The Small Business Big Marketing Show | Insanely Effective Marketing Ideas

How to price anything is tough. And something every business owner doesn't want to get wrong. So I thought I'd get The Pricing Lady in to help us all optimise our pricing strategy. It’s a priceless episode 603 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast.   A little more about Janene Liston AKA The Pricing Lady Now, from what I can tell, pricing is one of those business activities that freaks the majority of business owners out. Agree? And if you get your pricing wrong, it can have a major impact on your growth. Which raises so many questions like … How do you best decide what to charge? Should you copy your competition’s pricing? When should you include prices on your website? When, if ever, should you discount? Are you charging too much? Too little? Luckily Janene Liston AKA The Pricing Lady has answers to them all. Plus more! She’s a genius at making sense of how to price your goods or services, as well as how you should speak, act and market your brand to achieve the optimal pr

Hey business owner. That’s you … Yeah, you! Today’s guest has one bit of advice for us all … 'Live and breathe only what you love'. Heard it before? Me too! Thought it was a bit unrealistic? Me too!  Afterall, we’ve all got to make a quid. Well, we’re about to be proved wrong. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s a glass-half-full episode 602 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast.     A little more about NightQuarter's Michelle Christoe Michelle Christoe is the co-founder of NightQuarter, an immersive live entertainment precinct on Australia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast. NightQuarter is a massive outdoor space with food trucks, 6 stages for live performances attracting the likes of UB40 and James Reyne, there’s retail stores, plus Michelle caters for weddings, parties … anything really! But two things especially piqued my interest in wanting to chat with her. One is her unwavering philosophy around only doing what brings you joy … in business and life generally. And on a more prac

In 2013, industrial designer Alfred Boyages had (in his own words) a seriously lucky motorcycle accident. Whilst recovering from a banged-up knee, he conceptualised the idea of a smart helmet; one that could help riders foresee what’s up ahead. Now all he needed was an army or riders to help him perfect it. Forecite Helmets was born and to this day, has a cult-like following. It’s a super smart episode 601 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast.    A little more about Forcite Helmets' Alfred Boyadgis Like so many brands, industrial designer Alfred Boyadgis' business was born out of an unfortunate first-hand experience. In 2013, he took a slide on his Yamaha while riding through an oil slick, seriously injuring his knee.  With a keen interest in wearable technologies, and given the availability of sophisticated tracking technology, Alfred was convinced that there must be a way to combine these to allow motorcycle riders to foresee upcoming hazards, enabling them to take evasiv

Imagine you’re dying with a secret. Something you’ve never had the courage to tell your friends or family.  Or a last wish – a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace.  Now imagine there’s someone who can take care of all that, who has little respect for the living, but will do anything for the dead. Well, there is! He calls himself The Coffin Confessor and you're about to meet him. It’s a kooky and spooky episode 600 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast.A little more about Bill Edgar, AKA The Coffin Confessor A private investigator by trade, Gold Coast based Bill Edgar calls himself The Coffin Confessor, and gets paid handsomely to gatecrash funerals, will readings and wakes. Put simply, he’s a one-of-a-kind professional businessman on a mission to make good on the last requests of his soon-to-be-deceased clients. Bill’s been many things in his life including the son of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters, a homeless street kid, a maximum security pr

If you think the idea of that beautiful business of yours expanding overseas is a pipe dream, then think again. International business strategist and lawyer, Cynthia Dearin, may just change your mind. It’s a far-reaching episode 599 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast.   A little more about Business Without Borders author Cynthia Dearin One of the things I’m passionate about is helping you identify additional revenue streams for your business.  That’s why I decided to get international business lawyer, and the founder of Dearin & Associates, Cynthia Dearin on to the show. For the last 23 years she’s been on a mission to help business owners to scale internationally and amplify their impact in the world. What a good mission! And she’s well qualified to do so, having worked in the UK, the US, Europe and the Middle East, as an Australian diplomat and management consultant. She also spent three years as the CEO of the Australian Arab Chamber of Commerce & Industry.  Pl

In January 2021, COVID forced serial entrepreneur Wayne Hamlet’s event hire business into liquidation. Two months later, he declared bankruptcy, losing everything, and took a job as a real estate agent. Not one for giving up, Wayne launched an idea with huge potential. In fact, if you’re a business owner, then you need it. It’s as simple as that! It’s a ridiculously inspiring episode 598 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Timbo Reid.   A little more about Smile Fred’s Wayne Hamlet … If you’re a long time listener, you’ll know I tend not to interview owners of businesses in the start-up phase. There’s plenty of other podcasts doing that, plus I want to make sure you only get learnings from established business owners, who’ve got the runs on the board. However, today’s guest is in start-up mode. So why’d I break the rules? Because Wayne Hamlet’s story is super inspiring, and I actually want to give him a leg up.  He’s a serial entrepreneur who’s not afraid to have

Dare Jennings founded the iconic, irreverent and highly collectible Aussie surf-brand Mambo, which he sold in 2000, made a lot of coin and moved on to his next endeavor, Deus ex Machina, where he combined his love of motorbikes, surfing, and music, to create a business that has stores in Australia, America, Asia, Europe and Africa. So sit back as Dare chats with host Tim Reid about how he uses culture to build incredible, sustainable, and loved businesses. And most importantly, why trying to be everything to everyone is a wonderful recipe for failure. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Murphy is an Irish, animal lover living in Italy selling eBikes to hunters all over the world. Banned from Facebook Ads and Google Adwords despite spending tens of thousands of dollars with them, he urgently had to figure out another way to drive traffic to his drop-shipping business’s website. He did. And his six figure annual turnover quickly went to seven, with the majority of his sales coming from organic traffic.  Fortunately for you and I, John shares his secret sauces (yep, there’s more than one) with us today. It’s a stop-relying-on-Facebook-and-Google-ads episode 596 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing Podcast with host Tim Reid.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Belly Band creator Carol Brunswick spent over $300,000 of her family’s savings, with little or no return, before landing on a more effective way to grow her business. The new improved way involved bootstrapping everything, and adopting a people first, profit second philosophy. It worked! Now she’s sold 70,000 Belly Bands and absolutely loves building a business that’s making such a difference to her precious customers’ lives. Although it does raise the question … What on Earth is a Belly Band?! It’s a curious, yet warm and fuzzy episode 595 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amanda Walker is the co-founder of the hot chip mini empire Lord of the Fries. Launched in 2004 with her husband, they now have 23 stores nationally. Join host Tim Reid as she shares her business journey along with why and how to slowly build a business you’ll love. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's a masterclass on how to create Australia's best gelato experience with Gelato Messina's co-founder Declan Lee. All this and more on The Small Business Big Marketing Podcast hosted by Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No matter what industry you're in, challenge the way things get done, because more often than not, there’s always a better way. That’s certainly the experience of Steffan Van Lint, the founder of Quiz Meisters, one of Australia's largest (and certainly most fun) pub trivia companies. It’s a trivial episode 592 of The (12 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the first time I saw Emma & Tom’s Juices on the shelf at my local cafe, I was hooked. Finally, there was a cool looking juice brand, with interesting flavours, no funky additives, plus it was named after two anonymous people. Who the hell was Emma and Tom?! It’s taken me 18 years to find that out; but it was worth the wait. Let’s go and meet Tom Griffith in a very juicy episode 591 of The (12 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I’ve always thought us business owners can learn so much from the hospitality industry, around customer service, customer experience, local area marketing etc. So, when I heard about multi-million dollar publican, Stephen Hunt, who started his 7 hotel empire from his parents’ backyard, I just had to get him on the show. It's episode 590, full of one-percenters, of The (12 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This simple, inexpensive, proven system enables you to generate more leads into your business (and convert them) than you could ever imagine. Plus it takes your prospects’ eyes off the price. Listen in as The Institute of Wow's John Dwyer explains how with podcast host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You’ve got a list as long as your arm of ideas to grow your business. And I’m guessing some of those ideas will happen all in good time. But some of those ideas may require more money than you currently have in order to bring them to life. That’s where equity crowdfunding steps in. A relatively new industry that’s growing by the minute. And who better to explain it to us than Australia's leading expert on the topic. It's a very equitable episode 588 of The (12 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Keen to know how to use TikTok to grow your business in 2022? Excellent. Then there’s no better person to show us how than donut aficionado Phillip Kuoch, whose Melbourne bakery has one of the biggest TikTok followings of any Australian business with 680,000 followers and a gazillion likes! It's a head-scratching episode 587 of The (12 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The School of Hard Knock Knock's co-founder Morry Morgan has taken a rather interesting, brave and very funny approach to marketing his business. He's created a six-part professionally produced TV series that's gaining ground on YouTube. Join host Tim Reid on The Small Business Big Marketing Podcast as Morry explains why and how he did it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Black Hops Brewery’s Dan Norris has had more business failures than he’d like to admit. Then one of his ideas hit pay dirt and was quickly snapped up by a large multinational. Instead of finding the closest hammock, he started a brewery. Six years on Black Hops is valued at $65M. It's a thirst-crushing episode 585 of The (12 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we meet a successful business founder who’s not in the sexiest of industries, but who has a marketing mindset that I personally wish many more had. He loves marketing. Respects it. Plays with it. And guess what … he sees the fruits of his marketing labours time and time again. It's a high-growth episode 584 of The (12 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with founder and host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.