A homeworking agent who took to the street with her phone to find out whether residents in a nearby village would like to see a travel agency on their high street is now gearing up to open her first shop.
Arline Sloan won £8,000 after entering Jet2's Scale Up Your Street pitching competition (Credit: Halstead Travel)
Halstead Travel owner Arline Sloan headed to Coggeshall, which is about five miles from her home in Earls Colne, to find out how receptive people would be to a travel agency, believing she had spotted a gap in the market.
Sloan cut her interviews with residents together to create a five-minute video outlining why she should open up in the "affluent" Essex village, which she then used to successfully pitch for £8,000 from Jet2holidays’ Scale Up Your Street campaign.
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