The Curious Business Guide

Rachel Cheetham

Rachel Cheetham, Business owner, business adviser, coach and mentor explores everything business in The Curious Business Guide. If you're curious about every aspect of doing business and always keen to learn new things, each episode explores a challenge that came up for either a business she is working with or in the business she helps to run. This is a podcast for all those who run a small business, regardless of what point you are in your journey, who want answers to daft questions, practical and actionable advice and the start of a wider exploration of the subjects.

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Episodes

Simpler business finance & investment - is fintech the key?

Money in, money out. The life breath of a business. Yet it is possibly the most stressful and confusing part of running a business. In this episode we speak with Andrew Moon of the Swoop platform which aims to 'make it easy for businesses to source and save money they need to grow - all in one place". "Swoop uses machine learning to enable small companies to apply for multiple sources of funding through one portal. Cutting through some of the noise to identify funding that actually fits a compan...

May 21, 2021•36 min•Ep. 5

Designing for business growth

A recurring theme with most of the businesses I come into contact with is how to brand, market or promote their products or services. The approach most take is pretty functional – a website, a logo, a brochure and so on. Kind of piecemeal style. To be honest, and this is a personal view, you might as well throw any money you spend into the bin as this approach will generate exactly the same piecemeal rewards if any at all. All marketing collateral – that’s the term used to lump logos, websites, ...

Mar 05, 2021•41 min•Ep. 4

Awards - it's not all about the winning

If you thinking entering business awards is about winning, you couldn't be more wrong! Sometimes my LinkedIn timeline looks like an awards celebration parade and often find myself wondering if I should be trying to do the same? I’ll be honest, I’ve sort of felt Awards were a nice to have rather than necessity and, on those occasions I’ve entered an award or been part of a team entered for awards, I’ve wondered if the time could not be spent better. Don’t get me wrong, if we were shortlisted I di...

Feb 26, 2021•34 min•Ep. 3

DISCover - How to build a team

Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of running a business is managing the individuals who make up your team. There is a lot of hyperbole around ‘people are our greatest asset’ but within the hot air is a fundamental truth – without the people to answer phones, run machinery, make deliveries, that is to do the day to day tasks that make a business tick there is a strong chance that there would be no business. I have yet to come across a team that works smoothly together and those that do ...

Feb 21, 2021•28 min•Ep. 2

LinkPOS Ltd & Collectors Assemble Ltd

In this episode, made for the Growing Pains series, Jamie Williams of LinkPOS Ltd and Collectors Assemble Ltd explores the challenges of growing multiple businesses whilst bringing a new innovation to market. This session delves into how to make sense of complexity and ambiguity in a business. Getting focus on an opportunity - the pros and the cons When growth and innovation coincide The none-too-straight innovation path Looking outside the UK for markets Developing leadership during rapid growt...

Nov 06, 2020•19 min•Ep. 1

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