How will others choose to fill the holes in your communication? "Gaps between your words allow others to understand better", Paul says. Roger fills the anxious space by imagining himself the victim of bureaucratic injustice and serving 30 years in a maximum security prison. NCT (annual roadworthy test) for Roger's car. Babies, kittens, puppies & butterflies are mentioned. Doesn't everyone crave attention - and cry for it? Attracting attention. When doing business - remember this matters.
Oct 05, 2020•25 min
We just KNOW you are going to LOVE what is in the podcast because we LOVED putting it in there. That meant finding a gorgeous SUN-DRENCHED recording location with podcast hosts who LOVE what they do making FABBY DELICIOUS YUMMY speech for your ears from carefully nurtured thoughts that form spontaneously in their minds, which they ship to YOU over the wavy wavy wavy dot internet to you, knowing their suggestions are fleeting and that life is GOOD. Also in this episode: Does great packaging mean ...
Sep 25, 2020•33 min
A hot topic. (The hottest of all time?) How can humans save their mothership? Human beings are social animals. They are joined in a great collective endeavour. Together they are destroying the world so that they can't live on it any longer. It is a huge success so far. Can they be stopped? (Do they want to be stopped?) Paul discovers the answer among aliens on a distant planet. Also in this episode: Outrageous claims Superfluous talk A chainsaw
Sep 11, 2020•31 min
Roger is wrong! (Gasp!) Paul schools Roger about the business of education, and advocates tearing up school copy books. Teenagers revolt, parents are disengaged—but schools do what they should? (Find out.) Companies are delighted with the fodder the school systems are producing for the corporate meat grinders? (Find out.) Are tax payers happy? (Don't listen. This topic is left undisturbed.)
Sep 04, 2020•33 min
It starts badly. 81 people gather under a cloud of suspicion. Did they play golf? One person resigned their ministerial post out of embarrassment. (Maybe their round was dreadful?) Next, Paul and Roger talk about the appeal of using opposites to confuse people and attract their attention. Roger feels a like a packet of cat treats wants to take him on a date. The language is very flattering. Soon a giant squid is dragging a vessel and its crew to the depths of a sea of wine. It's a Curious story ...
Aug 21, 2020•38 min
Should you mind your own business? Did Soundcloud tell us to mind our own business? Who are the most effective English-speaking communicators? (Not Paul, nor Roger.) What makes communication memorable? What was the best way to deliver orders on an 19th century battlefield? These, and many more, questions are barely answered in this episode of Business Jazz.
Aug 07, 2020•34 min
Roger is blessed with abundance and sweetness. Paul teases out what really went on. We learn from Anric Blatt (a memorable giver) and almost get as far as talking about Curious Wines (a giver of memorable wines). Main takeaway: how to use sticky language.
Jul 31, 2020•28 min
Paul & Roger overcome a vicious cat and an assault by helicopter to answer these important business question for you: —Are imperfect recordings valuable? —Should we rubbish Robert Capa's blurry photographs of the D-Day landings? —How much should you swear in business communications? —How can you build online trust? —What extraordinary experience did Roger have while buying fibreglass? —What terrible experience did Paul have in a restaurant? —What the hell happened to Series 11?
Jul 24, 2020•35 min
Chris Brogan has a goal: empowering you. His weekly newsletter (sign up at https://chrisbrogan.com)is what triggered Business Jazz all those years ago and is still a weekly source of fabulously practical insight, guidance and suggestions to help you connect and serve your target audience. This is the second part of our recent conversation with Chris Brogan.
Jul 03, 2020•21 min
We wander around the the streets of Cork during the 2013 Jazz Festival.
Jun 24, 2020•30 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 8th August, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS: The podcast is put on hold. All good things come to an end. Or at least have the Pause button pushed. So it is with this podcast as well. Producing a podcast takes time and energy. We knew that going in. However, our schedules have conspired against us and we find ourselves needing to focus our attentions elsewhere....
Jun 17, 2020•24 min
Paul and Roger started Business Jazz by reading Chris Brogan's weekly email and riffing off it. Chris joins us to talk about making deep organisational changes and how stories are powerful tools to help your business communicate internally and externally.
Jun 12, 2020•54 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 2nd August, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS: How be genuinely attractive by not being online Do you need to be online? Really? After all, we managed to survive without the internet for centuries. People were contented. Businesses succeeded. In this episode, Jane and Roger talk about how we still need to be active offline to make our online work.
Jun 10, 2020•17 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It was recorded on 24th June, 2013, and first went live on 30th July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS: Knowing who your ideal clients are, April Ennis, Michael Port, Steve Farber We welcome April Ennis to the podcast. She graciously stepped in when Roger was unavailable recently. Jane and April talk about finding the right clients for you. Rather than chase everyone, they discuss t...
Jun 03, 2020•17 min
What is the most appealing name for Paul's new client? We are face-to-face again for the season finale of the lock-down 10th series of Business Jazz.
May 29, 2020•27 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 23rd July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: What is being genuinely attractive in business? Listener Marti Konstant put us on the spot. She asked what it means to be genuinely attractive in business today. What is the podcast about? Good question and it lead to a lively conversation in this episode of the podcast.
May 26, 2020•19 min
Paul invents a new word during this episode. Should he trademark it and sell it to Zoom? Is stout Irish? Is the Book of Kells Colombian? Can corporations own common words and national dishes? Please listen to hear wholly inadequate answers. The tennis-like flow of the conversation ends in victory for Paul as Roger misses his shot and an unlucky ballgirl gets a volley from Paul square in the face.
May 22, 2020•38 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 13th July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: World Domination, Chris Guillebeau, Chase Jarvis, Creativity, Risk Taking Jane is just back from the World Domination Summit. In this episode of the podcast we discuss some of the main things that she learned regarding community and creativity.
May 20, 2020•16 min
Why should you put up with shockingly bad meetings and terribly incompetent managers? Paul's buses story reveals the answer. Roger never worked on the buses in London and disagrees. He hates time wasting and promotes revolution in the meeting room. Are the only famous generals the ones with good PR and an ability to run a meeting properly? Not covered in this episode: How to get an address for a new, solitary house in the middle of an isolated Welsh vale.
May 15, 2020•43 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 6th July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: 45 Conversations, Mamukko bags A year ago, Jane and Roger didn't know each other. The first time they had any real contact was during Jane's first run over 45 Conversations recordings. Twelve months later Jane is connecting with the original 45 people she spoke to. So we decided to incorporate her round 2 co...
May 13, 2020•16 min
A brief episode without the word "and".
May 08, 2020•25 min
If you want to be genuinely attractive to your customers, you should ask them questions to understand their preferences. We suggest: Are you an Imperialist? Does the day have 24 hours or 2 x 12 hours? Do months occur before days? How long is Paul's Rod? Should the euro have been called the florin? These and far more important questions are avoided in this episode of Business Jazz.
Apr 30, 2020•33 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 24th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: Surrounding yourself with people who won't let you fail Liz Strauss is a remarkable lady. She has touched the lives of many and helped them to improve their businesses and their quality of life. She's maybe best known on this podcast as one of the people behind SOBCon, a series of deep-dive online business c...
Apr 29, 2020•17 min
Paul and Roger celebrate how you should sleep your way through disaster
Apr 24, 2020•23 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 20th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: Being authentic as a marketing tool Authenticity is a big buzzword in content marketing at the moment. The question is, how authentic should you be? A second issue concerns how much you push your successes over your failures. Some of us are only really comfortable presenting a facade of wild success to the o...
Apr 22, 2020•17 min
Listen how we hijack a morning catch up Zoom call and divert it into a rambling episode of Business Jazz.
Apr 17, 2020•36 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of BusinessJazz. It first went live on 17th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: When Big Corporates Chicken Out While Small People Dream Big and Achieve Greatness, Four Birds Aboating, Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, AJ and Melissa Leon One way to be attractive in business is to help others achieve their goals. The bigger and crazier the ambition, the more appealing you can become by hel...
Apr 15, 2020•17 min
Theme of this episode: The conversations we most want to hear _________________________________ Recorded while Walking round Paul’s estate (1) Jobs & Woz their rapport (2) Their decision-making style (3) Snippets with trivia included (4) The little contretemps is between them (5) How one person admonishes another ______________________ The value of sharing something about your business which people wouldn’t ordinarily, come across cross - that's what distinguishes one company from another. _...
Apr 10, 2020•28 min
This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of BusinessJazz. It first went live on 13th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): The biggest threat we used to be able to make when we received bad service was to write a letter. That was utterly ineffectual in most cases. The letter was conveniently filed in the bin. Things have changed a bit. These days we can publicise our anger (or our delight) online. But have companies woken up to this? Many haven't....
Apr 08, 2020•17 min
Ireland is in lock down. At the time of recording, Paul & Roger were allowed to come within two metres of each other, but no closer. We record in the place where Business Jazz was born in 2012.
Apr 03, 2020•31 min
