Nearly a year in to his start-up adventure travel business, Run Weekends, Nick Butter fills us in on how it’s going as the summer season hits full swing. (Short answer: ‘really well, but it’s far more intense than he expected!’)

Describing our chats for the pod as ‘business therapy’, Nick takes some time to step back and reflect. Some of the key points we cover include:

* Choosing your marketing spend: online vs IRL

* When to take the risk of hiring your first employee

* What skills your business needs to grow

* Should you get a business partner?

If you’re thinking of starting an adventure business (or any kind of business really!), or you’re on your own start-up journey, then take a listen, and you may want to check out episode 1 and episode 2 as well.

And if you enjoy this episode please like and share!

About Nick

In addition to being the first and only person to run a marathon in every country in the world over 23 months, Nick went on to run North to South of Italy totting up 100 marathons in 100 days, and then doubled that distance by circumnavigating Britain, running 5250 miles around the coast of UK in 128 days. He’s also an author, speaker and coach. Follow the links below to find out more, and if you know people who’d be interested in this podcast, please share now!

Key links:

https://www.runweekends.com/

https://www.facebook.com/runweekends/

https://www.instagram.com/runweekends

Episode 1:

https://adventurecollective.substack.com/p/the-adventure-start-up-series-episode

Episode 2:

https://adventurecollective.substack.com/p/the-adventure-start-up-series-episode-2d3