Small Enterprise has teamed up with Sage to supply your enterprise the possibility to open its personal pop-up store in Edinburgh in its glittering St James Quarter. The deadline has been prolonged to fifteenth October, so get your entries in now!
Three profitable small companies will share the Edinburgh pop-up store within the St James Quarter retail vacation spot, the place you can be promoting alongside John Lewis and luxurious manufacturers together with House NK, Lodge Chocolat and L’Occitane.
It couldn’t be a greater showcase for your enterprise within the run-up to Christmas – and it’s fully free to enter.
Three fortunate companies will share our Small Enterprise x Sage pop-up store from Wednesday, 29th November to Saturday, 2nd December.
It’s a really perfect strategy to take a look at your product, discover new prospects or get suggestions in your service.
4 causes to enter
Develop your model
Winners will get high-profile consciousness through footfall by way of the busy St James Quarter through the run-up to Christmas, plus you’ll safe useful press protection.
Showcase your enterprise
Invite buyers, friends or prospects to showcase your enterprise. The store additionally has an occasions area the place we’ll run occasions through the pop-up.
Roadtest your services or products
A novel alternative to promote or demo your services or products to potential prospects at scale and garner invaluable face-to-face suggestions from shoppers.
Create leads for your enterprise
Get a pipeline of high-intent leads for your enterprise that you would be able to observe up with past the store.
What you might win
4 days takeover of a pop-up store in St James Quarter, Edinburgh
- Help with arrange
- Video interview and editorial protection post-event
- £500 finances to spend on inventory, advertising and promotion
- Sage Accounting 6 months free trial
- Promotion throughout Small Enterprise together with e mail newsletters and social media posts
What earlier winners say
Final June, Small Enterprise and Sage teamed as much as give three profitable companies the possibility to run their very own pop-up store in central London’s busy Oxford Road.
Vegan brownie firm Cake Or Loss of life, on-line bookstore LoveReading and child gear rental service Baboodle had been chosen out of dozens/a whole bunch of entries to share the pop-up.
The response from winners was vastly optimistic, particularly in regards to the platform it gave their manufacturers.
Deborah Maclaren of LoveReading stated: “The help we’ve had from Sage and Small Enterprise has been sensible. It’s simply been a seamless, sensible expertise.”
Katie Hanton-Parr of Baboodle added: “All of the help round it has been sensible as nicely – all of the workshops, it’s a little bit of a gamechanger. You gained’t even realise for a bit how essential it’s been … it’s a trickle-down impact.”
The right way to enter our Sage pop-up store competitors
Simply fill within the on-line competitors entry kind right here.
Entries shut at midnight on fifteenth October 2023.
The winner will probably be introduced on Monday twenty third October.
The profitable companies will take over the area from Tuesday twenty eighth November to Saturday 2nd December (with the store open for buying and selling Wednesday to Saturday).
The competitors is open to all UK companies who’ve been buying and selling for lower than 5 years (as much as and together with twenty eighth November 2023) and is totally free to enter.
Who’re our Sage pop-up store judges?
Oliver Clark
World VP of built-in campaigns for Sage
Oliver Clarke joined Sage in January 2022 as the worldwide VP of built-in campaigns. He’s chargeable for driving the technique and inventive for all Sage’s campaigns globally, with the ambition to make Sage an iconic model in its class. Olly has a wealth of expertise in advertising and promoting, creating transformation and award-winning campaigns for among the world’s largest manufacturers, working with corporations resembling Unilever, ABInBev and Mars.
Katie Cross
Founder and director of Cake or Loss of life
Katie Cross had a profession in fundraising and growth for a spread of charities earlier than quitting in January 2019 to pursue her dream of being a enterprise proprietor. Cake or Loss of life began as a wholesale vegan cake firm in early 2019. After the unbelievable response to Cake or Loss of life’s brownies at a vegan market in London, Katie targeted her vitality on the key recipe and developed a number of new flavours. As soon as the pandemic hit, Katie pivoted the enterprise from wholesale to Cake or Loss of life’s ingenious shopper letterbox brownie bins. The bakery moved from East London to Exeter in Summer time 2021, the place it now homes a store entrance and continues to ship bakes throughout the nation.
Deborah Maclaren
Managing director of LoveReading
Deborah Maclaren is the managing director of LoveReading and LoveReading4Kids and she or he has been steering the ship since 2018. Her involvement within the LoveReading portfolio brings collectively her media background, ardour for books, her love of literacy, advertising data and her business acumen and has led the LoveReading model into a brand new world, full of brilliantly bookish content material and the launch of a web based bookstore with social goal. LoveReading was one of many winners of the Sage x Small Enterprise inaugual competitors in June, which enabled them to have their very first bodily presence as a bookstore.
Kirsty Waller
Vice chairman of UKI efficiency advertising for Sage
Kirsty Waller is chargeable for gaining perception and understanding of the ever-changing enterprise atmosphere for SMEs and supporting over a million Sage UK prospects to scale and develop their companies.
