Nov 7, 2022
Show Notes
If you think you have to be on FB to grow your business, guess again!
Meet Millie Blackwell - Owner of Mrs. Blackwell’s Village Bookshop in Greytown, New Zealand!
Before opening her shop in December 2020, she
and her husband owned digital businesses and did a lot of home
renovations. Her shop is perfect for romantic, curious minds and
romantic souls, a shop filled with books and creative items such as
notebooks, jigsaw puzzles, fountain pens, stationary,
etc.
Because Millie opened her shop during the height of the pandemic, she really had to work hard to build their market base in unique and creative ways. Storytelling has been a successful marketing strategy for them with print ads, Instagram, and their quarterly newsletter: The Blackwell Bugle. Fun fact: Millie doesn’t use FB!
All of Millie’s business marketing decisions are based on building community and becoming a destination shop. Listen to her attract strategies, and how they go against the grain and are working for her. She’s doing it her way and making connections, human to human.
Millie is a member of our Level Up and Accelerate Mastermind group and works hard at business development, and pays close attention to tracking, measuring, tweaking, training, and focusing on foot traffic. Millie is on her way to her 2023 goal of becoming a million-dollar bookshop!
Full show notes here https://wendybatten.com/132-2/