Spotlighting the great days and dangerous days of small enterprise

Being a small enterprise proprietor is without doubt one of the biggest adventures anybody can embark on. It’s a journey full of excellent days, but it surely additionally comes with dangerous days. It’s vital to recognise that these ups and downs are a traditional a part of the journey that each small enterprise proprietor goes by means of.

Our new social collection, Good Days, Unhealthy Days, shines a light-weight on the realities of small enterprise possession, as informed by our clients. We’ve used documentary-style movies to inform the tales of seven small enterprise house owners from Australia, New Zealand, the US, the UK and Singapore. They candidly describe the challenges they’ve confronted, in addition to probably the most rewarding moments that remind them why they began their enterprise. 

All through the making of Good Days, Unhealthy Days, we sought to know the mindset of small enterprise house owners – what they do to beat the dangerous days and benefit from the good ones. The distinctive perception we discovered was that adaptability has been key to those small companies on their entrepreneurial journey.

Meet the small enterprise house owners

• Cenmar from the US, a former C-suite government who left the company world to seek out actual which means and based a restoration and development firm.
• Cat from New Zealand, who remodeled her journey weblog right into a journey sport product.
• Jenny from the UK, who has been in enterprise over 20 years, adapting from bricks and mortar to ecommerce as know-how modified how we store. 
• Dua who moved from being the Head of an Engineering division in Jordan to a brand new house in Australia and a shift to proudly owning a small enterprise within the magnificence consulting sector. 
• Tilmann in New York whose magnificence model was in the very best retail areas on the earth however pivoted in the direction of direct-to-consumer in an ever evolving retail panorama.
•  Jessica, who relies within the UK, has skilled hundreds of individuals within the artwork of jewelry making by means of her Jewellers Academy, and has designed her life to swimsuit her after going by means of a interval of burnout from overworking.
• Rachel, primarily based in Singapore, left her extremely profitable profession to go away a significant affect on the world by having a constructive affect by means of her sustainable enterprise mannequin that helps individuals in growing international locations by means of accountable sourcing.

These tales complement our Small Enterprise Index, a part of the Xero Small Enterprise Insights (XSBI) program, by connecting the financial efficiency of the sector with the emotional facet of operating a enterprise.  

You’ll be able to watch the introductory video now on our YouTube channel, and hold an eye fixed out for brand spanking new episodes over the following seven weeks as we take a deep dive into the entrepreneurial journeys of those small enterprise house owners.