Show Notes In today’s show we interview Bryan Eisenberg is the co-founder and CMO of IdealSpot. He is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today and New York Times bestselling books “Call to Action”, “Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?” and “Always Be Testing”. Bryan is a professional marketing keynote speaker. Bryan Eisenberg is an internationally recognized authority and pioneer in online marketing, improving online conversion rates, persuasive content, and persona marketing...
Sep 14, 2015•40 min
Show Notes Sarah Left School in year 10 with no qualifications worked her way to well into the 40% tax bracket by the age of 24 and started her business aged 28. She’s passionate about helping women understand and confront their financial situation and empowering them to take steps to control it, protect it and grow it. Sarah will share her own personally journey of how she turned around her negative debt crisis and an abusive relationship. Also in the show Hear the reason why Sarah left school ...
Sep 07, 2015•48 min
Show Notes We review episodes 12 - 34 of the Small Business Elevation Podcast, plus we let you know what we've been up to including, Leon cooking for Rob and more!
Aug 31, 2015•1 hr 2 min
Show Notes Derek Mills aka “The Standards Guy”, who was once a failing businessman and human being, working six days a week, until he had a revelation. He realised that the way to a happier, more successful business and personal life was to work and live by Daily Standards™. Derek Mills created the Standards Revolution™ and used it to transform his broken hand to mouth lifestyle, to one of abundance in all areas of his life. Derek shares how any business, large or small can potentially increase ...
Aug 24, 2015•1 hr
Show Notes In this week’s show Leon interviews Mr James Lambert AKA Mr Happy who is a motivational speaker Author and a positive transformation lifestyle coach. Who was once immersed in the culture of violence in the fight club world of unlicensed boxing and bare knuckle fighting where he was previously unbeaten? Also in the show In this fascinating interview James explains some of the parallels of his former lifestyle choices and how he has used the disciplines of fight training to transform hi...
Aug 17, 2015•38 min
Show Notes In this episode we invite back the content marketing evangelist. Chris Marr is the Founder of Learning Everyday, which has been established to assist small businesses with content marketing and business development. Chris’ up-coming event The Content Marketing Academy – Content Marketing Conference. Also in the show What the true definition of content marketing is and how to apply it to build a thriving community. Chris laments on the 3 big issues facing conference delegates passive r...
Aug 10, 2015•50 min
Show Notes In this week’s episode we interview Clint Arthur the celebrity publicity maestro who shares an incredible story of how he escapes his job and the rat race, once he figured out how to get booked on TV and syndicated Radio shows. Clint is a successful entrepreneur with over a decade of experience running his own gourmet food company. Clint is the author of Break through Your Upper Limits on TV, and What They Teach You At The Wharton Business School. His famous personal transformation ex...
Aug 03, 2015•34 min
Show Notes In this week’s show we interview tech savvy Justin Gilchrist who is the co-founder of Centurica, an agency that provides due diligence and consulting services to online business investors. Prior to Centurica he bought, built and sold a variety of online and offline businesses with a focus on web applications and ecommerce. He is also the author of Digitally Wed – The entrepreneur’s guide to buying profitable established web-based businesses. He helps entrepreneurs take a shortcut to w...
Jul 20, 2015•34 min
Show Notes Inside this episode we interview Winston Taylor Davis and listen to his amazing story of how he got arrested whilst driving a car with 30 kilos of Cannabis / skunk on board. (AND HOW HE TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND) After spending time in one of the highest security prison’s in the UK, he decided he could do more with his life and took a gas heating course whilst still inside. After his release he has gone on to build a mechanical services company, carrying out bathroom, heating and gas ins...
Jul 13, 2015•48 min
Show Notes Our guest in today’s show is none other than “Mr Tom Hopkins” He has earned the reputation of being America’s #1 “How-To” Sales Trainer. Over 5 million salespeople, entrepreneurs, and sales managers on 5 continents have benefited from his training events. He perfected his selling skills during his 8-year real estate career in which he received numerous awards. In his last year selling real estate, he sold 365 homes – an average of one per day – something that was unheard of at the tim...
Jul 06, 2015•35 min
Show Notes In today’s episode you will hear Leon interview Brad Burton in a raw and passionate conversation. Who with no money and no qualifications, has become the Amazon business author with the most 5 star reviews. Brad created 4Networking from nothing into a unique joined-up business network running over 5000 events across the UK each year, and he’s now a business coach and the UK’s number one professional keynote and motivational speaker! If you know of his reputation or have heard him spea...
Jun 29, 2015•44 min
Show Notes In this episode you will hear from Dee Blick a number 1 best-selling author (4 years in a row) with much notoriety, Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She will share her knowledge of 31 years marketing experience gained from working initially with blue chip organisations and in the last 17 years with small and medium sized businesses. Dee has extensive experience in new product development and marketing strategy, with a track record of planning and ...
Jun 22, 2015•41 min
Show Notes Doberman Dan is a 20-year serial entrepreneur and direct response copywriter. He has worked in a variety of niches but his specialty has been the health, fitness and bodybuilding markets.Dan has started and built 3 of his own supplement businesses and sold two of them, enjoying two different bouts of mini-retirement. He has recently been hired by a $600 million/year company to help them start a brand new supplement division. He has been publishing The Doberman Dan Letter since 2011 an...
Jun 15, 2015•53 min
Show Notes In this week’s show you will gain entrepreneurial insights from, Joel Blake an award-winning and passionate Entrepreneur, Business Speaker and CSR Consultant with over 15 years of experience in developing small business owners, and in advising companies on their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies. Joel is the Founder of leading social impact consultancy www.cultiv8solutions.com and Co-Founder of Biz Britain Finance Ltd, who have helped to launch over 400 new businesses across ...
Jun 08, 2015•54 min
Show Notes In today’s episode Leon fly’s solo and interview’s Juanita Jay Johnson A diva in the area of Digital Content creation, Marketing and advertising. The silver tongue eloquence and inquisitive questions from Leon puts Juanita at ease to share her interesting story from teen mother of 3 children to accomplished Award winning digital marketer and copywriter. Juanita now has a professional working relationship with Google whilst helping a legion of small business owners gain more credibilit...
Jun 01, 2015•38 min
Show Notes Inside today’s show you will hear from “The” Ronnie Bincer “the Hangout helper”, Coach, master Trainer and Google+ hangouts Beta tester – after recently returning from the social media marketing world summit where he was a featured speaker on all things Google hangouts. Through Ronnie’s free and paid training materials, he actively empowers entrepreneurs to harness technology and apply it to their own industries. Following his lead, thousands of people worldwide are mastering the use ...
May 25, 2015•53 min
Show Notes In this episode we speak with Geddy Van Elburg from Holland, who is owner of Ion Moon (founded in 2008), she has been working in the Internet Marketing Industry for around 16 years after a career as a textile artist. Primarily Geddy worked as a search engine specialist (SEO) at an agency called Exxtra. Followed by usability and search engine advertising (SEA), but always with a link towards web analytics. Geddy studied web analytics at the UBC and became a certified web analyst in 201...
May 18, 2015•42 min
Show Notes In this episode we speak with Becky Walsh, who has been turning the world of self-development on its head for years with her down-to-earth and uniquely funny style. Becky’s teaching effortlessly blends her unique humour, with ground breaking “smack-on-the-forehead” insights that put YOU in control of your own life and business. Becky is a Hay House author of the book ‘You DO Know – Learning to act on intuition instantly’ as well as five more published books and e-books. Becky is a sou...
May 11, 2015•51 min
Show Notes In this week’s high energy episode we interview Jack Daly an expert in corporate culture who inspires audiences to take action in customer loyalty and personal motivation. Jack shares his 30+ years of field proven experience from a starting base with CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies. Jack is a proven CEO/Entrepreneur, having built six companies into national firms, two of which he subsequently sold to the Wall Street firms of Solomon Brothers and...
May 04, 2015•37 min
Show Notes In this episode Rob & Leon bring raw unadulterated Power in the form of our guest Camilita Nuttall. Described by many as a ‘Force of Nature,” Camilita Nuttall is a straight talking International Motivational Key Note Speaker, Executive Business Coach and an Award Winning Performance Sales Business Trainer, on Taking Action to Succeed. She is also an entrepreneur, Property Investor, Author and also runs a Coffee Business with over 7,000 distributors globally. Also in the show How t...
Apr 27, 2015•46 min
Show Notes This week’s podcast Features AJ Mihrzad who is the founder of Life Fuel Fitness, a health and wellness company that provides virtual personal training and supplement products based in Great Neck NY. AJ’s personal journey is one of turning his insecurities of being overweight, chronically depressed and having a low self-image on its head to becoming a person who lives life in the moment in a purpose driven way. Also in the show If you have ever experienced any of the insecurities in AJ...
Apr 20, 2015•49 min
Show Notes In this episode Leon & Rob discuss the outline of a good Internet Marketing Strategy to consistently generate leads and make sales for your company. Learn the old wine in new skins theory of marketing, to change the way your new clients view your business offering. Also in the show The simple marketing concept the 1980 hit TV show “The A TEAM” can help teach you when it comes presenting solutions so you get hired (even if you’re a little bit more expensive ). How to build a market...
Apr 13, 2015•50 min
Show Notes In this episode you will hear Leon Interview “The World Renowned” Bob Burg, a master coach, trainer and author on the topic of sales communication and networking. Bob has written and co-authored a number of books including “Endless Referrals”, “The Go giver” “Adversaries into Allies” some of which have become New York Times best sellers. Also in the show Discover, The Five Laws of Stratospheric Success. Principles you find in Bob’s Go Giver Book. Hear Bob’s story of how he stumbled up...
Apr 06, 2015•28 min
Show Notes Samantha Collett is a successful property investor with a large investment portfolio spanning the UK. She started in 2004 with £15,000 and within three years had amassed a multi-million pound portfolio. Samantha is the author of How to Buy Property at Auction (Constable & Robinson, March 2014) and Property Investment: The Essential Rules (Constable & Robinson, July: 2014). She regularly shares her property auction tips in her column for the Evening Standard Homes & Propert...
Mar 30, 2015•53 min
Show Notes Elevation Nation In this show we get inside the mind of Mr LinkedIn Mark Williams one of the foremost UK authorities on LinkedIn from the perspective of wining high quality business. Mark shares his story of how he started his professional career in sales recruitment (very cut throat) as a brash cocky 21 year old, thinking he was the man after landing the role and going through the process of 5 interviews only to find he was in a “hire and fire” target driven conveyor belt company, af...
Mar 23, 2015•51 min
Show Notes Elevation Nation In This show you get to hear Rob and Leon interviewing Kate McQuillan, who runs a highly successful pet-setting business in Ireland with husband Mike. In less than 5 years the pet sitters Ireland brand has exploded rapidly turning over 6 figures primarily by having a strong content Marketing strategy. Also in the show Hear how Kate stumbled upon a Genius content Marketer and blindly followed his strategy to rapidly scale from local to nationally recognised business. L...
Mar 16, 2015•39 min
Show notes. Rob & Leon review their first 10 podcast episodes. And what to expect in episodes 12-20
Mar 09, 2015•1 hr 2 min
Show Notes In this show we interview comedian comedy promoter and former Teletubbies star John Simmit on what it’s like to be a performance artist and through John’s story we discover the many parallels between the life of a performing artist and entrepreneur. Also in the show John explains how he developed his passion for performing art to flee from the status quo and stereotypes of young black men as he was growing up. How Alternate comics Like Ben Elton and the Saturday Night SHOW inspired hi...
Mar 02, 2015•51 min
Show Notes In this episode Robert Dene talks to Author, Business coach and Radio personality Mark Sephton, about his recently published book “The Inside Job”, which examines entrepreneur’s belief systems, thinking and self-talk. Whilst unravelling the true definition of success. Also in the show Mark describes the 8 key fundamentals to his “GPS system” that can help anyone to reveal blind spot deficiency and turn them into assets. Learn why words are so important and the best way to eliminate di...
Feb 23, 2015•47 min
Show Notes In this information packed show we interview our first female business women, Sally Lawson. CEO of the highly successful “Concentric Lettings Franchise Group”. A Business woman since 1990, an international property investor – buying her first property on her 18th birthday, and an investor in many other companies besides. Sally can be found regularly speaking on stages across the UK talking about her passion… property and business. Also in the show How her next door neighbour (a local ...
Feb 16, 2015•56 min