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Matt Black, Business Development Manager of Social Enterprise Magazine

Matt Black is Business Development Manager for Social Enterprise Magazine and co-founder of the Good Deals 2010 conference which helps investors and social entrepreneurs connect in the UK. In this interview he answers some important questions about the conference and his work.

What is the Good Deals 2010 conference? Is it a place where investors find social enterprises? Or an educational conference for social enterprises?Good Deals connects innovative investors and inspirational social entrepreneurs to get good deals done.

Not only will there...

My Startup is Way Too Complex to Explain . . .

If you really hate to describe your business, and your elevator speech never seems to result in people taking more of an interest in your new enterprise, you need to step back and think.

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Search Engine Marketing Site & Page Structure Matters

Almost every company on earth needs a website in order to do business these days. That’s how many businesses get most of their customers. Sometimes one person will tell another the name of a business and its domain name, sometimes a customer will simply search Google for the solution they need. In the latter case, your site’s structure must be designed to help connect Google searchers to the products and services you sell. Here’s a quick overview of what to do ....

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Writing, Designing, Publishing, Distributing, Promoting and Selling a Book Profitably

Get a Book into Amazon's Bookstore by Publishing Through CreateSpace

Writing, publishing and selling a book with today’s technology can take as little as a month. In this article we review specific steps you can take to design, write, publish, distribute and promote your book profitably.

Identify your target market and determine what they need to know and how they need to learn it. Note: Putting this step first insures that your book will make money, and if you find it...

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating & Maintaining a “Thin Business”

If you are starting, running or working to fund an enterprise, you need to ensure you are running as lean as possible and that you are networking efficiently to build the business relationships you need to survive.

Never Let Someone Else Write Your Business Plan

Letting someone else write your business plan is almost always unnecessary and almost certainly unwise.

Practical Q&A With Doug Richard: Mentoring, Recruiting & Seeing Opportunities

At a recent Start Here: Starting & Growing a Successful Business event held in London, we received the following questions. We’ve taken a moment to respond to them. We thought others might find the answers interesting.

Practical Q&A With Doug Richard — Cambridge Starting & Growing a Successful Business Class

At a recent Starting & Growing a Successful Event held in Cambridge, we received the following questions. We've taken a moment to respond to them. We thought others might find the answers interesting.

The Pitch 2010 – A Very Important Event for UK Entrepreneurs

If you are a UK entrepreneur, you have every reason to participate in the Pitch 2010. Not only is it a way to get exposure for your business, and get advice from experts and venture capitalists, it is a way to learn more about business professionals with whom you can network and build long term relationships. The competition begins with a series of regional events that serve not only as local business incubators and networking opportunities, but provide you with...

An Entrepreneur’s Quick Guide to Closing Online Sales

Making your website do what it is supposed to do doesn't cost much and doesn't take long. You just need some practical advice on how to make it work right.

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