Investor, business mentor, content marketing expert and media entrepreneur Sean King and The Advertist’s Managing Director, Keith Smith go back a few years, to the heady days of working in Soho, publishing a video trade magazine in the late 1980’s

In their conversation, Sean talks expansively on his own career path, the new business agency industry and what it’s going to need to do to benefit from the post-Corona landscape, as well as his new investment opportunities.

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In this exclusive mini-series, brought to you by The Fuel Podcast, we give listeners a unique opportunity to be a fly on the wall of three highly experienced creative advertising heads, navel gazing and contemplating.

Tim Hollins, Martin Galton and Greg Jordan make up the creative supergroup that is Beehive. An agile A team of advertising troubleshooters.

If you want to know how truly creative people think, then listen on..

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Looking a gift horse in the mouth

Managing Director Keith Smith’s latest column for RockstarCMO is all about leaning in to the change we’ve been craving, that’s been given to us and we’re highly likely to walk away from.

…Fraidy cats…s’just a virus..

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Who’d have thought that supplying hand sanitiser would be such a cut-throat business? Ian Miller, MD of ProQure a business solutions provider, which on a day-to-day basis provides companies with a complete buying and procurement service, suddenly found himself in the middle of a bazillion bidding wars! How did this mild mannered sales professional deal with it? Please meet the super-cool Ian Miller.

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Episode 8: Dan Sudron of The Future Factory

How’s your sales pipeline looking these days?

Is it on your to-do list? Is it something that you’re definitely going to look at once you’ve got a clear day or two? Or is it something you nurture on a daily basis? Something that’s bulging with opportunities short and long term?

In this episode, we meet Dan Sudron whose new business agency The Future Factory is one of the best known in the industry.

The Future Factory are always in high demand and Dan is very much an unpaid cheerleader for the industry and he’s a chap who rolls up his sleeves and gets stuck in on behalf of his clients.

In this wide-ranging interview, we cover how many of the UK’s marketing, digital and PR agencies are coping in this remote working environment. Dan shares his wisdom on how to get noticed by prospects, how to win their confidence, retain the business and help them meet their marketing objectives.

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Cherry Business Development Consultancy is the new business agency founded by Lucy Snell and Katie Horvath. In this episode, we debate whether or not to pause your new business activity in a crisis, what the new normal of sales looks like and the drawbacks of creating video content in your car.

Jeremy Davies also gives us his humorous views on the benefits of product innovation and new business.

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Keith Smith interviews Andres Korin, CEO and co-founder of Storkcard, an innovative fintech that helps solve the insolvency issue of having babies.

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Alex tells it like it is with a few pointers about how to save our businesses by applying some basic new sales techniques and a large dose of common sense.

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Tom is paid by big brands to help them model their future strategy to make sure they’re not caught out by cultural and economic changes that are heading their way.

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What a swell party we had last week – the perfect show for the perfect storm!

The Advertist – the UK’s only decent source of new business development intel, data and insights has decided to launch a new product.

And frankly, the timing couldn’t be better!

While business executives are in isolation, seeking new and innovative ways of pushing forwards and keeping the wheels of commerce turning, what better thing to do than join our gang?

That gang is The Fuel Podcast.

Produced by the founders of The Advertist, The Fuel Podcast is our brand new show, designed to help all those working in business, with an interest in finding new clients available now on Spotify and iTunes.

No flim-flam – just honest-to-goodness, inclusive, insightful, funny and lively interviews and think pieces, designed to help you on your new business journey.

We’ve just dropped five episodes and we’ll be publishing every week with fun, informative and engaging interviews with some of the UK’s most knowledgeable winners of new clients.

And you could do us no greater favour than subscribe to the show, so that we can continue to sprinkle a little jet fuel on the fire of new business.

In no particular order, I’d like to thank the following guests:

  • Phil Lewis – whose “damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead” approach is a much needed breath of fresh filtered air.
  • Ben Potter – new business matchmaker, a fount of biz dev knowledge and a wise head on young-ish shoulders.
  • Tom Cheesewright – applied futurist, business seer and raconteur who delivers the future in a stripped-down, no-nonsense easy-to-digest format.
  • Alex Kirkpatrick – man about town (on a bike) business development agency co-founder, new business planning maestro and always one of the first to know when it rains (both physically and metaphorically).
  • Greg, Tim and Martin at Beehive for their branding advice and general barracking from the sidelines.
  • And I chip in with a short monologue to help raise the spirits of those working from home.

Additional thanks to Donna Smith, Editor of The Advertist for her co-production advice and to Matt Smith at Quijibo Design and Photospherix for his technical skills and input. In fact, anyone with the name Smith.

And don’t forget – the same team behind The Advertist is the team behind The Fuel podcast and we have only one thing in mind: to make your job of new business prospecting a whole hell of a lot easier.

So wash your hands, pull up a chair and tune in to The Fuel Podcast and we’ll keep coming back with more help, advice, great guests and general new business-themed entertainment for you.

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Keith Smith is the co-founder of The Advertist, the UK’s only independent new biz dev platform. Copywriter, blogger, podcaster and published author. You can email him at keith@theadvertist.com if you are interested in finding out more about how to grow your new business pipeline, or how to be involved with The Fuel Podcast.