Samantha Collett is a successful property investor with a large investment portfolio spanning the UK. She started in 2004 with £15,000 and within three years had amassed a multi-million pound portfolio.
Samantha is the author of How to Buy Property at Auction (Constable & Robinson, March 2014) and Property Investment: The Essential Rules (Constable & Robinson, July: 2014). She regularly shares her property auction tips in her column for the Evening Standard Homes & Property, the Estates Gazette and her multi-award winning blog What Sam Saw Today, which has also been featured in The Telegraph Top 10 property blogs.
Samantha founded and later sold Gorgeous Homes, a property lettings business, and is an award winner of the prestigious NLA Women in Property. Samantha’s bubbly personality, passion for property and straight-talking approach has won her legions of fans.
Why Sam believes having soft interpersonal skills plus mind can help bridge any skill gaps you may have to catapult your success.
Hear How the combination of university subjects have been Sam’s core assets in building her personal brands and business throughout her career.
Listen to Sam explain how a random thought popped into her head one Saturday afternoon and she decided to become a property developer on the spot, armed with a small severance payout of 15k and “Zero know how”, she hits the ground running buying property from auctions.
Discover how her love of writing and an unrelated set events helped her get featured in national press and become a published author of two books “How to Buy Property at Auction” And “Property Investment: The Essential Rules”.
The 5 big lessons you can learn from Sam’s biggest failure in business (she bares all In this section of the podcast).
Duplicate Sam’s non regimental style of keeping herself motivated with what we term the “post it note strategy”. This is so easy to put into action with remarkable upside benefits.
Elevation Nation In this show we get inside the mind of Mr LinkedIn Mark Williams one of the foremost UK authorities on LinkedIn from the perspective of wining high quality business.
Mark shares his story of how he started his professional career in sales recruitment (very cut throat) as a brash cocky 21 year old, thinking he was the man after landing the role and going through the process of 5 interviews only to find he was in a “hire and fire” target driven conveyor belt company, after 12 months he was the longest serving member of the team – talk about no job security!
Here’s a sample of insightful lessons you can take away when you download this episode.
Learn the secrets to Mr LinkedIn landing several multi-million pound clients and $1 billion dollar company that has retained his services for the last 36 months, it’s so jaw dropping simple you might think he’s telling porkies.
Why it pays to have some bravado balanced with humility to scale, survive and thrive in competitive corporate environments, especially those with a direct sales focus.
How you instinctively know when your boss is talking crap and why you should bail out of that company before you comprise your ideology and principles.
Listen to Mark breakdown in graphic detail his biggest LinkedIn Mistake he made earlier in his career as coach whilst putting on his first event, it would be the equivalent of spreading Ebola to your connections and killing business profits almost immediately.
Hear mark’s thoughts on LinkedIn, the evolving platform and why you should pay attention and develop long term profitable business relationships.
Elevation Nation In This show you get to hear Rob and Leon interviewing Kate McQuillan, who runs a highly successful pet-setting business in Ireland with husband Mike. In less than 5 years the pet sitters Ireland brand has exploded rapidly turning over 6 figures primarily by having a strong content Marketing strategy.
Hear how Kate stumbled upon a Genius content Marketer and blindly followed his strategy to rapidly scale from local to nationally recognised business.
Learn How Kate grew her website traffic by 400% in 18 months using a wildly successful offline marketing tactic.
Discover the drop dead simple secrets Kate and her husband used to create 450 blog posts, which laser targeted qualified traffic to website.
Get an A-Z outline of how Kate generated tens of thousands of pounds (£/$) of free publicity that catapulted her brand to national prominence, which meant being featured in 15 newspapers, 7 radio shows and 1 TV appearance .
Kate discusses the hidden benefits of automating aspects of your business for removing bottle necks and improving efficiency.
We strongly recommend you listen to this episode over and over again, its jam packed with ideas.
Show notes.
Rob & Leon review their first 10 podcast episodes.
And what to expect in episodes 12-20
In this show we interview comedian comedy promoter and former Teletubbies star John Simmit on what it’s like to be a performance artist and through John’s story we discover the many parallels between the life of a performing artist and entrepreneur.
John explains how he developed his passion for performing art to flee from the status quo and stereotypes of young black men as he was growing up.
How Alternate comics Like Ben Elton and the Saturday Night SHOW inspired him to forge a career as an international Comedy Promoter.
The 3 Big lessons marketing he learnt from promoting his first major comedy event in Alexander theatre in the early 90 with zero database financial resources and no social media…
John explains how he became the go to Guy helping theatre directors with their marketing of alternative events and he spills the beans on the best strategy for approaching venues to get them for free to put on an event.
You learn how to handle rejection disappointment and the best way to dust yourself of and moving forward without been traumatised.
You will hear an intriguing revelation of brokering a deal with frank Skinners ex-management team to launch The Birmingham international film festival.