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The Business Growth Podcast with Dan Bradbury

Business is an intellectual sport and we're here to teach you the rules. Hear Dan share the secrets of fast-growth businesses. Whether it's hiring employees, generating more revenue, buying and selling businesses or just making more money and having more quality time then the Business Growth Podcast will show you the way.
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Nov 15, 2018

In this episode, Dan Bradbury interviews serial entrepreneur Steve Bennett, well known for creating global brands such as Gems TV and early internet success Jungle.com. 

They discuss:

  • Business education vs traditional education
  • What is the number 1 attribute to look for in employees?
  • The real job of an CEO
  • Richard Branson's 3p’s
  • Analyzing your competitors vs blazing your own track
  • The biggest mistakes small business owners make
  • The importance of business cycles
Nov 1, 2018

In this case study, Leighton shares powerful insights on what it takes to run and scale his business, including:

  • How He Was Able To Go From Working In The Business To Fully Extracting Himself From It In Less Than 2 Years
  • The divide and conquer strategy which completely changed his business
  • Why Numbers Will Tell You The Truth About Where Your Business Is At
  • The key metrics you MUST understand which will empower you to make the right decisions and show you where to place your focus
  • The Smart And Predictable Way To Scale Your Business Quickly
  • Why getting over the fear mindset will set you free and help your business grow properly
  • Where To Find The Gold In Your Business
  • How to deal with unpredictability in your business
  • And Much, Much More!
Oct 17, 2018

In this interview, Ed discusses so much, including:

  • Why getting clarity on the business finances meant Smileworks were able to turn their yearly net profit into their monthly net profit.
  • How growth consumes cash - more businesses go bust from trying to grow than anything else
  • Why Focusing only on sales funnels is flawed thinking for a local business and what to do instead
  • The critical differences between Outbound marketing vs inbound marketing – why it pays to know the difference and know which you MUST be focused on
  • How Individual metrics can create a seismic shift in your business by creating a culture of accountability and increasing team performance – and all while removing the need to micro-manage staff
  • Plus so much more.
Oct 2, 2018

Interview with Alexis Kingsbury

Business Type: 
Software

Revenue Increase: 
400% in 3 years

Profit increase: 
From a £12,000 loss to a £250k+ profit

Critical changes: Building an international team in 4 countries across 3 continents worldwide Transition from a pay per use to a recurring subscription model.

Aug 22, 2018

This interview is taken from the live recording of a recent Success Mastermind event in the UK.

Marcus and Paul Fitzgerald run Richmond Oak Conservatories and have been private mastermind members of mine for almost 3 years now.

In that time, they have gone from just working for wages and barely scrapping by to two of the last three quarters of the best in the company’s ten year history. Including one of those quarters where they did more revenue than in the previous 12 months combined.

In this short interview the shares:

  • Why they sacked their number 1 sales person and never looked backed
  • Which numbers to analyze to have the biggest impact on your business
  • How a few small tweaks to their formal process transformed their sales
  • Why you should never ever believe the hype that comes from those who come with a vested interest
  • How to get key employees of a competitor to come and work for you
  • Plus much, much more!!

There is so much great stuff in this interview. Because it was recorded at a live event, there are a few spots missing due to the audio quality not being ideal, but hopefully you’ll feel the quality of information will more than make up for it.

Aug 20, 2018

This case study is taken from the live recording of a recent Success Mastermind event in the UK.

Rob Stone runs a loft conversion company and has been a Private Mastermind member for almost 2 years now.  

But in that time he has grown from about £10k per month in revenue to £20k per month in PROFIT

In this short interview he shares:

  • Why his first business plan was laughed at
  • How he was able to expand across the UK and go from 2 to 6 teams on the road.
  • How a solicitors mistake enabled him to slash costs by 75%
  • Getting exposure to over 2 million prospects for just a few thousand pounds
  • Plus much, much more
Aug 13, 2018
If you want your company to grow fast… your team must grow fast too!
 
Not just hiring the right people, but how do you actually get the very best performance out of them to?
 
And in this episode I discuss exactly that with David Bonney of Hiretofit.com
 
David and I go back many years since he’s been helping many of the fastest growing company’s in america to lean how to hire better quality people to perform a better level more of the time.
 
Do not underestimate this skill. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and many more of the worlds most successful company founders have said “take away our top people and we would very quickly become an average company” or words to that effect.
 
In this interview we discuss it all.
 
If you want to get the matching pdf case study download that goes with this episode you want to go to www.danbradbury.com/podcast
Jun 2, 2018
In this episode I interview Rob Warner, founder of Invisible PPC with an incredible team that spans 6 time zones in both the US and the UK. In the interview Rob shares how he want from the edge of bankruptcy working in his spare room to multi millions in highly profitable recurring revenue.
 
Rob has been a mastermind member and private client of mine for the past few years now and as you are about to hear he is an extremely smart business mind.
 
If you want to get the matching pdf case study download that goes with this episode you want to go to www.danbradbury.com/podcast
May 7, 2018

 

In this episode I interview DB mastermind member Paul Gough who went from seeing over 100 clients per week in his physiotherapy practice, to entirely removed from operations and 6 figure profits within 2 years.

He then used the spare time to create another company that went from scratch to almost $3m in under 3 years!

Topics discussed include:
  • What you must seek out to free yourself from working “in” your business
  • How a suspected heart attack transformed his business forever
  • How direct marketing allowed him to almost treble his fees
  • Why going for speed doesn’t always attract the best quality clients, and what to do about it
  • The reason ‘bit part players’ ruin your company’s growth
  • How Paul went from being just like everyone else to one of the pre-eminent marketers in his industry
  • Why 4 days notice was all Paul needed to take his business to the USA and expand his horizons exponentially
  • When “doing less” ultimately produced a stronger, more profitable business not dependent on him
  • Why “being unique” is killing you and keeping you stuck

 

Apr 24, 2018
In this episode I interviews Mike Matthews founder of Legion Athletics who shares how he want from startup to $10+ million in annual revenue with zero paid advertising.
 
Alongside being a tremendously successful business owner, mike has one one of the most popular heath and fitness podcasts in the world, the muscle for life podcast, so if thats of interest to you make sure you check that out.

Topics discussed include:
 
- The 2 biggest lies about business success
- How “weekly sprints” drives Legion's growth
- The key to getting the business fundamentals right
- Why “Big Thinking” doesn’t mean anything
- Time-lining to keep your big projects on target
- Systems, models and principles that work
- Top 3 biggest impact books on business and life
- Moral people with unethical business practices
- What your sole first focus must be to go from 6 to 7 to 8 figures
I’ve followed Mike for several years, he’s an exceptionally smart guy and his rate of growth has been stunning, loads of great stuff in this interview, so with that, lets get to the show.
Mar 10, 2018

This week we have the closest we’ll probably get to having royalty on the Business Growth Podcast.

 

Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Penny Power OBE.

 

Penny is a published author, one of the UK’s most inspirational female entrepreneurs and a highly engaging and sought after speaker.

 

Penny founded Ecademy, the UK’s first social network for business, a fore-runner to LinkedIn which followed in 2002 and FaceBook in 2004.

 

She authored her book in 2009 entitled “Know Me, Like Me Follow Me: What Online Social Networking Means for You and Your Business.

 

Penny has been married since 1990 to Thomas Power (our guest last week LINK) and has three children: Hannah born in 1992, Ross in 1994 and TJ in 1997.

 

Penny is no stranger to the media spotlight and regularly speaks at conferences and events and writes for press across the globe.

 

Understanding the small business market has resulted in Penny being sought out to advise small business owners, and the Government on issues relating to the challenges that are critical to small business success.

 

Recently Penny has been speaking and commentating on the changing face of society and the affect the Born Digital Generation should have on the business environment if they are given a chance to enter the commercial world and listened to by business leaders. Penny talks about the asset of Social Capital and how we must seek to grow this as well as our human and financial capital.

 

More recently Penny has been working on an innovative new idea, The Business Café® (LINK) which will bring social networking to the High Street via a network of Business Cafés dedicated to SME’s, run and managed by Young Adults being trained in giving Digital and Fintech Skills to the local business community.

 

This is yet another fascinating conversation on how your business can stand out in the digital age regardless of whether you yourself are a fan of social media or not.

 

This is a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion that will reward repeat listening.

Enjoy the show!

Feb 14, 2018

On this week’s Business Growth Podcast I was joined by Iyas AlQasem.

 

Iyas helps Business owners and leaders of independent companies, mostly tech and digital consultancies, grow and scale their organisations with a focus on profit, values and fulfilment.

 

Iyas himself has grown a a £40m+ consultancy business.

 

Iyas has grown and led teams of talented tech, design and business consultants from 2 people to nearly 500 through startup, breaking through plateau, turnaround, rapid growth, IPO and trade sale.

 

Iyas subsequently founded Inspired Indie to help companies build scale and grow profitably while contributing, leading with their values and enjoying the ride.

 

He is currently supporting other mostly tech/digital consultancies and agencies on their own journeys to scale.

 

This is a very different and fascinating conversation from the ones you may be used to hearing so I look forward to any questions, comments or thoughts you have after listening.

 

Enjoy the show!

 

Feb 6, 2018

Dan Bradbury interviews Profile Expert Thomas Power about how to boost the value of personal and business profile as well as exploring Thomas' philosophies of growth. 

This is a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion that will reward repeat listening. 


Enjoy the show!

Jan 8, 2018

Last week I got this question in the Fast Growing Business Community Facebook group;

Q: Why do less than 3% of businesses reach 7 figures in revenue (let alone profit)?

I just recorded a quick Podcast sharing how I got stuck at six figures in revenue for several years and the 5 things I did to go from £500k to £4.5m in less than two years.

If you’re a business owner who wants to get beyond 6 figures I think this audio will really help you.

 

Dan

PS If you want to find out more about the few remaining spaces on my upcoming 2 day "Systemise and Scale Workshop" to rapidly scale your company in 2018 click here

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