New website for female entrepreneurs to sell their products during pandemic
CO Wicklow based Lindsay Malatji O’Shea has started a new website promoting products by female entrepreneurs.
2020 was a year of new experiences, particularly new shopping experiences and Lindsay wants to provide a platform for women business owners who have been majorly impacted by the pandemic.
Lindsay lives in Glenealy with her young family and is married to Kevin O’Shea, the owner of The Brass Fox in Wicklow town.
She has established www.evesmarket.online so the likes of crafters, creators, face-mask makers, sewers, and designers can sell their sometimes personalised, handmade products from their independent online stores.
Lindsay says: ‘We want Eve’s Marketplace to be a gateway for women of Ireland into micro entrepreneurship and continue to sell their products or services online – and that includes migrant women too who are legally able to live and work in Ireland. Why? Because the survival and well-being of every woman in Ireland matters.’
The pandemic has resulted in many people starting to shop online and Lindsay saw a gap in the market.
‘As the pandemic and lockdown measures continue to cause major shifts in how everyone shops, the most logical thing for us at Eve’s Market is to help Irish women increase their chances to continue selling throughout this pandemic by creating a Multi-Seller Online Marketplace for handmade goods and services.
‘ This offers them opportunities to start their very own e-commerce stores, and meet the increase in consumer demand for online shopping,’ says Lindsay.
The website will increase female entrepreneurs chances of selling throughout this pandemic by offering a much easier, and the cost-effective option of an Etsy-Style Irish
Marketplace that will afford female micro-entrepreneurs to continue to trade even in the face of Covid-19 restrictions.
Recently, a new Facebook Group called Sell Your Goods Online Ireland was also set up by Lindsay to help anyone with a side business that is looking for more advertising opportunities and exposure to find a new customer base beyond their existing social media pages. They can join the group and further advertise their products or services.
She says: ‘My aim is to help anyone that might find this group (Sell Your Goods Online Ireland) helpful to join so that we can create more advertising opportunities for hard-hit female breadwinners to continue to do what they do best and ultimately put food on the table for their families.’
The website will offer multiple shop front opportunities to female independent in Ireland to sell their products and services online .