by Ruth | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog, Business interviews, Small business
Today we welcome Claire Close, a successful Not on the High Street seller Claire Close runs So Close, a gift company based in Exmouth, East Devon with her husband Tarot. So Close is a gifting company that specialises in quirky, colourful, personalised gifts which...
by Ruth | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog, Business interviews, Small business
Say hello to Rosie Johnson, an illustrator that hopes to entertain and inspire Rosie Johnson is an illustrator based in Exmouth, East Devon. She creates beautiful, individual illustrations and portraits on commission as well as her unique line of cards, jewellery and...
by Ruth | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, Small business |
Have you heard about using a business theme in your business for productivity? At the end of last year, I read an article by Rin Hamburgh, who’d I met earlier in the year, about how she chooses words to be her business theme for the year. The links in the article led...
by Ruth | Apr 17, 2018 | Blog, Business interviews, Small business
Welcome to the first in a monthly series of features on inspiring businesses. This month’s feature is Jen Mills from The Floricultural Cabinet, a freelance florist based in the seaside town of Budleigh Salterton, East Devon. Jen started her bespoke florist...
by Ruth | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog, Facebook, Marketing, Small business, Social media |
Why should my business use Facebook? It is a question we get asked a lot. We find that people often approach their Facebook business page with the same way of thinking as their personal page. The expectation is that they’ll post a lovely picture of their products, it...
by Ruth | Feb 1, 2018 | Blog, Instagram, Marketing, Small business, Social media |
Ultra-Violet is the Pantone colour of the year so we’re pretty sure that this trend is a winner. Last time we looked at the Rebel Mum trend, this week we focus on the Pantone colour of the year – ultra-violet. This trend incorporates everything from pink through...
by Ruth | Jan 22, 2018 | Instagram, Marketing, Small business, Social media |
Rebel Mum is the first of the four trends from our 2018 trend report that we’re taking a closer look at Rebel Mum, as part of the Kindness Trend is a value-led trend. Women have never wanted to be fit into a box called “mum” and sold to as a homogenous mass of...
by Ruth | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog, Marketing, Small business |
What will be the trends affecting your business in 2018? Trend reports make predictions about everything from what colours we’ll be wearing to the foods we’ll be eating and the places we’ll be travelling to. A trend report can feel at the same time incredibly specific...
by Ruth | Dec 26, 2017 | Blog, Marketing, Small business |
Doing an annual business review can provide you with insights to accelerate your growth in the coming year. As we come to the end of the calendar year the media and web are awash with Year in Review content, and while it’s usually fun and often a little sad or...
by Ruth | Dec 23, 2017 | Blog, Small business |
2017 was a year of change for me and for Imp Ideas, the year can best be summed up as finding new opportunities. Back in summer 2016 I sold the Eroticon conference to new organisers and in spring 2017 I attended the conference for the first time not as an organiser...
