John is a furniture designer and restoration expert. After completing a BA in design in 1984, he set up his first workshop in Shropshire developing uses for fresh-cut Green Timber and producing one-off pieces of furniture on commission.

"I began working with local dealers to restore their furniture and developed a love for the art and craft furniture restoration. I set up Just Be Retro in 2014. We have a passion for buying, selling and restoring vintage furniture. Though we can restore anything, we focus predominantly on Mid-Century pieces, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s furniture and favour British and Scandinavian design."

"I wanted to be able to sell my furniture directly, but my website was built on Wordpress and difficult to maintain. It was a pain to add new products to it, very slow to load and bits of it had stopped working and other pages were left empty. Creative Boost took the design elements of the previous site and created a new design built on another e-commerce platform that makes it easy to add new products to and take multiple payment methods. They've also created marketing materials for me for my sales including for social media, email campaigns that coincide with seasonal events and complement slips with discount codes."

"We have more visibility now than ever and with a website that works, it's easy for customers to find our products and check out without hassle."

"We have complex shipping options. Our smaller items are delivered by post. Our furniture is delivered by a private courier - with additional smaller items delivered at no extra cost. I wanted my customers to be able pay for shipping at checkout. Creative Boost were able to create a custom shipping solution that calculates shipping using the customer's address to calculate distance travelled."