Rather than following the crowd and doing what you think you “should” do, what’s your wildly unique way. Are you ready to discover it?

Blog, Business Models, Coaching, Getting Started, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Making Dreams a Reality, Running your business, Shifting the status quoKat LuckockJune 1, 2023Social Entrepreneur, social impact, Business Development, coaching

£1 million in revenue: the lessons I've learnt in 8 years as a social entrepreneur

Lessons I've learnt over the past 8 years as a social entrepreneur

Getting Started, Impact Measurement, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Mindset, Resource, Running your businessKat LuckockFebruary 10, 2022Lessons Learnt, Social Entrepreneur, My story, mind, imp

If you forget your own brilliance at times...

When we're not doing what we love, it's easy to lose ourselves. And it's easy for the doubt to creep in and those feelings of "Am I actually any good at this?"

Aligned Sales, Coaching, Confidence, Financial Sustainability, Dreaming Big, Getting Started, Group Coaching, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, MindsetKat LuckockJanuary 21, 2022Mastermind, Selling, In Your Power, Mindset

Why no-one is teaching sales to social entrepreneurs (except me ofcourse)

Why is no-one teaching social entrepreneurs about ethical, value-led sales approaches that work? Here's what I think and why I decided to do something about it.

Aligned Sales, Lessons I've learnt, Kat's Story, Social Enterprise SectorKat LuckockJanuary 17, 2022Sales Strategy, Aligned Sales

The mindset that got me to £4k pay in full clients

I don't have it all figured out. My life is far from perfect. It's messy at times. I doubt myself regularly. But I am still able to secure high paying, pay in full clients with confidence and ease. I allow pricing not to be the thing that holds me back from earning what I truly need and want.

Aligned Sales, Attract customers, Confidence, Generate income, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Mindset, SalesKat LuckockJanuary 11, 2022Mastermind, Mindset, Money Mindset, Generating Income, Sales Strategy, Aligned Sales

Business building in uncertain times

You want to grow your business but it feels like a very uncertain time for you, your business, your industry, the world….[insert whatever you’re worrying about right now]. How do you deal with that uncertain and still achieve the ambitious goals you set out for your social enterprise? Here I share my uncertainty around building my business after finding out I was pregnant this year…lots of lessons regardless of whether your pregnant or not.

Blog, Coaching, Dreaming Big, Mindset, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Running your businessKat LuckockMay 14, 2021My story, Managing your business, Maternity, Strategic Decision Making, Coaching

£12000 in sales in 2 months

It's the end of February 2021 and I've made over £12000 in sales since the start of the year. Do you want to know how?

Aligned Sales, Attract customers, Dreaming Big, Financial Sustainability, Generate income, Lessons I've learnt, Kat's Story, Mindset, Running your businessKat LuckockFebruary 26, 2021Aligned Sales, income goals, Income Streams, Sustainable Trading Income

My mission....

I've been working on my mission a lot over the past few weeks. I've been doing a lot of work thinking about the difference I'm making and the difference I want to make through my business - Share Impact.

Dreaming Big, Getting Started, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Making Dreams a Reality, Mindset, Running your business, Shifting the status quo, Values & EthicsKat LuckockFebruary 24, 2021My story, Mission, Mindset, vision

Create a trading income in your social enterprise, it is possible!

When I started as a Social Entrepreneur back in 2013, I knew we had an incredible vision for what we wanted to deliver but I honestly didn't know how we we're going to generate a trading income. Now I teach social enterprises how to create their own unique income and sales strategy, that aligns to their values and uses the power of the impact they create to attract and connect with customers.

Attract customers, Business Models, Financial Sustainability, Generate income, Impact Measurement, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Making a profitKat LuckockJuly 9, 2020Invitation, Coaching

Featured on the Sustainable Business Podcast

Here is a little snippet from my interview with Will at Green Element on his Sustainable Business Podcast.

Running your business, Shifting the status quo, Kat's Story, PodcastKat LuckockJune 29, 2020Podcast, Video, Audio

The SELLING POWER of just BEING YOU

After seven years of selling to coporates as a social entrepreneur and helping my clients do the same, I’ve learnt A LOT. Here I share my top six lessons I learnt the hard way so you don’t make the same mistakes.

Generate income, Lessons I've learnt, Kat's Story, Selling to CorporatesKat LuckockMay 15, 2020Selling to corporates, Sales & Customers, Generating Income, Lessons Learnt

How I learnt how to sell to corporates as a social entrepreneur

When I started as a Social Entrepreneur, back in 2013, I had absolutely no experience of selling and in truth IT TERRIFIED ME, but our business model was based on generating a trading income from selling to corporates so we had learn everything we could to finding, attracting and pitching to people in corporates. This is my story.

Financial Sustainability, Generate income, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Running your business, Selling to Corporates, SalesKat LuckockMay 11, 2020My Story, Selling to corporates, Lessons Learnt

Featured on the She's the Boss Podcast

Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Podcast, Setting up your business, Shifting the status quoKat LuckockMarch 29, 2020Podcast, Aud, Video

Social Entrepreneur asks: "Do I need to stop and find another job?"

I've been where you've been wondering if you can really carry on as a social entrepreneur earning just a pittance. I want you to know you can totally do this. You can earn what you need to create a profitable social enterprise and I'm here to show you how.

Financial Sustainability, Generate income, Lessons I've learnt, Kat's Story, Making a profit, Running your businessKat LuckockJanuary 2, 2020

The 4 things I've really struggled with this year...

All in all it's been a good year but there's plenty of areas I want to improve on for 2020 and I don't know about you but there's four things that I've really struggled with this year time, cashflow, mindset, and consistent action.

Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Making Dreams a Reality, MindsetKat LuckockDecember 16, 2019Reflection, Review, Lessons Learnt, Mindset, Time, Cashflow, Consistent Action

Hard truths for Social Entrepreneurs...

Hard truths I recently shared with social entrepreneurs in Manchester which help us all become better social entrepreneurs.

Attract customers, Dreaming Big, Financial Sustainability, Generate income, Impact Communications, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Running your businessKat LuckockNovember 5, 2019Impact Communications, Marketing, Social Entrepreneur, Social Enterprise, Share Your Social Impact

How I expanded my business whilst preparing for 6 months “off”

How in the past three months I’ve expanded my business, generated more income than I did in my whole first year in business and am on track for my best year yet, even though I’m planning 6 months ‘off’ for maternity leave.

Attract customers, Dreaming Big, Generate income, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learnt, Making Dreams a Reality, Running your businessKat LuckockMarch 29, 2019

I hate networking events but….

…sometimes we need to check out whether our past experiences are limiting our opportunities for new and different experiences. So this week I went to a networking event and learnt some powerful new lessons.

Kat's Story, Networking, Lessons I've learntKat LuckockFebruary 16, 2019Networking

How I grew my social enterprise to £150k/year in 18 months

It’s one of the things I’m most proud of – setting up a social enterprise and making it sustainable within a two-year period. But this isn’t a blog about how wonderful I am or how easy it was to generate £150k/year income – it really wasn’t.

This is a blog about the lessons we learnt and three things you can do to generate sales as a social entrepreneur.

Attract customers, Making Dreams a Reality, Kat's Story, Lessons I've learntKat LuckockFebruary 10, 2019My story, Impact Communications, Generating Income Comments

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