Welcome to Your Square Community – Introduce Yourself!

[maxpete]

Welcome to the Square Community! We're so glad you’re here.

Whether you’re new or a longtime member, this is the place to connect, share, and grow your business. Start by introducing yourself in this thread!

Introduce Yourself

Tell us about your business, where you're based, and even your hobbies. Feel free to add photos, a website link, or socials. 🙂

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[NixCustomCre8]

Thank you!

[CareyJo]

Welcome!  I was in your next of the woods in February!  We cruise out of Miami every February...

To speak to your comment, welcome to the community and I think you'll find a lot of help here!  We wish you all the success and I love that you're doing ministry work!

I would highly recommend (if you haven't already) that you get an InstaGram and FB account for your business, in addition to your free Google listing.  I cannot personally speak to how IG works because I don't use it, but I do know that it would lend the best to posting photos of your work, to help increase your sales.  In your line of work, socials are going to be your best friend.  You can do so much free advertising and it will be very beneficial, but it will also be time consuming.... so, make a plan.  Use a calendar.  Plan out your posts, whether or not you're doing FB or IG, what your posting and when.  They have a scheduler in the business page and you can go up to 10 days in advance.  You can line out your photos and the wording and tell it what day and time to post.  Don't ever just post words though, every post, even on FB, must have a pic or the algorithm will not pick it up.  Make sure that you join all of the local classifieds groups in your area and post/share as you're allowed within the group.

Your business will benefit from a lot of time spent on your marketing plan, in addition to creating product.  Just remember though, marketing is not advertising.  It's making a plan to advertise.  You will find a lot of resources here in the community, many articles, posts and questions asked by other people, that will help give you insight.  You can always ask questions too.  You can search anything in the search bar and see what comes up.

Best of luck with all you do!

[Mstaffney]

Thanks again for your advice. I do have both Instagram and FB which I haven’t been consistent on. I will definitely consider the scheduler to setup post.

[AngiesHair]

Hello Square Community! 👋

We’re Angie and Staci from Angie’s Hair Studio in Elmhurst, IL — a mother–daughter salon team that believes great hair starts with great connection. 💛

We’re so happy to be part of the Square community! Excited to connect with other small business owners, share what we’ve learned, and keep growing together.

[Lovewell]

This sounds awesome! Lovewell is owned by two sisters. So we love the family element. Welcome to the square community 🙂 

[CareyJo]

Welcome!  Excited you're here!!

[Mstaffney]

Hi my name is Taffney I go by the username Mstaffney. I setup a square site a little under 2 weeks. I have an online store called Scriptural Expressions T-Shirt Designs LLC. I’m getting plenty of views, how long was it before anyone here began to convert those views to orders? Also, what’s a strategy that worked for you. Thanks 

[Lovewell]

Welcome! We have a brick and mortar coffee shop (2 of them) so we can't speak much on that. We do really encourage the use of social media to boost your sales. 

[Mstaffney]

Thank you so much for your response and advice. Congratulations on your coffee shops!

[CareyJo]

Welcome to the community!  I don't have an online store, but what I would say is that everyone of us in the community are different, our businesses are different and our selling technique is different.  There's really no way to judge or gauge when you should be receiving sales, I wish there was!  What works for one, may not work for another.  We also have to consider our audience and demographics, those play a huge role in how your sales go.

I know it's only been a couple of weeks and I'm sure you have a lot of questions, so if there's something more specific that we can help you with, don't hesitate to reach out.  We have a ton of articles and threads for reference, you can search anything in the search bar to find topics that fit your questions.  Hope this helps!

Best of luck with your new business!