Eps 9 Today we discuss the power of listening, making the most of your time with Shane Waterman

Fotomum is a weekly podcast we interview business owners on their successes, struggles and their top tips for staying in business.

Todays episode we talk to the super funny Shane Waterman..........Five decades, twelve business start-ups, turning around several large businesses AND a Government department might be enough for most people.

But this week's podcast guest, Shane Waterman – The Business Saint, has NO intention of hanging up his 'business boots' any time soon!

Falling into his first business – Wedding Photography – without even realising it at just 18, he's started, grown and moved on or shut down an eclectic mix of businesses: Kitchen Design, Pre-school Nursery, Events Promotion, Art sales, Airport Transfers – and a few others he struggles to remember. And all of that alongside a '9 to 5 career' in Advertising, Marketing and Printing with stints at some VERY recognisable names.

Some have been failures, some have been successes. And one went on to be the 'seven figure business' held up as the Holy Grail of entrepreneurs today.

Along the way, Shane has experienced the highs of success – and the depths of failure, including a bankruptcy from which he came bouncing back, and now runs three businesses of his own, runs Visit Rochester UK on behalf of...er... Rochester!, and turned the town's Artisan Market around from near-oblivion to be one of a national newspaper's top ten destination markets in the UK - in just 12 months.

Most people would be more than satisfied with a track record like that. No, not Shane. One of his current businesses – The Business Saint – passes on what he has learned from over 40 years of 'doin' it for himself', to the next generation of entrepreneurs and business owners.

As he says in the podcast, people with his experience SHOULD pass on their knowledge and give those coming up behind a leg-up.

With thousands of mistakes behind him, but a truck load of genuinely useful lessons learned too, Shane has a unique way of cutting through the B.S. and getting to the nub of the problem.

Or, as he says 'I am to small business what Al Murray's Pub Landlord is to global diplomacy!' – he ain't kidding! When you hear his 'Sixty Second Sales Pitch' you'll know why!

And as for his responses to some of my... 'questions'... well, he came up with one of the more interesting uses for .... The Elephant.... and an unexpected superpower (or two) which he also put a business-slant to.

If, after listening, you'd like to tap into his many years of experience and get his input into your business, get in touch and take up his introductory offer (which is EXCEPTIONALLY GENEROUS!!) of an hour of his distilled expertise for just £99!! That's a £150 discount off the normal price just for YOU dear reader!

I'm booking about half a dozen hours right now!

It's not for nothing that he stakes his claim of being THE AUTHORITY on SMALL BUSINESS RESCUE.

CALL TO ACTION:
If you want to contact Shane for a no obligation chat about your business, just drop him an email at: thebusinesssaint@gmail.com