In this episode Sunil and James chat to the inspirational, Brett Denton, Founder of Kvell Fitness and Nutrition and Your Heroic Business.

Brett talks about his journey to success, how he has always sought guidance to help him grow and develop his businesses and offers some great advice to all you small business owners.

Make sure you listen to his five tips to help you succeed. 

Check out his website - www.yourheroicbusiness.com 

Welcome to a very special webinar edition of the Small Biz Banter podcast. In this episode, we are joined by an amazing panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons for Small Businesses of Tech Disruptors and Innovators.

James hosted the podcast and Sunil offered his expertise on the panel and joining him was

 Farooq Raja the Founder of AIRPA, an Integrated Platform as a Service that connects businesses' tech systems

 Andrew Yung a Senior Manager of the Digital Transformation team at the global consultancy, BDO 

 And last but not least Will Farnell, CoFounder of App Advisory Plus, Author of the Digital Firm and consultant and mentor to accounting firms 

James and Sunil chat with Karen Barrett - founder of unbiased.co.uk, a money advice website. Karen discusses how she successfully scaled up her business, gained investment and hurdles she has had to overcome as her business has grown.
She also offers some great advice on managing money, taking risks, investing and being a woman in a perceived male-orientated industry. 

Sunil and James chat with Mark Brown about Psybersafe, how important cyber security and GDPR compliance is to small businesses in the UK and how their behaviour-changing online training programme helps keep businesses owners stay cyber safe.

Mark also offers some really useful tips and advice to help small businesses stay safe online and ensure they protect their client data and their employees and limit the impact of cyber attacks.

Sunil and James chat with Nicola about HR Caddy, how they have helped small businesses navigate the pandemic and how they are now helping them with moving staff back to the office. 

We also discuss the importance of getting HR advice before it is too late, how businesses need to be more resilient with their staff and her favourite perks including chocolate hobnobs and red wine.

Sunil and James chat with Kyle about App Advisory Plus, - an independent app database for accountants and bookkeepers and how it helps accountants to advise and support SMEs in the UK and become more automated and manage many different aspects of their business.

They also discuss what 2022 holds for businesses, how tech is helping and who has the worst screen time and how to lower yours. 

In this episode, Sunil and James chat with Charlie Cook, who is the founder of Rightcharge - a UK based start-up that helps Electric Vehicle drivers find the right charge point and energy tariff combination for their home or business charging needs.

They discuss how the influx of Electric Vehicles and the legislation is impacting businesses and the future of energy consumption in the UK.

In this episode, Sunil and James chat with Richard Osborne, the founder of the UK Business Forum about his journey to setting up the forum and he went on to sell the forum and eventually buy it back.

We talk about side hustles, entrepreneurs and how the forum is being redesigned to attract thousands of amazing young business owners in the UK.