Knowing how to interview someone is one of the best skills you can develop. Whether you are trying to understand your client’s behaviours, making new friends or business associates, or engaging with someone that could be a potential mentor. Over the last five years, I have spent a lot of time preparing people for interviews for jobs, conducting interviews for …
How to Let Go of Perfectionism with Tony Nash
This article was inspired by a conversation between Ronsley Vaz and Tony Nash on the Bond Appetit Podcast. Everyone feels the pressure to be perfect. Perfectionism is a common theme in many of our lives and is exceptionally hard to break. Confession time: how many of us have listed ‘perfectionism’ as a weakness on our resumes? Because why would we want to …
It’s No Secret…. the One Thing You Need to Know Before You Set up Your Podcast
What happens before you set up your podcast? Well, in episode 78 of Should I Start a Podcast, I had a great conversation with Tyson Franklin, AKA Dr T. Tyson is the author It’s No Secret… There’s Money in Podiatry, winner of the Queensland Telstra Business Award and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He’s been on his …
Why Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer Says Business Owners Should Embrace Humanity in an Increasingly Smart World
Cat Matson is the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for the City of Brisbane. What does that mean exactly? Well, she leads the efforts in the digital transformation of the city as a means of accelerating economic growth and equipping small-to-medium enterprises with the digital skills to boost their business. Apart from her extensive business strategy experience and her mighty personality, …
3 Entrepreneur Myths Debunked by a Global Entrepreneur Daniel Priestley
Entrepreneur myths are so common these days with the designation become the “cool” thing. Today Daniel Priestley is known as a best-selling author, international speaker, and successful entrepreneur. Having built and sold businesses in Australia, Singapore and the UK. But he didn’t become a globally influential business leader overnight. Daniel started out as a dance party manager. As an 18-year-old before …
3 Secrets of Successful Podcasts: How Can My Business Use a Podcast?
“What the secrets of successful podcasts?” is a question I get asked a lot. And, in a recent conversation with Jules Galloway, a naturopath and podcaster based in Byron Bay, Australia. I asked her about her podcast journey, why she got started and how it’s changed her business. What Jules shared with me made me realise just how can my business …
Audio Marketing – What Is It and Should Your Business Care?
“Audio marketing. What is that Ronsley?” Every time I say we are the world’s first audio marketing agency, I get this question. And the more I think about it, the more I realise that haven’t written about it. Well, apart from a whole book on the subject of audio marketing for business … 🙂 How can you create a marketing system …
Business Networking: Why Your Business Nightmare Is Hiding at the Next Event
Business networking is a nightmare waiting to happen. And, I know that this might land up becoming a controversial topic. But, I can’t tell you the number of times that someone has asked me, “Ronsley, which networking events do you go to”? Don’t get me wrong, I do go to events. But I’m not so sure that it should be …
Content Ideas: Do You Struggle to Come up with Ideas for Your Content?
One of the biggest challenges for content creators is coming up with content ideas for whatever it is they are going to write about or talk about. We tend to think that our content has to revolve around some earth shattering idea. I struggled with this for years and found content creation exhausting, struggling to find an idea for an …
Entrepreneurial Schizophrenia: The Struggle Is Real
“Own it authentically” – what does that even mean? As I sat next to a very close friend Clarissa Rayward, who is an amazing entrepreneur, author, and family lawyer; I asked myself the question while I got her input on the topic. Well it was more that she told me to “Own it authentically.” Entrepreneur recognition We were at the …