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Richard Knight and Lamia Walker guest on The Business Show on Marlow FM on 6th June 2024

June 15, 2024 • Mark Harris / Richard Knight / Lamia Walker • Season 9 • Episode 18

On The Business Show on Marlow FM on 6th June 24, my guests were house sitting business owner Lamia Walker and business advisor Richard Knight, who joined me to talk about their work, and discuss a range of business news stories.

I started with a track from the Hilary playlist- The Cure with “Boys Don’t Cry” – https://youtu.be/9GkVhgIeGJQ?si=UshzWkp2oYNa3YyW is where you can hear it.

Richard then spoke about his work with Bizpedia, a high-end business club, which is a networking group for people running medium to large businesses – see more at https://www.bizpedia.com/.

Connect with Richard via https://www.linkedin.com/in/bizpedia-richard/.

Lamia then spoke about HouseSitMatch – as you might expect it’s a cross between Airbnb and Match.com - an international network facilitating house sitting and pet sitting all over the world.

For more see https://www.housesitmatch.com and their reviews (4.9 / 5.0) are at https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/housesitmatch.com. Depending on when you’re reading this, their 20% Off Discount code of PERFECT20 might still work!

Connect with Lamia at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamia-walker/.

Richard’s music choice was “Can the Can” by Suzi Quatro, because he heard it recently and thought we’d like to too - listen at https://youtu.be/7SXWgC0SLCA?si=-1rdvhgLMei_xYNX .

His business story was https://www.fsb.org.uk/resources-page/how-to-tackle-mental-ill-health-in-your-firm.html - how does one do that, and is the answer different for small businesses?

Lamia’s music was next – “Get the Party Started”, by Pink. She chose it because she uses it to energise her. Hear it at https://youtu.be/mW1dbiD_zDk?si=a9cdOtrRlP4V5uPX.

She then chose https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/right-to-disconnect-rules-company-emails-wfh-0qb6qsk6r - should the onus be on the sender or the receiver?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrr5ee5zv8o was suggested by me. Great story - large issue – think about value. Did you notice they’re all 5 letter words??

We then talked about marketing in a downturn, based on https://www.fsb.org.uk/resources-page/marketing-tips-during-a-downturn.html which Richard found. Should marketing be the first spend to be cut, or the last?

The last song is another from the Hilary playlist - hear Joy Division with “Transmission” at https://youtu.be/6dBt3mJtgJc?si=hhG_pJlUe2SxLLV_ .

Connect with me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/enterprisedoctor/ and join our group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/enterprisedoctorbusinessshow/.

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