The Growth Zone

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Podcast by Christian Bartsch

The Growth Zone

The Growth Zone Podcast covers in 2024 topics from Innovation, Business, Startups, ESG, ISO27001, Cyber Security and interviews with industry leaders. Our Mission is to help people to grow their business by applying sustainable business strategies in marketing and leadership. Thereby local communities enjoy more environmentally responsible and socially responsive contributions from the business world. | In Marketing we cover the core areas of sales funnels, branding, positioning, lead generation and online advertising. | When talking about startups we will look into innovation, funding, investment, technology as well as artificial intelligence. | An entrepreneur can not be successful if the mindset is dislocated. Confidence is so important for a good starting out into networking and gaining clients. | When you gain access to the knowledge and guidance of an experienced entrepreneur you can grow using coaching and mentoring. Hence, leadership, strategy and finding a solution to a conflict is so vital. | Subscribe to our newsletter at meetchrisbartsch.com/newsletter

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Latest episodes

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01 May 2024

How risk analysis will help you achieve an iso 27001 certification

Gain an understanding of how risk analysis will help you successfully achieve your iso 27001 certification and improve your ESG rating. Green Cyber security is becoming an important factor for businesses in Europe and North America.

Here Christian explains how the ISO 27001 Risk Anaylsis process (German: Risikoanalyse nach ISO 27001) would take place. It is a quick and easy explanation of the steps. He explains that you do not need to overcomplicate the ISMS documentation. Writing the ISMS Documentation is not an easy task for someone who isn't deep in the ISO world. That is why it is recommendable to get help from an ISO 27001 Consultant (https://acato.co.uk) so that you save time, pain and money.

GET THIS BOOK >>> ISO 27001

Don't miss out on how to introduce ISO 27001:2022 into your business to be sustainable and enforce information security, while avoiding unnecessary project bloating and eccessive consulting fees.

Get the 2023 edition of "Information Security based on ISO 27001 Strategies: A Leadership Introduction to Information Security" written by Christian Bartsch.

It is availabe at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers:

ISBN: 979-8865141501 Softcover
ASIN: B0CNPNGTR6 Kindle edition

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19 February 2024

How ESG and ISO27001:2022 ISO Certification interact to influence your business success

In this episode you will find out, how to the ESG rating system and the newly released ISO27001:2022 ISO Certification interact to influence a company's ability to attrack funding and new key clients.

ESG is putting a growing emphasis on Information Security and Green Cyber Security. This is eventually leading to an influencial factore that impacts a company's ability to get funding, new clients aor even reduce their insurance costs. The ESG Rating is negatively impacted if a business has no apparent efforts towards protecting personal data or implementing an information security management system (ISMS).

Here Christian explains how the ISO 27001 Certification process would take place. It is a quick and easy explanation of the steps. He explains that you do not need to overcomplicate the ISMS documentation. Security policies are ther to improve security but not make life hell for employees. Writing the ISMS Documentation is not an easy task for someone who isn't deep in the ISO world. That is why it is recommendable to get help from an ISO 27001 Consultant (https://acato.co.uk) so that you save time, pain and money.

GET THIS BOOK >>> ESG

Don't miss out on how to drive your business to be sustainable, while avoiding the ugly side of ESG, which can be a great revenue driver when applied in a non-toxic way:

Get the 2022 edition of "The Sustainable Business Idea - A pocket guide to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)" written by Christian Bartsch.

It is availabe at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers:

ISBN: 979-8-8330-3548-1 Softcover
ASIN: B0BKWWJL4H Kindle edition

GET THIS BOOK >>> ISO 27001

Don't miss out on how to introduce ISO 27001:2022 into your business to be sustainable and enforce information security, while avoiding unnecessary project bloating and eccessive consulting fees.

Get the 2023 edition of "Information Security based on ISO 27001 Strategies: A Leadership Introduction to Information Security" written by Christian Bartsch.

It is availabe at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers:

ISBN: 979-8865141501 Softcover
ASIN: B0CNPNGTR6 Kindle edition

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30 October 2023

Reaching your audience by building trust

In this episode you will be mind feeding on how to reach your audience by building trust. Social selling is often stated as happeing on social media platforms such as facebook or linkedin. The reality is htat you need to do social marketing before you can actually do social selling.

Most of the time, people are stuck in social media wasitng time by consuming content instead of selling. The reason is that social media is not really designed for doing business.

LinkedIn is actually a recruiting plantform that has been turned upside down. now people are trying to sell their services there by spaming people.

Corporattions have hired PR people to create a stream of content supposedly coming from its CEO. The world will realize that a busy CEO has no time for being stuck in social media.

GET THIS BOOK >>>

Don't miss out on how to drive your business to be sustainable, while avoiding the ugly side of ESG, which can be a great revenue driver when applied in a non-toxic way:

Get the 2022 edition of "The Sustainable Business Idea - A pocket guide to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)" written by Christian Bartsch.

It is availabe at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers:

ISBN: 979-8-8330-3548-1 Softcover
ASIN: B0BKWWJL4H Kindle edition

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29 October 2023

Social Marketing is social selling?

What can you learn from social media and its influence into how busiensses are growing in a even more digital environment?

Social Marketing is social selling! Don't just get stuck infront of your screen, but go an meet the person to enjoy a coffee at acafe. Build real raport by having that natural conversation every person really needs.

GET THIS BOOK >>>

Don't miss out on how to drive your business to be sustainable, while avoiding the ugly side of ESG, which can be a great revenue driver when applied in a non-toxic way:

Get the 2022 edition of "The Sustainable Business Idea - A pocket guide to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)" written by Christian Bartsch.

It is availabe at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers:

ISBN: 979-8-8330-3548-1 Softcover
ASIN: B0BKWWJL4H Kindle edition

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27 October 2023

Quality management is a competitive advantage for Software companies

In this episode Christian is explaining why developing software is more than jsut blurping endless pages of code. Every project needs planing but also so kind of quality control.

Quality management is a competitive advantage for Software companies

GET THIS BOOK >>>

Don't miss out on how to drive your business to be sustainable, while avoiding the ugly side of ESG, which can be a great revenue driver when applied in a non-toxic way:

Get the 2022 edition of "The Sustainable Business Idea - A pocket guide to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)" written by Christian Bartsch.

It is availabe at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers:

ISBN: 979-8-8330-3548-1 Softcover
ASIN: B0BKWWJL4H Kindle edition

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25 October 2023

ISO 27001 for Education providers

In this episode, Christian will provide insights into why our education providers (schools, universities, academies) need to tacles thier information security in a more reliable way.

ISO 27001 is becoming an important part of delivering knowledge for Education providers

GET THIS BOOK >>>

Don't miss out on how to drive your business to be sustainable, while avoiding the ugly side of ESG, which can be a great revenue driver when applied in a non-toxic way:

Get the 2022 edition of "The Sustainable Business Idea - A pocket guide to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)" written by Christian Bartsch.

It is availabe at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers:

ISBN: 979-8-8330-3548-1 Softcover
ASIN: B0BKWWJL4H Kindle edition

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