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CEO of @disruptivelive. Director of @comparethecloud. Mum of 2 - An Optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty

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Kate Bennett
12 hours
Your UK charity can claim up to 300 free Microsoft 365 licences. But the programme changed in July 2025 — here's what you actually get now and what costs extra. Practical guide: eligibility, setup, and honest costs 👇 https://t.co/H8sa8Rgp6A
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Kate Bennett
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HubSpot's native Xero sync shows invoices but doesn't create them. New guide: how to build a https://t.co/sDTMHHJKwH scenario that turns closed-won deals into draft Xero invoices — with correct VAT, MTD-compliant digital links, and all for under £9/mo. https://t.co/dttrjFxnT5
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Automate your work. Make allows you to visually build, scale and automate AI and agentic workflows. User friendly no-code integration tool. Try it now for free!
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Kate Bennett
8 days
How to rescue a podcast ramble without being rude: The Crystal Button. When your guest comes up for air after tangents, step in with: "In other words, [one clean sentence]." Guest feels heard. Audience gets clarity. You get a clean launchpad for the next question.
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Kate Bennett
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Every podcast technique — matching, mirroring, silence, labelling — comes back to one thing: Be genuinely curious about the person across from you. Not "I read your bio" curious. Properly curious. The kind where you forget you're recording. That's it. The rest is just reps.
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Kate Bennett
8 days
4 seconds of silence after someone says something meaningful isn't awkward. It's powerful. It says: "what you just said matters enough that I'm sitting with it." The best stuff in every podcast interview comes after the pause. Train yourself to stop filling silence.
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Kate Bennett
8 days
Stop asking boring podcast questions. ❌ "Tell me about your company" ✅ "What problem keeps you up at night?" ❌ "How did you get into this?" ✅ "When did you know this was it?" First gets facts. Second gets stories. Stories are what people remember.
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Kate Bennett
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I bombed my first podcast interview. Colour-coded notes. Pre-written questions. The works. The conversation was... fine. Forgettable. Took me ages to figure out what went wrong. I wrote down everything I've learned since 👇 https://t.co/9cn0doIUOf
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disruptive.live
Most podcast interviews are forgettable because the host is performing, not connecting. Here's what actually works.
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Kate Bennett
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99% of UK retailers lose £10k+ per quarter to unsold stock. Tested Shopify AI add-ons, Brightpearl & Linnworks for indie retailers. Honest finding: below £500k turnover and 12 months of clean data, a spreadsheet still wins. Full pricing breakdown + checklist 👇
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Kate Bennett
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71% of UK employees use AI tools at work without permission. 22% use them for finance tasks. If your small business doesn't have an AI acceptable use policy, here's a free template and ten-point checklist to get one in place by Monday. https://t.co/fjfmkYLg7t
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Kate Bennett
12 days
I broke down both approaches, the pricing for a 20-person firm, and the UK GDPR implications. https://t.co/xMD5bgEdZU
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Kate Bennett
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Most UK professional services firms still sort email manually. Microsoft 365 now has two routes to AI-powered triage — Copilot Prioritize My Inbox and Power Automate with AI Builder. One costs £16.10/user/month. The other costs 96% less.
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Kate Bennett
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43% of enterprises are skipping AI pilot phases entirely and jumping straight to production-scale deployments. The question is whether governance can keep pace. https://t.co/zqxaMF1vhQ
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comparethecloud.net
For eevrything technology and cloud comparison come and check out our tools.
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Kate Bennett
14 days
Half of all UK small businesses have been targeted by cyber attacks. Managed hosting isn't glamorous, but it might be the most practical defence most SMEs can adopt. https://t.co/v5JlzrlvRW
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comparethecloud.net
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Kate Bennett
15 days
Customers rate AI-powered support higher than human-only teams — but only when they don't know it's AI. Perception still trumps performance. Interesting findings from Gradient Labs. https://t.co/JiGguLvEu7
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comparethecloud.net
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Kate Bennett
15 days
Qualcomm is partnering with AGI to bring agentic AI directly onto Snapdragon devices — AI that can act independently on your behalf, without needing the cloud. This could reshape how we think about on-device intelligence. https://t.co/JWSAU0q1kt
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comparethecloud.net
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Kate Bennett
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68% of recruiters report burnout, with AI tool sprawl identified as a major factor. More tools doesn't mean better outcomes. Sometimes it means the opposite. https://t.co/F6miYy3TrS
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comparethecloud.net
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Kate Bennett
15 days
The UK ranks fifth in the global AI race — behind the US, China, Singapore, and Finland. Strong in research output, but lagging on compute infrastructure and commercial deployment. https://t.co/zi4EEUh0eB
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comparethecloud.net
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Kate Bennett
15 days
Orca AI has launched full 360° field of view for maritime collision avoidance — fusing camera, radar, and AIS data in real time. AI-augmented safety at sea, not replacing the bridge crew. https://t.co/mhlWXDPVNw
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comparethecloud.net
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Kate Bennett
15 days
Full comparison with pricing tables, resolution rate breakdown, and a 10-point setup checklist: https://t.co/qDgMj5ffR8
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