Startup Diary

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network In this episode Adam and Harry chat about the history of the Expert Trades website package, what made Adam decide to create it and how knew if people really wanted the product.

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Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network Today we catch up the previous week of business. There's sniffling noses, sickness during business meetings, awesome feedback sessions from the community and even new talent in the team. Strap in for your Monday dose of business and banter :)

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network This conversation was triggered from another listener question. Adam and Harry chat about their views on personality tests and how they can be used in the team.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network We are super excited to have Adam (another one) join us for this episode. Adam is a listener of the show that made the trip up to come and chat with us on the show.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network In this episode we cover another a final question from Michael all around taxes and accountants. How do you get started with looking after your books and making sure you don't make mistakes early on that come back to bite you in the arse later.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network In this episode Adam and Harry cover off another question from Michael. This one is all about branding. How to think about it, how you know you got it right and why it means everything to a business and nothing at the same time.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network So Michael, a listener of the show, sent in a few questions and in the next couple of episodes we are answering them The first being around 'When do you move from the bedroom office to the city office?".

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network In this episode Harry returns and most of the show is a trip report of Thailand.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network A little bit of a different show format today to see if you, our awesome listeners, enjoy it. We do Masterclasses as part of our content marketing strategy and this one is very meta. We are doing a masterclass on what content marketing is as a piece of content marketing to our audience. Still with me? Well we pulled the audio from that Facebook Live Masterclass and wanted to share it with you.

Another solo show from Adam where he talks about how much a founder should pay themselves and how he thinks about it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupdiary/support

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network A solo show from Adam the founder CEO. It is not worth trying to cover off a short summary of what this show is about. You need to hear it.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network Going solo in this episode, Adam covers off what happened in the last few weeks of work. The going into how he managed time over the break, covering off new years resolutions and more.

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Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network In this episode Adam and Harry answer a follow up question around how to niche down and attract your first clients for a new web agency.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network This chat goes in a number of directions but with an underlying focus on 'building a business is really f^cK!ng hard' and you are at risk of burning out and missing out on other things in life.

Support the show and join The Network today. We've built an active community of business owners and professionals that really care about helping each other along their journey. Also access bonus activities like: - The Weekly Live Stream - Monthly Book Club - Member Panel Discussions A subscription to the network costs just £5 per month. We want to thank you for supporting the show and the community. Learn more over at nbs.fm/network If you didn't know we had a very tough week in the business recently with our app update. In this episode we cover off where we are now and how we feel we kept the trust of our users.