Due to the outstanding response to our last traders podcast, we decided to invite our client, Ross Maxwell, professional full-time trader, and Director of Key Zone Traders, onto our podcast to record a special episode.   Key Zone Traders is an online trading education company for new and existing traders. Ross focuses particularly on the importance of mindset in order to trade successfully. In the podcast he shares the story of one of his clients who had been making losses for over 10 years....

This month, we are discussing the ways you can generate cash and/or finance into your business. Nowadays, there are so many ways to raise funds for your business, whether you’re just starting out, growing your business, or working on an expansion project… However, it isn’t just an easy as picking an off the shelf package and getting going. There are several considerations and risks that you will need to analyse ahead of taking out finance. To help clear up some of the fog around generating...

Why you should make marketing a priority in your business and how you can build a strong marketing strategy to support your growth strategy. Once you’ve listened to and digested this podcast, you will be able to: ✅ Know the difference between inbound, outbound and referral marketing ✅ Build an inbound marketing strategy ✅ Build an outbound strategy and which industries would benefit from this form of marketing ✅ Build a referral marketing strategy and how beneficial this method is for all...

We’ve tackled the factors that may be limiting your growth and getting your mindset ready for growth, so now how are you actually going to do it? In this episode, you’ll learn how. This month, we’re joined by not one, but two guests! First, we’re joined by Simon Thompson is Managing Director of Relish, an agency who have been through a number of phases of growth over the last few years themselves and help many other consumer businesses grow their business by helping produce successful...

This month’s episode is a VERY exciting one! We’re joined by Managing Partner at A4G to celebrate the launch of his first ever book, Accidental Millionaires: The secret mindset successful business owners share with sporting legends.  To continue the excitement, we are also joined by two of Team GB’s most successful athletes, Steve Backley OBE and Roger Black MBE, who have worked with Malcolm for over 20 years and provided insight throughout the book. Accidental Millionaires is for business...

Welcome back to our 3rd series of the Let’s Get Down to Business podcast: The Growth Series. In this series we will take you through every step to growing your business, starting with getting you and your business ready for growth. Today’s episode is the second part of our two-part episode on how to scale up your business without losing your values or your mind. In this episode, we’re joined by A4G Partner, Emma White, to help you discover and overcome the limiting factors that may be...

Welcome to our 3rd series of the Let’s Get Down to Business podcast. To help you get 2022 off to a flying start, we’re kicking off with The Growth Series. It’s not good enough being one of the crowd anymore. There’s so much more your business can achieve, and we’re here to help you achieve it. In this series we will help you get ready for growth, build a growth strategy, overcome the challenges to growth and that a growing business brings and share likeminded business owners’ stories of the...

It’s that time of year that we all start to reflect on the lessons we’ve learnt and celebrate the successes of the year and look forward at the goals we want to achieve in the following year.  In today’s episode we’re joined by friends of the firm and likeminded business owners to find out what lessons they learnt in 2021 and the goals their going into 2022 with. Listen along and gain some food for thought to start reflecting on your own key takeaways and goals for the new year.  *Let’s...

Is your business dependent on you? Would your business still be able to run efficiently without you? Are silly things going wrong in your business? Do you have ‘growing pains’ or maybe you’re struggling to grow? You need systems. In today’s episode (the last in our 12 vital ingredients for business success series), Charlotte is joined by our Managing Partner, Malcolm Palmer, who has built a successful business, which has grown consecutively for over 25 years based on systems, to discuss the...

In today’s episode, we’re chatting with the wonderful Robyn Lee – Business Owner, Nutritionist, Operations Director for two businesses, Podcast Host and mum of one. Robyn shares how she left an intense 90-hour-week corporate job to follow a new passion in nutrition and has built up the portfolio she has today. She shares the biggest lessons she’s learnt, how to keep your mindset in check in business and her advice for preventing burn out. * Stay connected with us *  A4G (us) | LinkedIn |...

A staggering 70% of business partnerships fail. Have you mixed personal relationships with business? Or has your business grown, and partnerships have developed? Don’t be part of the staggering 70% of business partnerships that fail. This week, Josh Curties, Partner at A4G, is discussing the factors that often lead to business partnership failure and how you can avoid them. He also delves into how you can build a good team and motivate them to reduce over dependence on managers and...

Do you wish there were more hours in the day? Do you spend the majority of your day fire-fighting issues? Do you know how to effectively spend your time and delegate? This week we’re covering the next 2 ingredients for business success with Emma sharing her advice and tips for how to use your time more effectively as a business owner (citing the 60:30:10 rule, the quadrant time management system, the 5 D’s of management) and how to ensure you as the business owner are in the right roles. To...

This week Charlotte hands over the mic to Josh Curties, Partner at A4G (and our in-house Tax Communications Manager) to discuss the hot-topic of the moment for owner-managed businesses - The Chancellor's Autumn Budget.  In this episode Josh dives deeper into the Budget announcements (and the small print) and discusses what the changes may mean for you and your business. He discusses the changes to when you can draw your private pension, the changes to Capital Gains Tax and flaws to the...

As a business owner, you will have goals for your business, but are you communicating these with your team? How effective is that communication? And how effective is your management and monitoring of the performance to meet those goals? Josh Curties, Partner at A4G, joins Charlotte to provide some invaluable advice and quick tips on how to set goals (not just following textbook advice!), how you can share them with your team to help you reach them quicker and how to manage their...

Do you want to attract more good quality customers to your business? AND retain those customers? Well, that’s the goal of business, isn’t it? Get good quality customers and keep them. Malcolm Palmer and Caroline Ward, both partners at A4G, join Charlotte to share their insight on how you can do this in your business. In this episode you’ll learn how to increase the awareness of your brand, attract new customers and build a base of loyal customers by not only learning how to build a strong...

Cash flow management is a key component to a business’ success. You need to generate cash to meet your immediate and long-term needs and produce profit to expand and grow the business. This week, Emma joins Charlotte to discuss the how to manage your cash flow effectively with her easy tips and advice. You’ll learn how fund growth, build robust credit control processes, use Key Performance Indicators and tools to easily review your cash flow cycles, the warning signs to look out for and so...

Welcome to Series 2 of Let's Get Down to Business: The 12 vital ingredients for business success.  This week, Malcolm joins Charlotte to discuss the first 2 ingredients: knowing your market and competition and getting your vision and purpose right. You’ll learn why it’s so important you continually research your market and competitors, techniques on how to do this and how to differentiate yourself from your competitors with a Unique Selling Point. And why creating a concrete vision and...

Josh joins Charlotte to talk about the recent announcement of a hike in dividend and national insurance taxes and what exactly that means for you and your business.  You’ll learn what the tax rises are and our commentary, how they may affect you, your business and your employees and what you need to do. We also touch furlough (which is ending 30 September!) and what options you have if you still have employees on furlough, such as how to reduce your employees hours, making redundancies and...

The week the interviewer became the interviewee! This week Charlotte took a break from hosting the Let’s Get Down to Business podcast and sat in the interviewee seat instead to talk to you about how a Finance director can add real value to your business. You’ll learn what a Finance director is (and how it differs from a Financial Controller), how this role fits into your business and the value they add to each section and how they can help you make more informed business decisions, manage...

Remote working is nothing new but most of us were forced into allowing remote working during the pandemic, which has led to many employees requesting to continue this flexible working arrangement. There’s a lot of positives and negatives of this for you as the business owner and your employees.  In this episode, Charlotte interviews our Head of IT, Pete Baldwin, to get his advice on how to overcome the challenges of remote working and how to utilise the benefits. You’ll learn how to manage...

Remote working is nothing new but most of us were forced into allowing remote working during the pandemic, which has led to many employees requesting to continue this flexible working arrangement. There’s a lot of positives and negatives of this for you as the business owner and your employees.  In this episode, Charlotte interviews our Head of IT, Pete Baldwin, to get his advice on how to overcome the challenges of remote working and how to utilise the benefits. You’ll learn how to manage...

This week partners at A4G Caroline Ward and Chris Newman discuss financial trading and investing. Whether you're new to trading or have been trading for years, they'll be something for you to takeaway.  We’ve been acting for traders for over 25 years and receive an influx of questions every day on the difference between trading and investing and how income is taxed for each, whether you need to declare to HMRC if you’re spreadbetting, what expenses you can claim, how to best keep your...

Welcome to episode 7 and our final episode of our ‘Getting Started’ series. This week we’re joined by a very special guest speaker, Liz Bylett from Follies Face & Body Art, to talk about how her journey in business in the last 31 years and how she gave Richard Branson a black eye. There will be lots of inspirational takeaways and insight into Liz’s entrepreneurial mindset, how she built a successful business doing what she loves and kept reinventing herself and the business through its...

So, your business is starting to grow and you’re chasing your tail trying to keep your customers happy, take on new customers and work on your business. To propel the growth of your business it may be time to start thinking about taking on your first employee, but where do you start? In episode 6 of our Getting Started series, we’re joined by HR advisor at A4G, Donna Bygrave. You will find out when is the right time to take on a member of staff, how to map out the full recruitment process,...