No-nonsense insight for business folks! Whether you're contemplating starting a business, you're new to business, or you're a pro who is dealing with unresolved challenges, this is the place for you. You'll get actionable ideas, insights, and the motivation to grow your business, as you've always hoped to. Your host, Ed Drozda, The Small Business Doctor brings down-to-earth talk, conversation with thought-leaders, and much more. The key to your success lies in the untapped potential of you a ...
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Hi, I'm Francis Keany - author and broadcast journalist. Welcome to The Trough, your daily news feed. This podcast is a bit of an experiment - a daily ten minute bite-sized wrap of all the political stories you need to know before you get to work each morning. It's something I've been keen on doing for some time and I hope you guys will love it. I'll be running this for the next few weeks as I explore the world of freelance journalism. For those wondering about the name, The Trough is a nick ...
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Property Solopreneur is for entrepreneurs who want to create financial freedom through their property portfolio whilst learning what it takes to create a sustainable, professional business. You want to understand the right way to go about sourcing investments and the best way to work with everyone involved from builders to bankers. You have it in you to make money by building a profitable business, and want to learn everything about build to buy, build to let and property development. You're ...
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As young-ish parents, we've realised that there is a very steep learning curve when raising a child and there are some neat little tricks to help you cope that people keep to themselves! This podcast hopes to provide you with some of our insights and tips for dealing with your bundle(s) of joy! Go easy on us, its our first podcast :)
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Ride out the emotional highs and lows of surfing with us by listening to surfers of all different levels talk about their relationship with surfing and how it has both challenged and lifted them.
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Embracing AI: Balancing Technology With Human Needs in Business
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Excited or uncertain about AI? Join me as I reflect on the impact of artificial intelligence on our lives and businesses. Discover how we can embrace technology without losing our human touch. #Podcast #ArtificialIntelligence #Business"Ed Drozda
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Sustaining Success: 3 Keys to Business Wellbeing
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Are Your Sales People Stalkers?
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Ed Drozda, The Small Business Doctor discusses the impact of aggressive selling tactics on customer relationships. Sharing a personal experience with a lawn care service, he highlights how persistent up-selling and harassment can damage a company's reputation. Emphasizing the need for businesses to maintain control over their sales practices, he wa…
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Leadership's Dual Edge: Power for Good or Self
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In this episode of 'The Water Trough,' Ed Drozda, the Small Business Doctor, revisits a previous discussion on the relationship between power and leadership. Ed emphasizes the importance of reflecting on different leadership styles and the power they wield. Ed urges both leaders and followers to critically assess their roles and motivations to ensu…
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Effective Marketing: Posing Questions and Navigating Feedback
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Dive into the essentials of marketing with the latest episode of "The Water Trough"! We're discussing the power of asking the right questions and managing feedback to fuel growth. Tune in today! #smallbusiness #marketingtips #business growth #managefeedbackEd Drozda
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From Ideas to Action: Crafting an Effective Business Plan
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🏢 Ready to turn your business ideas into reality? 🌟 Listen to the latest episode of The Water Trough as we dive into the importance of a solid business plan with Ed Drozda, The Small Business Doctor. Let's make your business dreams happen!Ed Drozda
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Starting Strong: The Importance of a Solid Business Foundation
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In this episode of 'The Water Trough,' hosted by Ed Drozda, the Small Business Doctor, Ed provides guidance for individuals contemplating starting a business. He emphasizes the importance of taking things slow and establishing a solid foundation, including vetting ideas with trusted individuals and seeking their emotional support. Ed outlines the s…
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When Our Human Side Shows Up At Work
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We like to think there’s a sharp dividing line between our personal lives and our professional lives, but we can’t escape that we are human beings dealing with other human beings at work. In this cast, I talk with Charles H. Green about how to deal with that fact in positive ways. Charlie is now semi-retired, and shifting his focus a bit in his new…
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Synergy Starts Here: Crafting Business Culture
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Culture is the glue that supports the formation of synergy, in the workplace. I don't need to tell you how important synergy in the workplace is. Without it, we'd have a really difficult time getting things done effectively. If at all.Ed Drozda
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Culture is the sort of thing we take for granted. It exists, whether or not we sense it or understand it. It is at the core of every business, successful or not, and while our ability to manage it is limited, we had best know it well. How well do you know your business culture? Is it working for you?…
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Accepting and Moving On: Can You Do It?
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Even the best laid plans can fail to come to fruition. It happens to all of us all the the time, and for most of us it is quite upsetting. But it is part of life and most of the time we cause more damage by worrying about it! Interested in being a guest on my podcast? Shoot me an email at ed@thesmallbizdoctor.com. I'd love to chat with you. If you …
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Business Lessons From the Classroom
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I am an educator and small business owner. I was always confident that being business savvy made me a better educator. Being an educator also has the potential to make us better business people. It is easier than you might think.Ed Drozda
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Building and maintaining a business is tough. There are times when you might feel as if you are on a hamster wheel. I know my hamsters loved that wheel but how about you? Unless you consider this exercise, perhaps it's time to take another look at that wheel.Ed Drozda
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138 Property Solopreneur Classics: Must-Listen Episodes
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As I’m taking a small break to complete some big projects, I want to give you a selection of past episodes that offer nuggets of knowledge and wisdom on your property journey. I believe we should all look at the experiences that other people have had to give us an insight not just into how wealthy property can make us, but also what will happen if …
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When I Grow Up: How Passion and Purpose Birthed an Entrepreneur
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Join me and my guest Danielle Inman as we discuss the importance of passion, persistence, and pioneering in the making of an entrepreneur. For anyone wondering if this path is for you, this inspirational story will definitely get your creative curiosity going. Danielle is a passionate force for animal welfare, conservation, and veterinary medicine.…
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How To Know If You Have Told Your Story
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Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Judi Harrington, a true master in the art of storytelling. Judi's unique talent lies in transforming business ideas into compelling narratives that resonate with the world. As a seasoned copywriter, she lives by the belief that true understanding comes from stepping outside our own perspectives, and today’s epi…
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Your employees are the key to your small business success. How do you treat them? Like workers, asking them to do more, for less? With respect, being fully aware that to them it is more than a paycheck? Perhaps things are going well and you ascribe to the old idea "if it ain't broke..." What if I were to tell you, it can always be better? Listen in…
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137 Scaling Up: Strategies for Successful Growth
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Welcome to the last episode of this season, before I come back with Season 3 in the autumn. Until then, please revisit the catalogue of 137 episodes I released so far, and enjoy today’s interview with my fabulous guest, Ross McSkimming. Ross and Sophie McSkimming live and work in Edinburgh. In the past five years, they have gone full time into prop…
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Under construction- conjures up ideas of not being ready for prime time, eh? Not so fast! A business that is under construction has chosen to remain open to possibility. It is a business that knows that the status quo is not reliable. It is a business that understands, innovation is a key to success.…
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136 Inside the Mind of a Property Developer
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This week’s guest is well known to many of you because you’ve seen him on Property TV. John Howard is one of the UK’s most experienced property consultants, developers, traders and investors, with over 40 years of experience within the industry. John has bought and sold nearly 4,500 properties in 87 different locations across the UK, from tradition…
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Demystifying Entreprenuership: Rethinking the Aura
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As enticing as entrepreneurship is, it is often misunderstood. Join us as we take a look at the inner workings of the concept as well as the mindset of those who choose this path. My guest, John Panaccione is the co-founder of Folla Capital, an SEC-registered broker-dealer focused on helping small businesses and startups raise capital. Before launc…
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Marketing- No PhD Required
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Marketing, love it or hate it, if you are a small business person you know it matters. Learn more about four fundamental elements that can take your marketing effort from mediocre to extraordinary. Intent, Audience, Content, and Venue...Ed Drozda
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135 An Intrapreneur in the Property World
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This week my guest is Ed Fowkes, whom I first met over 10 years ago when he was the host of the biggest pin meeting in London. He was already a property veteran by then, enthusiastic and truly inspiring. Since then, he's gone on to create multiple businesses, and today he's still working in property, in new areas where he helps other entrepreneurs …
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134 Behind the Deals: Inside the World of Legal Property Sourcing
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The buzz that goes around property sourcing is that it’s a fun and quick way into making big money; a way of property shopping when you're not actually paying the bills. But, there's always a ‘but’. In this case it’s that there are a lot of rules and regulations about it. That’s why I invited Tina Walsh, known as the Queen of Compliance, onto the s…
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I'm Back and This Time I Mean It
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This second hiatus has turned out to be quite a lengthy one. It wasn't just a matter of relocating and settling in. It is about accepting that with major changes comes a lot of introspection. This process has taught me a few things, which I chose to share in this episode. At the root of it all, it doesn't matter if you are a small business owner, C…
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Success Defined: Mapping Your Journey to What Truly Matters
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My guest, Dave Lubelczyk is a corporate escape artist dedicated to helping individuals break free from societal expectations and live authentically. His philosophy centers around empowering people to create a roadmap to realize their dreams, guiding them to define and follow their own unique paths. Society tells us to measure success in terms of am…
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133 Landlord, Do You Understand Social Housing?
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When you’re a property investor, one of the most important things is to have your portfolio diversified, consisting of multiple different tenant and housing types. However, social housing is something I don't know much about, so I invited the best person onto the show to talk about it. Sue Sims has been in property for more than 30 years. She’s got…
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Marketing is something we've all got to do. Although it sounds like a big commercial word, basically, marketing is just letting other people know who you are and what you do. As simple as it seems, it can cause some people to hit the wall and feel stuck, because to market themselves, they've got to feel happy with their identity. The identity they …
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131 Are You Upskilling or Stagnating?
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Business has changed dramatically in the last 30 years since I started in it. I’ve become a great fan of lifelong learning, because I know that if I don’t upgrade my skills or widen my knowledge base, I’ll get stale and perhaps miss clear market indicators. In this episode, I offer my perspective on different learning formats and how to keep your k…
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130 What is Success in Property Investing?
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If you listen to the most successful podcasts or read articles on property investing, you may get the feeling that the expectation is that if you do property, everything you touch will turn to gold. This often from people who've only ever worked in the property world for a couple of years. They have never gone through a property cycle, which is whe…
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129 Property Wealth Built Through Sourcing
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Before becoming a property solopreneur, Flora Russo worked in IT sales and was thinking of starting a wine-related business. After a trip to Australia, she became intrigued by the opportunities in property. She got into proper training first, figured out a business plan and started investing in the North East of the UK. Soon she got swamped with mo…
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128 Construction Rules: Paying Attention to Details
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Martin Rapley's first experience in property was as a quantity surveyor, looking after projects' finances. Then he transitioned to project manager and started his own construction business. Dealing with property investors, Martin realised they could use support from someone with his skills and knowledge, so he revamped his construction business int…
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127 Creating Profit: Property Title Splitting Strategies
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Rachel Knight's first steps into property were more like a side hustle, an entertaining and effective way of transforming her bonuses into a retirement plan. Slowly but surely, she built a humble yet decent portfolio. In 2015, she decided to invest in her property education, and shortly after being trained on HMOs and service accommodation, she was…
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126 From Rent to Rent to Financial and Time Freedom
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After a long and successful career in the corporate world, Giuseppe Leone jumped into property with two clear objectives: leaving something tangible to pass over to the next generation and developing a professional activity that granted him a juicy income and the time to enjoy it. Ten years and some change later, he became a Rent to Rent expert, an…
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125 5 Core Business Activities that Drive Success
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Part of being a property solopreneur is mastering areas of our business that have little or nothing to do with property per se. Yet keeping them under control is what will ensure our business keeps breathing. So, in today's episode, I'll be talking about the 5 core business activities you must dominate to ensure your property business success. What…
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124 Planning Permission: How to Get it Right the First Time
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After over 25 years of experience in the space, Linda Wright defines planning permission as listening to what the client wants and adding her professional advice based on her experience, a pinch of humour and common sense. She is a highly versatile planning permission specialist, a keynote speaker, writer and lecturer, and the founder of Katana Pla…
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123 Profitable Commercial Property: Cash Flow to Capital Gains
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Kirsty Darkins is an Investor, Mentor, Speaker, and co-host of Sky TV's Property Graduate on a mission to help people create jobs replacing income from commercial investments. After many years of a successful career as an investment surveyor, Kirsty "made herself unemployable;" she needed more time for herself, yet didn't know how to create it. The…
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122 Legal Eagle: Why the Right Solicitor will Make Your Property Business Soar
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During my mentoring sessions, the subject of lawyers comes up quite a lot - how they are either being too slow, raising too many questions, or sometimes don't even seem to understand what the investor wants them to do. Well, my guest today is here to counter that impression. He is a lawyer with a property portfolio, a very rare breed in our busines…
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121 Goal Clarity: Your Path to Property Success
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Financial and time freedom, and a stress-free head are certainly among the top five reasons why people get into property. Property works; everyone can do handsomely well in it, and although it isn't a guaranteed crock of gold, if you know your destination, you'll get there. But you need to answer two key questions: What do you want, and when do you…
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120 The Business of HMOs - Success in Article 4 Area
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Sophie Foote, a true HMO girl, is the Director of ROOMS, a company that takes shared houses and provides quality rooms for tenants and long-term contracts, guaranteed rents, and zero management fees to landlords. Sophie has lived and worked in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Fiji, Spain and Indonesia, where she bought an island and built her own scuba…
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119 The Strategic Investor: Mastering Property Trading
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Paul Ribbons is a property business veteran who started as an acquisition agent in 1986, finding the freedom he needed at that particular time of his life in property. Today, as a podcaster, author, and property trader, Paul has a knowledge and understanding of the property market and human psyche that are so acute that he has repeatedly been able …
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118 The Accidental Female Developer - Saying Yes to Opportunity
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Charlotte Edwards, a.k.a. the Accidental Female Developer, is a successful property developer, investor and coach. Charlotte's story in property didn't have a dream start. As a single mother with zero experience in property development, a marketing background, and a love for challenges, Charlotte had to rebuild the family development firm with 25 h…
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Surrounding Ourselves with the Power of Courage, Trust-Building, and Authenticity
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Irene Stern Frielich discusses the attributes of courage, trust-building, and authenticity and how they have helped her achieve audacious goals she sets for herself. Setting those lofty goals, and having an operational plan to break down her goals and then execute on them, has helped Irene to grow her instructional design consulting business and ha…
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117 The 3 Worst Property Mistakes I've Made
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In the realm of property entrepreneurship, the illusion of navigating the industry without stumbling prowls in the air. From what influencers show on social media, many solopreneurs are tempted to believe successful individuals never bought a lemon or took dubious advice. Yet, as you'll see throughout this episode, mistakes are inevitable. I'll sha…
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116 The Building Game: Tips and Tricks for Property Developers
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Jerome Roith has over 25 years of experience in the UK property market under his belt and has been involved in developments with a GDV above £50m. He is the director of Sensitive Developments, specialising in the acquisition of land and property throughout the UK, and the founder of Property Planning Gain, providing real-world training in a market …
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115 How to Dominate Your Property Trading Ground
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Mark l’Anson is one of the most successful property traders in the UK. He owns Mark I'Anson Property, has over 20 years of experience in the property market, has trained over 3500 people on workshops, courses and coaching, and is the author of the best-selling book "Dominate Your Ground." In today's episode, Mark shares his journey in property trad…
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114 Property Development - Is it for You?
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Property development is a multifaceted journey of opportunities, challenges, and creativity. If you are bold enough, you can go from planning gain to creating vibrant new spaces, and the best part of it is that you don't need a massive corporation behind you to succeed in this field. In today's episode, we talk about the exciting world of property …
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113 Picture Perfect: The Art of Property Photography
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Jonny Brown is the Managing Director of Jonny Browns Professional Property Photography, and he describes himself more as a businessman who's really good at taking photos than a photographer. Thanks to his property background, Jonny knows potential buyers' and future guests' pain points, what they look for when swiping left and right through propert…
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