Business Built Freedom
226 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome to Business Built Freedom, the podcast made for business owners who want more out of life and ultimately, build a vehicle of wealth and freedom. We are technologists, owners, forward thinkers, and life hackers, most importantly, we are human and down to earth Aussies. Brisbane based entrepreneurs are interviewed regularly from all walks of life, in all positions of business from greenfield start-ups to long-standing owners looking for exit strategies to retire.
If you want to increase your wealth, better your health and get a residual income, sit back with a beer and relax, unless you're on the way to work….
See how the new kids are doing it, get the time you deserve with the family, gain perspective, direction and stop the business owning you, instead OWN it!
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137|Helping Yourself With Bob Burg
May 07, 2020 02:00 - 37 minutes - 43.4 MBHelping Yourself With Bob Burg In this episode, my special guest is Bob Burg. He has changed my life and the way that I do business. The Go-Giver is one of the first self-help books that I read, and it had a massive influence on me. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
136|Computer Backups During Covid-19
May 05, 2020 02:00 - 2 minutes - 3.04 MBComputer Backups During Covid-19 COVID, computers, and copying your data out of the cloud. We're in unreal, crazy times at the moment, and it has to be said a lot of people are regretting their move to the cloud. A lot of people are loving it as well because they're going, "Huh, you know what? Sweet. I'm in the cloud, this is great. I can access everything from home." It is good. Get more tips about computer backups during Covid-19 at dorksdelivered.com.au Internet Speeds Are Slowing D...
135|How to Set Your Pricing With Courtney Deagon
April 29, 2020 23:30 - 21 minutes - 24.5 MBHow to Set Your Pricing With Courtney Deagon Are your products overpriced? Does your service cost too much or too little? Most entrepreneurs will have that problem with pricing. How do we set our prices or rates? Is it what would cost us plus a percentage or do we look into the wilderness to see what our competitors have in there? Perhaps there's a formula to doing it right. Courtney Deagon, pricing expert and the CEO of Court & Co Value Group Pty Ltd, shares with us some great tips on set...
134|Getting the Most Out of Your Remote Workforce
April 27, 2020 23:30 - 3 minutes - 4.01 MBGetting the Most Out of Your Remote Workforce Today, we're going to talk about how to efficiently manage your remote workforce. You're all happy and home and hose that you've got everyone working from home and you've noticed that they aren't quite meeting their KPIs, or maybe they are, or maybe you didn't have KPIs in the first place. Whatever the case may be, we're going to go through some really handy ways that you can measure your staff's performance on a keyboard stroke, phone call, or...
133 |Running the Numbers With Drue from 4Front
April 22, 2020 23:30 - 37 minutes - 43.4 MBRunning the Numbers With Drue from 4Front Josh: I've always said, "You can teach a man to fish and he'll have food for life, but some people just don't like fishing." Drue: That's right. Josh: They just don't. Drue: Some people don't like fish either. Find out what they're talking about. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
132|Covid for Computers
April 15, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 5.97 MBCOVID for Computers COVID for computers, it's coming. It's triple C. COVID for computers is coming, think about that. Where do our electronics come from? This is going to be a bit of a speculative episode more than anything else, but most of our electronics are made in China. We've already seen cases where there have been back doors and hack abilities where people are using automated doorbells, where you click on it and they can see your face. Hackers have been able to go in and spy on the...
131|Don't Work From Home Without These Tips
April 06, 2020 23:30 - 3 minutes - 3.44 MBDon’t Work From Home Without These Tips I'm being serious, now, guys. I don't normally have this tone when I'm doing a podcast, but we're seeing so many IT companies that are just doing a poor job at setting up their remote workforces. There's been a 41.5% increase in the number of businesses that are now open to threats. That's because they've been intentionally opened. Your business is like a box. If you have no light going into that box, nothing inside the box can spoil potentially. As ...
130|Finance Alternatives with Paul Boyd-Skinner
April 02, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes - 33.8 MBFinance Alternatives with Paul Boyd-Skinner Our special guest in this episode is Paul from No BNK, a non-bank business and commercial finance solutionist. Paul is a wizard when it comes to looking at a different way that you can do finance, which is especially critical in today's financial climate. He has been involved in nonbank lending for around about 16 years but he has never ever put anybody in a loan with the bank. He explained, 'If I want to borrow money from you, why do I have to g...
129|How to Prepare for the Worst With Warren Maris
March 18, 2020 22:30 - 56 minutes - 64.7 MBHow to Prepare for the Worst With Warren Maris In this episode, Warren Maris from Magnus Business Advisers and Accountants share with us how we can recession-proof our business. We talk about having a unique selling proposition, employing 'good' people, putting the right people in roles that are right for them, being open to change and involving people in changes, keeping only 'good' clients, and documenting everything (from client agreements to procedures), getting off the tools, having a...
128|Relationships Are Everything With Stewart Fleming
March 05, 2020 02:22 - 32 minutes - 37.3 MBStewart Fleming Interview In this episode, Stewart Fleming from Logan tells us what he does and what he thinks about recession. We also talk about Logan, the group Innovate Logan, the advantages of keeping things local, sharing resources and the mindset that we don't need to own everything anymore, innovating, the overall health of the economy, going from a materialistic environment to a postmaterialism environment, having zero waste schools, his vision for Logan to not be just a drive-thr...
127|Interview With Author of Make a Difference Dr Larry Little
February 26, 2020 21:45 - 44 minutes - 50.5 MB127: Interview with Dr Larry Little 'I had this wonderful engineer and she was brilliant. So we promoted her and she failed miserably. We promoted her, and she had a team of people around her. She had no clue how to lead a team. She frustrated the team. She was frustrated. She ended up leaving. So we lost a great engineer, and not to mention we still have a need for this leader in this area.' Sounds familiar? If it does, read more or listen to the podcast. In this episode, my special gue...
126|How to Secure Your Business Network
February 18, 2020 22:30 - 55 minutes - 63.4 MBHow to Secure Your Business Network In this episode, Alex Penrose from Jolly Frogs tells us about pen testing, reverse engineering, the Internet of Things (IoT), risk profile and risk appetite statement of organisations, social engineering, and the two departments in organisations that hackers take advantage of to get information, botnets and vulnerabilities, should you or should you not run automatic updates, backups and disaster recovery, the cloud, password databases and alternative lik...
125|How to Recession Proof Your Mindset
January 28, 2020 22:30 - 37 minutes - 42.7 MBHow to Recession-Proof Your Mindset This special podcast episode featuring business coach Tyson Sharpe first appeared on Business Built Freedom. Tyson helps business owners and CEOs basically understand what's happening in their unconscious minds when they see patterns of fears, doubts and frustrations arise so that they can start resolving internal conflicts and start having more success in business or in whatever ventures they're in. Check out Tyson's Facebook group Connect, Contribute...
124|Tips for Automating Your Business With Chatbots
January 14, 2020 22:30 - 11 minutes - 13.7 MBTips for Automating Your Business With Chatbots I'm all about automation. The one thing that everyone needs to do in their business is to automate. Mike from Chatbot Agency shares with us his fantastic product, a fantastic system, that allows you to create something that you would never have been able to do 20 or 30 years ago. He's able to create human conversation in a digital world. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
123|Your Personal Risk Analysis
January 07, 2020 22:30 - 3 minutes - 4.52 MB122: Your Personal Risk Analysis There's this almighty scale that you have to try and keep in balance wherever you can, and sometimes, they get out of whack. What we're going to be talking about today is risk analysis, but more specifically, your personal risk analysis. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
122|Your Personal Risk Analysis
January 07, 2020 22:30 - 3 minutes - 4.52 MB122: Your Personal Risk Analysis There are these almighty scales that you have to try and keep in balance wherever you can, and sometimes, they get out of whack. What we're going to be talking about today is risk analysis, but more specifically, your personal risk analysis. Now, what I mean by that is, if you're in business, you're doing something, hopefully, that other people in your business are not, and that means that you are a key player or performer or cog or reason to be in that ...
122|Setting Your 2020 New Year Resolutions
December 27, 2019 03:58 - 6 minutes - 7.35 MBThe big year is upon us. 2019 is nearly finished and we are going to be talking about how to make sure you have 20/20 vision in 2020. It's clever. You can't do that many times. So I'm going to say it as many times as I can. So we've got a pretty good episode today. I guess it's all around making sure that you have the appropriate goals for your New Year. How do you work out what your New Year's resolution is, and why do most of them fail? To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Deliv...
121|How to Market Your Business Online and Make People Respond
December 17, 2019 22:30 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MBHow to Market Your Business Online and Make People Respond What is marketing? Who even knows? All we know is that it's something you need in business and has something to do with making money. Probably. Marketing's all about relaying your message to your customers in a way that's fun and easy for them to understand without it getting into all googly gook and everything else. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
120|How to Protect Your Small Business From Cybercrime
December 10, 2019 22:30 - 3 minutes - 4.31 MBWelcome to Miami. Welcome to Miami. So here I am in Miami, and how beautiful is it? Check out the babes. Nevertheless, it's one of the places that really spoke to me, because of Miami Vice, probably the most famous TV show about a crime there. But don't take my word for it. Instead, let's jump across to the man on the street. Take it away, mate. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
119|How to Set Yourself Up for Success
December 03, 2019 22:30 - 16 minutes - 18.9 MBHow to Set Yourself Up for Success G'day! You've got Josh here and I've got a couple of special guests. We've got Sarah from Perfectly Beautiful. Say hey. We've got Masso, and he's starting a fantastic business around sailing in Croatia. I've also got Al here and he's had a couple of businesses in the past, and he's looking to go into his third venture. Let's talk about the biggest thing to consider when managing a business, the scariest decision in business, a tool that can help you skyro...
188|Agile Methodology Special Presentation
November 26, 2019 22:30 - 16 minutes - 19 MBSpecial Presentation on Agile Methodology Joshua: I am Joshua from Dorks Delivered. So, cool stuff I've done in the past are columns for an online entrepreneur magazine so that's something that's happened more recently. Published a book, a couple ago which I'm pretty excited about. Some of the different stuff and ways that we do business has been featured on news.com.au I've got a YouTube channel and a podcast as I already sort of pointed out there. Which you guys will all be podcast famou...
118|Agile Methodology Special Presentation
November 26, 2019 22:30 - 16 minutes - 19 MBSpecial Presentation on Agile Methodology To understand agile development, let’s go back to the days of the waterfall methodology. Here, you produce something and then you say, ‘Okay, now it's working, but it might have broken.’ And then you go through a process that's in series. There's a clear start and there's a clear end, but there's nothing in the middle that isn't defined. It only has a start and an end, and the product is created. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Deliv...
117|Griffith University Entrepreneurship Seminar Series
November 19, 2019 22:30 - 24 minutes - 27.6 MBGriffith University Entrepreneurship Seminar Series Presentation Do you own a business? Do you have a website for your business? If you answered yes to both, let’s talk about driving more income to your bottom line by creating original content. You won’t need AdWords because, with good content, you can get 160,000 impressions and have over a thousand clicks for free. Read the article or listen to the podcast! To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
116|How to Teach Staff Members About Data Security
November 12, 2019 22:30 - 8 minutes - 9.19 MBHow to Teach Staff Members About Data Security I've just been talking to a business owner and we put them up to the "Let Us Hack You" challenge. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. We're the good guys and we jump in and try to hack your systems like the baddies could and see if we can get in. Now, okay, much to their dismay we got in, and they were not impressed. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
116 How to Teach Staff Members About Data Security
November 12, 2019 22:30 - 8 minutes - 9.19 MBHow to Teach Staff Members About Data Security All right. I've got a funny episode today. I've just been talking to a business and we put them up to the “let me hack you” challenge. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. We're the good guys and we jump in and try to hack your systems like the baddies could and see if we can get in. Now, okay, much to their dismay we got in, they were not impressed. Get more tips on how to protect your data at dorksdelivered.com.au Staff Need to Be Edu...
115|Ugly Apples Selling Cheap
November 05, 2019 22:30 - 4 minutes - 5.4 MBUgly Apples Selling Cheap Last week, we covered apples and oranges and how they can't be the same price. If you've made it clear that you've got a B-grade product and you're charging an A-grade price, that's not very fair. If you have a product that sells for $10 and you're charging $6, but there's no service and support, that's not very fair. That's when it becomes quite hard for people who are trying to compare apples and oranges. How is that going to work? Obviously, you can't compa...
114|How Can Apples and Oranges be the Same Price
October 29, 2019 22:30 - 6 minutes - 7.59 MBHow Can Apples and Oranges be the Same Price You can't compare apples with oranges and that's what it comes down to. We've been told this time and time again, don't compare apples with oranges. But the problem is people know what an apple looks like and people know what an orange looks like, but people don't know when they've bought a lemon. Pretty clever what I did there, I thought. Anyway, what are we going to be talking about is removing and unveiling what's behind the curtains. This co...
113|Tips to Stop Customers Cancelling
October 22, 2019 22:30 - 6 minutes - 7.49 MBTips to Stop Customers Cancelling As time goes on, different trends appear to emerge. One of the things that we've been seeing is people cancelling a lot. I've got someone here that I'm going to be talking to from Perfectly Beautiful. Her name's Sarah and I'm going to be talking about if she has any customers and if she's frustrated with them cancelling on her. So Sarah, have you ever had anyone cancel on you? To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
112|Improving Productivity Through Workplace Design
October 15, 2019 22:30 - 5 minutes - 6.01 MBImproving Productivity Through Workplace Design If there's anything you've ever learned from Ray Kroc, it's that there's always room for improvement in efficiency. The way that your office works and the way that you design your office around efficiency. Workspaces for improvements are always required to increase productivity. The reason these are really important is that you want to be the person that brings out the new McDonald's and I know that sounds corny, but ultimately when it comes ...
111|Why We Love Trello
October 08, 2019 22:30 - 4 minutes - 5.56 MBProject Management Software If you don't like project management software like Trello and Asana, you probably just never used it properly. There are lots of different project management tools out there, and you've got to remember that the mileage varies. In this episode, Josh shares why we love Trello so much. To read the full transcript, visit the Dorks Delivered blog.
110|Risk VS Reward in Your Business
October 01, 2019 23:30 - 4 minutes - 5.52 MBRisk VS Reward in Your Business Risk versus reward. If you can't measure it, is it worth doing at all? It's a great question. The way I sort of look at it is there's a lot of different people and everyone's tolerance towards risk is is different, and you have these different people that come up to you and try to express the way they're going to be doing their businesses better. They don't have to go to university and get an education. They might not have any experience or any anyone to rea...
109|Tips for Creating a Social Media Calendar
September 26, 2019 23:30 - 7 minutes - 8.82 MBTips for Creating a Social Media Calendar As you carry over from our previous podcast, today we're going to be talking about tips for creating a social media calendar. As you you know, there's always new social media types of things coming up and disappearing. We know that Instagram is the running horse. It's shooting up, down and centre and it's absolutely overtaking some of the others and annihilating them. We also know that Google Plus has disappeared and is no longer a thing. So you ne...
108|Building Your Business Through Social Media
September 24, 2019 23:30 - 9 minutes - 11.3 MBBuilding Your Business Through Social Media Let's talk about building your business through social media. Now, as we all know, social media is changing the way that we communicate and market business, so we're going to be talking today about how to utilise social media to grow your business and being in closer touch with your clients. We're going to give you a few tips and hopefully you'll be able to take them as a plus. Read more about building a business through social media at dorksde...
107|Is Your Smartphone Spying on You
September 18, 2019 23:30 - 4 minutes - 5.66 MBIs Your Smartphone Listening to You Today we're going to be talking about is your smartphone listening to you? The short answer is, yes, it is. How creepy is that? If you've got Facebook Messenger or any of the big apps on there, you're going to find that your phone is actually listening to you. You might be thinking, "Why? How did they know that I was looking to buy new tyres?" And the reason is they saw you make that call to Goodyear, or Beaurepaires, or Bob Jane, whoever it was, and the...
106|Automation is Life Live Episode
September 17, 2019 23:30 - 30 minutes - 34.4 MBAutomation Is Life Live Episode Joshua: So good morning, everyone, and thanks for having me. So today we're going to be talking about automation and how your business can be more automated and what automation means to everyone. So I'm going to go and ask, I guess everyone, what do you think automation is? What would you say automation is? Learn more about automation at dorksdelivered.com.au Audience member: Do something once and not have to do it again. Joshua: Perfect. So removing r...
105|Special Interview with Dan from Pasfield Plumbing
September 12, 2019 23:30 - 7 minutes - 8.83 MBSpecial Interview with Dan from Pasfield Plumbing Josh: Good morning. Good morning on this wonderful morning that is this morning, and I'm here with Dan and he's going to introduce himself and why he started business. So Dan, tell us a bit about your business. Dan: Howdie. We started our business for getting some freedom. Josh: Yeah, cool. And that's a great reason. A lot of people decide to start business to either get more money or do something different or get some more freedom or b...
104|How to Prepare Your Resume
September 10, 2019 23:30 - 9 minutes - 10.6 MBSpecial Episode: How to Prepare Your Resume Joshua: Good morning. Good morning. You're talking to Joshua and I've got a fantastic guest on this show. I've got Denim here and he is actually going to be talking about why he's decided to start his first business. Now this is really exciting because there's a lot of different people that we have that talk about lots of different things and this is right fresh. There's a lot of reasons why he wants to do this. Now he's worked for many different...
103|How to Prepare for Your First Three Years in Business
September 05, 2019 23:30 - 14 minutes - 16.5 MBHow to Prepare for Your First Three Years in Business The first three years in business. You've got all these things to do and I've got some great news for you. It's the most stressful time that you've had up until now, but it doesn't disappear. It continues, you just get used to the stress. All jokes aside, it is the most rewarding thing you can ever do, starting a business, but making sure you set the ground correctly, making sure the footings of your business are set up adequately will ...
102|Cash Flow Management Tips
September 03, 2019 23:30 - 16 minutes - 19.2 MBCash Flow Management Tips We all love money, but most don’t really love cash flow management stuff. Despite being a pain, ultimately cash flow management will give you more money. In no particular order below we will go through 10 fantastic tips around how you can have better cash flow management in your business. Learn more about cash flow management: https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/457-some-tips-you-need-to-know-about-cash-flow-management-by-dorks-delivered Outsource Number one ...
101|Marketing to Millennials
August 29, 2019 23:30 - 6 minutes - 7.74 MBMarketing to Millennials Today we are going talk about how the digital age is influencing the industry. It doesn't matter if you've just started out in business or if you've been in business for 50 years, if you are still in business you're going to have to take some of these new things into account. If you're selling to a business, so you're a business-to-business business, this may be less required now, but it will definitely come into play as these young millennials start owning their o...
100|Common Mistakes In Small Business: Part Two
August 27, 2019 23:30 - 7 minutes - 8.29 MBCommon Mistakes In Small Business: Part Two Well, we had such a fantastic response from the previous podcast that we've decided to do another one expanding on common mistakes in small business. So we already know remove repetition, step one. Document, step two. Remove objections from your customers, step three. How are you going to have time to do all that? You're already pretty busy. Read more about Common mistakes in small business: https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/455-455-common-mis...
099|Common Mistakes In Small Business: Part One
August 22, 2019 23:30 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MBCommon Mistakes In Small Business: Part One If you've been in business for a while, you'd know that there's definitely some mistakes that you've made. Today we've been asked what are the common mistakes that we see around the traps in small businesses? It's a great question, because we see a lot. Read more about small business' common mistakes: https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/454-common-mistakes-in-small-business-part-one There Are So Many Mistakes! Are you using paper? If so, you...
098|Brisbane Tattersalls Special Episode
August 20, 2019 23:30 - 30 minutes - 34.4 MBSo, as I've said, my name is Joshua Lewis, I'm from Dorks Delivered, and I’ve got another company called Business Efficiency Experts. Business Efficiency Experts has been around for about five years, and Dorks Delivered for 12 years, so we've been going around for quite a bit. We started off as an IT company, and then we found that there was more of a need for businesses to be utilising technology better. Since then I've started writing as a columnist for my entrepreneur magazine, I've been ...
097|Patching as a Service 101
August 15, 2019 23:30 - 5 minutes - 6.73 MBPatching as a Service So, you're in the cloud. You've got all this awesome infrastructure and you want to make sure that your transactions through the cloud to wherever the data is stored is secure. One of the main things you need to do is make sure you have patching as a service. Before we discuss patching as a service, what exactly is patching? Read more about patching: https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/446-patching-as-a-service-101 What is Patching? A patch is set of changes roll...
096|Sizing Up Your Office Space
August 13, 2019 23:30 - 4 minutes - 5.43 MBSizing Up Your Office Space Office space is an important facet to consider when you're setting up a new business or if you've got an established business. Maybe you're looking to change a business around and become one of those fancy hipsters that have people work from home. Whatever the case is, sizing up the amount of floor space that you need for your office can be a difficult task, and it's definitely a discussion that you need to have with your IT company. The reason being there's nea...
095 | How to Promote Your Website Youtube Channel or Podcast
August 08, 2019 23:30 - 4 minutes - 5.2 MBHow to Promote Your Website Podcast or Youtube Channel As you now know, content is king. The leaders in our industry, and not just our industry now, but historically our leaders forever have always been the ones that had content, the ones that had the hold of the content were the ones that were leading the nations. You need to make sure you've got great quality content and you've got something for people to come to your site and see. Today we're going to be talking about, instead of conten...
094|How to Find Content for Your Podcast or Website
August 06, 2019 23:30 - 6 minutes - 7.75 MBContent, content, content. Content is king and ultimately if you want to get anywhere with your website or with any of the stuff that you're producing, you need content and you need great quality content. I'm going to be talking about how to find content for those podcasts and this will also relate to content for blogs, content for YouTube videos, content for anything and everything. So stay tuned. This is the way it's going to work. Read more about podcast and website content at dorksdeli...
093 | How to Have Your Own Podcast
August 01, 2019 23:30 - 9 minutes - 10.6 MBHow to Have Your Own Podcast So you've been listening to my content for a while and you've decided, you know what, let's do it, let's create my own podcast. That's the question that we're going to be answering today. A number of people have asked us this and we're going to dive straight in now. Read more about Podcast at dorksdelivered.com.au Where to Start? So there's lots of different things that come into creating a podcast. You obviously need microphones, content, someone to host...
092 | What to Know About Planning for a Disaster
July 30, 2019 23:30 - 5 minutes - 6.47 MBWhat to Know About Planning for a Disaster After being in business for a while you hear some crazy stories. I've been lucky to be involved in a couple of them, and some of them are bad for business and I'm going to be talking today about how they could have been avoided. One of my favourites is this potential client that called me up and they were still in the process of using our services. Read more about business disasters: https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/418-what-to-know-about-plan...
091 | How to Hack the Work Week
July 25, 2019 23:30 - 10 minutes - 11.9 MBHow to Hack the Work Week So the word hack used a lot, especially in my industry. It has been used for many more years than what it has been used everywhere else. But here we are. Nevertheless, let's go through some ideas on how you can make sure that you have efficient tips on how to organise and attack the work week ahead of you. Read more about productivity at dorksdelivered.com.au It is Important to Plan into Five Lots Most business owners have to have the role of the BDM, the bu...