Small Biz Banter

In this episode, Sunil and James chat with  Lee Nathan who is the Regional Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in the South West and is also the Founder of Shopli, a marketplace for independent retailers across the UK. 

They discuss supporting local businesses and how the pandemic has changed the public's attitude to local communities and how Shopli is helping thousands of independent businesses across the UK.

Sunil and James chat with Oliver Prill - CEO of Tide Bank about Tide Bank and how the bank is supporting UK SMEs with a simple portfolio of solutions to making banking and finances easy.
They discuss the pandemic, future plans for Tide and how the bank is expanding into the Indian market next year. 

Sunil and James chat with Karen Watkins, the Founder of Rowan HR Consultancy about vital an HR strategy is for Small Businesses in the new normal and as many businesses try and implement the Hybrid Model.

Sunil and James chat with Amber Ainsley Pritchard, the Group Editor at Shard Media about how the B2B media sector has adapted to the pandemic and what the future holds for networking and rewards events. 

Amber talks in-depth about how business owners are keen to get back out and network and go to events with demand at pre-pandemic levels.

A  special episode of the Small Biz Banter podcast. 

This week we hosted a live webinar where we discussed the 'Top Risk to small Business over the next 12 months' and we were honoured to be joined by an amazing panel of experts and also a live audience.  

The webinar was hosted by James and Sunil joined the panel of experts for this episode - 

Panel 

Sunil Nigam – CEO ExpenseOnDemand

Nadia Kadhim – CEO Naq Cyber

John Miller – COO Addition Finance

Catherine Hawkes – Royds Withy King

Sunil and James chat with Catherine Hawkes an Employment Lawyer from Royds Withy King about how COVID and remote working has changed the employment sector and what small business owners need to consider when adapting to the new normal and new hybrid models.
 

Sunil and James chat with Oliver Woolley, the founder and CEO of Envestors about the investment platform and how they have helped small businesses across the UK by connecting them with their network of seasoned investors.

Oliver also offer some advice to start-ups and SMEs on how to get investment and what the process involves.

In this episode James and Sunil chat with John Miller COO and Graham Davies CEO from Addition who offer an outsourced finance company for small businesses.

We discuss their unique solution for SMEs and our experiences of working in large organisations compared to small businesses and startups.

Sunil and James chat with Catherine Erdly about The Resilient Retail Club, why she launched it and what the future of small and local retail is in a post-pandemic UK.

Small Biz Banter this week goes international as Sunil and James are joined by Nadia Kadhim. Based in Amsterdam, she is the CEO of Naq Cyber and talks about how Naq is helping UK SMEs with cyber security and GDPR.

She offers some really interesting and useful insights for small business owners on how to manage your online security and become GDPR compliant which is a must listen!