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Building a business with Stripe Connect

This week in Inside The Studio, Dan and Pete lifted the lid on Stripe Connect, a powerful payment tool created by Stripe.

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24 Nov, 2020 3 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
Five eCommerce lessons to learn from Bloom & Wild
Five eCommerce lessons to learn from Bloom & Wild

2020 is predicted to be the first truly digital Christmas. It is anticipated that more gifts will be bought online than offline in this Christmas, seeing us switch from the High Street to our laptops.

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17 Nov, 2020 7 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
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Using Trello for project management when working remote

If you are not already familiar with Trello, Trello is a visual collaboration tool that enables teams to organise projects into lists.

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11 Nov, 2020 4 min read
Studio Life Development
Tree Exchange App
Tree Exchange App

In early September, we made a radical change to our working week at Steadfast Collective. We started The Friday Collective, an initiative for all team members to make Fridays a time for learning, teaching and exploring new ideas.

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29 Oct, 2020 2 min read
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Introduction to Fabric
Introduction to Fabric

At Steadfast Collective, we’ve written quite a few Laravel packages to do things like talking to APIs and extending Laravel Cashier.

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28 Oct, 2020 2 min read
Studio Life
Becoming a climate positive company with Ecologi
Becoming a climate positive company with Ecologi

Here at Steadfast Collective, we did some research into the ways we can take small but impactful steps to reduce our carbon footprint as a company. One of these ways was to create an Ecologi account to make our organisation climate positive.

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08 Oct, 2020 3 min read
Studio Life
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How and why we decided to launch an EMI scheme for our employees.

We value the hard work our employees do and would like them to stay with us for the long term. Offering our staff a future stake in our business is a way to reward our staff for their contribution to our company success and growth.

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22 Sep, 2020 2 min read
Fathom Analytics (The Google Alternative)
Fathom Analytics (The Google Alternative)

Not only does Google track more data than is ultimately required, it’s then used to target ads right back at yourself and customers. Not only that, it’s overly complex and, quite frankly, a headache to navigate.

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16 Sep, 2020 3 min read
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Our Churn Buster review

Throughout our time using Churn Buster, we’ve recorded a recovery rate of 60%, equating to hundreds of customers recovered from the churn funnel.

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01 Jul, 2020 2 min read
Apple's App Store controversy; from an agency's perspective.
Apple's App Store controversy; from an agency's perspective.

Today, 22nd of June 2020, is the start of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Each year, Apple uses WWDC to announce new software updates, new hardware and to talk about how much revenue its App Store processes.

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22 Jun, 2020 5 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
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Start with a cupcake (The Better MVP)

What’s the smallest, usable version you could produce? Once you have created that, you can test and prove the answers to the following questions:

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19 Jun, 2020 2 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
What to consider before starting a business – Inside The Studio
What to consider before starting a business – Inside The Studio

You need to fully understand the idea you have. This sounds simple, but it’s key and often overlooked.

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02 May, 2020 2 min read
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