The Small Business Sessions
Podcasts for small business owners 🎙️
Whether you're starting out or scaling up, the right advice makes all the difference. Enterprise Nation's podcasts cover everything from funding and marketing to legal must-knows and success stories – straight from UK entrepreneurs and industry experts. Tune in and get inspired!
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🎧 The Small Business Sessions
The Small Business Sessions is a weekly podcast from our business.connected training programme, in partnership with Vodafone Business, that shares practical tips and stories from inspiring entrepreneurs and digital experts.
Access free training in a range of digital business areas, from online marketing to AI and smarter working at www.enterprisenation.com/business-connected
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🎧 The Small Business Sessions: Founder Fails
The Small Business Sessions: Founder Fails is a podcast created in collaboration with Hiscox. In this series, we're sitting down with bold business voices to talk candidly about their biggest fails, unexpected lessons and the power of getting back up.
Whether you're a sole trader, scaling a start-up or running a growing enterprise, Hiscox business insurance can help. Their policies are built around your business to protect you from the real risks you face every day. Learn more about the cover available to you: www.enterprisenation.com/find-something/hiscox-business-insurance
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🎧 The Small Business Retail Sessions
The Small Business Retail Sessions is a podcast series from our Powering the High Street programme, in collaboration with EDF.
It explores the major challenges facing today’s retailers – from declining footfall, vacant storefronts, post-pandemic recovery and sustainability.
Whether you're a seasoned shopkeeper or a digital business ready to make the leap to bricks-and-mortar, Powering the High Street is your gateway to making a meaningful retail impact. Discover more at enterprisenation.com/poweringthehighstreet
The Small Business Sessions
Zoë Chapman, The Whizzer: The power of networks and networking in growing a business | Small Business Sessions
The Small Business Sessions, Enterprise Nation's podcast, is back for a ninth exciting series of inspiring entrepreneurial stories and expert business tips! The podcast is powered by the business.connected online training programme and our partner Vodafone Business.
Joining freelance journalist Dan Martin for the sixth episode is Zoë Chapman, founder of The Whizzer, the revolutionary portable toilets for adults and children.
Zoë started her business in 2020 while recovering from spinal surgery. She decided to turn into reality a portable toilet invention she had come up with in 2015 when she was potty training her son and looking after her disabled father.
Since then, she has gone on to sell thousands of products and land an investment deal on BBC TV's Dragons' Den.
Throughout her journey, networks and networking have been crucial to Zoë's success. That includes joining Enterprise Nation, getting a contact for a trusted manufacturer from a fellow entrepreneur, getting Instagram followers to test products and recruiting customers as freelancers to help her business.
Topics discussed in the episode include:
- Finding a manufacturer with a limited budget and getting the product manufactured.
- How Enterprise Nation has helped her business.
- How a customer helped Zoë get stocked in a national retailer.
- The impact of appearing on TV's Dragons' Den.
- The other female entrepreneurs who inspire and influence Zoë.
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This episode is brought to you in partnership with Vodafone Business, the Nation’s Network*, as part of the business.connected campaign which helps small businesses embrace digital change and grow online.
Access free training in a range of digital business areas, from online marketing to AI and smarter working at www.enterprisenation.com/businessconnected
Listen to and watch previous podcast episodes at www.enterprisenation.com/podcast
*The Nation's Network: Vodafone - nation's most valuable brand, verified by Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable UK Brands Report 2024, and supporting the nation since 1984 through to 2025's major summer events. See full verification of the substantiation: www.vodafone.co.uk/TNN
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