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 Love her or hate her, Mary Portas has some great ideas for making our markets places people love to visit and reviving our High Streets. Inspirational and educational, entertaining and funny. Marvellous.
If you missed it, here's the first episode, we'll add more links as they're released. Oh, and we love the gold cherubs!
Episode two getting dirty in Margate. |
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 We've added some brilliant movies to some of our market entries, now you can see what's going on around the UK, pick up tips and ideas, even if it's too far to visit! Here's the link...
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 Passionate about cooking, want to break into catering on a budget? Street food vendors are popping up everywhere producing delicious gourmet dishes from Malaysia, India, Jamaica and around the world.
Fancy making a living from street food? Read the guide from the man who knows, Yianni Papoutsis of MeatWagon on how to make money from street food. If that hasn't put you off, there's some useful info on starting out here...
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 Have you go a Twitter account for your market or market stall yet? Or is Twitter just not working for you? It might be that you need some expert advice from the professionals. Twitter users are very much involved with brands so all businesses, including markets and market traders, need to engage with their customers effectively and efficiently and avoid social media mistakes.
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 Imagine your clients scanning a barcode on a flyer or business card and instantly being taken to your website!
QR Codes are a type of barcode that can be scanned using a smartphone (e.g. iPhone, Blackberry, Android) and have proved to be a huge business success in Japan. With around 50% people now using smart phones and numbers increasing, savvy UK businesses are finally realising the potential of QR Codes in marketing and advertising. |
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localmarkets are proud partners of CardSave, part of the WorldPay Group, the UK's largest card processor*  We asked Cardsave for a credit card processing service that's cheaper than local business and market organisations, with no set up fees, no long tie-ins and fantastic 7 days a week support ... and at just £15 per month for a fixed service and £25 per month for mobile service we've got all that in a great deal which we believe cannot be beaten!
When you accept payments by credit or debit card it encourages your customers to buy more, spend more and gives them the option to use their preferred method of payment. Electronic payments are quicker and more accurate and the money is in your bank account within 2-3 days. It's a win-win situaton. Please note that this fantastic offer is available to market traders and to small and medium businesses who sign up using the localmarkets link only! |
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Would you like your market to be seen by thousands each month? Buy us a coffee and we'll put your market on our home page!
Our home page is the most visited page on our website and we have around ten market slots available on this page. Once you've bought us a coffee your market will appear as the first market entry on the home page, there is no time limit as to how long your market will stay there but it will naturally work it's way further down the page over time - then you can just buy us another coffee! |
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 Public & Product Liability Insurance
If you're running a stall on a market it is essential that you hold Public & Product Liability Insurance. This protects you from any liability if, for example, a shopper happens to get injured and for liability associated with the products you're selling. Most markets insist that you have this insurance in place before you start trading. You only need one public liability policy, this will cover you for any market you operate in. Up to £5m cover for any one occurrence is standard and you should expect to pay an annual premium of around £50.
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We love this movie... early morning at Borough Market and ringing in the Olympics... take a look |
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