Hey there, my fabulous listener, welcome to episode 260 of the Small Business Made Simple Podcast.

Thanks for lending me your ears today – I know you have lots of choices, so I sincerely appreciate me being one of them!

If you’re enjoying this podcast – I’d love you to take a screen shot and share it on your socials and tag me in it.  How cool would that be!

Don’t forget you can get the show notes for this podcast at www.socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/260

Did you have a listen into last week’s episode? It was helping you look at where your profits might be leaking from your business.  There’s 4 places I talk about.  So go listen, make some adjustments in your business and marketing and be more profitable! Head back there if you didn’t get a chance to listen in already- click here to listen to ep 259 – www.socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/259

But before I get started, I wanted to give a shout out to this week’s podcast sponsor Are you tired of wasting time on financial admin?  Simplify your business with Thriday.  Thriday is the next-gen accounting platform that automatically reconciles your expenses, calculates your tax and chases up overdue invoices.  You can control it all from one place.  Imagine how much time that could save you.  Business finance doesn’t have to consume you.  Become a Thridayer and live your best life! https://www.thriday.com.au/

And just before I get to my amazing guest today – you are going to LOVE her – I wanted to let you know that I have opened a waitlist for my Little Black Book on Black Friday.  I am creating a guide to help you maximise sales and profits during the Black Friday sale period. It’s not just for e-commerce businesses and the guide’s not just about one day.  It’s about making the most of all the hype and cashing in without the overwhelm and the stress.  This guide is going to be fantastic.  So if you want to join the waitlist (no commitment – just join the list) then go here: https://bit.ly/BFWaitListJenn – heads up though, this guide won’t be free, there will be a cost because it’s worth it.  Just wanted to be clear on that.  Can’t wait to help you be more profitable around this time of the year.

Okay, onto today’s episode and my A-MAZ-ING guest.  Wendy Lloyd Curley.  Wendy is one of my favourite humans – we have met through She’s the Boss (a fabulous community – if you’re not a part of it, come join, and tell Jules I sent you there!) and I always love our chats. Wendy is going to guide us on networking today – specifically strategic networking.

Wendy lives in Sydney, and she’s in a band where she sings and plays guitar most weekends. Professionally, Wendy is the founder of Strategic Networking, a consultancy and training firm that helps uncomfortable networkers become comfortable. She is also the franchise owner and executive director for BNI Sydney North East. BNI is the world’s most successful network for generating business referrals and Wendy thrived in BNI as a member for 10 years before buying her franchise. She lives and breathes marketing and strategy and that’s probably why we get along so well….

WENDY’S LINKS:

Website https://strategicnetworking.com/

Facebook business page https://www.facebook.com/StrategicNetworkingConsulting

LinkedIn profile page https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendylloydcurley/

I hope you enjoyed that podcast – all the links to find Wendy on Facebook, LinkedIn and her website are in the show notes at www.socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/260

It was a good episode wasn’t it? If you’d like to continue the chat, join me and join in the fun in my Facebook group Like Minded Business Owners https://www.facebook.com/groups/LikeMindedBusinessOwners – love to hear from you over there.

So, that’s it for episode 260. If you loved this episode and found it valuable, please take 30 seconds out of your day to leave me a rating and review if you want where you are listening.  One more goal of mine is to reach more people with this podcast, and you can help me achieve that, by leaving me a review!  Thanks in advance.

See you next week on the podcast for episode 261!

Thanks again to Thriday – the next-gen accounting platform that automatically reconciles your expenses, calculates your tax and chases up overdue invoices. https://www.thriday.com.au/

Don’t forget about the waitlist to be the first to get my Little Black Book on Black Friday – https://bit.ly/BFWaitListJenn

But in the meantime, let’s hang out on social and get social on social – you’ll find me on Instagram, Facebook and my fav LinkedIn.

But whatever you do,

……..remember small business peep, as my opening song says, there’s no point in dreaming small!