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Group Coaching for Social Enterprise Leaders and Social Entrepreneurs

If you’re a woman setting up or leading a social enterprise looking for a community of support and weekly group coaching to grow and sustain your business, this is the community for you.

The Thrive Society is my monthly membership focussing on sales, pricing, finding your audience / ready-to-buy clients + customers and leaning in to your unique super powers to create the incredible impact you want to see in the world.

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The benefits of starting with a trading income as a social enterprise

All too many social enterprises start their business by applying and eventually securing grant funding. Some also try crowdfunding or asking for donations and sponsorship. I’m not opposed to any of these methods of generating income per se, however I do think there’s an issue if this is the only way new social enterprises think about how to generate income and don’t have an income strategy or business plan to generate the income they need on a sustainable business.

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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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Selling to corporates vs asking for sponsorship

It was one of the most significant shifts I had when I started out as a social entrepreneur - “start SELLING to generate income and STOP ASKING for money” . In this blog I explain why you need to start selling and stop asking for sponsorship as a social entrepreneur.

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How much can I earn from selling to corporates?

If you’re thinking about offering a service to corporates but wondering how much income you could actually make, this blog answers it all. It’s probably a lot more than you realise. It’s something my social enterprise earns £70k plus a year from, and my clients up to £90k in a single pitch!

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How to get started selling to corporates

If, like me 7 years ago, you don’t have experience of working in corporates; don’t have any links to anyone in corporate and have never sold anything to corporates before how do you get started? This is what I cover in my free webinar: How to get started selling to corporates? And in this blog I’m giving you a little taster of what we cover.

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How to sell to corporates as a social entrepreneur

Sustainable social enterprises often have multiple income streams and selling to corporates is a great way to increase your trading income your social enterprise. It’s how I got started as a social entrepreneur, selling our education programme to corporates in the energy, utility and construction sector. I now teach social entrepreneurs, like you, to do the same because with more income you can create more social impact.

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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.

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Do you have the right business model for your social enterprise?

...without a business model that works for you and your social enterprise you may find you're often struggling to make enough each month to pay the bills; you often feeling like your chasing your tail; you're not sure if you can carry on; and you never have quite enough to deliver the impact you really want to make.

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The Female Social Entrepreneurs Retreat

In January I’m running my very first retreat for female social entrepreneurs focused on helping you plan your impact for 2020, including how to measure it and communicate it in a way that attracts customers and income, so you have your best year yet!

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