De-stress Your Business
Business doesn’t need to be stressful. This weekly podcast is for business owners, leaders, and managers who want to get better results, with less stress. We go deep on tactics you can roll out today, such as freeing up 15 hours per week (!) of your time, empowering your teams, and sorting out employee onboarding. Paddy Mann and Alexis Kingsbury are serial entrepreneurs who have learned these lessons the hard way over the last 15 years, and now support 100s of other business leaders as co-founders at AirManual.
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Episodes
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
With less than a week until Christmas, a pesky process gone wrong threatened to cause a lot of festive stress for Paddy.
What went wrong?
How was it dealt with?
Will Paddy’s Christmas be saved??
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Not being on top of you business finances can cause so much stress
And in so many ways…
You’re never clear on the real situation.
Just how much money do you have? When will you run out?
You discover issues too late.
Thousands of pounds get wasted on unused subscriptions.
Tens of thousands of pounds have to be written off after some internal fraud.
(We’ve seen this — it sucks!)
You can spend years scaling a business, yet struggle to find the money to pay yourself more.
We experienced this ourselves.
To say it’s depressing is an understatement.
You feel stressed when you spend time on finances (which you think is better spent elsewhere)… and stressed when you don’t spend time on finances.
It’s a lose-lose situation.
To sort this… you need to develop some good habits. And in today’s episode of De-stress Your Business, we’re looking into just how you can do that.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
What would you do if you lost most of your clients over a period of a few weeks?
The stress would be unbearable for many business owners.
However, expert copywriter Arfa Saira Iqbal responded by developing and using an approach that delivered a record-breaking quarter and now gives her a steady stream of new clients — completely taking the stress out of where her next project will come from.
The approach is so simple…
Every day, Arfa:
Found her ideal clients in Facebook groups
Engaged with the content others shared in there
Shared her own relevant content
Connected with anyone who engaged with it
As a result, she acquired 1,000s of followers and a steady stream of clients!
Listen to hear more from Arfa Saira Iqbal, author of the best-selling book: “Mind-Hack Marketing: How to Turn Customer Psychology into Breakthrough Sales”, and an expert copywriter who written copy for clients that has collectively brought in over $125 million in revenue.
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Helpful resources:
Arfa’s website: http://arfasairaiqbal.com/
Afra Iqbal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arfa.s.iqbal
Simple daily checklist you can use to Engage on Facebook daily to grow followers and attract new clients: https://airmanual.link/templates/gain-facebook-followers
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
In small businesses, most line managers have had zero training of how to manage.
This is not a good situation.
We all know that bad line managers are:
A huge source of stress
A major hindrance to team productivity
A common reason for leaving a job.
So… it’s not enough to hope that someone can be a good manager simply because they’ve previously been managed.
As with any other role in your business, managers need onboarding
They need support in how to run 1-2-1s, give feedback, coach and delegate.
Sounds complicated? It doesn’t need to be. There are great resources you can lean on to introduce this into your business today.
In today’s episode of De-stress Your Business, we dive deeper into why line managers need onboarding, and how to tackle this.
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Helpful resources:
- Line manager onboarding template: https://airmanual.link/templates/get-started-as-a-line-manager
- Manager Tools® “Basics” podcasts: https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics
- The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Manager-Mark-Horstman/dp/1119244609
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Friday Nov 25, 2022
When we work with new customers, we often help them to answer this question:
What’s your life changing goal?
In business, we’re often too focused on the revenue and growth, and forget the impact it’s having on our actual lives.
Rather than focusing on increasing profit 10%, what would it mean for you if:
You could take 4 week holidays every summer?
You could spend much less time on the tasks that drain you, and much more time on the tasks you love?
You were no longer spending evenings and weekends fixing issues?
You were no longer needed in the business, and could sell or work less [as a business owner]?
These are life changing goals.
And if you fix them the right way, then…
You’ll be happier.
Your friends and family will be happier.
Your colleagues will be happier.
Your business will be stronger (and yes — revenue and growth will improve too!)
In today’s episode of De-stress Your Business we go deeper into why this is such an important question, and how it can help your business.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
One of the biggest sources of stress in the workplace?
Key person dependencies.
A key person dependency is simply when your team or business is dependent on a specific person to do certain tasks.
If your business only has one person who knows how to send invoices, or do payroll, or set-up the equipment for new joiners… you have a key person dependency.
You’ll experience the stress most acutely when that person isn’t available.
Suddenly, things will grind to halt. The team and customers will get frustrated. Countless hours will be wasted.
If you are that key person, then you’re going to struggle to finish on time, relax during your holidays, and catch-up when you get back.
On today’s episode of De-Stress Your Business we dig further into the pain caused by key person dependencies, and how to fix them.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing the same mistakes happening again and again.
And it hurts in so many ways…
Team members end up:
Wasting countless hours repeating the same work
Getting anxious about not delivering
Feeling like they’re not growing
Feeling under-supported and frustrated with management
And managers:
Lose countless hours providing support and fixing issues
Get frustrated at the team not delivering
End up micromanaging rather than coaching
Don’t get time for the higher value tasks they really enjoy
How do we put an end to mistakes? How do we get off the treadmill and start making real progress?
This is our topic for today’s episode of De-Stress Your Business.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Many small business owners describe themselves as being “not very process oriented”.
Not true!
As a business owner, you inevitably end up:
Talking to customers
Seeing what works and makes them smile
Seeing what doesn’t work and makes them frown
Repeating the steps that make them smile
Removing the steps that make them frown
You do the same in every other area of your business. You ask for more of what works, and less of what doesn’t.
This is what being process oriented is all about!
The issue is making it scale, so others with less experience can get the same results.
In today’s episode of De-stress Your Business we’re digging into this myth, and the solution for those of you who say you’re “not very process oriented”!
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Do you find it easy to summarize what your business does?
And can you do this with a simple message that really connects with your audience?
When you can’t do this, everything else suffers:
Marketing is ineffective
The sales team are frustrated
And customers are just confused!
It sounds like a simple thing to fix… but while it’s simple, it’s not easy.
And as founder of multiple businesses, this has been something I’ve really struggled with.
So in today’s episode of De-Stress Your Business, I’m talking to Garth Jemmett, the founder of We Explain Stuff. He’s a world-class expert in understanding, simplifying and packaging a message.
We’re diving deep into how you can overcome this challenge to see better results and less stress in your business.
#marketing #stress #simplify #business #destressyourbusiness
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Garth’s website: https://www.weexplainstuff.com/
Garth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garth-jemmett-we-explain-stuff/
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Most businesses wait too long before they really put a spotlight on sorting out their processes.
The result?
Failed hires
Lots of mistakes
Leaders spending all their time supporting their team
And a ton of stress
So when is the right time to start working on your processes?
Really, it’s at the point where you realize that you have some processes that work, and that you need to hire employees to help the business grow.
At this point, your new employees will need clarity on what to do. If you’re asking them to take over sales calls, then work out the key steps that need to happen on every call. If you’re asking them to develop your website, then make it clear what they do to demonstrate that every update is of a high quality.
If you don’t do this, then expect them to make mistakes and drop balls. Expect to spend a lot of your time fixing these mistakes, and supporting the team. Expect failed hires, and a lot of stress.
In today’s episode of De-Stress Your Business, we go deeper on this subject — when is the right time to start working on your processes, and why?
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!