Business Success Tips : Meet Lindsay West

Lindsay West
Values Coach

Values. What are they?

Are values those ‘waffly words’ you see pinned to the walls in corporates that no-one pays any attention to?

Yes, they can be.

Are values those things that create successful businesses – big and small – because they becomes the ‘glue’ that holds everyone together?

Yes. Great examples of well known businesses that stand tall with their values and corporate culture are Zappos, Virgin, Starbucks…. Can you name others? There are plenty more.

Are values critical to helping small businesses thrive?

Absolutely!

Can understanding our personal values transform our personal lives?

You bet. I know this for a fact as taking time to understand my own values changed the course of my life and career.

Meet Lindsay West. She’s a values coach, speaker and author. She works with large and small businesses, and individuals, to help them understand their values, and how those values can be integrated to create transformations.

And those transformations can be enormous. Lindsay tells her own story of how understanding her values caused her to make massive changes in her personal and professional life.

I hope you are inspired after listening to this week’s interview to take some time to think about what’s important to you in life – to think about your own values – and whether you are living them in your personal life, your business, or your career. Enjoy.

You can listen to the original interview with Lindsay West here:

To connect with Lindsay West:

www.valuescoach.co.uk

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

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Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Meet Mark Williams

Mark Williams
Founder and CEO, Pensar IT

Imagine being in business for +20 years, growing your ‘business baby’ into a success story, and now having the opportunity to plan for your own exit strategy.

In all honesty, isn’t that what business should be about? I think it is. Yet so many business owners/entrepreneurs don’t achieve that goal. They remain a slave to their business for much of their lives, often with few options remaining towards the end of their career.

Meet Mark Williams, the Founder and CEO of Pensar IT. He’s substantially grown his business over the last 20 years, through good times and bad. In recent years, he’s also had a business coach/mentor who injected rocket fuel into the leadership team and now the business is reaping the benefits; it’s even more successful than he’d imagined it could be.

While Mark loves the work he does, he’s also in a phase of life where he can start planning his own exit strategy, and he is.

During our conversation, Mark tells many of the business ‘war stories’ he managed through to get the business to where it is today – his business success story.

I hope you are inspired by Mark’s journey and success in business. Enjoy.

You can listen to the original Interview with Mark Williams here:

To connect with Mark:
W: www.pensar.co.uk

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

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• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

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Business Success Tips : Meet Deri Llewellyn-Davies

Deri Llewellyn-Davies
The Strategy Man

Yes, business strategy and Mt Everest are connected. They’re connected via my friend, Deri Llewellyn-Davies. Why?

Well, he’s a business strategist, and he’s also an adventurer. He has recently returned from climbing Mt Everest, and he’s done loads of other ultra adventures too.

Deri uses his BGI Strategy on a Page framework to help small and medium businesses around the world focus on what’s important in their businesses.

What’s strategy? Well, we talk about that in our conversation. And don’t worry, I promise you Deri won’t have you writing a big fat business plan tome that then gets shelved. He’ll inspire you to write a one pager that you’ll review daily. It’ll keep you focused on your purpose and vision in your business. Easy peasy!! 🙂

And, if you’re planning some kind of big adventure, you can use the Strategy on a Page one pager to help you plan for that too.

I know you’ll enjoy our interview, and I hope you’ll be inspired to download Deri’s book (it’s a free resource) called BGI Strategy on a Page. The link to the book is here.

You can listen to the original interview with Deri Llewellyn-Davies here:

To connect with Deri Llewellyn-Davies:

www.bgistrategy.com

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

…where she interviews successful entrepreneurs from around the world, asking them to share their entrepreneurial stories, and other business ‘subject matter experts’ who share business success tips. If you would like to be art of Adèle’s success community and receive the interviews and much more directly to your inbox, please click here.

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Business Success Tips : Meet Keith Dolby

Keith Dolby
Franchising Consultant/Adviser/Broker

I love entrepreneurship – no surprises there, right!?! I also know that many, many small businesses fail within the first five years of operation. That’s a hard statistic to stomach. Failures happen for many reasons, and some of them include lack of systems in business, and the owner not knowing how to ‘get’ customers.

Meet my friend, Keith Dolby. He’s a franchising expert and franchisee of two franchises in the UK. He’s also a franchising broker, working with people who want to be self employed and who explore franchising as a way of achieving the ‘self employment dream’.

I’m fascinated with the concept of franchising. Yes, we all know the names of massive franchises in the market (McDonald’s, for instance), and yes, we’ve all heard the good, bad and ugly stories about franchising. But did you know there are about 1,000 different types of franchises in the UK and over 4,000 in the USA. Wow! It’s a huge market, in those two countries alone.

In my interview with Keith, he offers lots of real insights into franchising in the UK and Europe, and how to mitigate the risk of buying into the wrong type of franchise for you, your skills and personality.

There’s no doubt about it, franchising works, but buyer beware! Do your research thoroughly and work with experts. Let them guide you so that you can live your dream of successful self employment.

Enjoy this week’s interview with Keith.

You can listen to the original interview with Keith Dolby here:

To connect with Keith Dolby:
W: www.matchpointnetwork.com/kdolby

YouTube videos about Matchpoint and franchising:
• An interview with Keith at the Franchise Expo show – London ExCel
• More about what Matchpoint do: MatchPoint Consultancy and MatchPoint
• Franchisors and franchisees talk about the importance of Making The Right Match

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

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Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Meet Mark Cottle

Mark Cottle
Entrepreneur, Accountant, Accountancy Profession ‘Disruptor’

Meet my Australian friend, Mark Cottle. He’s an accountant by profession and an entrepreneur at heart… and he’s combined the two to create a fantastic business that supports accountants in Australia and the UK to reduce the cost of their biggest overhead – staff.

In this week’s interview, Mark talks openly about how he has substantially developed his Australian accounting practice by thinking outside the box. As a result, how he now helps many other accounting practices operate their businesses like his. And the great thing is they are more successful and profitable.

Everything is changing at a rapid rate in business. Successful businesses of the future will embrace technology and new ways of thinking in order to serve their customers. There are no sacred cows. The accountancy profession is no different. Failure to change and evolve with the times will mean businesses get left behind.

Mark’s staffing model works for lots of industries, not just the accountancy profession. I’m thinking about it for one of my businesses too. Exciting times.

I hope you enjoy this week’s interview with my ‘Aussie mate’, Mark. 🙂 Enjoy!

You can listen to the original Interview with Mark Cottle here:

To connect with Mark:
W: www.frontlineaccounting.com.au (accounting services – Australia only)

W: www.dianependle.com (offshore teams)

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
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Business Success Tips : Meet Martin Brooks

Martin Brooks
Impacttologist and Communications Expert

You’re probably thinking, “What’s an Impacttologist?” I asked the same question when I met Martin the first time.

Martin is a communications expert. He studies the world’s leading communicators in all fields – not just business – working out what stands them apart from the rest, and then he teaches his clients how to be the best communicators too.

In our interview, Martin shares loads of tips on how to make a real impact when we speak, whether it’s on a stage, in a sales presentation, or just talking to people where we want to get across our message.

It’s all about engaging with our audience. In this cluttered world where we are bombarded with ‘noise’ – emails, YouTube videos, podcasts, how do we stand apart from our competition?

Often it’s about doing lots of things just one percent better, rather than focusing on doing one thing 100 percent better. Doesn’t that sound do-able?

You’ll learn from the master of communications with this interview. I hope you’ll be inspired to re-think how you’re communicating with the people you want to engage with. Enjoy!

You can listen to the original interview with Martin Brooks here:

To connect with Martin Brooks:
W: www.theimpacttologist.com

Apps W: www.miasapps.com

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

…where she interviews successful entrepreneurs from around the world, asking them to share their entrepreneurial stories, and other business ‘subject matter experts’ who share business success tips. If you would like to be art of Adèle’s success community and receive the interviews and much more directly to your inbox, please click here.

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Entrepreneurial Success without Fulfilment: Who Wants That?
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Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Meet Bruce Walker

Bruce Walker
Founder – WeAreTheFuture, Social Entrepreneur

Meet my friend, Bruce Walker. He’s fabulous, and has a gorgeous Scottish accent to boot! 🙂

WeAreTheFuture is a global youth entrepreneurship organisation that inspires and connects entrepreneurs around the world.

It’s backed and supported by some seriously large corporates, including: Virgin, Google, AirBnB, HP, Silicon Valley Bank, Sky, RBS…, and lots of entrepreneur heavyweights (check out the website for the names of these people).

And to think this all started from a school based entrepreneurship project that Bruce led a couple of years ago. WeAreTheFuture is testimony to what one can achieve with vision and belief… regardless of age!

Bruce is on a mission with WeAreTheFuture. He has such belief in the importance of the work it does that he dropped out of university to work full time in the business. Is he another Branson or Gates? Only time will tell. Personally, I look forward to supporting Bruce on his entrepreneurship journey over the coming years.

I urge you to get involved. WeAreTheFuture may well be the organisation for you. Perhaps you’re a young entrepreneur needing support and/or guidance; maybe you’re a major corporate with deep pockets; or how about an experienced mentor who can give something back???

Listen to this week’s truly inspiring interview with Bruce. Enjoy!

You can listen to the original Interview with Bruce Walker here:

To connect with Bruce:
W: www.wearethefuture.org.uk

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

…where she interviews successful entrepreneurs from around the world, asking them to share their entrepreneurial stories, and other business ‘subject matter experts’ who share business success tips. If you would like to be part of Adèle’s success community and receive the interviews and much more directly to your inbox, please click here.

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Business Success Tips : Meet Utam Bhudia

Utam Bhudia
Video Producer

Meet my friend, Utam Bhudia. He’s a young entrepreneur, having established his own video production company just over one year ago, after a short and relatively unsatisfying career in banking.

As you might expect, Utam is passionate about video, and its importance in business. He’s competing in a highly competitive and contemporary industry because video is a critical marketing tool in business and it’s getting more important by the day as the digital world continues to take over the way in which we do business.

In our interview, not only does Utam share his short, slightly rocky and successful entrepreneurial journey to date, he also gives us great advice on why we must embrace video in business, and how to go about doing it.

This is an interview not to be missed if you are serious about growing your business through digital marketing, keyword and search engine optimisation.

Enjoy this week’s insightful interview with Utam.

You can listen to the original Interview with Utam Bhudia here:

To connect with Utam Bhudia:
W: www.adtube.uk.com

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

…where she interviews successful entrepreneurs from around the world, asking them to share their entrepreneurial stories, and other business ‘subject matter experts’ who share business success tips. If you would like to be art of Adèle’s success community and receive the interviews and much more directly to your inbox, please click here.

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Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Meet Sharryn Waters

Sharryn Waters
Retired Business Entrepreneur, 1989/90 NZ Business Woman of the Year

Meet my very dear friend, Sharryn Waters. She’s a wonderful entrepreneurial success story.

In the 1970s Sharryn and her then husband left New Zealand for a life adventure in the USA. She later found herself back in New Zealand alone, divorced with custody of two children (her ex husband remained in the USA)…. little money or security and no job.

So, Sharryn did what many others do in that situation…. she got on with life and business, working her way up the career ladder in a corporate travel agency.

Sharryn created her own luck. She was extremely hard working and successful in her career roles, leading her to become joint managing director of the business. Later she led a management buy-out of the business and later still, sold the business via an IPO (initial public offering – share market listing). How impressive is that!

All the while, Sharryn was heavily involved in wider business activities in New Zealand, including becoming President of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and being a leading activist and voice for equal pay and opportunities for women.

Sharryn lives her dream. The sale of the business has given her substantial wealth, she travels the world, she’s pursuing other passions in her life (including researching family history and writing a book), has time for her adult children and three gorgeous grandchildren, and much more.

Isn’t that what business ownership and success is about: success in business, community and life? Sharryn, my friend of 30 years, is a true inspiration.

Enjoy this week’s insightful and inspiring interview with Sharryn.

You can listen to the original Interview with Sharryn Waters here:

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

…where she interviews successful entrepreneurs from around the world, asking them to share their entrepreneurial stories, and other business ‘subject matter experts’ who share business success tips. If you would like to be part of Adèle’s success community and receive the interviews and much more directly to your inbox, please click here.

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All Work + Little Play = Boring!
Entrepreneurial Success without Fulfilment: Who Wants That?
Millionaire Mindset
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Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Meet Mark Attwood

Mark Attwood
Entrepreneur, Raconteur, Poet, Activist, Digital Expert, Lifestyler

Meet my friend, Mark Attwood. He’s a thoughtful, clever and really interesting guy. Mark started out training as a RAF pilot and left as he didn’t want to kill people! He then became a poet, actor, stand-up comedian and many other things before heading towards serial entrepreneurship.

Mark was at the forefront of the digital era, teaching himself via his Hire a Skip business how to be an online marketer. That business, while like most businesses has had its challenges, has generated in excess of £40M turnover and counting. Not bad, eh?

In our interview, Mark shares his entrepreneurial journey to date, his lifestyle choices – he and his family of five children now live in Morocco – and some of his interests and passions in life.

Mark also gives us BIG tips on how to ensure our businesses are more visible and successful in the digital world. Mark’s a ‘go to’ man on all things digital, so listen in to his free and really good advice. Digital is the ‘new normal’ for business marketing, so we all need to learn more about it.

If you’re interested, Mark also has a DVD product that will help you navigate the digital world. It’s called: The Technophobes Guide to Internet Marketing. Click here to check it out. I have this DVD programme, and I use it all the time. It’s been really helpful in taking the jargon and mystique out of SEO and internet marketing, helping me to effectively structure my online presence for several of my businesses. I highly recommend The Technophobes Guide to Internet Marketing to you.

Enjoy this week’s insightful interview with Mark.

You can listen to the original Interview with Mark Attwood here:

To connect with Mark:
W: www.attwooddigital.com

W: www.markattwood.com

Adèle hosts an interview series entitled:

• Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories : Adèle McLay Interviews…..
• Business Success Tips : Adèle McLay Interviews …..

…where she interviews successful entrepreneurs from around the world, asking them to share their entrepreneurial stories, and other business ‘subject matter experts’ who share business success tips. If you would like to be part of Adèle’s success community and receive the interviews and much more directly to your inbox, please click here.

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Entrepreneurship vs The Meaning of Life
Mega Entrepreneur Defined!
Supercharge Your Profitable Business!
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What Makes Great Entrepreneurial Leaders?
All Work + Little Play = Boring!
Entrepreneurial Success without Fulfilment: Who Wants That?
Millionaire Mindset
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