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What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

isabelle — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:17:49 GMT

Hey Seller Community! As the year comes to an end, we're wondering...

We can't wait to read your replies and learn about your wins! 🏆

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

HC_Charlie — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:02:07 GMT

Great question @isabelle . My first reaction was the answer "I'm just happy to make it through this past year!" LOL. But in looking back, I think the most pivotal accomplishment was starting a wholesale side to my business. Having to regroup and survive the pandemic shutdown, expanding my revenue streams from just a brick & mortar storefront was essential for long-term success. While I didn't get a lot of wholesale orders this past Holiday season and this year, it's enough to prove to me that this is an area I can successfully expand into next year and beyond.

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

MAXSDELI — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:09:10 GMT

I’d have to say “Online Ordering” and customers adoption of tech to order ahead was the biggest boost to keeping us surviving & thriving the past 14-18 months.

I’d love the opportunity to work with a Weebly team member to expand our site and upgrade our plan. I’ve hinted at this in previous posts but no one has reached out to me…

@isabelle

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

MJD — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:09:34 GMT

Great question @isabelle!

I think my customers are the best thing I’ve had through 2021, my biggest achievement is having all the incredible people who have ordered from mjdonlineuk.com. I hope that next year I’ll be able to take MJD Online a step further and really meet my success, it’s going to take a lot of work but I truly believe it will be possible! I am thankful for every opportunity I have had this year, to build up my business and grow as a business owner too.

I can’t wait to see what everyone else has to say!

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

homeprogreen — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:14:31 GMT

I would say that it’s the fact that I managed to post a 8.6% net gain over the prior year even though the pandemic was really messing with business. Normally I show a 21.7% gain average ytd so even though that number dropped it’s still a gain and I am happy

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Abigails_stl — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:19:17 GMT

Hiring on managers to take things off my plate! It has enabled us to have the best year ever by getting our Fashion truck out almost every weekend and in store I have been able to focus more on growing the business… we just signed the lease to expand to a 2nd location for the new year.

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

shopfybr — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:28:16 GMT

Surviving another year with Covid and rebuilding our team!

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

MamiesToffee — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:33:52 GMT

Nothing major has happen this year, beside buying a bus for our business. I think of building relationships to help others grow as in becoming part of this group to talk to others and get ideas.

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

DinaLRosenberg — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:37:01 GMT

few wins:

doubling sales year-over-year

gaining 116k tiktok followers

hiring a bunch of amazing people with a real payroll

building a robust community of customers around the country

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

pessosices — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:42:12 GMT

Hey @isabelle - this is such a great question!

(Also your graphic & gif game has been spectacular - big fan!)

It's a little hard to think of the accomplishments, as it's easy for the mind to go to the things that went wrong rather than the things we did right.

Here's a less tangible accomplishment, but still feels great!

We took a big jump to change up our process of serving customers in person again this year, getting closer to normal after the big changes from covid during 2020. It took a lot to plan out, execute, train our employees on the new processes, and then tweak the process and retrain our employees as we saw how it went.

Despite the stress throughout all of this and having to make new processes on the fly, it felt really great to have this all work out in a way that kept things safe and worked efficiently for our customers and employee.

I also switched our website over to Square Online to make everything simpler for online ordering, and it was really wonderful to hit the publish button and have everything work out!

It was also really wonderful to get a bit closer to our normal pre-pandemic sales numbers, and hopefully this next year we'll get even closer!

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

MudFire_Dex — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:58:00 GMT

Great question - At first I thought my answer would be surviving Covid closures and the membership drops and dips and still actually having our business. But now I would say it is how we rolled with the changes, took a chance, integrated our website with Square/Weebly, and now have a waitlist deep enough that we are proceeding with opening a second location. Our sales are up 60.21% over 2020 and 40% from 2019. Square was a big part of this 2021 success and offered us a chance to take a risk, simplify, and roll with everything.

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Thevioletfox — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:15:34 GMT

My brain initially answered just staying open! But if I think about it a little more, I can say we did our first in person pop-up event in 2021. We donated over $145 to charity in 2021. We added the ability to special order new books for customers and consignment from local authors to our inventory in 2021. And joined the Super Seller group here on Square in 2021! So I guess we did a bit more than just stay open 😁

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

TOTSC — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:18:17 GMT

My biggest accomplishment in 2021 was increased revenue and moving into our own retail location. Exciting times!!😃

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Minion — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:39:27 GMT

My biggest accomplishment for this year of 2021 was finally becoming an auto accessories dealer for hundreds of different brands. Being that I'm in a niche market, I don't' want to expand into to many "normal" automotive services, but adding this one was a big one for me to get repeat customers locally when they return for a yearly undercoating, as well as within the states being able to sell and drop ship.

The downfall...someone has to add all these thousands of products....me... I'm that guy. 🙄😂

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Doran — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:01:17 GMT

I think just making it through the year and growing through it. 2021 wasn't any easier than 2020 or 2008 so I'm glad to still have the doors open in person and now online!

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Myc — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:32:47 GMT

Truth be told I'm just glad I made it through this year it has been tough but this might be also be one of the better years as well ....we shut down a location and consolidate not due to covid and it has brought us all a little more prosperity

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Candlestore — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:43:58 GMT

Glad to still be in business!! Prices going up and up and people spending more on necessities which are also going up and up.

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Donnie-M — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:48:57 GMT

My biggest accomplishment in 2021 was finally allowing customers to tip our counter staff and the increase in pay that they were given. Between a company base pay raise and tip share, I have been able to increase my employee's wages 40-50% and only increase prices 10-15%.

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

TCSlaguna — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 22:31:29 GMT

We had our best year in sales ever!

This was in huge part to Square reports and having an amazing team who love helping customers.

We were able to focus on products that sell well, and were able to reorder products easily before they sold out.

We also moved to Square Online and Square Appointments. While our online store is just gaining traction, Square Photo Studio will be a great tool to quickly and beautifully add photos to our site.

Re: What was your biggest business accomplishment in 2021? 🏆

Abigails_stl — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 23:07:58 GMT

Buying a bus is definitely major! That's awesome!