A podcast that genuinely helps you start & scale your creative small business
This twice-weekly podcast aims to help small business owners with everything they need to start, grow and scale sustainably their own creative small business. Below you can listen to every episode of the My Daily Business podcast.
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Episode 41: Small Business Tips - How to humanise your business and build connection and community on Instagram and other social media
It’s time to make an instant connection in your DMs! In this quick tip episode, Fiona shares with us a very simple tip she uses on platforms like Instagram to make the connection with her audience more genuine and help strengthen relationships using voice messages.
Episode 40: How to take time off in your business. Eight Practical Steps To Actually Make It Happen
Need to take time off? Listen to this coaching episode to learn the key 8 steps you need to follow to take time off from your business with confidence!
Episode 39: A free online tool to help combat content blocks and brainstorm content ideas
Learn how you can use AnswerThePublic for your content planning so that you have something valuable to talk about on your next social media post, blog or campaign!
Episode 38: How To Start A Business Inspired By Your Heritage with Dinzi Amobi of ULO Australia
Fiona invites Dinzi Amobi of ULO Australia as this week’s guest and they talk about switching careers from being a lawyer to running a small business that sells homewares, children and women’s clothing with prints inspired by her African heritage.
Episode 37: Business Lessons From My Late, Great Father
In this very special tip episode, Fiona honors her late father by reminiscing and sharing what her favorite lessons from him were that she still applies to her business today.
Episode 36: Systems and Processes: The Seven Steps Every Small Business Owner Needs To Do To Set Them Up
In this coaching episode, Fiona guides us through her steps in ensuring that a business’ systems or processes are set up properly.
Episode 35: Owning Up To Your Own Mistakes in Business and Creating Your Own Fool Me Twice Checklist
In this tip episode, Fiona discusses the importance of owning up to your mistakes and shares how you can avoid doing them again by preparing your own ‘Fool Me Twice’ checklist.
Episode 34: Why Small Business Owners Need To Take Risks and Be Kind - An Interview with Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Genevieve Bailey
In this fun interview episode, Fiona talks to her good friend, Genevieve Bailey, the award-winning filmmaker behind wonderful documentaries such as I Am Eleven and Happy Sad Man. Genevieve shares her journey when she started creating her films and her thoughts on the importance of going after your gut and why we all need to be kind not only to other people, but to ourselves as well.
Episode 33: Three Free Marketing Activities Every Small Business Owner Needs To Do
It’s another Tip Tuesday for small business owners and if you need help with marketing, then listen now as Fiona shares three free marketing activities you need to do.
Episode 32: 10 Simple Yet Effective Tips To Get More Clients and Customers For Small Business Owners
In this coaching episode, she shares her top 10 tips that she recommends every small business owner must do to achieve their goal of consistently gaining new people who would want to avail any of your services or products.
Episode 31: Tips for Small Business: Do You Believe Everything Your Brain Tells You?
In many situations, we find ourselves overthinking without knowing the other side of a story, thus affecting our mindset and how we deal with our circumstances.
Episode 30: Working through economic downturns and tips for staying motivated in retail with Chris Crouch of Happy Valley
Fiona discuss how Chris Crouch has successfully managed different kinds of businesses, and how he has managed to keep Happy Valley afloat during a pandemic.
Episode 29: Tips for Small Business - Celebrating Your Wins As a Small Business Owner Even in Covid-19 Lockdown
In this quick tip episode, Fiona shares her experience when she made a mistake in one of her emails and how she learned to celebrate her wins instead of being too focused on her mistakes.
Episode 28: Money Matters: How Small Business Owners Can Survive and Thrive Through Their Financial Goals
In this coaching episode, Fiona shares her thoughts on why it’s important to assess how much money you should earn to survive and thrive. Listen now as she talks about why money discussions can be awkward (for some) but completely necessary for a small business owner’s growth.
Episode 27: Are national days just a marketing ploy or can they actually help you plan content in your small business?
In this short tip episode, Fiona shares how national days can be a fun way for business owners to market their products and eventually create good conversions. Which one do you think will you be celebrating with your business soon?
Episode 26: Fiona Killackey on how, why and what she did to write her first business book, Passion Purpose Profit (with Natasha Ace)
In today’s podcast episode Fiona gets interview about her new book, Passion. Purpose. Profit. Sidestep the hustle and build a business you love. You can buy your copy here.
Episode 25: Why Every Small Business Owner Needs to Embrace Their Inner Marketing Hater
Listen to today’s episode as Fiona shares how small businesses are negatively affected when each owner has a bad relationship with marketing. She also talks about the release of her new book, the Passion. Purpose. Profit. Sidestep the Hustle and Build a Business You Love.
Episode 24: What every small business owner should know about marketing, what is marketing and how to know if your marketing is working
With almost 20 years working in marketing roles, Fiona knows the brilliant tactics from the BS. In this coaching podcast episode, she discusses what marketing actually is, what it isn’t and shares a tool to help you understand how your marketing is impacting your business and its connection to your audience.
Episode 23: How to get automate things in your business and get time back
n this short tip episode, Fiona discusses the importance of automation and why every business owner needs to use automation tools to save time and energy from doing repetitive tasks such as answering emails, sending instructions to new members of your team and sending emails to new subscribers.
Episode 22: How To Run A Successful Business in Partnership With Family, While Raising Young Children with Laurinda and Fatuma Ndenzako of Fashion and Accessories Brand, Collective Closets
Listen in to this chat as Laurinda and Fatuma share their experiences running a small business as sisters, how they cope with motherhood and business, and their top tips on becoming a truly empowering brand.