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Welcome to Businesswise: The Voice of Business Networking in Swindon. Every fortnight we'll be sharing a new episode with you that features our members. In it, they'll share their highs, their lows, their networking experience and what it is that makes BusinessWise work for them. Join us as we show you why we're the Voice of Business Networking in Swindon! If you'd like to visit the group please email our secretary on [email protected] or to learn more about the group visit www.b ...
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Each year at this time, we pause to reflect on what truly matters — goodwill, responsibility, and the role we play as business leaders.This special episode draws on one of the great holiday narratives long shared across generations to explore the quality of help, hope, and leadership that still matters now. Whether you’re hearing it for the first t…
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We have been discussing LIFE MASTERY in terms of handling discipline on self, but how about handling discipline with others? Is there tech to that? Well, to master life one would have to be able to handle ethics with others, and as you might expect, L. Ron Hubbard addressed this subject with precision. So here we go!…
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Outflow alone isn’t enough. To raise your inflow, you must raise the quality of your communication — and there’s one exact ingredient that most entrepreneurs miss. When you add it, you don’t just get more response… you get better response. This episode shook a lot of business owners awake the first time it aired. Don’t skip it.…
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High-performing entrepreneurs talk about discipline constantly. The “entrepreneurship hype” bubble has burst. Today successful business owners believe in skill, work, consistency, and discipline. And just about everyone agrees on one thing, they can all use more of it! This episode gives you the LRH on the subject.…
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Recently we have trafficked with some incredible “Goal Makers”, and I am making them all listen to this episode because they all need it. L. Ron Hubbard pointed out something so critical and so fundamental, but it is routinely missed, resulting in creative people working themselves to death with their goals unrealized. Now you will know why and wha…
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We’ve all met those individuals who seem to have the Magic Touch. They walk into a room full of grumpy, resistant people — and somehow melt them with nothing more than a smile and a handshake. What is that magic? In this episode, you’ll find out — and discover how easily you can acquire it yourself.By wiseeastus
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Public relations isn’t just a business function — it’s a matter of survival. In the age of social media, a single false narrative can spread like wildfire — and suddenly, you’re fighting battles you didn’t start. To protect yourself and your group, the first step is to know exactly what you’re dealing with. This episode pulls back the curtain on Bl…
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Public Relations isn’t optional—no more than sales or delivery. You may think you don’t need it… until someone uses PR against you, because there is offensive and defensive PR. In this episode, we’ll uncover the single missing factor that L. Ron Hubbard discovered that makes PR not just safe, but as precise and powerful as a Jedi lightsaber.…
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Let’s take a deep dive into the all-important but neglected subject of Public Relations. First of all, you need to understand the difference between PR and Marketing or you are going to mess up and severely limit your expansion. For that reason we are going to start this series with a review of one of our most popular episodes.…
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You’ve heard it said: “So-and-so is an able person.” Maybe you’ve wished for more able staff—or even questioned your own ability. Ability is a quality we all recognize and value. And you’ve probably also heard someone described as “very willing but not that able,” or “quite able but not that willing.” We instinctively measure people by these two qu…
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Though the term “to scale” has only come into use in a business context in the new millennium, the secrets to scaling a business are contained in the Hubbard managements system being developed since 1950. It starts with understanding that to scale one must master at least TWO technologies, and here is where we start discussing the second one.…
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If you have ever decided that your business is not “scalable”, that you have hit a dead-end in your expansion and you are just going to have to learn to live with it, that expansion is a struggle and basically impossible and who wants it, since it’s just more work for you, well, there is a reason for that dead-end, and you DON’T have to live with i…
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If you have been wondering how to scale your business, or wondered if your business is scalable or not, or what “to scale” even means in the business world, and what LRH data covers this hot topic and buzzword, this short series of episodes is going to get all this cleared up. As always, let’s start with some fundamentals.…
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One of the interesting things one discovers when seeking truth is that it tends to be counter-intuitive at first. Once recognized, of course, things get much, much simpler, and one wonders how one could ever have bought into the untruths! This is one of the most fundamental of all, and solves pretty much anything and everything.…
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I was recently in communication with an extraordinarily able WISE member who was struggling. Not common for this person at all. I helped him out with this very important and very commonly overlooked data from LRH, and remembered we did an episode on this way back at the beginning of time. We are going to take a short break from our TIME MANAGEMENT …
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Today’s edition of the Businesswise podcast is hosted by Joe Tompkinson who is joined by Danielle Holmes from Black Nova, a professional IT Solutions company, offering website design, hosting and other IT services, and Steve Munson from ASF Creative who offer signs, marketing & design and print. After introducing what their individual businesses do…
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This is a series on TIME MANAGEMENT. In it you can expect to learn many disciplines that will help you cause and control time, but this episode contains a “heavy rule” that will not only make an immediate impact on your time management but is also a fundamental to the rest of this series.By wiseeastus
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Today Hannah Edwards is talking to Sabrina O’Keeffe of Charming Bee Accessories. Her business came about when Sabrina was out of work. Having always been crafty, she did a jewellery course and some workshops, then started making sterling silver jewellery, and absolutely loved it. Sabrina has only been an official member of Businesswise for around a…
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I cannot think of a more valuable personality trait than persistence. And none is more telling in establishing who to put on your team. And another thing, if you are a little weak on persistence yourself, you may have a hard time realizing greatness. Start cultivating it. This episode will help.By wiseeastus
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It is always interesting to hear someone being critical of a group they are leading. If you really look at it, it is so odd that you almost have to double-check your hearing. Who creates the group? The common denominator of great groups are great leaders. What might be the common denominator of poor ones? Let's face it, the better you understand an…
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For our Businesswise collaboration podcast today, Joe Tompkinson is talking to Ali Newnham and Jess Walters. Ali is the Operations Manager for MoovaHome selling houses, renting and managing HMOs. Jess works for Howden Insurance, local insurance brokers offering commercial and personal insurance. They both talk about the passion they each have for t…
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What is the right business for you to be in, for you to get into today? Is the business you’re doing the right one for you? I think you might be surprised at our answer. But listen carefully, because there are some very important fundamentals from Mr. Hubbard that we are going to cover on this one.By wiseeastus
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Today Joe Tompkinson interviews Fi Da Silva Adams of Revolution Performing Arts. Fi talks about starting Revolution Performing Arts in 2007, and how it went from her working with her own children because there was nothing available for them, then gradually growing until it has ended up a full-time business providing after school performing arts clu…
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The object of these INCOME BOOSTERS is to give you the certainty that you can always CAUSE income to rise! Sometimes a member tells us that their business is built on “word of mouth,” and this is an explanation FOR why their business is down because “no one is referring” right now. Sort of “it’s all up to fate”. No, it’s not up to fate, it’s up to …
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In today’s edition of the Businesswise podcast, Hannah Edwards talks to Claire Brewerton from The Virtual Business Centre, a telephone answering and call handling business. Claire explains why when she has a business that has clients country wide, she decided to join Businesswise. She has only been a member for a few months but is already enjoying …
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Joe Tompkinson’s guest today on the Businesswise podcast, is Lou Muir Sage of Wellness Wiltshire, who is a relatively new member having only joined in February last year. Lou talks about her business, how she is a Reiki practitioner and also a meditation facilitator. She talks about how she has overcome her own struggles and now she wants to help o…
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I don’t think I have ever met a business owner who was not interested in “new business”. You want new customers, clients or patients? Let us introduce you to Division 6 of L. Ron Hubbard’s seven-division organizing board and let’s handle the heck out of that!By wiseeastus
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I am willing to bet that the description you have given of the Valuable Final Product of your company or business is incomplete. A lack of a complete statement of your VFP and the process needed to get there is probably cutting your potential business in half. Here is the next installment on THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION.…
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Joe Tompkinson hosts today’s Businesswise podcast, talking about collaboration with Barbara Leatham of Barbara Leatham Photography and Liza Van Zyl of Priory Heating. Liza has been a member of Businesswise for longer than Barbara and has in fact had the privilege of working with Barbara before she joined last year. Liza loves the fact that because …
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