This week's Business Growth Podcast is about getting better at working from home and managing a remote team.

In this call I’m joined by on of my long standing mastermind members Alexis Kingsbury, owner of Spidergap. Alexis runs his software company from home with a team of 9 working remotely across three different continents.

He’s been very successful working with a remote team and has a lot to say on best practices. 

On this Zoom call, we're going to show you how to apply for and get accepted for all of the different government schemes, grants and loans that are available during this Covid-19 crisis.

We're on the front-line.

We have a large group of small businesses in our Mastermind Programmes that have applied for every grant and loan that you can imagine and some that you can't even imagine.

• We've witnessed firsthand what works and what doesn't work
• Which banks are accepting and which banks aren't
• What criteria will get you accepted
• What seems to make the biggest difference

I'm releasing free resources over the coming weeks to help you survive and thrive during this tough time.

Go here to join our Facebook Group:
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In this week’s Business Growth Podcast, I'm going to reveal the 2 strategies that I have used to get the biggest growth in my businesses. Both of which include external resources. The best ideas come from outside of yourself.

This question turned up in my inbox late last week:

Hey Dan, I'm being sued. I know you can't give legal advice but I'd like to know if you've ever been in a similar situation, and what did you do?

This situation can be extremely stressful so I discuss my experience with being sued in this week’s Business Growth Podcast.

I took a phone call the other day with a Private Mastermind member and she had just signed over her business. The moment was very bittersweet for her as it usually is for most Entrepreneurs. This inspired me for this week’s Where I discuss How and When to Sell your business.

Should you fake it til you make it?

This week on the Business Growth Podcast we're going to give a live example of someone "faking it" at one of our events.

It’s a great story about things not always being what they seem in business.

You can learn a lot from this example.

What's the best way to get a new staff member prepared for success?
00:58

What is the best way to protect your wealth?
03:57

What do successful business owners all have in common? What's the secret sauce?
06:45

What effect will Brexit have on small business?
13:09

How can I ask my PA out without getting into legal trouble or screwing up my business?
17:21

Is email marketing still have active?
19:54

In today's episode I answer your questions.

How have Tough Mudder managed to get into such big trouble?
01:03

My business partner keeps coming up with really bad ideas. He's always wanted to do something new. How do I shut these ideas down without getting into a screaming match every time?
04:06

How do companies get on the Sunday Times fastest growing lists?
08:40

Any specific advice or phrasing to help chase slash get late payments?
11:49

What's the best way of getting a team member focused on individual tasks through to completion?
16:37

In today's episode I answer your questions.

Get your Business Profit Maximisation Scorecard here:
https://cf.danbradbury.co.uk/get-scor...

Timestamps:

Should I spend more on Facebook Advertising?
1:01

Finances bore me. Do I really need to know this stuff or can I hire someone?
2:50

I have no plans to sell. Does the value of the business really matter?
4:47

My wife’s cheating and she is a 50% parter. How do I get her out of the business?
8:55

I owe £35k from last year’s VAT bill. Should I get a loan to pay it?
14:09

My best employee want more money but they already earn enough. What do I do?
16:37

My interior design business made more with less revenue. Do I need to scale down?
20:35

When is your new book coming out?
25:06

Hate mail of the week
26:08

Wrap Up
28:44

This week on the Business Growth Podcast I interview Roland Frasier.

Roland is co-founder and/or principal of three current Inc. Magazine fastest growing companies, and he has founded, scaled or sold 24 different 7 to 9 figure businesses ranging from consumer products to industrial machine manufacturing companies with adjusted sales ranging from $3 million to $337 million. Currently growing DigitalMarketer.com, RivalBrands.com and Plattr.com while advising over 150 other companies on digitally centric customer acquisition, activation, referral, retention and revenue strategies and plan implementation.

This week on the Business Growth Podcast we’ve got an exclusive interview with a fiery entrepreneur…

Shaa Wasmund.

Shaa is the author of multiple best sellers including “Do Less Get More”, “Stop Talking, Start Doing” and most recently “How to Fix Your Shit”.

Shaa’s accomplishments are extraordinary:

• The first female boxing promoter in the UK
• She represented Chris Eubank
• Founded DeckChair.com with Sir Bob Geldo,
• Started one of the first social networks, MyKindaPlace, eventually selling it to BSkyB
• Was given an MBE for services to Entrepreneurship by the Queen

In this interview we discuss a wide range of topics including

• How and when to raise money
• Preparing for exit
• How to balance business and parenting
• How she managed to get all her writing done alongside her businesses
• What it was like getting an MBE from the Queen
• Plus, much more

For this week's episode we've got a slightly more personal focus than our usual business growth strategies.

In this episode, I take you inside an Elite Mastermind programme where I give a presentation on the direct route to wealth.

Specifically, I'm talking about personal wealth.

Despite some people having large successful businesses, a surprisingly high percentage of business owners' personal finances are a mess.

So in this episode I discuss:

• How to clarify your number (The amount you need to be able to retire financially free).
• The 3 obstacles that place a choke hold on your ability to build wealth and what to do about them.
• The best way to eliminate any personal debt you may have (it's not what you think).
• How to clear your home mortgage in record time.
• Plus much more!

I'm super excited to announce the follow up to my 2016 book Breeding Gazelles is finally being published and should be available on Amazon by late September.

The title is Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity – 9 1/2 Steps to Increasing Your Profits and Cashflow.

I thought I'd give you a sneak preview here.

Last Friday, I did an open Q&A and answered a whole host of live questions about: 

• How to grow your business when cash flow is tight 
• Finding the right marketing agencies 
• The secret to recruiting really good sales people 
• Amazing resources for lead generation 
• And much more 

Richard has spent 10 Years in The Removals and Storage industry. He also runs a property rental business. 

Listen to this interview and discover:

• How Richard had a record-breaking profit for the quarter 
• Why this 'KEY HIRE' freed up Richard's time to focus on more profitable tasks.  
• Why focusing on the property side of the business was a big win for profits. 
• Why mindset had cost Richard time and potential growth (and what you can learn from this)
• How Richard got four days back from his working week with a simple solution that had been on his mind for months!

Ricky runs a business selling solar power to homeowners. His team covers everything from marketing, sales, installation, and aftercare. 

His business growth exploded from £140K (Q1 in 2017) to £3M in Q1 the following year. 

How did he do it?

Listen to this interview to find out.

What started as an idea in Jeremy Gilley's head in 1999 grew into a global movement for world peace with documented exposure to over one billion people worldwide less than 20 years later.

Along the way, Jeremy has raised tens of millions for a life-changing cause, vaccinated over 4.5 million children, got the Taliban to lay down there weapons and got over 60 of the biggest countries in the world to vote unanimously to create an international day of peace.

Learn how he did it in this weeks episode of the Business Growth Podcast!

In this weeks podcast I show you how one of my members was able to triple his profit while spending less time in the business and more time on holiday.

In this episode we discuss a wide range of topics including how you can acquire companies by risking little or none of your own capital, the most common mistakes to look out for, and much, much more.

Whether you're into the topic of mergers and acquisitions or you’re new to the space, there's a whole host of gems in this interview.

• How he sold his company, bought it back for just £1 eight years later and then rebuilt it and sold it again.
• The books that have had the biggest impact on his life
• How to become better than 90% of the digital marketers out there
• Plus so much more!

Back in 2009, I won a Porsche Cayman as a prize in an international competition to find The "Ultimate Marketer".

To win the competition I gave a 20 minute presentation detailing how I took a brand new business from a standing start to over £500k in highly profitable revenue in its first 10 months with just one part time employeee.

This is that presentation.

I believe that in today's fast pace society, the people that can learn, filter and then apply the information that they have learned to adapt their behavior the quickest have the best chance of success.

That's why in this episode, I cover my 6 step super speed reading system.

This is the system that I developed and used to become the 3rd fastest reader in the world when I won the bronze medal at the speed reading world championship.

This will not only help you to read much more quickly. It will improve comprehension too.

In this episode you get a sneak peak into my Private Mastermind meeting where I talk about a 4 step method to plan for your business.