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Using Videos To Promote Your Small Shop
Chris Fox from greeting card shop, Wishes of Cudworth looks at how videos can promote your shop and create engaging online content...
What does the word video mean to you?
If you’re of certain age you may instantly think of the days of VHS. The warm, nostalgic haze of yesterday’s video shops, vans and tapes. 20...
Barnsley Card – A Gift Shop Hub Interview
Barnsley Card is a new scheme which aims to boost trade in Barnsley. It was founded by two Barnsley locals earlier this year to help improve trade in Barnsley and the surrounding regions. People can buy a Barnsley Card for £1.99 per month, and gain access to a huge range of deals across all...
10 Great Gifts That Retail Under £10
It’s tricky finding the right gifts for your shop and more importantly at the right price too. With that in mind Gift Shop Hub has put together 10 great gifts that retail for under £10. A mixture of different products that should make perfect additions to your shop’s gift ranges. All prices are RRP...
Seven Things I Learned Running A Retail Trail
Hi, my name is Chris Fox and I’m the digital content manager for greeting card and gift shop Wishes of Cudworth. I try to look as Wishes as a brand. Not a corporate, soulless brand I must add. No, it’s rather about consistency of tone and dreaming up new ways to promote the shop....
Hub Talk
Five Weird & Wonderful Gifts To Buy Your Dad For Christmas
My dad, like many dads, is a source of much soul searching and mental anguish when it comes to buying him a Christmas gift. He’s a man with a singular passion; his one true love after my mum (or maybe before), is sitting on a cold river bank, dangling his pole into the dark...
Festive Friday
Now in its 5th year, Festive Friday, 1 December 2017, is the special day for everyone in the card industry (and all lovers of cards) to send their personal Christmas cards – with the aim to create a great first wave of beautiful cards arriving in early December to get the nation in the...
How To Guides
The Science of Retail Store Layouts and Design
Retail stores have come a long way from when Harry Selfridge pioneered the storefront display window in the early 20th century. Today, stores do more than lure people inside, they keep them in. It is quite like The Eagles’ song, “Hotel California”.
It is hard to discuss store layout designs without referencing IKEA’s legendary maze-like floor plan. With each unsuspecting...
Photography Tips With Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson is a product and still life photographer based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Working with artists, designers and craftspeople Richard creates photography with design at its heart. Exploring the ideas and styles behind his clients work to produce images that really tell a story. He chooses props, carefully crafts the lighting, select surfaces, and backdrops...
Cool by Association – The Power of Business & Community Associations
The Internet is a wonderful tool but can be scary if you don’t know how to make the best use of it. In today’s blog post Chris Fox the digital media manager of Wishes of Cudworth looks at how joining a business or community association can benefit your shop. This article was originally published...
How To Keep Your Shop’s Online Marketing Local
The Internet is a wonderful tool but can be scary if you don’t know how to make the best use of it. In today's blog post retailer Chris Fox, from Wishes Of Cudworth looks at how to keep your shop's online marketing local. This article was originally published in Greetings Today Magazine.
Facebook & Your Community
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Down Your High Street
Down Your High Street is a online marketplace dedicated purely to the local shop owner to make it easier to connect with people in and around their area and across the UK. Their mission is to bridge the gap between offline and online retail so the independent high street shop owners of the UK...
4 Heatons Traders Association – A Gift Shop Hub Interview
Today Gift Shop Hub talks to The 4 Heatons Traders Association, or 4HTA for short. The purpose of the 4HTA is summed up in it's mission statement:"To make the Heatons, a better place, to live, work and prosper". Any business based in the SK4 post code area, which covers the villages of Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, Heaton...
How To Guides
Skylight Media – Designing & Building Beautiful Websites
During the last fourteen years in business, Skylight Media have been working with Greeting Card publishers and Giftware companies, designing and building beautiful and...
