New founder series: How to start a collective with A Few Great Women founders, all five of them!

Today we have not one, but five, guests!
Hannah, Ellie, Ria, Lucianne and Camilla are the founders and members of the hybrid e-commerce consultancy collective A Few Great Women. With a wealth of previous career experience working with renowned brands including Harvey Nichols, Kurt Geiger and Stella McCartney, the team identified that start-up e-commerce businesses could benefit from a unique combination of the flexibility of freelance consultants powered by the collective dynamism of an in-house team.
Today, A Few Great Women offers a range of services for e-commerce businesses including website development, digital strategy, branding and email marketing. They share with us their experiences of founding a collective and why five heads are better than one.

Advice:

• Manage day-to-day running by using helpful apps like Notion
• Structure weekly tasks - Monday.com useful
• Outsource those things you’re less good at
• Connect with others, time spent catching up with colleagues is always constructive
• Always ask for feedback; even knockbacks are a useful learning tool
• When pricing, be confident; a fair price guarantees good work. Don’t doubt this
• When self-employed, take breaks and never feel guilty about them!
• Understand your limits: say no to a client if the fit isn’t right, and if necessary make a client wait
• Self-employment is particularly good for women a) because employers are not good at offering flexibility, and b) because women are so often limited by the glass ceiling
• Be confident in what you know, your experience and your value
• Keep going with an annual appraisal, even if it’s private and personal
• Go with your instincts
• Have faith in yourself

If you’d like to contact any of the A Few Great Women you can reach them on [email protected]

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• LastPass the password-keeping site that syncs between devices.
• Google Workspace is brilliant for small businesses
• Buzzsprout podcast 'how to' & hosting directory
• Canva has proved invaluable for creating all the social media assets and audio bites.
• For contracts check out Law Depot.

Recorded, edited & published by Juliet Fallowfield, 2022 MD & Founder of PR & Communications consultancy for startups Fallow, Field & Mason.
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