A HUGE thank you to these awesome women!
Gemma Metcalfe-Beckers (Mutha.hood)
Sarah Anderson (Sarah's Creative Kitchen)
Delight Mapasure (K'S Wors)
Jodine Boothby (Gummee)
and of course Emma Alleyne from Stamptastic ♥️
Thank you for giving up your time to help us celebrate our 10th birthday 🎉 You were honest, open, emotional and shared the ups and downs of running your own business. Your tips and advice were great and we hope that between the 6 of us we have inspired some of you who watched!
Some of the questions we asked:
🔹How did you begin with finding suppliers manufacturers/designers?
🔹How have you been able to keep your business active during the pandemic?
🔹How do you stay motivated?
🔹How do you prioritise your work when working from home?
🔹How did you drive sales during the first few years of business?
🔹Stock control. To pre order or not
🔹Biggest hurdle obstacle
🔹Working on your own/with husband
🔹Favourite tools for business
🔹Best marketing channel
🔹Who inspired you to open your shop
🔹Who are your favourite small businesses
For every person who attended we donated £5 to the charity Refuge. We had 41 attendees so donated £205. Thank you so much for watching and allowing us to make a donation.
Thanks for watching!
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