Women In Business Radio Show

If you’re madly in love with your partner it may seem like there is nothing more idyllic than to be able to spend all your day with them and then go home in the evening for a few more hours of quality time together. Or maybe it sounds ghastly! However, you manage your relationship with your life partner, when you also go into business with them this 24/7 things needs some serious juggling, patience and biting of tongues if you’re going to make the business work.In this episode we discuss the very real challenges to face when your business partner is also your life partner, and a few tactics and ideas about how to make it work.Plus we add some bi-polar issues into the mix. Quite frankly, it’s amazing we’re all still in one piece.Join Laura and Barry Ash of Rocksolid and Sian Murphy (show host) and Mark Jennings of Stormchasers Digital. This episode was refereed by co-host Laura Burton Lawrence.

What a lively episode! For starters, we had not one but two young female entrepreneurs in the studio. One of them was our very own Kelly Culver, Content And Production Manager for the show and a Social Media Guru in her own agency. Also in the studio, we had Sarah Turner, a dance artist who uses her dance artistry alongside teaching and motivation skills to help people with addiction, depression and mental health issues to improve their lives.Listen in to hear how you can motivate yourself and feel better all round using the magic of dance, as well as ideas and stories about being a young woman in business.

Tauren Corsinie, Social Media Manager for ZC Social Media shares insights on developing a campaign to sell out an event designed for over 500 delegates, sponsors and exhibitors.

On Today’s show, we were joined by growth hacking expert Kimberly Hash de Vries talking Affiliate Marketing and Growth Hacking for your business. Providing valuable insights you can use for your own business. We started off by talking about a few events going on which you can attend but also a brand new organisation set up in Canada to provide better funding for women-owned businesses. You can find more about this on our Twitter account @wibradioliveAfter the break, we spoke got the 'What, Why and Who For' on Affiliate and Growth Hacking and especially moving your offline business online. If you want to find out more on what Affiliate marketing and Growth Hacking are and how you can incorporate these techniques and processes into your own business, then be sure to listen in. Our tool of the week is an online tool called “Teachable” (http://bit.ly/TeachableFreePlan) where you can design, set up and sell your online courses easily and effectively.

We loved having these experts in the business of arts live in the studio. Nathalie Banaigs is an established artist who also runs Kent Creative Arts, an organisation dedicated to supporting artists in making a living from the art. Genevieve Tollberg is the Gallery and Arts Engagement Manager for Nucleus Arts, who have galleries, cafe's and studios for artists across the South East.Together they helped us create an informative show designed to help artists to promote themselves and for anyone in business who wants to get sponsorship.

Thanks so much to Sally Gridley, an early years education specialist who runs a successful business supporting learning providers, and who shared her story starting and growing her business whilst dealing with depression.Along the way, we get inspiration, ideas and techniques for running a business and dealing with depression and find out how the two really can work together.

If you're involved in raising funds for a charitable organisation then this is the show for you. Today we had fundraising expert Bernie Morgan live in the studio and sharing techniques, ideas and pitfalls when raising the much-needed cash for a charity or social enterprise.Bernie also brings a wealth of experience from her previous roles as a CEO and marketing expert and boy does she know her stuff.Tune in for some great ideas and a slightly different approach to 'book of the week'.

Are you thinking of mixing the boardroom and the bedroom? Going into business with your partner opens up a whole next of fun, tricks and let's be honest - potential problems! Tune in to hear how Simone and Lovelda who are trainers and speakers have set some ground rules to keep it working and fun.In the second part, we find out how to build a stunning experience for your customers. This was originally delivered as a TED talk, and we get to pick brains dry and delve a little bit deeper into how to become an invaluable part of your clients' business and life.Plus we have the usual book recommendations, social media and tool tips oil the wheels of your business.

Does it seem like everyone is using video to market their business apart from you? It's not that you can't work out HOW to do it, but what are you going to publish?Our guest in the studio today is Lucy Hall - Founder of Avviso Media and Social Day - one of the biggest and most successful social media events in the UK and today she shares how to use live video to create excitement and suspense about your event and one critical tip for using social media platforms. Lucy also mentioned shared her favourite for video and social media pretty - so a fab show all round for growing your business using social media!Plus we have 'Tool of the Week' 'Book of the Week' and shout out for women in business events.And wow - Lucy has given us a Discount Code for #SocialDayUK - just use code wibradio for to get your tickets for Birmingham for £45 and get 1/3 off your London ticket!Book your ticket here http://socialday.co.uk/

Are people always going on at you for working all the time? If so then today's show could be a bit of an eye opener. We were joined in the studio by Chris Hill (@catchmefreeme) talking about addiction and how to recognise it. We then caught up with our book of the week recommended by Chris, and how he personally used this book to help gather tools on how to get out of addiction. Our tool of the week is for online link shortening and tracking to help keep up with regularly used links for your social media and website posts.We hope you enjoy listening to the show and you can listen online or download to tune in whilst you're pottering around.

On today's show we were joined Denise Wilton, owner of The Mylan Focus who used a real life example of a business to walk us through implementing a sales funnels for your business.The tool of the week from Kelly Culver, our resident social media expert was a brand new Facebook app which is currently seeing a success rate of 400% over the more established email communications. Other highlights were our recommended business book of the week and we have a special download for you as it's the start of March - a calendar of celebration days to enhance your social media and marketing campaigns.

On today's show, we were joined by the lovely Maureen Dickie, giving us some tips and stories on self-awareness and how to understand yourself for better business success.Maureen is a specialist coach who helps people to find their purpose and peace. She has taken her expertise onto the prestigious TED talks stage and also shares her experience of applying and appearing.We also talked about our tool of the week which, Joomag, a helpful digital publisher for you to write, publish and distribute a magazine - a great way to add a different dimension, and even a new income stream, into your business.Maureen closed the show by sharing the key to finding yourself and your purpose. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed hosting the show - and thanks to Maureen for bringing such a serene atmosphere into the studio.

Case studies are a fantastic sales tool, especially if you do something people have trouble understanding. Today we were joined by Sarah Dillingham from Case Study Ninja giving valuable insights to how to build and use case studies in your business. We started the show off with Kelly Culver, giving us some helpful tips and tools to how you can manage your social conversions from Instagram. Followed by our tool and book of the week which you can find more on our Twitter and the website http://www.thewomeninbusinessradioshow.comIt's been a very valuable show on how you can correctly prepare and use case studies. Not only were there some valuable tips, but Sarah gave us her formula for creating case studies - it's little trickier than you might think, but the effort really pays off.

On today’s show, we had Angela Gower-Johnson, Business Energy Strategist from Ultimate Dream Project, and boy was it a whale of a show! At the start, we were discussing some marketing campaign ideas for February (February is rife with holidays!) and about organisation. Did you know that if we spend 10 minutes each day looking for something, we spend 60 hours per YEAR looking for things? For the rest of the show, we were chatting with Angela about Alpha and Beta brain states and how you can get yourself into the right state for optimum performance. This isn’t magic “woo woo” stuff, it’s been backed by science! Listen to the show now to learn how you can become the best you for your business.If you think you should be meditating, but can't seem to make that happen, this show is for you!

On today’s show, we were joined by Kathryn Colas, menopause expert, giving us some mature insights to symptoms and her experience whilst going through it. Laura, our co-host of the show also gave us a #ToolOfTheWeek called LyteSpark, it is like Skype just with a few extra features that you can use to interact with clients or business partners.Book of the week was recommended by Katheryn and it is “Be Gender Smart” by Inge Woudstra. It is essentially a guide for both genders to help understand the different issues both genders faces and how to go about it. We learnt a lot about how menopause can affect not only your personal but workplace life. Some of the main symptoms are forgetfulness, being confused and cross more than usual but overall quite depressed. If you are suffering, Katheryn suggests a great way to start getting help is by recognising and this and talking about it, especially if it’s people in the workplace. Accept you need a break and take one step at a time. If you want advice from Katheryn or t

This week we welcome Nathalie Banaigs, founder of Kent Creative, a Community Interest Company, into the studio to talk about her experience running awards. We also welcome two of last year's winners to talk about their experiences and the benefits to them of entering.We also have a little deviation into branding, and re-branding at the start of the show - but as regular listeners know, we always go with the flow.

On the first show of 2017, we are joined by marketing expert Tabitha Beasley and young entrepreneur Kelly Culver. Tabitha is a PR and marketing assistant for who won awards less than a year, after starting her business back in March 2015. Kelly shares some inspirational Start Up quotes provided by listeners and insights to free or low-cost online business tools.We end the show with some informative small business marketing tips which you can take away and use to help grow your own brand and business.

Why would you want to enter business awards? If you're thinking this is a damn stupid question as the answer has just got to be to win - then you might want to think again.Tune in to hear what Hilary Steel, founder of the Kent Women In Business Awards and herself a success business woman, has to say about the benefits, the techniques and the secondary gains around entering business awards.Plus of course we tap into her wisdom as a woman in business

We welcome Image Stylist Deborah Turner, the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) Women's representative, and we get the lowdown on some interesting statistics about being a woman in business.Of course, stats don't have to come true, but it's so interesting to get a heads up on some common issues being faced by women in business.Deborah has recently been invited to No. 10 Downing street to advise on how the government can help more women to succeed in business.

In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Brown, a business advisor and pricing expert from Inspire2Aspire, who have worked with major corporates like BT, entrepreneurs and the public sector.We cover how pricing is a combination of mindset, business, maths and business acumen. Also in the studio is Dani Needham, a Personal Trainer, Gym Manager and health blogger. Dani was kind enough to let us use some of her pricing challenges as examples of how the tricky issue of pricing both products and services can be handled.