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Build a whole Parade of Shops around your own.
We offer individual on-line shops to small producers.
However, there is an opportunity for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to become Parade Providers. Depending on commtiment and ability, they can build a very good income supporting a group of Shop Owners withParade of Shops has its own branding and ethos. Other Parades will usually present businesses with a common or linked theme (for example, supplies for a particular sport or passtime) and a distictive image.
Costs are minimal - it's like a franchise without big sign-up fees or ongoing charges.
We charge you a start-up fee of just £50, including the first month's fee for two shops. After that, provided you have at least TWO shops in your parade, your own and any additional Shops cost you £15 per month each, so you pocket a mark-up of £10 per month per shop. You will quickly cover the registration fee with your discount. Most of your income, though, should come from selling your marketing and business support.
It is in the interests of our good name to provide you with all the help you need to make a success of your venture. In the sad and unlikely event that you are unable to make it work, the Shop Owners in your Parade have the added security of knowing that we will keep it going for them ourselves if necessary.
If you think you can convince us that you have what it takes to be a Parade Provider and that we can safely place our reputation in your hands contact us »
Becoming a Parade Provider is an excellent way for a young entrepreneur to build a business. Our Parade Provider's package is aimed primarily at people in their 20s.
Training and Support
Take advantage of our FREE consultation day as well as on-line and telephone support, forums and training days.
21 or under?
To help you get started, pay your first £50 for your own shop and Manager's support and, as well as including the FIRST month's payment for two shops, we will give you a SECOND month FREE.
Under 18?
You cannot enter into contracts to rent on-line shops or to provide services to clients. So, if you can convince us you have what it takes, we will do that for you and pay you for the work you do. When you are 18, discuss with us having the contracts transfered to you without charge or continuing under the same arrangement.
Come and visit us for a day for a free, no obligation consultation about the possibilities of being a Parade Manger.
We'll even buy you lunch (a modest one!)
All you have to pay for is getting here by train (on the Midland Mainline less than an hour from St Pancras) or by car (a few miles off the M1 half way between London and Birmingham).
Phone Parade of Shops on 01933 223242 to fix it up.
Although the Parade Provider's Package is aimed primarily at younger entrepreneurs, we also welcome enquires from more mature people.
Maybe you find yourself redundant. Maybe your bread-winning spouse has left or died. Maybe illness or a mistake has interrupted the flow of your life.
In consultation with you and any other individual or body supporting you, we will try to put together a package that helps you to build something new for yourself and your clients.
The Parade of Shops concept came from someone who knows what it's like to have things fall apart and to have no funds to build a business.
For some the way back is to find a job. But for others there is a need to feel in control, to keep hold of the benefits of extra effort, to create and build something.
Parade of Shops is linked to the Independent Business Owners Community, a scheme helping people to use the Internet to run small business, especially where other resources are limited.
It costs us very little to make available this opportunity. If you succeed we benefit from the shop space you sell. If, even with all the help we can give you, sadly you don't make it work, we'll try to keep your clients going and they will pay us direct. So we really don't have much to loose.
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