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Business network or Business community?


Last night I spoke with a group of 38 small business owners at a local event we held in the grounds of a beautiful, rural business park. Half of the room were people I knew and had worked with before, helping them with low-cost high-impact marketing. The others were a collection of recent [...]

Farmers AFTER the market.


You had a day out at the Farmers’ Market and you moved more than half of the produce that you took with you to the event. You chatted with some other stall holders, you can bank some decent cash and pay some of your bills that you had in getting there. What happens next?

You come [...]

Farmers IN the marketplace


The idea of a Farmers’ Market is often almost as old as the ancient or even modern squares they take place in; for wherever someone allows a trading place such as a town square or village green people will use it for trading.
 
The active word here just in case you didn’t catch it is “trading” [...]

Walking around the supermarket


This weekend I was in my local supermarket when I saw the artist who painted the beautiful picture that hangs above my writing desk. Liz painted this picture of a traditional stone built property when she and her husband were in a Lake District village last year.
Approaching what they thought was going to be an [...]

Welcome to the blog


Welcome to SBBP and our blog pages.
If you do not already own your own copy of the book that this came from then log onto http:/www.amazon.com and get your own hard copy of “Small Business Big Profit” by Nick Rampley-Sturgeon.
The book was written from Nick’s experience of running his own home-based small businesses while also working as [...]