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Four business owners with over 30 years collective experience under their belts
share the capers and triumphs of running a small business and how they now avoid perilous customer chaos and pitfalls.

26/07/2025

How often do you announce, I'm THIS or I'm That?

I'm a straight-talker and I tell people this. Does it make me less or more of a straight-talker!?

Now then Pete Morgan IS a straight-talker, cos here, he put me right back in my place!

This month we talked about finding your perfect-fit customers on A Funny Thing Called Business podcast...

How do you know when you've found yours?

Kate Curry, Darren Langley

24/07/2025

Anyone with a heart-beat!

This was Kate Curry's perfect-fit customer in her early days of business. Like all of us, right!?

How do you know when you've found your perfect-fit customer?

Always great to chat business with Darren Langley, Kate Curry and Pete Morgan on our podcast.

15/07/2025

How do you find your perfect fit customers?

This was the topic of conversation in this months A Funny Thing Called Business episode , and et moi () with over 50 (!) years collective experience shared some of the best (and the worst) ways to attract your best (and not so good) fit customers.

Between us we've worked with some lovely people, but like us, I bet you all remember only too vividly the customers who it didn't quite work out with.

Don't worry we're not going to be asking you to share your client nightmares out here in the open...but if you do need to get something off your chest...that's what DM's are for! 😉

23/06/2025

Do you have a podcast? (please share the link to it the comments)

If you have you'll know there are many random topics that come up.

Me and my fellow podcasters started talking about turning points in business that have led to growth.

somehow got talking about crocheting!

Let's restore some structure! What have been the turning points in your business that have led to growth?

21/06/2025

Do you love putting your processes in place? Getting your systems all set up?

No, of course you don't!

If you're a creative like you're probably in the ball pit
having fun with what you do best!

PS My name is Clare Whalley and I love systems and processes!

19/06/2025

We talked about turning points in our business.

Networking came up several times. Finding a group where there are people you would go to the pub with...that's my litmus test for a great networking meeting anyway ;)

What's yours?

17/06/2025

Turning points in your business that have led to growth...

Surely, if you've been in business for a significant amount of there have been many.

On A Funny thing Called Business podcast we shared networking as having a huge impact, not only on the growth of the business, but also in terms of personal development.

My 1st memory of networking was not long been out of corporate and turning up to a BNI meeting, full of grey suits at 7 in the morning and having to stand up and share my 60 seconds.

Absolutely horrifying at the time, but wow, did it make me STEP UP my game and get good at it!

What's been your biggest turning point in business?

26/05/2025

Confession time for me and my fellow podcasters Pete Morgan, , … when I asked Are you over delivering to your clients?

There’s a time and a place right? We want to give the best service to our clients. But not to the detriment to our mental or physical health and our business must be profitable.

How do you create boundaries with client delivery?

20/05/2025

'If you want to over deliver, make sure its on your terms'

Kate Curry is way more sage that she gives herself credit for.

She always manages to close off our podcast episodes with an absolute gem of advice (Think Jerry Springer ).

Our latest episode 'Over promising and over delivering - The curse of the business owner' is out now! Listen here - https://traffic.libsyn.com/afunnythingcalledbusiness/OverPromiseDeliver.mp3

Do you fall foul to either of these, and if not how you achieve balance?

16/04/2025

In this month's 'Funny Thing About Business' podcast, we talked about differentiating yourself from your competitors.

In the U.S they call in nich-ing, we call it niching 🙂The former makes Kate Curry itchy!

Differentiating yourself is not always about working with a certain industry. It can be about focusing in on your values (as the business owner) and leading with these as your differentiation.

Or it could be honing in on your clients' values. Maybe they are heart-centered, community focused and giving. This can be your niche...

What's your niche and why?

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Pete Morgan Gravitas Web Design

26/03/2025

'Murky Soup', 'I've got a hard edge,' and 'salad!'
Just a few of the things that came up during our recent podcast conversation all about..
..yeah you guessed it, work-life balance! Never a dull moment when I get together with Pete, Kate and Darren chatting all thing business.

Do you have a good work-life balance in your business? If so how do you achieve it?

And if you have any topics you'd love us to answer please drop me a DM.

Episode sponsored by Element45

11/03/2025

If you host a podcast with others you'll know how the conversation can go off on a tangent, sometimes a very strange one. One minute you're talking about productivity in business, the next you're reminiscing about 1980's tech jargon!

Darren Langley Web Design Pete Morgan

Episode sponsored by Element45

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