Today I'm chatting with the fabulous money wizard, Natalie Kidcaff all about the importance of pricing in your business.   We dive into:

• Changing up the way we look at numbers
• Pricing yourself as a startup
• Strategic approach to having people within your business
• Resources and tips for starting out

    About Natalie Hi, I am Natalie, a strategic accountant with a personality [yes, we do exist]! I help business owners link their business strategy with their financials so that they can see sustainable growth, with the numbers to back it up. . I’m dedicated to helping business owners stop stressing about how it all works financially and start focusing on what matters to make their vision a reality. With over 15 years of experience across all levels of business strategy and financial information, I apply proven concepts to support my clients in reaching success in a quicker, more formulated way. The thrill of helping small business owners to understand the big picture, breaking it down into simple bite-sized actionable components and then applying these learnings to their business decisions is what I love most about my work. The feeling of pure joy from creating those AHA! moments for you is why I serve businesses like yours. Whether you’re starting or growing your business, I’m here to help you create a solid financial framework to reach your highest potential and gain the confidence to know how to make the right decisions at the right time.         Connecting With Our Guest     Connect with Natalie on Instagram @beyond_cfo Natalie's website: https://beyondcfo.com.au/ Access your discounted Price Calculator by using the code: THEARTISANS   Connect with Nicole on Instagram @theartisansolutions  Nicole's website: https://theartisans.com.au/   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/810652689407180   Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here: https://academy.theartisans.com.au/members-lounge   For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-86/

Today I'm chatting with the fabulous Carly Michael all about Bringing Order To Your Photo Chaos.   We dive into:

• Communicating through visuals
• The complex process of digitising photos
• Being guilty of not deleting the multiple photos on your phone
• Features you may not know about in your phone's photos
• How people can access your photos when you're no longer around

    About Carly Carly Michael has spent her whole life surrounded by photos having grown up in her family's camera store - Michaels camera video and digital in Melbourne's CBD.   When Covid hit, the family decided to close the store so she took the opportunity to become a professional photo organiser - something she had developed a passion for during her time managing the family's photo lab.   She now spends her days organising both physical and digital photos, helping people get back in control of their photo mess!     Connecting With Our Guest   Connect with Carly on Instagram Carly's website www.saveyourphotos.org   Connect with Nicole on Instagram Nicole's website   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here     For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-85/

Today I'm chatting about investing in the Chanel options for your business, just like I do with perfume.   We dive into:

• Investing in systems that make you feel great
• Not going for the cheaper option as a bandaid
• Why I had 6 half empty bottles of perfume

  Connect with Nicole on Instagram @theartisansolutions  Nicole's website: https://theartisans.com.au/   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/810652689407180   Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here: https://academy.theartisans.com.au/members-lounge   For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-84/

Today I'm chatting with the fabulous Jenn Donovan about marketing activities that will help your business grow.   We dive into:

• The power of community
• Marketing tips from the pro
• The importance of email marketing
• Networking with a focus on connection
• It's about your clients, not about you

    About Jenn Jenn Donovan, is a marketing thought leader, change maker, coach and mentor for small businesses, international keynote speaker, best selling author and podcaster.   Jenn is a sought after voice across the small business and start up landscape. Being a rural girl, born and bred herself, she’s sought after for her thought leadership, and knowledge around what it’s like to run and grow businesses in rural and regional Australia, whilst contending with everything that’s thrown at businesses, such as droughts, floods, bushfires, mouse plagues, just to name a few!   Jenn is the founder and creator of the extremely successful online community called Buy From a Bush Business (a Facebook group with over 363,000 members) and the co-founder of Australia’s premier online marketplace www.spendwithus.com.au – a marketplace only for rural and regional small businesses and has recently just completed the inaugural Australian Rural Business Awards with business partner Sarah Britz, again celebrating all things rural Australia!   Jenn’s impact on Rural and Regional Australia has been enormous. With her social enterprise pumping more than 5 million dollars back into the Australian economy, which enabled the survival of many small businesses during some of the harshest times known to business in the past 50 years.   Jenn is a farmer’s daughter and farmer’s wife and has 3 young adult children. Jenn loves her work but her family is her passion and is always her number one love.         Connecting With Our Guest   Connect with Jenn on Instagram @jenndonovan_ Jenn's website: https://socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/ Listen to Small Business Made Simple Podcast Spend with us website and Facebook Group   Connect with Nicole on Instagram @theartisansolutions  Nicole's website: https://theartisans.com.au/   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/810652689407180   Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here: https://academy.theartisans.com.au/members-lounge   For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-83/

Today I'm chatting with the fabulous Melissa Pepers all about Business Design.   We dive into:

• Strategy without action
• Digging into the foundations of your business
• How understanding business design can help your business
• Emotion drives everything in business

  QUOTE: "There's this idea about the things you find really easy being your superpower. It may even frustrate you that others don't find it easy because it didn't occur to you that it could be something difficult. It's kind of cool because in a way both myself with Turning Points and you Nicole with The Artisans are gifting the superpower of easy to those we work with!"   About Melissa Everything I do comes back to transformation.   For as long as I’ve known myself, I’ve been obsessed with influence. Why something ends up doing or being something else. You can find me wondering why a bug turned left or why empires rise and fall with equal intensity.   I followed this thread of curiosity through a career in design and strategy for the advertising industry. Working on global brand accounts at Ogilvy, Wellcom, and in my own business. Each time I had discovered a new fundamental truth about transformation, a new question would arise. Until one day I had a methodology for unlocking unique business ideas as a way of bringing a better future to now.   I see we have a world with no shortage of incredible ideas. Each of those ideas has the promise of what could be. That special thing we sense if the idea came to fruition in its fullest sense. Then there’s the reality of what most ideas are like when they make it out into the world— if they make it out at all. Everything I do is designed to obliterate this gap so we can live in a world experiencing its full potential.   Connecting With Our Guest   Connect with Melissa on Instagram Melissa's website Check out DALL-E AI Check out Turning Points   Connect with Nicole on Instagram Nicole's website   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here   For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-82/

Whilst I was making my Vegemite sandwich for lunch, I had a thought. In this episode, I question why we overcomplicate things when we know exactly what we're doing.   We dive into:

• The endless list when you're starting something new
• Making your processes simple
• Taking action today

    Connect with Nicole on Instagram Nicole's website   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here   For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-81/

Today I'm chatting with the fabulous Chloe Porter from Audacious Empires all about the difference between Online Business Managers and Virtual Assistants.   We dive into:

• Keeping up with tech (my fave!)
• Constantly forward thinking and planning
• The importance of a two way relationship
• Being able to easily adapt

    About Chloe Chloe is the Captain of Operations and Business Integration at Audacious Empires. She is the absolute queen of keeping the Audacious Empires wheels spinning. She's got the drive, the determination, capability, and care factor to smash goals and manage the Audacious Empire team. She listens to what you want, and identifies what you need to take your big vision and make it a reality, creating more time and freedom for you to do what you love most, and the reason you started your business in the first place.     Connecting With Our Guest   Connect with Chloe and the team on Instagram Audacious Empires' website   Download the 6 steps to becoming a 6 figure OBM guide   Connect with Nicole on Instagram Nicole's website   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here     For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-80/

Today I'm chatting with the fabulous Sarina Lowe. Sarina joins us for another episode talking about all things marketing and making it easier for your business.     We dive into:

• Creating a marketing strategy
• Building connection and relationships
• Non-salesy sales
• Details of our upcoming workshop

  Get the details on our workshop!   Coffee Chats with Nicole Smith and Sarina Lowe     About Sarina Sarina Lowe is a creative marketing strategist, sponsorship + partnerships specialist and the founder of consulting agency, The Androsia Connection.     I have a passion for creating partnerships with purpose and connecting an organisation's marketing strategy with its business values and objectives. As an experienced facilitator, I love guiding clients through the creative marketing process, finding the untold stories of their business, aligning this with their goals and making marketing easy for them so sharing is now a fun process.   Prior to starting my own business, I spent the best part of a decade working in sponsorship, creative marketing, major events, digital strategy and customer experience. I have worked at both Carlton and Essendon Football Clubs, RMIT University and I recently worked on the 2022 Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix.   When I'm not promoting the power of purposeful partnerships, or having fun getting creative in clients marketing strategies I enjoy connecting with new people, especially as a mentor to women in business. And whenever there’s spare time in my week you’ll find me at a yoga or pilates studio just sipping distance from a soy cappuccino.    Connecting With Our Guest   Connect with Sarina on Instagram @the_androsia_connection Sarina's website: https://www.androsia.co/   Connect with Nicole on Instagram @theartisansolutions  Nicole's website: https://theartisans.com.au/   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/810652689407180   Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here: https://academy.theartisans.com.au/members-lounge   For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-79/

Today I'm chatting with the fabulous OneRoof Community about SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and why they're so important in your business.   We dive into:

• Mitigating risk within your business
• How to create SOPs
• Designing your life and business with intent
• Creating freedom and choice

  Get my freebie for setting up your SOPs!     Connect with Nicole on Instagram Nicole's website   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here     For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-78/

Today I'm chatting with Small Business Coach, Kristy Robinson. Kristy helps business owners with aligning with not only what they want for their business, but what they want for their life.   We dive into:

• Identifying what lights you up
• Series of educated guesses in business ownership
• Having the right support around you
• Being okay with failure
• Sustainable growth in business

  About Kristy Through her coaching programs and the Run Your Business Like a Boss podcast, Kristy helps Small Business Owner’s wade through the messy middle to create a sustainable business, they genuinely love.   Kristy is a mum of 2, a wife and founder of two businesses. She knows first- hand the entrepreneurship rollercoaster: Doing all the things and working all the hours, with too much overwhelm and too little fulfilment.   She believes who you are as a person and a business owner, are interlinked. Her conversations and strategies help her clients and audience take their business to the next level, without the hustle and burnout!   With more than two decades of experience spanning business ownership, operations, coaching and state-level leadership in her toolkit, Kristy helps her clients identify their version of success, set meaningful goals that align with their vision and ultimately grow the business their way with confidence.     Connecting With Our Guest   Connect with Kristy on Instagram Kristy's website Listen to the Run Your Business Like A Boss Podcast   Connect with Nicole on Instagram Nicole's website   Join the Take Control with Nicole Facebook Group here Join The Waitlist for the Member's Lounge here     For more detailed shownotes and full transcript of the episode, click here: https://theartisans.com.au/podcast/episode-77/