Blog — Small business

There’s a glamorisation that comes with owning your own business. You picture getting up when you want, easing yourself into the day with coffee, croissants and casually reading the broadsheets that are so big they basically pick a fight with you at every attempted turn of a page. You then work a few hours, send a few emails, ‘do lunch’ then ‘work’ another hour or so before you call it a day. Now I actually did this, minus the aggressive giant newspaper, at the start of the business. As much as I’d love to say it worked a treat, it...

We recently had the exciting opportunity to do a pop-up shop at the Cambridge branch of John Lewis on their ground floor via a business called the Great British Exchange; who work alongside big retail brands to place small businesses into stores for a week. You apply online and basically submit a few images of your items along with product descriptions and prices and tell them all about your brand. You then get feedback within a week as to whether or not you’ve been approved by the John Lewis buying team to display your lines in store or not. Then...

We’ve now been in the new garden studio for a few months now and so I thought it’d be a good time to write a blog on the details, from who we used, to how long it took and how we decided on the interior of it. The blog will cover these main topics: 1. Who we used2. What size3. How long it took to build4. Planning the interior5. The best bits6. To conclude   1. WHO WE USED For this project we used Herts Garden Rooms, we got quotes from 4 different businesses but we also checked reviews for...

We recently did our first ever trade show at the January 2020 Top Drawer at Olympia in London, and once I’d signed up I searched online and found a few blogs but there were a few years old and so thought writing this might help anyone thinking of doing it themselves. I had a load of questions about doing a trade show, so for this I have done a combination of details, images and Q&A to try and cover as much as possible. Feel free to get in touch via the contact page on our website if you have any...