Do deals really just come to you? Will people really just call you out of the blue and offer you business? Meet Elia Twigg, one of the listeners of the show who has just gone full time into her own company. We find out how she started, how she went from employee to part time on both business and when she finally made the choice to give up employment and go all in on her own business. Along the way we uncover tips, tricks, and business strategies that will help you to grow your business.
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 21 min
It is so tempting to spend money on Facebook adverts or Google adverts: the promised land of an advert that brings in customers and builds your business whilst you sleep. Countless adverts pop up in your timeline offering you these services: "Pay us and we will manage your adverts for you!" "Come on this course and we will teach you the 'secrets' of Facebook advertising!" Is it time to go all in? Or is it time to run a marketing mini experiment?
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr
Is entrepreneurship the same the world over? Can you take a business school that worked in the UK and transpose it to France, Morocco, and then Colombia? Alan has spent 4 months in Colombia helping set up Rebel Business School Colombia and wondered what the journey had been like for the team on the ground actually doing the work. If you have ever wanted to launch a business or idea into a new marketplace, then join Alan as he finds out what it is really like, what worked, what didn't, and the em...
Jul 18, 2022•50 min
Building a successful business takes daily marketing activity. People aren't just going to stumble across your business and buy. You need to get their attention, show them your product or service and ask them to buy. In this episode Alan coaches Adam from Craft Box Club UK to come up with marketing ideas, evaluate them and decide which ones to implement.
Jul 14, 2022•52 min
How did Rebel Business School start? Was it as easy as writing, selling and delivering a course? Dani Angel the co-founder of Rebel Colombia wanted to learn more about how Alan and Simon build Rebel Business School in the UK, the problems they faced and how they overcame them. This episode is packed full of motivational ideas, practical tips and insights that we hope will inspire you to keep going with your business ideas!
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 8 min
What happened to Adam's business after the session with Jennifer Vessels? We check in with Craft Box Club to find out what is happening with the sales, how the business is growing and how Adam is feeling. Check out https://craftboxclub.co.uk/ to see Adam's business and see what he sells as we work through what's happening next with his business.
Jul 07, 2022•44 min
How much time should you spend optimizing your website for search engines? Is search engine optimization a strategy worth following for small businesses to gain customers. After years of research and experimentation, Alan has amped up his efforts on his blog, to get to the top of the Google results. After the crash of a frustrating mini-experiment on people per hour, he asks Henry from The Rebel Business School team for help working out how to optimize his website for Google. In this episode, yo...
Jul 04, 2022•55 min
What business is furthest from the high tech start-ups of Silicon Valley? Alan's answer was a craft business from Reading, Berkshire in the UK. In this episode Jennifer Vessels, an innovation expert from Silicon Valley who has worked with Google, Adobe and Netflix, takes what she has learnt and helps Adam from Craft Box Club in the UK with his business. We talk innovation, marketing and sales and how to apply the ideas to your business.
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Is SEO right for you? Should you be using search-engine optimization to get customers to find you? It is the fabled beast of all marketing where you have created your website, worked to become the top result in Google and then floods of customers turn up at your inbox or on your phone and you don't have to do anything else. Is it actually real? How much effort does it take? Can you actually become the number one result on Google for the keywords you want to? In this episode, Alan interviews a se...
Jun 27, 2022•58 min
Shuold you go networking? Should you join BNI? What do you offer when you get there? How do you find new clients? Join Christina Russo of Fresh Print Media and Alan as they talk about networking, defining your sales offer and having the energy of starting a new year every single month. This episode is designed to get you thinking, inspired and start you selling again!
Jun 23, 2022•49 min
Guerilla marketing is an advertisement strategy in which a company uses surprise or unconventional interactions in order to promote a product or service. In this episode, Alan talks to Larry and Jon from the Handyman Pro podcast about different ways to promote your business, find customers, and stand out from the competition. Join us for an episode jam-packed with marketing tips and techniques.
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 21 min
This is the point where we all get nervous. You have had a good chat, you've made friends, and it looks like they are interested in what you have got to sell! YAY. But how do you close it? How do you go from comfortable chat to final sale and getting the cash? In this episode learn different closing teqniques that you can use to close more sales and increase revewnue alongside Christina from Fresh Print Media! Let's get closing and sell sell sell!
Jun 16, 2022•38 min
The perennial problem for small businesses is finding customers. How do you get people interested in your art, product, or service? As entrepreneurs we are always on the lookout for the latest and greatest way to get customers but should we focus on doing the basics of marketing well? Alan coaches Neft, an art business owner in Mexico, on how to find customers online.
Jun 13, 2022•55 min
Sometimes you need to stop and take stock of where you are with your business. After 29 episodes of working with Christina on Fresh Print Media we stop and take stock on the journey, are we where we want to be with the website? How is the sales process going? Are the contracts working? Join Christina and Alan and review your business alongside them to work out where you need to focus next!
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min
How do you build a national conference from scratch? Meet Diania Merriam, who decided to build EconoMe, a national conference in the USA about Financial Independence. She shares the ups and downs, the mistakes, and the successes with the aim of helping you grow your business to the next level. Check out the EconoMe Conference.
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 4 min
The size of your outreach determines the size of your results. Are you making sales call? Sending sales emails? Going networking? Chasing down leads? If you are selling, marketing, and promoting the sales won't come in! Join Alan and Christina as they talk through the sales activity that Christina is doing and surprise news from the sales coal face at the beginning of the episode!
Jun 02, 2022•48 min
When one door closes another one tends to pop open (if you are pushing out there into the universe!) In this episode, you will get to meet Doug and Carl, the hosts of the Mile High FI podcast network and the new home of the Rebel Entrepreneur. Join us as we discuss the future of the podcast, why we are teaming up, and hopefully a few ideas, nuggets, and tips for you as you grow your business.
May 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min
There comes a point in any business where you just have too much on! You are overwhelmed by the amount of business, all the things that need to get done and you start to think about hiring! Is it time to scale up? Should I hire? Get a virtual assistant? Can I soldier on? It is only my weekends and evenings that are suffering! In this Episode Rob Phelan of the Simple StartUp and Alan discuss overwhelm from too many projects, focus, and if scaling up your business really is the right thing to do o...
May 23, 2022•51 min
If I asked you to go make 5 sales call now could you do it? Where would you start? After our last episode with Christina her homework was to call 5 people. She struggled to do it and in this episode we find out why, how to overcome it, and if it actually works. Join Alan and Christina as we break down sales, where to start, and how to make those first calls. Click Here To Sign Alan’s Petition!
May 19, 2022•42 min
How do you create monetary stability as a creative? In a field where steady income can be hard to come by, where should you start looking to find some form of security? Instead of searching for these things, this week’s guest Matt Parker suggests ways in which you can create it for yourself! Together, he and Alan discuss how altering your lifestyle as opposed to looking for more can create the lee-way needed to continue doing the work you love doing! Click Here To Sign Alan’s Petition! Click Her...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Sales are the lifeblood of your business. If you don’t have sales coming in, fresh clients, and increased income, then your business is withering and dying. Christina Russo is learning sales skills to grow her photography business. Join her on the journey to learn, implement, and use sales skills to increase turnover and find the most fun clients to work with. This week we are finding out how Christina got on with the Brian Tracy sales videos, the list she was going to create, and if she has bee...
May 12, 2022•52 min
The transition from employee to entrepreneur can be a tough one. Certain fundamentals change completely, such as getting a wage every month or two weeks. When you are first starting this can be tough to get your head around! When do I pay myself? What will my salary be? How do I get money out of my business? Join Mike Jones as he asks Alan all about the transition from wages to entrepreneur.
May 09, 2022•51 min
If you don’t sell anything you don’t have a business. Sales is one of the most important functions in any business! It brings in money, is the lifeblood of business, and helps build your vision. Sales is also one of the most misunderstood and hated subjects in business. If we say the word “salesman” to you, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Join Alan and Christina as they work out how best to approach learning how to sell and start developing the sales skills to build the business of yo...
May 05, 2022•44 min
Can a book change your life? Or maybe it is what you do after reading the book that actually changes your life? Join Laura Poole, coach, graphic designer, and leader of the Rebel Book club as she discusses with Alan self-development books that have changed our lives, how to read, audio versus text, and hacks to implementing the books you have read. There is no point reading a book if you don’t do anything about it afterwards!
May 02, 2022•55 min
Do you ever feel lost with your business? As though you are going through the motions but you have lost the focus and drive? Building a business is a process and sometimes along the journey we get lost, distracted, and burnt out. In this episode Alan guides Christina through reconnecting with her vision, measuring progress, and working out who she needs to become to run the business of her dreams.
Apr 28, 2022•52 min
Thanks for hanging around during our brief layover everyone! Now for the current leg of our journey, Alan and William talk about the logistics behind launching William’s app experiment! We thank you again for flying on the maiden voyage of Rebel Time Airways we hope you got some value from multiple years of William’s entrepreneurial journey!
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min
After ten years of running Rebel Business School courses, and coaching some 20,000 people to get started, how do Alan and Simon actually help people when they’re stuck? What are the questions they ask and how do they help people make progress? How do they help people find ‘home’ and become centred with their business. This is the episode to come back to every time you feel lost with your business. This episode delivers the actual process they use that can help you and the people you care about!
Apr 21, 2022•56 min
Have you ever wondered what your business will look like a month from now? What about a year from now? Well you’re in luck! In this episode, Alan sits down with William Wadsworth from Exam Study Expert while he is in two different stages of building his business! The first half of the show takes place in October 2020 when William’s business is in its infancy, and the second part of the show takes place over a year later! Please listen to your captain, relax in your seat, and enjoy a year’s worth...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min
What have we learned from the first five series of the Rebel Coaching episodes? What are the common barriers that prevent people making progress? In this experimental episode, Alan and Simon walk through the Colombian coffee plantations in the Andes mountains and explore the differences and commonalities between each of the entrepreneurs and how you can apply these lessons to your business.
Apr 14, 2022•44 min
Did you choose the life you are living? Did you choose the work you do? Did you choose your beliefs and values? In this episode, Emma Cann takes over the podcast helm to ask questions about choices, goals, beliefs, and decisions. Come along for the ride as we discuss who creates your life and how to take charge of it.
Apr 11, 2022•56 min
