Topic: Best Practice Benchmarks for Trade Marks and Protecting Your Brand Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 19, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Joining me on today’s show is Harvey Bowlt. Harvey is from Bowlt Commercial Lawyers [...]

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Topic: Best Practice Benchmarks for Creating a Productive & Harmonious Working Environment Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 18, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Joining me on today’s show is Lisa Wiking. Lisa is a Leadership [...]

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Topic: Best Practice Benchmarks for SMEs Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast Episode 17 where you’ll hear from business specialists and advisors on Best Practice Benchmarks to help you build a profitable SME. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Joining me today is Brenda Thomson – CEO of SMART Connect Alliance – the leading authority on the [...]

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Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 16, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. The average age of a business owner is 58 years, however only 45% of businesses have a strategic plan and only 52% have a [...]

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Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 15, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. According to Ycharts.com 97% of sales occur offline, in retail that climbs to 8.5% (in the US). Is your marketing spend and efforts properly [...]

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Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 14, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. According to the 2016 Symantec Internet Security Threat Report – cyber attacks again small business has increased from 18 percent in 2011 to 43 [...]

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Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 13, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. According to Harvard Business Review - sixty-four percent of people cite shared values as the main reason they have a relationship with a brand. [...]

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Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 12, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. My guest today supports Henry Ford’s line of “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” Are you taking ruthless execution in your business – or [...]

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Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 11, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Most businesses consider technology to be a cost to their business. However, according to my guest, with the right systems and when everything is [...]

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Grow Your Business By Running Great Workshops Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 10, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Any time you are talking about your business to someone – whether that be to 1 person [...]

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