WHY SHOULD I SUPPORT LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES?
Mark Fielding
Independent Non Exec Director - Helping business owners succeed - SME Expert - Speaker - Mentor - Business Adviser.
- You’re directly putting money back into your own community.
- You are giving local people jobs; locally owned businesses create more jobs locally.
- It shows you care about your local community.
- Customer service is more personalized, hands-on, and noteworthy from local smaller businesses.
- Smaller businesses are more flexible in their customer support.
- Local small businesses contribute to a community’s identity transforming that character into an advantage.
- You’re helping bring character to the commercial world.
- When you personally know the people behind the business, you enjoy a connection you would not otherwise have.
- They always want the best final result, not your money.
- Small business owners are an integral part of the communities in which they live and work.
- It shows respect to the local business owners.
- Small businesses are the seedbed of entrepreneurship.
- Independent small local businesses create and offer choice.
- A marketplace of thousands of small businesses ensures innovation and low prices in the long-term.
- You’ll get unique products.
- Small store owners are eager to go ‘above and beyond’ in their customer service support.
- Local small shops require fewer public services and less infrastructure.
- Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centres.
- Small businesses empower the next generation through training and offering them mentorship opportunities.
- You will feel better in yourself for supporting the Front Line in your community.