The Bean Ninjas Podcast

How does a 7-figure DTC swimwear brand like Vetchy engage customers and achieve exceptional growth? Join us in this episode as we sit down with Shaaz Ahmed, the mastermind behind Vetchy, to uncover his unconventional strategies to scale his brand and create a buzz in the fashion industry.  From his unique career transition to the […]

Are you an e-commerce owner wondering how to prepare your business for a successful exit? Wayne Richard interviews guest Mark Botha, a successful seven-figure Amazon store owner and entrepreneur. They discuss the importance of proper financial preparation for a successful business exit, Mark’s journey as an entrepreneur, and his latest venture into software and services.Along […]

Have you ever wondered what it takes to launch multiple successful brands in just a few years? In this episode, host Wayne Richard sits down with 7-figure entrepreneur (and Bean Ninjas client) Phil Van Treuen to discuss the secrets behind his incredible success. Phil shares his experiences launching 4 brands in just 6 years, and […]

Michael Wark & Anfernee Chansamooth provide a year-end review, with details on their top 3 projects including the lessons and challenges they learned and how the COVID-19 lockdown impacted their productivity. They also give us a glimpse of what they’re preparing for the first quarter of 2022. Discussion Points:  [1:06] Michael’s first project – Refining […]

The Bean Ninjas Podcast co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston are back and live at the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand offices in Brisbane. In this episode, Matt and Meryl give us a recap of the early stages of Crossbeam; from its infancy as an idea to building the initial version of the app.  They […]

The Bean Ninjas co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston are back today walking us through Crossbeam’s progress in recent weeks and they share the excitement of collecting their first recurring payment.  They then move into some topics around work-life balance and how they each ensure they are able to run successful businesses and have great […]

The Bean Ninjas co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston are back today catching up on the progress Matt has made in the beta testing of Crossbeam. Meryl asks Matt to share some insights on when it might make sense to move from beta to paying users and she also picks his brain about the way […]

Now that we’ve opened up Crossbeam to beta users we are facing a challenge.  We are receiving great feedback and feature requests from beta users, but we need to balance that with a tight June 2021 launch date.  It isn’t possible to build every requested feature in time for the launch, so we need to […]

Getting traction with any new business is a challenge. That is why selecting the right problem to solve for the right market is so important. Join co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston for this ‘working in public’ series focused around building a SaaS.  “Software that isn’t shipped isn’t useful to anyone’ Matt Stubbs In our […]

Meryl shares their experience in dealing with and making business decisions during the time of COVID-19.