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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040 |Tips for Creating Engaging Content
March 07, 2019 22:30 - 4 minutes - 6.35 MBToday, we're going to be talking about how to create engaging content. The idea here is you've just got yourself an awesome website, or maybe it's been established for a while. You got a few visitors and you're wanting to ramp that up, or you might be an established blog or content creator already looking for some hints and tips. Know Your Audience The best way to find and create engaging content is to know your audience. What I would suggest you do is you ask your current clients or you...
039 | You Are What You Eat
March 05, 2019 22:30 - 6 minutes - 8.84 MBBe the one in your life that you're most proud of. Anyone that knows me or has known me for a while knows that health is incredibly important to me. The most important thing that we have is our health and then family, friends, and your other interests. but your health is the most important thing. You need to keep yourself in tip-top condition and you can do anything. People look at me and they say, "how do you have enough time to do all the things that you do? You're running multiple compani...
038 | What Is The Importance Of An Elevator Pitch?
March 03, 2019 22:30 - 4 minutes - 6.71 MBElevator pitches. The first three seconds are critical. This is one thing that I learned from reading the book the Way of The Wolf by Jordan Belfort. Years ago you could talk to someone for a little while and they would keep interested. Nowadays you have to be on the ball and be ready with some decent great things to say. You really need to hone in with a sniper approach as to what it is that you do, how you do it, and why that's relevant to the person that you're talking about. There's a lo...
037 | The Gift of Giving
February 28, 2019 22:30 - 3 minutes - 5.44 MBThe gift of giving. We're still in that seasonal moment where it feels like Christmas is just finished, but summer's here and work's kind of back but kind of not. Something I've been doing for a number of years is that I give a six pack to my postie and my garbo. I got this idea originally from the Go-Giver by Bob Burg, which is an amazing book. Since I work from home I often get caught up and can be very busy. Sometimes I get the bin out on time. Sometimes I don't. My garbo is aware and s...
036 | It's Ok To Be Sad
February 26, 2019 22:30 - 5 minutes - 10.4 MBPreviously we have blogged about sitting mentally well with yourself in business. You need to make sure that you're pushing yourself in the right direction and doing what you can for your mind and mental state. So many business owners put themselves down. This happens to everyone in every aspect of life, but business owners are especially susceptible. As a business owner, you are organised. You have a list, and you try and get everything done on the list, and then try and help everyone out....
035 | The Government is Now Legally Spying on Aussies!
February 25, 2019 01:00 - 5 minutes - 7.82 MBAustralia has just passed a dangerous anti-encryption law after there's been a compromise between the two different political giants. Now I don't normally get into political stuff because I find it boring and contradictory a lot of the time, but this is something that's going to affect every single person, especially if you're in business. What's Going On? In short, what the bill does is that it grants Australian police the ability to issue a notice or ensure a way of forcing a company, ...
034 | Guide to Accounting Software
February 21, 2019 22:30 - 7 minutes - 7.03 MBNumbers, general ledgers, chart of accounts, reconciliation, linking bank accounts from one thing to another and then sending out your BAS. It's something that unless you're a number freak and a super geek and really, really enjoy the accounting lifestyle, you're not going to enjoy that part about your business. We're going to talk about the best ways that you can make the bit you don't like the bit you don't mind. You still might not love it but trust me, it will be easier. Consider This ...
033 | Digital Decluttering Tips
February 19, 2019 22:30 - 5 minutes - 7.52 MBWho remembers the days of the filing cabinet? You know that thing sitting in the corner and every so often you'd open it up and clean through it and you'd go wow, okay, there's a lot of stuff in here. You clean through it and you got it all thrown out, you got all the stuff that you needed from the last seven years for the tax man, you digitised it all, and you chucked it on the computer, but that could be just as big of a problem as what you did in your filing cabinet. Today we're going to ...
032 | Your Hosting Provider Sucks
February 18, 2019 01:00 - 4 minutes - 7.08 MBLast time, we covered off on a few interesting bits and pieces around making sure your website's fast, and that was all from a coding perspective. Today we're going to talk about making your website fast in ways that you can't control. What's the Difference in Hosting Providers? So, when you choose a web hosting provider, your web hosting provider offers the technology to have your website go as quickly as possible. If you think about the code on your website as Michael Schumacher, he's ...
031 | Websites and SEO Tips
February 14, 2019 22:30 - 11 minutes - 13.1 MBWebsites are one of the top ways to showcase your business online. You want to make sure your website is user-friendly, and that it has the information and message you're looking to relay very clearly. What's most important is you want to be able to appear in a search. Having the answer for your prospecting customers is fine, but having the answer doesn't matter if you don't have a voice. There's a number of great tools and tricks out there to help optimise your website, and I'm going to go ...
030 | The Hidden Costs of Having a Website
February 12, 2019 22:30 - 4 minutes - 4.03 MBSo, I hear that you guys have just created a wicked awesome product that you're looking to sell online on the latest eCommerce platform. Now, whether you've been using WooCommerce, Shopify, or any of the other platforms, something needs to be said. The costs of these platforms might seem cheap at $20 a month or so, and that is cheap for the platform. You can't go wrong. Maybe your product is worth $50. You look at this and you go through the math in your mind. You're going, okay, $20 a month...
029| Get a Fast Website
February 10, 2019 22:30 - 3 minutes - 5.58 MBSpeed up your website. Come on guys, you've got to do this! So many people that we see, so many companies that we deal with have these websites that load so slowly. Seriously, if your website loads slowly, people aren't going to go there. You're better off just not having a website at all. Imagine if you had a business card. You go to hand it to someone, but it was written on a napkin. They would look at you and be like, "what are you handing me this for?" Man, you'd look so stupid. People ...
028 |What is your favorite digital marketing tool?
February 07, 2019 22:30 - 4 minutes - 8.8 MBIn this modern day and age, everything comes down to marketing, and today we're going to be discussing our favourite digital marketing tools. For us, we find that as a company that deals with business-to-business we do use LinkedIn quite a bit for our marketing. We find that its quite effective and that people are conducive to getting information about a business through LinkedIn. For businesses that have a more business-to-consumer type approach, we definitely find Facebook works better. Bu...
027 | Don't Let Price Be Your Identifier
February 05, 2019 22:30 - 6 minutes - 5.93 MBHere's a tip that you should remember for your whole career in business: Don't let price be your identifier. So many times in business, we see new people come on board and say, "oh, we know how to do this cheaper than them,". They look at their competitors and they decide to price themselves just underneath them, or even ridiculously lower in the thought that they're going to be bringing in new customers. The problem with doing this is if you're just new in business you're competing against ...
026 | How To Keep Business as Usual When You're Moving Office
February 03, 2019 22:30 - 7 minutes - 6.98 MBHow to keep business as usual when you're moving office? At some stage throughout your business career, you're going to have to move office. It's very unlikely you're just going to be sitting still in the same spot as when you started. When that time comes, you need to do some prior planning. This will make sure that you don't have any services go down and your customers can still contact you and ultimately as far as anyone externally is concerned, it's business as usual. Now, the prior pl...
025 | The Pros and Cons of Working Flexibly
January 31, 2019 22:30 - 3 minutes - 3.59 MBI've been asked today to talk about the pros and cons of a flexible work environment. While working from home might mean fewer distractions, people can get lonely and it can lead to spending long periods of time online. Working from home requires a certain level of discipline. I would say you need to have a balance between working from home life and your social life. I know myself when I was in a relationship with someone that did work standard hours and I was in a flexible work environment,...
024 | Tips on Starting a Business
January 29, 2019 22:30 - 9 minutes - 20 MBNew year, new you, and you've decided to start a new business. This could be anything from a floral arrangements to a mechanic, or anything in between. Maybe you're going to be the next Elon Musk. Who knows? But what's important to know is to make sure that you have an appropriate business structure. You don't want to be starting a business if you think it's going to go in a certain direction, and you don't have the trust, proprietary limits, all the other stuff that comes with a business. ...
023 | Tips For Becoming a First Time Employer
January 27, 2019 22:30 - 13 minutes - 27.5 MBCongratulations! This is a really exciting time for you in business. I remember when I first started out in business. I thought, okay, what am I gonna be doing here? I wrote up a plan and made a decision as to where I wanted to go, and it was really only a couple time that I went, "this is when I've made it." One of those times was when I went to the bank, and they said, "you have enough of an income to be able to buy a house." So in Australia, that means you've got at least two years of pos...
022 | The Process of Getting a Job
January 24, 2019 22:30 - 8 minutes - 17.2 MBIt's that time of year again, and lots of people have new years resolutions where they're trying to do better by themselves and become the best person they can. One of the things that are common in the new year is an increase in the number of people looking to get a new job. This might be you, or it might not be, but I'm going to go through and explain a few of the different things from an employer's perspective we see time and time again. The following are things you should look to refine i...
021 | How To Do Business Sustainably
January 22, 2019 22:30 - 9 minutes - 20.6 MBYou might be feeling blue, but today we're going to be talking about how to feel green and do business sustainably. If you're a millennial, a lot of you are minimalists and you might already be doing a lot of things in a green way without thinking about it, and minimising your carbon footprint from your efforts. If you've been in business for a while though, maybe you're still wearing your suspenders to hold your pants up and you're looking up people's names in the yellow pages and white pag...
020 | How to Get the Most Out of Fitness Trackers
January 21, 2019 03:00 - 4 minutes - 10.3 MBWhen I became single, I decided it was time to get fit. Being the geek that I am, I had to get some sort of gadget to help. So I bought one of those fitness bands, you know, the ones that count your steps. At the end of the first day, I'd run off my feet at work, but I still only managed to get to 3000 steps. Which is much better than the thousand that I would normally get if I was just sitting at the computer, but either way, it didn't seem like a whole lot to me. Time to do it! So I sw...
019 | How Can We Embrace Vegetarianism?
January 18, 2019 02:30 - 6 minutes - 9.9 MBA few short years ago, I weighed 38 kilos more than I weigh now. I started researching a lot to try and work out how to lose that weight. First off, I started exercising more, drinking more water and analysing the quality of my sleep. I went into a lot of detail looking at my health, what I'm putting into my body and what I'm expecting to get out of my body. The things that I found were very interesting. I found for myself that cutting back on the amount of meat and carbohydrates that I was ...
018 | Project Management Software
January 16, 2019 02:30 - 4 minutes - 8.67 MBLet's talk about project management software. Now, if you're not familiar with what it this is software that's going to make managing anything in your business a little bit easier. As soon as your business has more than one person, or you're doing work for more than one client, you're going to find that project management software is going to make your life a lot easier. In its most basic form, it's a list of different tasks. For instance, we have a service board for Dorks Delivered when any...
017 | Working From Home, How To Stay Secure
January 14, 2019 02:30 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBSo your employer has let you work from home and now you're wondering “how do you stay secure?” There's more and more employees that are working from home nowadays and it's becoming the norm. I personally think is fantastic because it's lowering the amount of cars that we have on the roads during peak times, which is a huge problem. You go along and there's five cars each with one person in them, instead of one car with five people in. There are more traffic and greenhouse gas emissions for n...
016 | Key to Stay Ahead of Your Competitors
January 11, 2019 03:56 - 1 minute - 2.32 MBThe Most Important Key to Stay Ahead of Your Competitors Read more about the 6 Ps (Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance): https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/208-key-to-stay-ahead-of-your-competitors Watch this episode at: https://youtu.be/8rPur3FhKsU Can you believe we're 10 days into the new year? It happened so quickly. I'm a stronger believer that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Quite seriously, if you have...
015 | What stops you employing remotely?
January 09, 2019 02:30 - 6 minutes - 14.9 MBWhat stops you employing remotely? Today, we've been asked this question and it's an interesting one, because here at Dorks Delivered we do hire abroad and think it can be fantastic when done properly. We have people that work within Australia, as well as people that work overseas for us. The reason we decided to hire people remotely was due to a couple of factors. The main one is that we operate an IT company. As part of our business we need to monitor and manage other companies, and a lot ...