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Name: Lisa Scott Business name: Floral Image (Edinburgh) Start up date: October 2014 Website: www.floralimage.co.uk Q1: Tell us a bit about your business? I supply beautiful life-like floral displays on a rental basis to businesses in and around Edinburgh.
Q2: What gives your business ‘the x-factor’? The floral displays for sure. They are really stunning and so realistic. My customers just love them and look forward to the regular changeovers.
Q3: What motivated you to set up in business for yourself? I had been researching new business ideas for a while and when I saw this product I had a strong feeling it could be really successful in Edinburgh.
Q4: What do you like most about working for yourself? Building a new customer base from scratch is really exciting and working for myself
also enables me to plan my week to build in time for family and friends.
Q5: What has been your greatest business success to date? Winning my 1st customer and recently my 100th were both huge moments. I also get great satisfaction from seeing how happy my customers are when I bring in new Floral Displays for them – they love the variety on offer.
Q6: What has been your lowest moment? Getting my first and only parking ticket last month! I had budgeted for many more when writing the business plan, and was proud of my track record until recently!
main focus is to continue to build my customer base. I also hope that in 5 years I love my work as much as I do today.
Q8: What would be your top tip to someone thinking of starting up their own business? Take your time on the initial market research and planning and, while it seems obvious, focus on ideas that you can imagine yourself doing and which you think will make you happy.
Q7: In terms of business achievements, where do you want to be within the next 5 years? Having proven that there is demand and interest in this product in Edinburgh, my
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