Smart Connect Podcast

Topic: Best Practice Benchmarks for Trade Marks and Protecting Your Brand Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 19, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Joining me on today’s show is Harvey Bowlt. Harvey is from Bowlt Commercial Lawyers [...] The post [Ep #19] Best Practice Benchmarks for Trade Marks and Protecting Your Brand appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Topic: Best Practice Benchmarks for Creating a Productive & Harmonious Working Environment Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 18, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Joining me on today’s show is Lisa Wiking. Lisa is a Leadership [...] The post [Ep#18] Best Practice Benchmarks for Creating a Productive & Harmonious Working Environment appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Topic: Best Practice Benchmarks for SMEs Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast Episode 17 where you’ll hear from business specialists and advisors on Best Practice Benchmarks to help you build a profitable SME. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Joining me today is Brenda Thomson – CEO of SMART Connect Alliance – the leading authority on the [...] The post [Ep#17] Best Practice Benchmarks for SMEs appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 16, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. The average age of a business owner is 58 years, however only 45% of businesses have a strategic plan and only 52% have a [...] The post [Ep #16] How to Build a Successful and Profitable Business appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 15, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. According to Ycharts.com 97% of sales occur offline, in retail that climbs to 8.5% (in the US). Is your marketing spend and efforts properly [...] The post [Ep #15] The traditional “sales funnel” thinking is flawed: Here’s why… appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 14, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. According to the 2016 Symantec Internet Security Threat Report – cyber attacks again small business has increased from 18 percent in 2011 to 43 [...] The post [Ep #14] How To Protect Your Business from CyberCrime appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 13, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. According to Harvard Business Review - sixty-four percent of people cite shared values as the main reason they have a relationship with a brand. [...] The post [Ep #13] Define Your Brand Essence and Positioning appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 12, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. My guest today supports Henry Ford’s line of “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” Are you taking ruthless execution in your business – or [...] The post [Ep #12] Why Planning AND Ruthless Execution is Critical for Business Success appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 11, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Most businesses consider technology to be a cost to their business. However, according to my guest, with the right systems and when everything is [...] The post [Ep #11] The 5 Ways to Profit with Profit Stacks appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Grow Your Business By Running Great Workshops Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 10, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Any time you are talking about your business to someone – whether that be to 1 person [...] The post [Ep #10] Grow Your Business By Running Great Workshops appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Key Recruitment Insights to Ensure Success for Your Business AND Your New Sales Person Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode 9, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. I’m your host Annemarie Cross. Joining me on today’s show is Frances Pratt. Frances is [...] The post [Ep #09] Key Recruitment Insights to Ensure Success for Your Business AND Your New Sales Person appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

How To Get a Lifetime of Free Media Coverage Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #8, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. According to my guest today – people don’t buy magazines [...] The post [Ep #08] How To Get a Lifetime of Free Media Coverage appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Is Your Business Ready for Disruption? Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #7, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. My guest today believes that: “Life engraves character on your business the same [...] The post [Ep #07] Is your business ready for disruption? appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

How to Be Better Prepared to Give Credit to Customers Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #6, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. According to Paypal and Intuit Australia in their Late [...] The post [Ep #06] How to Be Better Prepared to Give Credit to Customers appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

How to Successfully Apply for Government Grants Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #5, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. Are you aware that the AusIndustry R&D Program is a great tool for [...] The post [Ep #05] How to Successfully Apply for Government Grants appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

How Google Ranks a Brand Online Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #4, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. According to my guest today, there are over 200 signals that Google looks [...] The post [Ep #04] How Google Ranks a Brand Online appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Costly Google Adwords Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #3, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. According to today’s guest – 49% of smartphone users say [...] The post [Ep #03] How to Avoid Costly Google Adwords Mistakes appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

How to Ensure Success with Your Content Marketing Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #2, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. Did you realise that peers are now as credible as experts. [...] The post [Ep #02] How to Ensure Success with Your Content Marketing appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

How to Build an Industry-leading Brand Welcome to SMART Connect Podcast episode #1, featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help YOU effectively navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place so you can grow your business into an industry-leading brand. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics more than 60 percent of small [...] The post [Ep #01] How to Build an Industry-leading Brand appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

SMART Connect Podcast Welcome to the SMART Connect Podcast featuring business experts and industry thought leaders to help you navigate a constantly changing and disruptive market place. Hosted by Annemarie Cross, Podcasting Specialist and CEO/Founder of Media Company - The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network. This week, Annemarie speaks with CEO and Founder of the SMART [...] The post [Ep 0] Welcome to the SMART Connect Podcast appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.