people and enabling growth through the use of LinkedIn and social selling. Kate is a LinkedIn trainer and consultant, social selling specialist and a connector. With her strategic understanding of business development and social selling, her clients see immediate value – using the power of LinkedIn to get RESULTS for their businesses or careers. Kate's project 'The Shape of Kate' is her current and very public journey of personal transformation. A great metaphor for running your business too and well worth following.
    51 min
  • 0010: Karen Yankovich - Online Entrepreneur
    Karen has worked in corporate America, owned small businesses, and been an entrepreneur and a solo-preneur. She built her multiple 6-figure business by learning how to blend high-touch relationship based marketing with practical business online savvy. She is known as the ‘LinkedIn Queen’, and is an expert in online marketing. Karen’s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to build highly profitable businesses doing what they love, all while making an impact. As an entrepreneur she helps business owners develop and maintain a cohesive, authentic and professional brand presence online to increase their profits. Karen has found her sweet spot combining her business experience and talents and she loves helping her clients find theirs.
    44 min
  • 0009: Tamas Banki - Dr LinkedIn
    Tamas has helped over 3800 professionals, students, marketing, HR, sales & business people, companies, schools & non profits, in many different sectors and industries to use Linkedin more efficiently. He is the one of the most connected member on Linkedin in Hungary, Tamas has over 13,000+ connections. Tamas owns the largest and most viral business group in Hungary, on Linkedin has over 6,900 members. He also owns the largest and most active English only Passive House group on Linkedin with over 5,000 professional members. He is the co-host of Linkedin Budapest Meetup and Linkedin Romania Meetup.
    58 min
  • 0008: AJ Wilcox - Online Marketer and Ads Specialist
    AJ loves the concept of being present when customers are at the bottom of the funnel, and who are ready to make a purchase. He has been an online marketer since 2007 and he’s managed hundreds of Google AdWords campaigns. He’s always been fascinated by the lead quality from intent-based targeting. He was introduced to advertising on LinkedIn in 2014. He figured that it likely wasn’t a good platform because he hadn’t heard of it before then. As he continued to dive deeper into LinkedIn, he began to see the value that he felt the industry had not picked up on. He then founded B2Linked in an effort to spread the success he was experiencing through LinkedIn advertising to other companies. He’s extremely active in the online marketing community. He’s a LinkedIn Certified Ads Partner, he manages the official LinkedIn Ads group forum, and he’s a board member of SLC | SEM among other things. He’s an exotic car nut and a triathlete. He lives in Utah with his wife and 4 kids.
    38 min

About Share Your Story

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The ‘Share Your Story’ podcast are interviews with small business owners. They begin by sharing their personal back story and their business growth journey, often sharing challenges along the way.…