The doyenne of building digital communities and supporting small business online shows us around her web.
Holly Tucker is best known as the brilliant co-founder of and brains behind notonthehighstreet.com, a revolutionary idea that took root around her kitchen table and went on to give a platform to thousands of small creative business. Indeed, her game-changing and democratic approach was so inspiring that it even gained her recognition in The Queen’s Birthday Honours when, in 2013, she was awarded an MBE.
And yet that extraordinary achievement is far from the only string to her bow, for Holly Tucker is not a woman to sit still for long. That indefatigable energy was evident from the outset of her career when, at the age of just seventeen, she became one of the youngest ever trainee account executives at French advertising and PR firm, Publicis. Precociously talented, she went on to work at Conde Nast’s Brides, and then later to run the Chiswick Christmas Fair under the auspices of an independent start-up she was involved with. Buoyed and excited by its success, she went it alone to launch ‘Your Local Fair’, a series of events around London which would, ultimately, give her the insights, tools and inspiration for notonthehighstreet.com.
Championing the interests of small creative businesses and enabling them to thrive remains at the heart of everything Holly does. To that end, she was appointed UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses in 2015 by the Prime Minister, in which capacity she represents the needs of independents to government, her steadfast aim always to give the small guys a chance against the big guys. But not content with that, in the same year she also launched Instadvice, a business advice blog offering, as its name suggests, instant advice to businesses.
Organic development is a recurring theme in Holly’s life, and it was the success of this endeavour that eventually led her to set up Holly & Co, a home for artisans to connect and share, as well as offering a first aid salon of sorts for business. Cheerleading for the small business community, her website and Instagram account exist to tirelessly support others to make a living and a life doing what they love best (and if you want to mine her knowledge further, we urge you to listen to her podcast, Conversations of Inspiration, in which she chats through the highs and lows with a stellar roster of fellow entrepreneurs). To learn about the work she’s done to support SMEs during lockdown, LINK NOT FOUND FOR PAGEID: 21360.
A fast-thinking innovator, she believes in creativity within the entrepreneurial world. It comes as little surprise, then, that she has scooped a myriad of awards, from EY Entrepreneur of the Year to The Google Award for Women in Digital. A seasoned keynote speaker, a bestselling author (check out Shape Up Your Business and Build A Business From Your Kitchen Table), and founder of The Happy Bricks Foundation for disadvantaged children, she also happens to be a truly lovely person who is never afraid to use her own story to help others.
Here she tells us how social media has enabled her to build a whole community, and why businesses must, at all costs, avoid the temptation to bombard their customers.
But outside of that, I have to say that TV is pretty good and can get lost in The Repair Shop, Sewing Bee and Grayson’s Art Club.
And yet that extraordinary achievement is far from the only string to her bow, for Holly Tucker is not a woman to sit still for long. That indefatigable energy was evident from the outset of her career when, at the age of just seventeen, she became one of the youngest ever trainee account executives at French advertising and PR firm, Publicis. Precociously talented, she went on to work at Conde Nast’s Brides, and then later to run the Chiswick Christmas Fair under the auspices of an independent start-up she was involved with. Buoyed and excited by its success, she went it alone to launch ‘Your Local Fair’, a series of events around London which would, ultimately, give her the insights, tools and inspiration for notonthehighstreet.com.
Championing the interests of small creative businesses and enabling them to thrive remains at the heart of everything Holly does. To that end, she was appointed UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses in 2015 by the Prime Minister, in which capacity she represents the needs of independents to government, her steadfast aim always to give the small guys a chance against the big guys. But not content with that, in the same year she also launched Instadvice, a business advice blog offering, as its name suggests, instant advice to businesses.
Organic development is a recurring theme in Holly’s life, and it was the success of this endeavour that eventually led her to set up Holly & Co, a home for artisans to connect and share, as well as offering a first aid salon of sorts for business. Cheerleading for the small business community, her website and Instagram account exist to tirelessly support others to make a living and a life doing what they love best (and if you want to mine her knowledge further, we urge you to listen to her podcast, Conversations of Inspiration, in which she chats through the highs and lows with a stellar roster of fellow entrepreneurs). To learn about the work she’s done to support SMEs during lockdown, LINK NOT FOUND FOR PAGEID: 21360.
A fast-thinking innovator, she believes in creativity within the entrepreneurial world. It comes as little surprise, then, that she has scooped a myriad of awards, from EY Entrepreneur of the Year to The Google Award for Women in Digital. A seasoned keynote speaker, a bestselling author (check out Shape Up Your Business and Build A Business From Your Kitchen Table), and founder of The Happy Bricks Foundation for disadvantaged children, she also happens to be a truly lovely person who is never afraid to use her own story to help others.
Here she tells us how social media has enabled her to build a whole community, and why businesses must, at all costs, avoid the temptation to bombard their customers.