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Collaboration is the key to future success in business

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Collaboration is team working for businesses and just like a strong team can achieve so much more than the individuals working alone so can a strong collaboration

Posted by Sarah Brown on 27 May '14 | Tags: entrepreneur collaboration business

Changing beliefs to empower people

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However much you help people, their beliefs may stop them taking advantage of opportunities - they need to believe that they are people who can....

Posted by Sarah Brown on 10 Mar '14 | Tags: collaboration charity inspiration

7 marketing tips from Father Christmas

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The marketing lessons we can learn from Father Christmas - an exclusive interview revealed what he has learnt over the centuries

Posted by Sarah Brown on 17 Dec '13 | Tags: marketing entrepreneur csr collaboration

How to change the world with marketing not charity

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An inspirational story of how understanding a market others might ignore can work for a company and change the lives of the poor. And also a surprising statistic about the biggest selling mobile phone.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 05 Jul '13 | Tags: entrepreneur charity social enterprise marketing inspiration collaboration focus on action

The three ways to grow your organisation

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There are only three ways to grow your organisation: organically but this takes time and money; mergers or acquisitions but this is high risk and difficult; collaboration and partnering which can be quick and effective if done right

Posted by Sarah Brown on 03 May '13 | Tags: collaboration goal setting strategic development entrepreneur charity social enterprise community interest company

U-Mix opening - a day of social enterprise in practise and theory

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Having been involved with U-Mix project supporting with funding bids, business planning and the practical development it was great and quite emotional to see it open today. The event was well supported reflecting the mix of people that have helped to make it successful and a credit to FURD who organised it. Before that I was at the Working Capital Conference which had some interesting comments from the head of Bid Society Capital.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 12 Apr '13 | Tags: charity social enterprise business planning strategic development inspiration collaboration local authority public sector

Creating successful charity partnerships for new funding

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With the new Advice Services Transition fund being launched, even more charities will be considering how they can work in partnership. In my experience if you don't have strong strategic input in the beginning you can waste months in fruitless talks

Posted by Sarah Brown on 02 Nov '12 | Tags: charity strategic development collaboration local authority

First application sent in for the investment and contract readiness

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After just a week we're really pleased we've already been able to get an application into the contract and readiness fund. A social enterprise with lots of potential and no time or resource to pursue their ideas.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 18 Jul '12 | Tags: social enterprise strategic development funding and investment charity feasibility study business planning collaboration investment contract readiness

The Collaboration Optimiser

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The Collaboration Optimiser(c) can save months of wasted time on discussions that are going nowhere

Posted by Sarah Brown on 13 Jan '11 | Tags: tools entrepreneur collaboration time management marketing exit strategies

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