Win a pop-up retailer in Edinburgh this festive interval
Small Enterprise has teamed up with Sage to provide what you is likely to be promoting the prospect to open its personal pop-up retailer in Edinburgh in its glittering St James Quarter.
Three worthwhile small corporations will share the Edinburgh pop-up retailer all through the St James Quarter retail journey spot, the place chances are high you’ll be promoting alongside John Lewis and splendid producers together with House NK, Lodge Chocolat and L’Occitane.
It couldn’t be a better showcase for what you is likely to be promoting all through the run-up to Christmas – and it’s fully free to enter.
Three fortunate corporations will share our Small Enterprise x Sage pop-up retailer from Wednesday, 29th November to Saturday, 2nd December.
It’s a terrific chance to take a look at your product, uncover new purchasers or get suggestions in your service.
4 causes to enter
Develop your model
Winners will get high-profile consciousness via footfall by the busy St James Quarter in the course of the run-up to Christmas, plus you’ll safe useful press security.
Showcase what you is likely to be promoting
Invite patrons, mates or prospects to showcase what you is likely to be promoting. The store furthermore has an occasions dwelling the place we’ll run occasions in the course of the pop-up.
Roadtest your corporations or merchandise
A singular varied to promote or demo your corporations or merchandise to potential purchasers at scale and garner invaluable face-to-face suggestions from prospects.
Create leads for what you is likely to be promoting
Get a pipeline of high-intent leads for what you is likely to be promoting that you just’d be succesful to regulate to up with earlier the store.
What you may win
4 days takeover of a pop-up retailer in St James Quarter, Edinburgh
- Assist with manage
- Video interview and editorial security post-event
- £250 price fluctuate to spend on inventory, selling and promotion
- Sage Accounting 6 months free trial
- Promotion all by Small Enterprise together with electronic mail correspondence newsletters and social media posts
What earlier winners say
Remaining June, Small Enterprise and Sage teamed as loads as give three worthwhile corporations the prospect to run their very private pop-up retailer in central London’s busy Oxford Avenue.
Vegan brownie company Cake Or Die, on-line bookstore LoveReading and baby gear rental service Baboodle had been chosen out of dozens/tons of of entries to share the pop-up.
The response from winners was massively optimistic, notably regarding the platform it gave their producers.
Deborah Maclaren of LoveReading talked about: “The help we’ve had from Sage and Small Enterprise has been good. It’s merely been a seamless, good expertise.”
Katie Hanton-Parr of Baboodle added: “All of the help spherical it has been good as appropriately – the complete workshops, it’s considerably little little bit of a gamechanger. You gained’t even realise for a bit how vital it’s been … it’s a trickle-down have an effect on.”
Learn to enter our Sage pop-up retailer opponents
Merely fill all through the on-line opponents entry type correct proper right here.
Entries shut at midnight on eighth October 2023.
The winner may very well be launched on Monday twenty third October.
The worthwhile corporations will take over the house from Tuesday twenty eighth November to Saturday 2nd December (with the store open for getting and selling Wednesday to Saturday).
The opponents is open to all UK corporations who’ve been looking for and selling for lower than 5 years (as loads as and together with twenty eighth November 2023) and is totally free to enter.
Who’re our Sage pop-up retailer judges?
Oliver Clark
World VP of built-in campaigns for Sage
Oliver Clarke joined Sage in January 2022 as a result of the worldwide VP of built-in campaigns. He’s answerable for driving the tactic 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 selling and promoting, creating transformation and award-winning campaigns for just some of the world’s largest producers, working with corporations akin to Unilever, ABInBev and Mars.
Katie Cross
Founder and director of Cake or Demise
Katie Cross had a profession in fundraising and enchancment for a variety of charities before quitting in January 2019 to pursue her dream of being a enterprise proprietor. Cake or Lack of life began as a wholesale vegan cake company in early 2019. After the unimaginable response to Cake or Demise’s brownies at a vegan market in London, Katie centered her power on the vital factor recipe and developed varied new flavours. As shortly as a result of the pandemic hit, Katie pivoted the enterprise from wholesale to Cake or Demise’s ingenious shopper letterbox brownie containers. The bakery moved from East London to Exeter in Summer time season season 2021, the place it now homes a retailer entrance and continues to ship bakes all by 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 all through the LoveReading portfolio brings collectively her media background, ardour for books, her love of literacy, selling information and her enterprise acumen and has led the LoveReading model proper right into a mannequin new world, full of brilliantly bookish content material materials supplies and the launch of an internet bookstore with social goal. LoveReading was one amongst many winners of the Sage x Small Enterprise inaugual opponents in June, which enabled them to have their very first bodily presence as a bookstore.
Kirsty Waller
Vp of UKI effectivity selling for Sage
Kirsty Waller is answerable for gaining notion and understanding of the ever-changing enterprise atmosphere for SMEs and supporting over 1,000,000 Sage UK purchasers to scale and develop their corporations.
