Connect with Laura
1. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura shares her story of how she started her accountancy firm with just £200 and sold it for over £1 million.
2. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura shares the challenges of selling her firm in 25 days.
3. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura shares the personal stories of her time in retail and how they shaped the person she now is.
https://humanisethenumbers.online/episode-143-laura-taylor-founder-of-bright-flamingo/
1. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura starts the podcast by sharing her story of starting her accounting business with just £200 and then, five years later, selling it for over £1 million in just 25 days. Listen here to Laura's story and the love she has for what she does.
2. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura talks about why her business is called Bright Flamingo - the evolution of the name and how she wants to stand out in a world of grey pigeons.
3. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura shares her thoughts on why the humans connected to any business matter. Laura calls business 'a human game' because accountancy firms, like any business, are all about the people - they are run by people, they employ people, they serve people. Laura believes that if you don't focus on the humans involved in your business, you will not get great results.
4. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura talks about why, when she ran her accountancy firm, she focused on the construction industry and became a niche firm that only had construction-industry clients. She talks about the challenges of saying no to new work - if it was not a construction business - and the importance of sticking to the boundaries you want to work within. She believes you have to stick to your path and see it through.
5. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura talks about the social media platform LinkedIn and how invested she is in posting on this platform every day, doing this since 2018. She talks about the key to her success being her consistency, as she believes that many people try it for a few weeks and then give up. But she is also very authentic and shares her successes and her failures. Laura has won and continues to win business through this platform and believes it works if you consistently show up as your true self.
6. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura talks about the systems and the processes that allowed her to build her firm from scratch into a successful million-pound firm and sell it and exit it in just 25 days.
7. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura shares how, over 18 months, she delegated all of her work so that she could focus on the sales and marketing within her accountancy firm. She talks about her delegation process - list making, reporting, and ensuring there were no 'boomerangs'.
8. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura describes what advisory means to her, the work that gives her a kick, and why she is choosing to do what she is doing right now.
9. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura has a slogan - 'stop practising and start businessing'. In this podcast, she shares what that means and why accountants must run their firms with the same departments, structures, systems, and processes as other businesses.
10. Listen to this Humanise The Numbers podcast with Laura Taylor, founder of Bright Flamingo. Laura talks about her previous roles in retail, the advancement of AI, and the way she changed the way she manages people. In retail, management was based on disciplinary procedures - the stick, rather than the carrot. Laura shares a very honest story about her team's reaction when she announced she was leaving Asda and how this was the final straw for her.
https://humanisethenumbers.online/episode-143-laura-taylor-founder-of-bright-flamingo/
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Here is a soundbite of the interview with Laura