Local Business acknowledged by a Dragon

On Sunday 10th

June, Jenny Buttery of Nellies Designs went up against 1076 other

small businesses in the weekly pursuit of a re-tweet from Dragon

Den's star and retail guru Theo Paphitis, in the hope of becoming

one of his Small Business Sunday (#SBS) winners .

The famous dragon started

the #SBS Twitter sensation back in October 2010 and it has been

growing steadily in popularity ever since. Each Sunday evening Theo

Paphitis asks small businesses to tweet him details of their business

using only the 140 characters of a tweet and on the following

Monday evening he re-tweets his top 6 of the week to his 250,000 plus

followers.

The winners are then

eligible for an entry on the new #SBS website

http://theopaphitissbs.com/

which was launched at the inaugural winner's event held by Theo

Paphitis and one of his businesses, Rymans back in March 2012.

This Monday evening was the

night that Jenny finally realised her long time ambition of winning a

much sought after re-tweet from Theo Paphitis with her winning tweet:

"@TheoPaphitis

They say persistence pays eventually. I hope today is the day for our

handmade jewellery! www.nelliesjewellery.co.uk

#SBS"

Of her win Jenny says "I

had been tweeting Theo Paphitis every Sunday since the start of the

year and every week tried to make my tweet stand out. I thought I

would show Theo that I was willing to persevere to reach my goal and

this time he chose me as one of his 6 winners. The response has been

amazing and I am blown away by the comments and support I have

received! Winning has been a massive boost to my business and to be

acknowledged by Theo has spurred me on to build my business to the

next level".

Nellies Designs was started

in 2011 after Jenny had started making jewellery as hobby which then

soon developed her passion for making pieces which were beautiful,

unique and quirky. The business is named after her grandmother

'Nellie' who was a huge inspiration to Jenny and who taught her

to cross-stitch as a child and encouraged her creativity.

Nellies Designs are

currently stocked in "Boutique 33" in Bristol and "Things

British" in London and Jenny also has two new collections The

Brights Collection and Touch of Sparkle which are now available

exclusively on her website www.nelliesjewellery.co.uk