Published on May 10, 2021
#13 Antonia Beauvoisin-Brown - Start your business on the French Riviera
“We want to Delight, Retain, Attract”.
The story begins in 2007, when Antonia arrived in France looking for activities where her young family could make friends. These were on every street corner in England, but not yet in France and Facebook hadn’t yet been invented! Other than a small little mum and baby group and a little baby dance class neither of which exist anymore there was no way to easily meet new parents and babies. So Antonia started her research, having already co founded a successful Au Pair agency while in the UK, the entrepreneurship route was open to her. In 2007 she threw open the doors of KidooLand now nicknamed the little English school by her clients. They have now welcomed over 6,000 families. She is also creator of the Facebook group Cote D’Azur Living and host of the Riviera Firefly Podcast. In 2021 she will Chair the Riviera Business Club jury as they select the 2021 Business Person of the Year Awards.
We talked about:
- how she started her business on the French Riviera, how she developed her idea, did her market survey and opened Kidooland
- how she handled the crisis in 2008 and the recent pandemic and how her business evolved over time
- we also talked about how she built her personal Venn diagram with her podcast Riviera Firefly Podcast and her Facebook Group Cote d’Azur Living with 11000 members
References:
- Kidooland site
- Kidooland Facebook
- KidooLand YouTube
- Kidooland Instagram
- Riviera Firefly Podcast: https://www.rivierafirefly.com/podcasts/
- Cote d’Azur Living Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cotedazurliving
- Podcast referenced: https://bizchix.com/category/bizchix/