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Small Business Strategy Inquiry 2025 - ACT and Bira call for members to share their voice

20 Jun 2025

The House of Commons Business and Trade Committee has asked the ACT, and its parent company Bira, to help them reach out to small business retailers across the country, for their quick input on... Read more…

Beyond the discount: Restoring integrity to the cycle supply chain

18 Jun 2025

The Association of Cycle Traders believes the time has come for greater accountability throughout our supply chain, writes ACT Director Jonathan Harrison in an article published for BikeBiz.
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Bira welcomes Wales' business rates proposals but calls for key improvements

11 Jun 2025

Bira has welcomed the Welsh Government's consultation on business rate reforms for retail shops, whilst calling for significant improvements to ensure the proposals truly support high street... Read more…

New awards launch to champion Britain's independent high street heroes

9 Jun 2025

Retailers on Britain's high streets are being encouraged to put themselves forward for the first-ever Love Your High Street Awards, designed to celebrate the small businesses that bring... Read more…

"Tectonic shift" in employment law threatens independent retailer viability, warns Bira podcast

6 Jun 2025

Independent retailers are facing a "generational" transformation of employment law that could fundamentally change how small businesses operate, according to the final episode of Bira's first... Read more…

Retailers hope warm weather and bank holidays will boost high street sales

16 May 2025

ACT parent company Bira has said that members are hopeful the warm weather, Easter weekend and upcoming bank holidays will provide a much-needed boost to high street sales.
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Economic growth surges to 0.7%, but "April reality check" looms for high street retailers

15 May 2025

UK economy delivers strongest quarterly performance in a year despite forecasts of business downturn.
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Communities come together for Local Bike Shop Day 2025 celebrations

13 May 2025

Local Bike Shop Day 2025 brought a wave of... Read more…

ACT parent company Bira welcomes Bank of England's latest interest rate cut

8 May 2025

ACT parent company Bira has welcomed the Bank of England's decision to reduce interest rates from 4.5% to 4.25%, calling it a "much-needed boost" for the retail sector, including for cycling... Read more…

ACT parent company Bira responds to Beales' "Rachel Reeves Closing Down Sale" as iconic store makes final protest

8 May 2025

ACT parent company Bira has responded to the news that the 144-year-old Beales department store is staging a "Rachel Reeves Closing Down Sale" in its final weeks of trading, with giant yellow... Read more…

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Maybe*'s 10 step plan for social media success in 2021

Posted on in Business News, Brands & Products News, Cycles News

Like everyone else Maybe* is constantly looking for ways to improve and drive our own social media forwards.

To inform plans for 2021 they have looked back to spot what works well and have used this to inform the plan moving forward. To get a sense of where you're going next, you need to know where you've been.

Like other businesses Maybe* have spent the last year with their noses to the grindstone, constantly reacting to changes brought about by COVID and now want to get in front of it with our plan for 2021.

They are sharing with you where we've spotted opportunities in our own data to improve and the insights that will enable us to reach our goals.

We are using the same template that they share with all of clients that sign up for a Maybe* account.

 

Step 1: Knowing the business goal

Maybe* helps businesses use social media to sell. Our goal is to get 3.4 million business dashboards and 3600 town guides into the hands of the people we can help.

The last 12 months have made staying connected and selling difficult for the majority of businesses. The pandemic has challenged us all to innovate and sell to customers in new ways..

 

Step 2: Telling the Maybe* story

Since March Maybe* has been focused on sharing ways businesses can stay connected on social media. Like most businesses, we had a lot of plans in January 2020, that had to change. And we moved quickly with the times.

Our plans for 2021 focus on sharing positive stories that inspire and Local Town Guides that empower businesses to sell via social media..

We launched a lot of new features last year, and we're really excited about them. In 2021 this will continue and we are also going to focus on bringing them to life even better with more video content.

Our best post of the entire year had nothing to do with our product. It was about the things businesses were doing to stay positive. This has inspired our approach through 2020 and into 2021. Show people the good stuff, and how to do more of it.

Discover your own best post.

 

Step 3: What does Maybe* want you to do with its social content

Our social content is about finding new customers and encouraging them to sign in to Maybe*, access training and our Local Rewards program.

We are focusing on the distribution of our Local Rewards Town Guides in the UK as part of our user acquisition drive. The call to action of our social content is sign-up to Maybe* but first, we need to establish trust and report through training and webinars.

 

Step 4: How does Maybe* engage with customers

Maybe* is active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. in addition to creating content, we spend a lot of our time engaging with all the businesses in the towns we are working with. We engage with them using the Maybe* platform.

We engage with 100's of businesses on a daily basis and we love getting to know them online via social media, or over one of our Wednesday Webinars.

Start engaging with your own customers, its fun and is an increasingly vital business interaction in a world where physical meetings are less commonplace.

 

Step 5: Who does Maybe* want to engage?

We want to reach BID's, councils, shopping centres, retail experts, social media managers and the 3.4 million businesses that we have dashboards ready and waiting for.

The 'who's got influence?' report shows us every week the most frequent commenters on our content, and who's mentioning us in their content. This is the social gold and where your reach and influence increases if you consistently maintain the conversation.

Discover the influencers in your conversation and increase the reach and impact of your business. Other people talking about you is what you want to achieve - that is the value of social media.

 

Steps 6-10

Sign up to Maybe*. It's free to get started and you'll have full access to the remaining five steps to success. 

 

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