Posts in Business growth
#55 Finding your FIERCE with Brita Fernandez Schmidt

Driven by her purpose, Brita believes that every woman has a fierce power to fulfill her dreams. (I can't agree more!) She coaches women to help them transform their lives by awakening and acting on, the power they have within. Brita is an advocate and promoter of women’s power, women’s rights and equality and the author of Fears to Fierce - a woman's guide to stepping into her power.

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#54 Profit First for Social Enterprises with Annette Ferguson

Profit First is a fantastic cash management system, designed by Mike Michalowicz. Annette uses this as a certified professional to help small businesses apply it to their business, so they can generate a profit and pay themselves as well as everything else that has to be spent on in a business.

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#53 Putting the profit back in to "non-profit" with Nickala Torkington

In this episode, I explain how important it is we re-evaluate and define what non-profit really means as social enterprises, as well as discuss lots of other issues and questions that have arisen as a result of covid-19 over the past 12 months.

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#52 How to secure funding and investment with Lisa Erhart

If you're ready to choose to challenge, and explore how you and your business could benefit from funding and investment (even as a social entrepreneur) then this is the episode for you). Lisa is a Grants Assessor, Funding Mentor and Investment Associate drawing on 20+ years experience to create online programs for female entrepreneurs getting ready to scale their impact businesses.

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#47 Transforming your existing business into a social enterprise with Jenny Adjene

One of the best approaches to creating social impact is not necessarily to create a brand new social enterprise, but to buy and existing business and turn it in to a social enterprise. Why? Because an existing business is already established, it has a client or customer base, it has established revenue streams, a well known brand and identity. It's already operating. So all the challenges of starting a new business or eradicated or at least significantly reduced. Yes there's obviously changes required in implementing a clear social purpose or embedding new ways of operating but it could be easier and cheaper.

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#45 How to boost sales ethically in your social enterprise using the phone with Corinne Thomas

There is so much focus on marketing and selling online these days, we often forget there are tried and tested methods that have existed for much longer, such as telesales, or selling by phoning cold and warm leads, as well as existing customers. We dig deep in what the opportunities are for social entrepreneurs and conscious eco-brands to use "telesales" in their business.

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