The Charm Offensive with Jon Buchan - Using radical candour & humour to win business If you've ever written a cold email to someone you don't know in the hope of winning a new project or new client, then this episode of The Ideas Lab Podcast is for you. Jon Buchan sent a killer cold email, almost by accident, some years ago. Since then … [Read more...]

How to persuade anyone to do (almost) anything - Lee Warren Lee Warren is a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator and he is author of the award-winning book: A Busy Person's Guide to Great Presenting. Lee has had a pretty unconventional career path as he started out as a professional magician, performing at one point for the royal … [Read more...]

3 Simple Things To Turn Your Mood Around Right Now - with John Williams https://youtu.be/YkTM4sR4nTc This episode of the podcast is a little bit different. Every week I write something called the Ideas Lab Bulletin which goes out to thousands of subscribers and this week's bulletin was entitled '3 Simple Things to Turn Your Mood Around … [Read more...]

Rachael Taplin - The 3 biggest mistakes when doing your own PR and how to do it right Rachael Taplin founded and ran her own magazine for 4 years, and in the process learnt a lot about the media and about PR. Now she runs Media Match Maker, which helps entrepreneurs to get their stories into the press and media. If you can crack the code of … [Read more...]

How to make £2,000, £10,000 or £20,000 quickly in your business with John Williams This episode is about how to make some cash quickly. Right now on some of my programmes I've invited people in to something called the 2k Challenge. I'm challenging those who haven't made any money from their new business yet, because they are still in the … [Read more...]

3 steps to turn LinkedIn connections into cash (without being pushy) with Deenita Pattni If you work for yourself in any form, whether you are a freelancer, consultant or run your own business, LinkedIn is a treasure trove of prospective clients or customers for you. But, if you are anything like me, the chances are that you have a profile on … [Read more...]

How Susan Gregory quit her job and launched Slurps, the first hydration product for dogs Susan Gregory is founder of Slurps - the company that creates organic dog drinks to keep dogs happy, healthy and hydrated. Susan had a good job as head of food at Nestle, until she quit in 2015. She realised she didn't want another job, she wanted to do … [Read more...]

3 keys to be able to live & work anywhere in the world - John Williams This episode has been recorded in a hammock at Coconat, a co-living and co-working space, just outside Berlin in Germany. For a large part of my business I can live and work anywhere I want to and I know that is something that a lot of other people would like to do so I … [Read more...]

Jessica Rose of the London Jewellery School on simple instagram strategies that really work Jessica Rose is a jewellery lover and an award winning businesswoman. Jessica founded the London Jewellery School back in 2009. She ran her first jewellery making classes in a community hall and found her very first customers for the classes by putting a … [Read more...]

Emma Johnson - How To Turn Your Personal Blog Into A Six-figure Business Seven Years Ago Emma Johnson started the blog singlewealthymommy.com and it's now the number 1 blog for single mothers around the world and the largest single mum community in the world. Emma's blog is now a six-figure business with 200,000 monthly page views and an entire … [Read more...]