CSA: Fundraising

As a part of moving on from my sexual abuse and raising awareness of it. I would like to, in the near future, do some fundraising for charities that help people who are going through and have been through sexual abuse.

I'm not entirely sure what I will be doing but I'm hoping to do something with my poetry, some challenges and maybe some events.

I'll post anything that is going on here and on my facebook page.

- Stacey xo

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Business Notes: Identifying a product or market niche

A niche is something that is specialise or unique.

For most entrepreneurs, identifying a broad business idea is relatively easy. But it is more difficult to identify the exact product to be made and the market niche to be occupied.

For example, someone setting up a Bed and Breakfast business has to decide whether to go upmarket or downmarket, and whether to aim at holiday or business people.

Business Link, the government organisation set up to help small businesses, suggests that a new business idea should be checked against the following criteria:

• What can the entrepreneur bring to the business in terms of relevant experience and expertise?
• Is there a market for the product? Does it serve a need and will customers pay for it?
• How big is the market and how can it be reached?
• Who will the main competitors in the market be?
• Is there something special about the idea? Or will it be a similar product to what is already in the market place?
• How will the business be funded?
• What are the risks involved and what can go wrong?

- Esjae x

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Business Notes: Entrepreneurs

An entrepreneur is someone who is willing to take a risk to start a new project or a new business. ‘Enterprise’ refers to the skills needed to do this. An entrepreneur has an idea and then tries to make it work. Entrepreneurs see the resources that are available and the possibilities of combining them in a particular way to provide a product or service. Entrepreneurs create new businesses and in so doing provide new products and services. Some entrepreneurs, such as Richard Branson of Virgin and Stelios Haji – Ioannou of easyGroup, continually have ideas for new businesses and set up many different ones during their careers. Such people are called ‘serial entrepreneurs’.

Entrepreneurs create change and challenge the way things are done. They find and create new markets, generate income and employment and bring about innovation. They are extremely important to the growth of an economy and to improving the quality and range of goods and services on offer.
Enterprise (or entrepreneurship) involves discovering, evaluating and exploiting business opportunities.

- Esjae x

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/esjaeofficial
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Subscribe to me of Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/theofficialesjae
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E-mail me: esjae-official@hotmail.co.uk

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