Business Clinic: 25th August 2021 (afternoon session)
Note, this business clinic session contains occasional strong language
Note, this business clinic session contains occasional strong language
Featuring:
Coral McCloud – Rebel Mumma
Elisa Haransky-Beck – Enlivening Consciousness
Samantha Barker – Clever Cotton
Susan Joyce – Little Green Pigeon
What we talk about:
- Making sure you’re ready for opening your physical shop
- Selling other people’s products in your shop
- Feedback forms and customer research
- Encouraging people to take photos of your products and tag your business in on social
- Needing technical support
- Overcoming obstacles in your business
- IT support and the usefulness of automation in your business and how it saves time
- Whether you can just be your authentic self in your business or do you need some sort of professional avatar
- Talking about mental health and vegan activism
- Running a business at the same time as raising children
- Making it clear what people’s donations are paying for
- How to get over feeling like you need to apologise when asking for donations
- Being transparent about the costs of running a sanctuary, and having a shopping list so that people know what they’ve paid for
- The importance of letting your audience know how close your sanctuary is to covering its costs each month
- The ethics of using Amazon, and different economical systems
