Amanda Lord and Geoff Hughes - Fund It Frog

Toby Beresford - Nudge London

The internet and social networking sites like Facebook present lots of opportunities; but how can you make money from them? I wanted to know, so I interviewed Amanda, Geoff and Toby. Amanda and Geoff’s business, Fund It Frog, is a Facebook application. The way it works is that you buy items via Facebook and Fund It Frog will give some of the money from your purchase to a charity of your choice, at no extra cost to you. Fund It Frog is making money and so are hundreds of charities nominated by Facebook users.

So is this a good way of making money from the net? I asked social media expert Toby, who commented on Geoff and Amanda’s business and gave some hot tips as to capitalising on the opportunities out there. Whether you’re a blogger, a Facebooker or MySpacer, there are thousands of ways to cash in on this phenomenon and anyone can do it, even me: as a result of Toby’s advice, I’m thinking up all sorts of ideas to make money from this blog.

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Posted: June 27th, 2008 under Business Theory, Charity, Entrepreneurs, Internet, June 2008, Media.
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Kwame Kwaten, D’Influence Productions and Teebone, Music Producer

Are you a singer or a music producer? In fact, if you’re anyone interested in finding out what it takes to make it in the music business, listen to this interview. I spoke to the two music producers named above. Between them they’ve worked with the likes of Jay Z, Micheal Jackson and Craig David. In this interview they gave advice about how to promote yourself, how to get your demo heard and what sort of attitude you need to be successful in the music business.

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Posted: June 20th, 2008 under Business Theory, Entrepreneurs, Media, Music.
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Jessica Huie - Colorblind Cards and Kamel Hothi - Asian Markets Director, Lloyds TSB

In this show I explored whether or not ethnic minorities approach business differently. What makes some ethnic groups so hugely successful and why do some have lower instances of success? Entrepreneur of the week Jessica Huie talked about how she launched a greeting card business with the aim of featuring more ethnic minority models and then I chaired a round table discussion with Kamel and Lola about what they thought.

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Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Business Theory, Entrepreneurs, Media.
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Nick Dolan of The Real Ale Co and Simon Middleton, branding expert, Turton Middleton

The entrepreneur of the week in this show was Nick Dolan who founded The Real Ale Company. Starting out based on a friend’s farm, he’s now got his business up and running from his base in Twickenham. So if you’ve ever wondered what the difference between ale, beer and cider is and have ever wanted to start this sort of business listen below to how Nick did it.

And then we talked about branding. I asked expert Simon Middleton about what it takes to create a kick ass brand……

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Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Business Theory, Entrepreneurs, Media.
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Terry Irwin - Management Consultant, TCii and Life-coach Alix Nadelman. Paul Torrisi from The Apprentice also dropped in.

Ex-Apprentice contestant, Paul Torrisi dropped into the show to give his views on why he thinks some businesses fail. Management Consultant, Terry Irwin also gave his advice and then in the second half of the show, I got some advice from Alix about how to build an effective team.

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Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Business Theory, Entrepreneurs, Media.
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Pooya Ahmadi - CEO The Business Channel

The media industry is a notoriously tough nut to crack but Pooya Ahmadi is an even tougher nut herself. This is the story of a woman who set out to, and has successfully managed to start her own television channel. She’s one hell of a woman and in this interview she tells me about how she did it.

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Posted: May 24th, 2008 under Charity, Entrepreneurs, Media.
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Matt Fagg - Celebrity Photographer

This is the story of the man who photographed Kanye West on the toilet. Well not just that, he’s also snapped Alan Carr washing a car and established himself as a successful photographer to the stars generally. I invited Matt along to the show to talk to me about how to become a celebrity photographer. Having been brought up with the idea that creative careers just don’t pay, it was really inspiring to hear Matt talk. He loves what he does and as you’ll hear from the interview, there’s no reason you can’t do it too.

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Posted: May 24th, 2008 under Business Theory, Entrepreneurs, Media, Uncategorized.
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