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5 valid reasons why you want to make more sales + revenue in your social enterprise

If you're feeling shame around wanting to increase your sales and revenue in 2023, please don't. There are lots of very valid and important reasons why you, the social impact business owner / social entrepreneur want to generate more money.

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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.

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4 reasons social enterprises struggle to generate the income they need

Why do so many social enterprises struggle to generate the income they need? It’s a question I’ve been answering ever since I started as a social entrepreneur back in 2013, and one of the main reasons why I set up my business Share Impact, to help social enterprises create sustainable trading incomes. In this blog I share the 4 most common reasons I’ve seen from working with hundreds of social enterprises.

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When should I start measuring my social impact?

It's never to early to start measuring and communicating your social impact in your social enterprise. In fact I encourage you to do it from day one. In doing so you will know whether you're delivering what you aimed to do, you can start communicating what impact you're having , and you'll be in a stronger position in 6-12 months time when you come to look back on what's been delivered, what you’ve achieved and it will be much easier to collate in to a report.

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4 not-so secret marketing tools most Social Entrepreneurs aren't using

Want FOUR free marketing tools for your Social Enterprise? Not having enough cash for marketing is one of the most common reasons Social Entrepreneurs give for not being able to grow and sustain their business. I get it, I was there myself just 5 years ago, focused on all the doing rather than generating sales and income. And then… I found these free SOLUTIONS (which had actually been there all along, well at least for the last 10 years) but I had been completely ignoring their potential.

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Ecosystem for Change (part 2)

It seems there has been an upsurge in ethical fashion brands and organisations developing environmentally conscious fabrics and homewares. Or maybe being more focused on the social enterprise and impact business sector I've just come across more of them in the past 6 months. Either way I wanted to share the amazing organisations I've connected with and in a small way help raise their profile. 

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