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There's a lot of interesting stuff around. Here, we hope to give you food for thought to help take your social enterprise forward. Business, sales and marketing doesn't have to be boring, honest! It is, of course, what makes your business work and enables you to expand and carry on doing the good work. So here we'll introduce ideas: provocative, stimulating thoughts designed to help make your business work better.

Quick Index

Is your #socent prepared to pay for pension advice? Act before Jan '13!

Newsletter Archive: a summary of links from recent seb2b.co.uk newsletters

How Phoenix Social Enterprise in Bristol re-invented themselves in this Age of Austerity

Think, Do and Share: The Robert Ashton Organisation

Work4ME launches in Scotland: empowering people with long-term health problems and offering a range of professional services to the third sector

Outcomes and Social Impact service described by Clayton Anderson from SOS Evaluation & Training

Social Outcomes Dashboard, introduced by Ameena Ahmed

Sam Zubaidi asks: Where does the money go?

Is risk aversion the biggest threat to social enterprises, asks John Hansell

Should social enterprises be more social, by Christopher Hartley

Brightworks' micro-volunteering app for charity tasks

Making email marketing work for you

Making the News and Using the Media - part one

Making the News and Using the Media - part two

Marketing is not a Dirty Word

I don't sell, I'm a social enterprise!

The Feeling's Mutual

How we can help Grow your Business

New to Social Enterprise?

New to Social Enterprise?

Just in case you're new to the world of social enterprise, here’s a quick introductory guide to what it’s all about. No apologies for contentious or irreverent views.

The Feeling's Mutual

Richard Shelton looks at how the NHS is exploring the benefits of mutuality and how social enterprises may be able to benefit.

Marketing is not a Dirty Word

Richard Shelton dares to suggest that some social enterprises don’t market their services and products well. Perhaps marketing wasn’t high on the list of motivations to start up…

I don't sell, I'm a social enterprise...

Ever heard this before? John Hansell explores on of the most common dilemmas for the Third Sector...

How seb2b.co.uk can Help Grow your Business

We are more than just a B2B directory - find out here how else we can help develop your business.

Making the News - and Using the Media

Richard Shelton looks at how to get your message across and use the media to develop your business.

Making the News - and Using the Media part 2

Richard Shelton here looks at the nitty-gritty of writing press releases, and techniques you can use to make the journalists life easier - thus helping to get your message into the media.

Making email marketing work for you

If you’re not using email marketing yet, this article tells you about the opportunities you’re missing out on for developing and growing your business.

Village Capital London 2011 Launches

Village Capital London launches: £50,000 European Start-up Prizes Available

Brightworks launches a micro-volunteering app for charity tasks

Bright One, the volunteer-run communications agency for the third sector, has launched Brightworks, a micro-volunteering app that allows nonprofits to get tasks completed for free online by a global volunteer community.

SOS Evaluation & Training launches Outcomes & Social Impact Service

Outcomes and Social Impact Service Launched

Help in identifying and measuring outcomes and social impact for voluntary organisations and social enterprises is at hand with the launch of SOS Evaluation and Training, which is providing cost-effective solutions for the third sector.

The Barefoot Academy: Become more enterprising, or your money back!

Social entrepreneur Robert Ashton launches his Barefoot Business Academy that promises measurable results on your journey to where you want to go.

Where does the money go - PricePie shows the way

Sam Zubaidi looks at how companies can display their ethical credentials as easy as pie...

Is Risk Aversion the greatest threat to the future of Social Enterprises?

John Hansell from Interpersonal Development looks at whether developing new income streams is a risk worth taking, or a step too far...

Wouldn't it be Better if Social Enterprises were more Social?

Christopher Hartley, Marketing Director of U-Do, argues that strength in numbers is the way forward for the social enterprise sector.

Boxing Clever: Charity makes bird boxes out of re-cycled wood

West Norfolk Mind ticks all the boxes with their new range of bird boxes - perfect for National Nest Box Week 2013.

Contact details: at the bottom of this article.

Social Outcomes Dashboard: instrumental in monitoring your social impact

Do you need a better way to manage the monitoring of your social impact? Don’t want to spend a lot of money? How about an affordable alternative that gets you the results you want?

Monitoring for social outcomes in social enterprise organisations is rapidly becoming an essential part of managing performance and drumming up new funding - but knowing how to do it effectively can be a challenge. Ameena Ahmed from Direct-Path Consulting Ltd outlines her recent work in creating the roadmap for making social outcomes monitoring part of funding and performance strategies.

Employers for Childcare ticks all the right boxes

Employers For Childcare Charitable Group has become one of the only Social Enterprises in the UK to achieve certifications by BSI to two international management system standards. These are ISO 9001 (a global quality management standard) and ISO/IEC 27001, the international best practice framework for information security management.

Work4ME Launches in Scotland

An innovative organisation empowering people living with long-term health conditions to work has been launched in Scotland. Called “Work4ME”, the consortium co-operative was initiated by SKS Scotland (SKS), the social enterprise company which champions the cause for self-employment for people living with long-term conditions.

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