Business Jazz

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 8th August, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS: The podcast is put on hold. All good things come to an end. Or at least have the Pause button pushed. So it is with this podcast as well. Producing a podcast takes time and energy. We knew that going in. However, our schedules have conspired against us and we find ourselves needing to focus our attentions elsewhere. For the moment, any road. Will the podcast return? We can't say it won't, but we don't want to give false hope either. For now, we'd just like to say "Thank you" to you for taking the time to listen to the podcast. We truly appreciate that you did. It means more to us than you can ever imagine. You star.

Paul and Roger started Business Jazz by reading Chris Brogan's weekly email and riffing off it. Chris joins us to talk about making deep organisational changes and how stories are powerful tools to help your business communicate internally and externally.

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 2nd August, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS: How be genuinely attractive by not being online Do you need to be online? Really? After all, we managed to survive without the internet for centuries. People were contented. Businesses succeeded. In this episode, Jane and Roger talk about how we still need to be active offline to make our online work.

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It was recorded on 24th June, 2013, and first went live on 30th July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS: Knowing who your ideal clients are, April Ennis, Michael Port, Steve Farber We welcome April Ennis to the podcast. She graciously stepped in when Roger was unavailable recently. Jane and April talk about finding the right clients for you. Rather than chase everyone, they discuss the idea of seeking out a well-defined client who suits your needs and who will enable you to do the very best work you can.

What is the most appealing name for Paul's new client? We are face-to-face again for the season finale of the lock-down 10th series of Business Jazz.

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 23rd July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: What is being genuinely attractive in business? Listener Marti Konstant put us on the spot. She asked what it means to be genuinely attractive in business today. What is the podcast about? Good question and it lead to a lively conversation in this episode of the podcast.

Paul invents a new word during this episode. Should he trademark it and sell it to Zoom? Is stout Irish? Is the Book of Kells Colombian? Can corporations own common words and national dishes? Please listen to hear wholly inadequate answers. The tennis-like flow of the conversation ends in victory for Paul as Roger misses his shot and an unlucky ballgirl gets a volley from Paul square in the face.

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 13th July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: World Domination, Chris Guillebeau, Chase Jarvis, Creativity, Risk Taking Jane is just back from the World Domination Summit. In this episode of the podcast we discuss some of the main things that she learned regarding community and creativity.

Why should you put up with shockingly bad meetings and terribly incompetent managers? Paul's buses story reveals the answer. Roger never worked on the buses in London and disagrees. He hates time wasting and promotes revolution in the meeting room. Are the only famous generals the ones with good PR and an ability to run a meeting properly? Not covered in this episode: How to get an address for a new, solitary house in the middle of an isolated Welsh vale.

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 6th July, 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: 45 Conversations, Mamukko bags A year ago, Jane and Roger didn't know each other. The first time they had any real contact was during Jane's first run over 45 Conversations recordings. Twelve months later Jane is connecting with the original 45 people she spoke to. So we decided to incorporate her round 2 conversation with Roger into an episode of Business Jazz.

A brief episode without the word "and".

If you want to be genuinely attractive to your customers, you should ask them questions to understand their preferences. We suggest: Are you an Imperialist? Does the day have 24 hours or 2 x 12 hours? Do months occur before days? How long is Paul's Rod? Should the euro have been called the florin? These and far more important questions are avoided in this episode of Business Jazz.

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 24th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: Surrounding yourself with people who won't let you fail Liz Strauss is a remarkable lady. She has touched the lives of many and helped them to improve their businesses and their quality of life. She's maybe best known on this podcast as one of the people behind SOBCon, a series of deep-dive online business conferences. Liz has been ill. Those four words barely capture the hardship she's endured over the last year. In addition to ravaging her body, her illness has left her unable to work in the face of mounting medical bills. What happened next is quite remarkable. Listen to find out.

Paul and Roger celebrate how you should sleep your way through disaster

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of Business Jazz. It first went live on 20th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: Being authentic as a marketing tool Authenticity is a big buzzword in content marketing at the moment. The question is, how authentic should you be? A second issue concerns how much you push your successes over your failures. Some of us are only really comfortable presenting a facade of wild success to the outside world. Yet in doing so we run the risk of not connecting properly with our audience. Nobody only experiences good things in their lives. Often revealing some setbacks or missteps make us seem more human and accessible. On the flip side, revealing business struggles can put off clients. Plenty of conundrums there.

Listen how we hijack a morning catch up Zoom call and divert it into a rambling episode of Business Jazz.

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of BusinessJazz. It first went live on 17th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): TOPICS THIS WEEK: When Big Corporates Chicken Out While Small People Dream Big and Achieve Greatness, Four Birds Aboating, Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, AJ and Melissa Leon One way to be attractive in business is to help others achieve their goals. The bigger and crazier the ambition, the more appealing you can become by helping to achieve it. Or do you? While everyone wants to be associated with success, what are the pitfalls of associating yourself with an endeavour that fails? Is that good for a business? Does that make it genuinely attractive or the opposite? We explore these questions in this episode of Business Jazz.

Theme of this episode: The conversations we most want to hear _________________________________ Recorded while Walking round Paul’s estate (1) Jobs & Woz their rapport (2) Their decision-making style (3) Snippets with trivia included (4) The little contretemps is between them (5) How one person admonishes another ______________________ The value of sharing something about your business which people wouldn’t ordinarily, come across cross - that's what distinguishes one company from another. ______________________ ENRON The Enron emails have turned out to be extraordinarily useful for the development of Auto-complete software. Dog-barking Wikileaks _________________________ Which would you prefer have (1) All the emails (2) All the drama in audio? It’s a no-brainer isn’t it? Later you hear: Raw, almost-unedited, audio is what people want and value most. Not some specially curated presentation. People want genuine. ______________________ Gary Vaynerchuk revisited : The F words have not hurt his brand. He bet

This is a rebroadcast of an episode from the second season of BusinessJazz. It first went live on 13th June 2013. The original show notes (beware of outdated information): The biggest threat we used to be able to make when we received bad service was to write a letter. That was utterly ineffectual in most cases. The letter was conveniently filed in the bin. Things have changed a bit. These days we can publicise our anger (or our delight) online. But have companies woken up to this? Many haven't. Social media is a great opportunity for businesses to engage with dissatisfied and satisfied customers alike. The latter is especially overlooked. Many companies are missing a fantastic marketing opportunity by not encouraging pleased customers to use social media. In this episode, we run through some stories of good and bad service, and how the companies involved responded.

Ireland is in lock down. At the time of recording, Paul & Roger were allowed to come within two metres of each other, but no closer. We record in the place where Business Jazz was born in 2012.