The Smart Connector

Startups, especially in tech, often require capital to move to scale up, yet most don’t know where or how to begin this process. They need experienced consultants and connectors to guide them. Martin Stockman runs Stockman Ventures, a ventures boutique supporting early stage digital businesses. He has been raising finance for 25 years and gets to see exciting technology opportunities on a daily basis. He's worked as an Investor, a Corporate Investor, an Entrepreneur and, more recently, as a fundraiser matching Angels with relevant, exciting and disruptive technologies . In this fascinating discussion, Jane and Martin discuss the challenges and process of raising capital for business growth, and how he personally approaches this mission critical task. (Entrepreneur Spotlight)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Video marketing expert Tom Stanhope has almost 20 years of experience in the video industry, having worked with every level of organisation - from nervous start-ups to global corporate behemoths, so there’s very little that he doesn’t know when it comes to getting visible with video.

Fears, doubts and anxieties about being in front of the camera get in the way of business owners' true desire to spread their message and grow their business. Jane and Tom discuss how smashing these beliefs, alongside a tried and tested content strategy and creation process, helps take entrepreneurs from nervous novices to confident video creators who can leverage the power of this amazing medium to scale their businesses, fast. (Connection Central)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

US Author of the best selling book: You Can Be Perfect or You Can Be Happy (How to Let Go, Worry Less and Get A Life!), Karith Foster is a TV Host, Comedian, and passionate Diversity Specialist whose signature programs are impacting lives at academic institutions and corporations across America. For nearly two decades, Karith has taken her talent for entertainment and comedy nationwide - creating powerful mindset shifts and revolutionising the way issues of diversity and leadership are addressed in the workplace.

The words “no” and “impossible” are not in Karith’s vocabulary as evidenced by her career path, life challenges, chosen adventures and desire to help others. 

Karith is also CEO & Founder of F.R.A.M.E - the Foster Russell Alliance for Meaningful Expression, a non-profit organisation, whose mission is to inspire free speech, inclusion, social change and empowerment through education and mentorship. She is a featured comedian in two hit documentary films “Can We Take a Joke?” and "No Safe Spaces" which won accolades from The Washington Post and TIME Magazine, as has her TEDx Talk: “The Art of Defying Stereotypes: Learning to be True to Your Voice”. Karith is an alumna of both Stephens College (Missouri) and Oxford University in the UK. (Connection Central)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Riaz is Founder and CEO of Radiate B2B, a pioneering sales and marketing tech platform that builds relationships between key stakeholders at large, multi-location businesses. It was developed to help sales and marketing teams identify and close deals faster, combining data showing who is researching their solution today with bespoke technology that identifies the companies they should be talking to. 

It was designed to build outsized brand awareness - both proactively and reactively. Reaching buyers before they have decided who they should listen to, using targeted advertising which stops them wasting ad spend reaching companies they wouldn’t want as customers.

It provides data and insight to sales teams to help them speak to the right companies at the right time. Delivering a level of brand awareness unachievable to most. Allowing sales people to start conversations with prospects earlier than competitors. 

From initial activation of a target company, to nurturing through a pipeline and finally expanding existing customer accounts, Riaz Kanani discusses with Jane why Radiate B2B has many of the answers to sales and marketing optimisation and success. 

Riaz Kanani has sat on the Direct Marketing Association email marketing council helping to set best practice for the email marketing industry, judge its awards and help shape data privacy and the use of data in the UK. He regularly speaks and writes on the intersection between marketing, business and technology, its best practice, and future trends. (Entrepreneur Spotlight)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Over the past 2.5 years Arshad Ali has built up a Property Portfolio worth £0.5million, which generates gross £35k in revenue having raised £300k in private finance, whilst working full time as an Actuary for Scottish Widows. As an Actuary Arshad deals with risk analysis and financially modelling in Investments and Businesses on a day to day basis. Everything he does is calculated, with the long term benefit in mind. Jane discusses Arshad’s journey to success, founded on the Triple C Method which they also both train Real Estate Developers on, in their Raising Finance Accelerator Program. (Connection Central)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Technology and Risk expert Steve Anderson is author of The Bezos Letters, a book that examines the 14 Growth Principles contained within the annual letters that the Founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos has written to his shareholders for the past 20 years.The book offers a fascinating insight into how Bezos turned an online bookstore into a trillion dollar company in just over two decades.

Amazon is the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in sales and they didn't reach that landmark by staying in their comfort zone. Risk taking is the key that unlocked the door to growth at Amazon, but those risks were (and are) intentional, calculated, and strategic. As Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." and Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has always linked experimentation and failure with growth and success. Now, as a result of Steve's book, business owners, leaders, CEOs, employees, and managers can apply these same principles to grow their own businesses and become more efficient, productive, and successful.

Risk expert Steve Anderson has spent his 35+ year career helping the insurance industry understand, integrate, and leverage current and emerging technologies. He has spoken in all 50 states of the US, as well as internationally, and addressed companies like SAFECO, AAA, and Nationwide. He is on the faculty of credentialing organisations teaching thousands of professionals annually and is a writer/contributor to multiple publications. Steve has a Master’s Degree in Insurance Law, and was personally invited to be an original LinkedIn thought leader/influencer where he now has over 340,000 followers. He also is a Top 20 Global InsurTech Influencer. (Entrepreneur Spotlight)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Paul Newton is a magician, public speaker, stage hypnotist, and self-confessed thief, using his advanced mind reading skills to show people just how easily a scammer can steal their details and their money. 

He makes cyber security a very real and scary subject. You know there are people trying to steal your information, you just don’t know how they do it. You may have the best security systems in place but I can hack the people in your organisation! It’s not all about high tech, it’s about people. They’re either the weakest link, or your strongest defence. 

This fascinating and highly entertaining interview with Jane goes deep on the topic of cyber security, and reveals how Paul ‘scams’ businesses into letting him on to their real or virtual premises to steal their information. (Connection Central)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Lakhi Singh is a prolific Mayfair networker, social media influencer, and event and media group host. He is also the director of Rescue My Properties, which has helped over 5000 clients deal with hard to resolve property problems, and is an expert on stopping repossession at Immediate Bank Claims.

Lakhi loves to help businesses to sustain and gain their share in the market, and is a skilled professional in the area of property portfolios, negative equity, bridging, buy to let finance and property tax.

Lakhi's vision is to help individuals and investors to establish sustainably successful businesses both locally and internationally, in partnership with all stakeholders. (Entrepreneur Spotlight)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Leading US empathy and brand expert, and author of the best-selling book: The Empathy Edge, Maria Ross discusses with Jane how empathy is the critical ‘edge’ that all businesses need to succeed.

Furious customers? Missed deadlines? Failed products? The problems your business faces may stem from one issue: lack of empathy.

Being empathetic in business means seeing the situation from another’s perspective, and using that to shape your leadership style, workplace culture and brand message.

Maria discusses why your business needs to cultivate more empathy now, and shares the habits and traits of empathetic leaders who generate more productivity, loyalty and success.

She gives practical tips, big and small, for how to align your mission and values and hire the right people, cultivating a warmer and more innovative workplace culture. Finally, she discusses how to build your empathetic brand in an authentic and proactive way, and shows how doing so results in happier customers, innovative work cultures and increased profits.

Advising businesses of all types, Maria has proven that empathy is not just good for society―it’s great for business, and will transform you at a personal level, too. (Connection Central)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

As CEO of Phase2Growth, Elliot helps his clients scale fast internationally by putting in place automation tools, recommending improved processes and showing how data can be used to increase sales. The outcome is that the sales process - whether undertaken by dedicated sales people or company founders - is much more efficient, allowing companies to scale up quicker and with lower costs. 

In this interview Jane discusses Elliot’s passion for automation, sales processes and using data to measure and improve everything.

Elliot was awarded a Masters Degree in Economics from Cambridge University, then started a career as an Equity Analyst in the City of London for HSBC; he left in 2000 and has been involved in the Internet and IT ever since. He started by advising large corporations in the UK and US on how to make best use of e-commerce and the web, when it was relatively new; then ran a family business, driving sales from £250k to £5000k in 5 years. 

He went on to lead the sales effort for a fast-growing IT outsourcing business based in London and then helped South Africa's largest ICT provider expand their presence in the UK. Most recently, he completed 5 fantastic years at Pythian, a Canadian-based specialist in data and cloud services, where he built the European presence from scratch to one of Google's leading regional partners. . (Entrepreneur Spotlight)

ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives. 

Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML

Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass