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How to Support Small Businesses in the UK?
Here at Club Hub UK we are massive advocates of supporting small businesses. According to the Children’s Activities Association there are over 40,000 children’s activity providers in the UK. Many are small businesses and they rely on their customers to keep them running. You can find many of those children activity providers listed on our directory. If you have children or know children who may benefit from after-school classes, clubs, attractions, events, holiday clubs why not take a look to see if anything looks of interest to you right now and let us know.
Small-business owners are very passionate about what they do. They play an important role in supporting their local communities. When it comes to showing your support for small businesses, it’s important to do so, and not just to help them gain revenue and stay operational.
Small businesses are central to communities across the UK. They make up over 99percent of all businesses in the UK. Not only do they contribute to the local economy, but they also support local communities.
Many small businesses are still feeling the impact from COVID-19 and so small businesses need your help more than ever. It’s had an enormous impact both financially and mentally amongst small business owners. A recent FSB study reported that 250,000 companies are at risk of collapse in the UK. You do not need to dig deep or contribute by giving your money. There are so many other ways you can help.
Why you should support small businesses in the UK
Here are some amazing reasons listed why to support small businesses:
- Small businesses provide jobs
- Small business owners are our neighbours
- Small businesses are innovative
- Small businesses support your community
- Small businesses are unique
- Small businesses circulate money into the community
Engage with them on Social Media
Here at Club Hub we try our hardest to follow, like, comment, share and interact with as many small businesses we can on our social media channels.
So how can you help support small businesses in the UK on social media?
- Follow them
Simply follow. It can give small businesses a real boost when you follow or like the page of a small business. It not only helps them to connect with you better, but it also allows them to reach a wider audience. Whether it’s on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
- Like posts
By liking a small businesses posts, it allows them to see which content people like. It also helps them extend reach of people who may not like or follow the page, so it’s a great way to help them gain new followers. Another bonus is when you like their posts, their content is more likely to com up in your own newsfeed. Helping you engage and see their content that may benefit and interest you.
- Share posts
By sharing posts, you help advocate and spread their word, when other people see that you’ve shared something. It makes the business seem more reputable and builds trust, a quick share really helps.
- Comment on content
You don’t have to write an essay It doesn’t even have to be anything long-winded; just an emoji will sometimes do! When you comment, it allows the algorithm to help show the post in other people’s news feeds, which means a small business then has a chance to showcase its product or service to many more people. It helps grow their network and get the word out about who they are and what they do, all because you commented. Feels good, doesn’t it?
- Tag friends who would like them
By tagging friends in content created by a small business, you’re essentially creating a digital form of word of mouth, which is worth its weight in gold to a small business. Letting your friends know this business exists not only helps your friends out who may be interested in whatever products or services they’re offering. It helps the small business get the message out to more people. And all for free!
Leave Reviews
Leaving reviews is a fantastic way to support small businesses in the UK. It doesn’t take long at all for you to do, yet it can make a huge difference. It can help increase their reach on social media and support parents and children’s activity providers across the country! If you’d like to leave Club Hub UK a review we would be immensely grateful and even do a little happy dance!!
In today’s digital world, small businesses must embrace reviews. This means it’s important to ask your clients or customers to leave reviews, keeping a close eye on them (monitoring your reputation), taking the time to respond to customers, and sharing your best reviews on social media.
Top reasons to leave reviews in order to support small businesses:
- Reviews help a business get found online:
- Reviews can help with SEO (search engine optimisation) Google, Facebook and more takes review ratings from multiple sites into consideration when determining the order of businesses it returns in local searches.
- Reviews give a business more credibility:
- Studies show that close to 90% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. If you’ve had a good experience, share it! It makes a small business so happy to know they are making you happy, also it helps other people feel that they can trust that business too.
- Reviews help build trust:
- They are a great opportunity to connect online with your customers and build trust.
What do we do to support small businesses?
- We share and engage with many small businesses on social media. Any Club members that use the hashtag #clubhubmember we try our best to interact with daily.
- We attend events to celebrate Small businesses – for instance in March 2023 Tessa Robinson, our director attended a special International Women’s Day reception at the House of Lords on Wednesday 8th March. Recognising her strong contribution to entrepreneurship. The event spotlighted multi-achieving female business owners from across the country, who are being championed by Small Business Britain’s ƒ:Entrepreneur campaign, which showcases an annual line-up of 100 phenomenal women making a significant contribution to society, economy and communities, called the ‘IAlso100’.
- Tessa had been awarded the Business of the Year in the Business Success Recognition Awards 2022.
- Tessa and colleagues attend the annual #SBS event in Birmingham after Club Hub UK was awarded with the #SBS Award in 2018. Tessa tweeted Theo about Club Hub UK during ‘Small Business Sunday’ and was one of six weekly winners to gain a retweet by Theo to his 500,000 Twitter followers. The weekly initiative, set up by Theo in 2010, now has over 2000 #SBS winners and supports small businesses in the UK.
- We publish articles that list top small businesses for many different categories. These include top Christmas Presents , Easter crafts, valentine’s presents, top gifts for mums, top garden toys, activities in different areas and so much more on our blog.
Club Hub Event
Another thing that Club Hub does to support small businesses is we run our annual Club Hub event. This event brings small businesses together for an amazing full day of fun with fabulous advice, awards, inspirational speakers to help smaller businesses with things like Marketing, attracting more and retaining more clients. If you would like to attend there are still limited tickets available that can be purchased.
From one small business owner to another, Tessa always tries to make herself available for a chat if you are needing a bit of extra advice on getting your business to stand out from the crowd.