Anil Stocker discusses how alternative finance helped grow his own business from three co-founders to a team of 100.

How to access alternative finance for your small business

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Next up, Anil Stocker, co-founder of MarketInvoice, a company which allows businesses to sell unpaid invoices to provide working capital, discusses alternative finance and growing his own business from three co-founders in 2011 to a team of over 100 today.

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The Small Business Sessions podcast (series two, episode seven): How to access alternative finance

"We started before Fintech was even a word". Anil Stocker, co-founder of MarketInvoice discusses alternative finance for small businesses and growing his own business from three co-founders in 2011 to a team of 100 today.&nbsp;

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&lt;p&gt;If your sales have flat-lined or you need to re-energise your sales function and make sure everybody is pointing in the same direction, then give me a call.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have held a number of senior sales leadership positions across start-up, blue chip and not for profit organisations and have a&amp;nbsp;real passion for helping busuinesses get this stuff right. Clarity on target market, questioning and listening, qualification, negotiation and closing...these are just some of 

&lt;p&gt;Cara Sayer is a straight-talking entrepreneur and inventor. A popular speaker at events, she tells it like it is. Cara started her business in 2009 based on her need for a product that didn’t exist. She wanted her baby daughter to sleep when they were out and about – and she believed that many other parents had this same problem. So she decided to create a solution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With no experience in retail or manufacturing, she created SnoozeShade, the world’s best-selling range of baby sun and sleep shades. Her brand is recommended by leading baby experts all over the world, has won more than 70 awards, is used by celebrities and royalty and, most importantly, has helped hundreds of thousands of parents worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Despite initial public success in selling in major retailers and with 20+ distributors globally, 2014 saw Cara getting divorced and realising that her business was not profitable enough to pay the bills. When she saw Facebook ads showing how a garlic press could make a million, she decided to learn how to sell on Amazon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since 2016, Cara has more than tripled her turnover and doubled profit and her products are Amazon best-sellers in the very competitive baby category. As she frequently gets asked how she has done it, Cara started holding small workshops to teach other independent product brand businesses how to increase their sales on Amazon with ’Make It Brand It Sell It’.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cara loves passing on to other owners of small businesses what she has learned, sharing the real ups and downs of running and growing a business.&lt;/p&gt;

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Cara Sayer

&lt;p&gt;Cara Sayer is a straight-talking entrepreneur and inventor. A popular speaker at events, she tells it like it is. Cara started her business in 2009 based on her need for a product that didn’t exist. She wanted her baby daughter to sleep when they were out and about – and she believed that many other parents had this same problem. So she decided to create a solution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With no experience in retail or manufacturing, she created SnoozeShade, the world’s best-selling range

The Small Business Sessions podcast (series two, episode seven): How to access alternative finance

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