To maximise profits, you need to have a strategy that makes you stand out as an ideal supplier.

Jeanne Omlor is a solo parent at home, and a team player in business. Faced with the challenges of raising a child alone she searched for ways to make a secure income. Learning how to grow a brand organically opened opportunities for her to sell a service that helps her clients make lots of money.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Jeanne describes how she realised that conventional ways of marketing were not working for her target market, coaches and business consultants.

Jeanne explains to host Michael Millward the organic approach that she developed for her own coaching business, which she eventually turned in to a business to support other coaches and consultants. A business that Jeanne structured around the Henry Ford approach to management of surrounding herself with experts and letting them get on with their work.

Their conversation covers

• How convention networking and referral programmes are not sustainable
• The new approach requires research into potential clients before reaching out to them
• How to create compelling messages that will create connections with great clients
• The content you need on your website to support your marketing activities

Discover more about Jeanne Omlor and Michael at Abeceder.co.uk

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It is amazing what you can achieve if you can avoid the distractions of modern life

Steve Puri, had a career in the entertainment industry with DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox, before becoming an entrepreneur and setting-up a series of technology businesses. The latest is TheSukha.co.

TheSukha.co is an APP that helps people achieve more by removing the constant distractions of modern life.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Steve describes to host Michael Millward the inspiration for TheSukha.co happened on an Alaskan Airways flight from Austin Texas to San Francisco.

Steve, explains

• That effective and efficient work starts with hiring the right people,
• Why your people must share the vision of the company, because that is why they want to work with you.
• How everything about the company must support the fulfilment of that vision.
• That the best work is achieved when workers achieve what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described as a Flow State.
• Why remote workers still need to feel connected to each other.

Michael mentions the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times.

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Film producer Peter Samuelson recounts the story behind the founding and growth of The Starlight Children’s Foundation, and the First Star charity.

When Hollywood film producer Peter Samuelson received a telephone call from his cousin, the actress Emma Samms he did not expect to be setting up The Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Even if you have never heard the name, you will know what Starlight does. It is the charity that makes the dreams of seriously sick children come true.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Peter recounts that phone call, and describes to host Michael Millward the meetings with Steven Spielberg and then General Norman Schwarzkopf that resulted in a Foundation that has raised and spent over a billion dollars on making sick kids happy.

Peter describes his negotiation with Steven Spielberg and the management lessons he learnt from General Schwarzkopf.

By any measure this is an inspirational story told in an entertaining way.

Read more about the founding of Starlight, and the other charities that Peter has founded in his book Finding Happy.

Peter also talks about First Star and the support it provides to children who are growing up in care to create better life chances.

Watch Michael in The Magician.

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