Making It Work
Want to know what it’s really like to run your own business? Listen to the advice of some remarkable entrepreneurs.
Want to know what it’s really like to run your own business? Listen to the advice of some remarkable entrepreneurs.
Want to know what it’s really like to run your own business? Listen to the advice of some remarkable entrepreneurs.
No ordinary business podcast
From life-changing investments to struggles with mental health, listen to entrepreneurs tell it like it is on Making It Work – your no-nonsense, straight-talking business podcast.
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Episodes
I'm dreaming of a Black Friday
How the holidays get crazy
Let me pencil you in
Why are entrepreneurs so bad at turning off?
Click and mortar
How to build an online store
Ask the expert special
Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg
Reinventing the wheel
Do you need to constantly innovate?
Fine margins
How to price your goods
Raters and haters
How to respond to your reviewers
Going global
Is it worth selling your products outside the US?
You're not alone
The entrepreneurs discuss struggles with mental health
Small business owners reflect
How entrepreneurship changed me
COVID-19 Special Part I:
Sales slump or off the charts? The coronavirus has impacted small businesses in so many ways. How are our entrepreneurs coping? What are they learning? In the first of a two-part special we talk to four founders about steering their business through a global health crisis.
COVID-19 Special Part II:
As the world begins to face the reality of a post-pandemic existence, small business owners are still working out how to operate safely. So how do you run a company under the constraints of coronavirus? And will things ever go back to how they were?
COVID-19 Special Part III:
In the third episode we never planned to make, we check in on the four entrepreneurs to see how they're weathering the COVID-19 storm. Have any temporary measures brought about lasting changes? And will it be enough to save their businesses?
Sick of instant ramen
When to start paying yourself
It's not working out
How to fire your employees
Too close to home
Working with friends and family
Don’t make ’em like they used to
Working with foreign factories
How to market your business
Product promotion in the 21st century
Swimming with sharks
Where to find investors
Only as good as its people
How to hold onto your employees
Frenemies
How to take on your competitors
Go big or go home
How to scale your business
We need to talk
When you should just give up
The entrepreneurs
In each episode of Making It Work, we pick the brains of some of America’s brightest entrepreneurs. Want to get to know them and their businesses a little better?
The presenters
Kelli is a FedEx Small Business Champion and marketing strategist who has spent over a decade supporting US entrepreneurs. Tom is a writer and creative, keen to get to the heart of what drives small business owners in an ultracompetitive and ever-changing landscape.
The two may hail from different sides of the Atlantic, but they’re brought together by a shared passion for storytelling and entrepreneurship. Want to get in touch with Kelli, Tom and the team? Send an email to makingitwork@fedex.com.