Category: SMB Tips & Tricks

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What You Need for Your Online Presence for Brick and Mortar Stores

Even if you run a brick-and-mortar store, you need an online presence. If you’re not online, people can’t find you, your customers can’t share about you, and you may as...

/ January 30, 2023

10 Best Small Business Newsletters You Need to Know About

Newsletters have been on the scene electronically for a number of years now. We’ve seen marketers test different tactics to capture their audiences with varying levels of success. Marketers in...

/ December 12, 2022
How To Give Excellent Customer Experience With Brick-and-Mortar & Online Store Combined

How To Give Excellent Customer Experience With Brick-and-Mortar & Online Store Combined

Many traditional stores were already struggling as online shopping emerged as a new way to get goods. This shift picked up pace at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as...

/ November 12, 2022
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6 Ideas for Small Restaurant Designs to put a big smile on your customers faces

Small restaurant designs can be beautiful and functional. Running a small restaurant can be a challenge, with limited space and having to manage the flow of customers and wait staff. Most...

/ October 29, 2022

Anthony, Pastreez: A New Business Taking The Time To Get Things Right

Anthony and Yami run Pastreez, an online macaron store, selling handmade French macarons in California and all over the US. Growing from strength to strength, they are shortly launching a...

/ September 22, 2021
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Jen, Cheese etc: Approachability Turns A Struggling Business Around

Jen and Ali own Cheese Etc, a small cheese shop just outside of Reading, 50 miles west of London – a local hub for their community. Before they bought Cheese...

/ September 17, 2021
Tea Traders: Uniting Passions to Support the Community

Paul, Tea Traders: Uniting Passions to Support the Community

Tea Traders are a specialist tea shop set up in 2017 by Paul and his partner, Nick, in Carmarthen, Wales. They are all about trying to engage people with different...

/ August 23, 2021
Small Stuff: Building a Shop for Products with a Future

Hellen, Small Stuff: Building a Shop for Products with a Future

Hellen started Small Stuff in 2016 to sell ethical children’s products in Sheffield, UK. Small Stuff was built on her belief that we need to start minimizing overconsumption and to...

/ August 14, 2021
Raffia Store: Through Grief to a Reignited Business Passion

Charlotte, Raffia Store: Through Grief to a Reignited Business Passion

Charlotte never thought about owning a business when she opened Raffia Store in her early twenties. But when she nearly lost her business, she knew: this was her calling. Nearly...

/ August 9, 2021
Aquarian Pearls: Five Generation Business Adapts with the Times

David, Aquarian Pearls: Five Generation Business Adapts with the Times

David was born in London into a fifth-generation pearl trading family that had a reputation spanning the South Ocean, Australia, and the UK. He evolved the family trade with the...

/ August 3, 2021