Small Enterprise has teamed up with Sage to supply your online business 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 Area NK, Lodge Chocolat and L’Occitane.
It couldn’t be a greater showcase for your online business 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 option to check your product, discover new prospects or get suggestions in your service.
4 causes to enter
Develop your model
Winners will get high-profile consciousness by way of footfall by the busy St James Quarter in the course of the run-up to Christmas, plus you’ll safe useful press protection.
Showcase your online business
Invite traders, friends or prospects to showcase your online business. The store additionally has an occasions house the place we’ll run occasions in the course of the pop-up.
Roadtest your services or products
A singular 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 online business
Get a pipeline of high-intent leads for your online business which you could comply with up with past the store.
What you would win
4 days takeover of a pop-up store in St James Quarter, Edinburgh
- Assist with arrange
- Video interview and editorial protection post-event
- £500 funds 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 Avenue.
Vegan brownie firm Cake Or Dying, on-line bookstore LoveReading and child gear rental service Baboodle have been chosen out of dozens/a whole bunch of entries to share the pop-up.
The response from winners was vastly optimistic, particularly concerning the platform it gave their manufacturers.
Deborah Maclaren of LoveReading mentioned: “The help we’ve had from Sage and Small Enterprise has been good. It’s simply been a seamless, good expertise.”
Katie Hanton-Parr of Baboodle added: “All of the help round it has been good as properly – all of the workshops, it’s a little bit of a gamechanger. You gained’t even realise for a bit how necessary it’s been … it’s a trickle-down impact.”
Methods 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 can be introduced on Monday twenty third October.
The profitable companies will take over the house 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 answerable for driving the technique and artistic 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 a number of the world’s largest manufacturers, working with firms comparable to Unilever, ABInBev and Mars.
Katie Cross
Founder and director of Cake or Dying
Katie Cross had a profession in fundraising and improvement for a spread of charities earlier than quitting in January 2019 to pursue her dream of being a enterprise proprietor. Cake or Dying began as a wholesale vegan cake firm in early 2019. After the unimaginable response to Cake or Dying’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 Dying’s ingenious shopper letterbox brownie bins. The bakery moved from East London to Exeter in Summer season 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 information and her business acumen and has led the LoveReading model into a brand new world, crammed with brilliantly bookish content material and the launch of an internet 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 answerable 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.
