Scrawny Goat - Grow Your Shop Sales

In the 19th episode of the Scrawny Goat Podcast, Bev talks about the Amazon Associates Programme, why it's great for small shops and how to sign up.

Already an Amazon Associate? Want to maximise your revenue with every single Assciates Link you create? Check out our free 21 point checklist for Amazon Associates
https://scrawnygoat.com/checklist-for-amazon-associate-blog-posts/

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you

In the 18th episode of the Scrawny Goat Podcast, Bev and Andy talk about how they started their own Podcast during lockdown.

Fancy starting a podcast? So did we. We were a bit overwhelmed by all the information and gear out there, so we went totally basic and did it on a shoestring.

Here's the blogpost describing how we started a podcast on the Scrawny Goat Blog, including our recommendation for the Blue Yeti Mic.

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

In the 17th episode of the Scrawny Goat Podcast, Bev and Andy talk about Shop Life after lockdown, and the five things to keep now that non-essential retailers are open again.

We talk about the many ways you can enable your customers to pay you, and the features we use in our shop offered by Square. You'll find Square here:
https://squareup.com/i/ALMOSTOFFG
Full disclosure: this is a link from our account. If you sign up with them, you get free processing on up to £1,000 in sales during your first 180 days with Square, and so do we.

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.

In the 16th episode of the Scrawny Goat Podcast, Bev has a chat with Charlotte Wibberley. Charlotte is an Online Marketing Automation Specialist, you'll find her at CharlotteWibberley.co.uk.

We use Mailerlite for emails (free for up to 1,000 subscribers): https://www.mailerlite.com/

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.

In the 15th episode of the Scrawny Goat Podcast, Bev and Andy focus on the importance of Email Lists to small shops and simple ways to start building an email list for your shop if you haven't already. They also talk about ways to grow your list with integrity, and why the size of your list is not the major issue to be focused on. 

We use Mailerlite (free for up to 1,000 subscribers): https://www.mailerlite.com/

We mention the Just a Card campaign in the podcast - this is them https://www.justacard.org/

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.

In the 14th episode of the Scrawny Goat Podcast, Bev and Andy focus on the importance of Email Lists to small shops. What they are and why, in their opinion, email lists are so important. Social media has its place, but if we had to choose between an email list of ideal customers and a social media account with thousands of followers, we'd choose the Email list any day!

We use Mailerlite (free for up to 1,000 subscribers): https://www.mailerlite.com/

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.

In the 13th Episode of the Scrawny Goat Podcast, Bev and Andy talk about the outcome of their Ebay appeal about the claim which originally found in the customer's favour, despite them providing evidence of delivery.  They also discuss the Government's plan for lifting of lockdown in England, and how they're turning their attention to sorting out the shop after months of being shut to customers.

The current plan for lockdown being lifted in England
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52530518

The high tech mic sound shield
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPYe5fBxYI/

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.

This week Bev and Andy talk about Ebay's Spring Update for Sellers, and some discoveries they've made this week. Which may explain why sales were slow up until a couple of days ago. And all about Nelly and Frank, the allotment Scarecrows. 

Ebay's Spring Update here: https://sellercentre.ebay.co.uk/news/2021-march

Ebay's Storefronts Update mentioned in the podcast https://pages.ebay.co.uk/storefronts/update/

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.

This week the Government announced their plan for a slow easing of lockdown over the coming months. Meanwhile there have been yet more announcements this week about big brands cutting jobs in their stores, and closing branches. An interesting one that caught our eye was Asda who are cutting store jobs, and transferring many of them to the online arm of their business. That gives you an idea of what they think is coming...

In this week's podcast, Bev and Andy talk about talk about how they don't believe retail will ever truly go back to how it was, but how it is not bad news! There are things that all shops can do to prepare for whatever comes next. Just because customers won't necessarily be flocking back to the High Street (assuming they were flocking there in the first place ?), it doesn't mean small shops can't thrive in the new Norman. (Sorry I'm trying to avoid saying 'the new normal' because I'm so tired of hearing that phrase, as you might be too.)

Bev mentions a graphic with 20 potential income streams for shops. You can get access to that here.

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.

In this week's episode, Bev and Andy talk about how to choose the right platform for your site and how to choose a developer. Spoiler: it's not a good idea to get your mate who knows nothing about ECommerce to build you a site 'on the cheap'!

Bev and Andy Toogood at ScrawnyGoat.com help small retailers build a brighter future by growing their product sales and creating additional revenue streams.

Download our *updated and sparkly!!* free guide: 10 Ways to Grow your Shop Sales Right Now
https://bit.ly/SG-10-ways

Join The Small Retailer Lounge and share knowledge to help us all grow our shop  sales
https://bit.ly/SmallRetailerLounge

Check out our blog for hints and tips for growing your business
https://scrawnygoat.com/blog/

Check out our blog post Ecommerce Websites for Shops: choosing a Platform and Developer

Watch Goaty McGoatface in the Bean Emporium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ortqw0X3P4&t=28s

Sign up for our Free FBA 5 day challenge for small businesses (or join the waiting list)
https://scrawnygoat.com/fba-five-day-challenge/

Please Rate our Podcast here - thank you!

Fancy starting your own Podcast? Read all about how we set ours up here.