What You Can Do To Support Other Local Essex Small Businesses

Here in Essex, we have a fabulous array of small businesses. With everything from gift shops to those offering health and wellbeing services, we are truly spoilt. If we make shopping local and shopping small a personal or household goal, we will be able to help keep these fabulous businesses going. We’d miss them if they were gone, that’s for sure.

Spend Your Money Locally

Rather than jumping on the internet and ordering from some huge business abroad, look around and see what is closer to hand. There is a good chance that there are many businesses and service providers proudly serving Essex folks that you haven’t stumbled across yet. All You Need Essex is a great place to start looking for these. If you spend your money locally you don’t just support that trader, you help to support the local economy.

Recommend Your Favourite Businesses To Others

Have you stumbled across a gem of a salon, a wondrous gift shop or a gallery that makes your heart sing? Tell your family, friends and online networks. Word of mouth advertising is the very best and most effective kind. If the new sandwich shop does a killer cheese and chilli bagel, tell people!

Leave a Review

If the local Virtual Assistant you employed turns out to be invaluable, if the builder went out of their way to get your project finished on time and the new nail bar in town exceeded expectations, leave a review. Ask where your testimonial would be most useful, i.e on Google, Facebook or perhaps emailed over to go on their website. Leaving a genuine review will do much to support Essex businesses and costs you nothing.

Buy Gift Vouchers For Local Businesses

If you don’t know what to buy someone, buy them a gift voucher for a local store. That way they can choose their gift and you will have introduced them to a local business. They may become a regular. They may tell others about their experience. They might tell their friends about something they bought there or a service they received a voucher for. This is how you help small businesses to keep the lights on. Don’t forget that small businesses thrive when people champion them.

What You Can Do To Support Other Local Essex Small Businesses

There are many things that you can do to support an Essex business but the number one is to use them. Buy from them, use their services and prioritise them when doing your weekly shopping, gift buying or when looking for support services while running your own business. The business community is strong and they do tend to reach out to each other. As consumers, we can take that one step further by finding ways to put cash in the till.

What will you do today that will support a small business? Head to www.allyouneedessex.com to see what businesses you could support today.

Author: Nikki Cawood

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