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If you love gift shopping and are looking for a creative and rewarding retail business to start,
then opening a gift shop is for you.
About a Career as a Gift Shop Owner
When you open a gift shop, you will have a business that lets you get paid to indulge your passion for gift shopping while helping people
celebrate some of the happiest moments in life.
From birthdays to new babies to just because, gift shop owners have the satisfaction of helping people show they care. While gift sales are highest on holidays such as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and especially Christmas, spending on gifts for year-round
occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries is growing, offering greater opportunity for giftshop owners.

It’s not easy to be a gift shop owner in this economy.
For many, sales are down while rents are up, and the
competition from big-name chain stores is discouraging at best. What’s a sharp sharp gift store to do?
As you probably already know, there’s no one simple
answer. But there is help! For this guide, we
surveyed 19 successful gift shop owners to get their
best tips on marketing and branding, and how they
gain and maintain customer loyalty. Read on to learn
how branding can improve your gift shop’s sales and
make for a more enjoyable experience for you and
your customers.
First, what is retail branding?
A brand is the idea or image consumers have when
they think of a product or company. Often, branding
is associated exclusively with imagery such as
company logos, but when it comes to retail, it’s so
much more. Your gift shop’s brand is everything that
comes to mind for consumers when they think about
your shop — think of it as your shop’s personality.

branding is extremely important to
their business, and is at least
somewhat important. The good news is, as a shop
owner, you have a lot of control over how customers
view your shop’s personality. That helps consumers
know what to expect when they shop with you, and
ensures that they’ll think of you when looking for a
specific type of gift or retail experience.
Create a unique, definable retail experience for your
customers, and they’ll remember you and return to
your shop.
Branding is especially important given how much
choice consumers have about where to shop. The
great reaches of the Internet aside, 79 percent of the
retail gift shop owners we spoke with said they have
direct competition locally. Properly branding your gift
shop is what will make you stand out from the
competition and thrive in a time when many retail
shops are in trouble.
Here are the top tips mentioned over and over by our
gift shop owners
To be continued......

What is Social Entrepreneurship?

Social entrepreneurship is 

About applying practical, innovative and sustainable approaches to benefit society in general, with an emphasis on those who are marginalized and poor.

A term that captures a unique approach to economic and social problems, an approach that cuts across sectors and disciplines grounded in certain values and processes that are common to each social entrepreneur, independent of whether his/ her area of focus has been education, health, welfare reform, human rights, workers' rights, environment, economic development, agriculture, etc., or whether the organizations they set up are non-profit or for-profit entities.

It is this approach that sets the social entrepreneur apart from the rest of the crowd of well-meaning people and organizations who dedicate their lives to social improvement.

 

About organizational models

Leveraged non-profit ventures 

The entrepreneur sets up a non-profit organization to drive the adoption of an innovation that addresses a market or government failure. In doing so, the entrepreneur engages a cross section of society, including private and public organizations, to drive forward the innovation through a multiplier effect. Leveraged non-profit ventures continuously depend on outside philanthropic funding, but their longer term sustainability is often enhanced given that the partners have a vested interest in the continuation of the venture.

Hybrid non-profit ventures 

The entrepreneur sets up a non-profit organization but the model includes some degree of cost-recovery through the sale of goods and services to a cross section of institutions, public and private, as well as to target population groups. Often, the entrepreneur sets up several legal entities to accommodate the earning of an income and the charitable expenditures in an optimal structure. To be able to sustain the transformation activities in full and address the needs of clients, who are often poor or marginalized from society, the entrepreneur must mobilize other sources of funding from the public and/or philanthropic sectors. Such funds can be in the form of grants or loans, and even quasi-equity.

Social business ventures 

The entrepreneur sets up a for-profit entity or business to provide a social or ecological product or service. While profits are ideally generated, the main aim is not to maximize financial returns for shareholders but to grow the social venture and reach more people in need. Wealth accumulation is not a priority and profits are reinvested in the enterprise to fund expansion. The entrepreneur of a social business venture seeks investors who are interested in combining financial and social returns on their investments.

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Social Entrepreneur

QUESTION:

Hello, so I have taken interest in becoming a social entrepreneur which I a career that depends solely on peoples attention which I happen not to know much about so my question is how do I get people to pay attention to my programme?

Well I'm glad you've taken interest in this career because you've picked a good one believe me, if you want to attract the attention of people/donors,then you should work with another social entrepreneur to gain exposure

Social entrepreneurship like every other business isn't easy. The initial fundraising
campaigns might be fun, but the stresses of
money-related decisions—how much will go to
overhead, how much will go to the community,
whose pleas you listen to and whose you turn
down—can make you wish you never raised it. As
a social entrepreneur, you'll need to know how
to balance a budget, how to manage volunteers
and how to write funding proposals, all the while
remaining accountable to your board and your
donors. "When you work for an organization, you
learn how Social entrepreneurs function, how money is used,that way, when you start on your
own, you're not trying to reinvent the wheel."
Various skills are required to run an organization,
and it's important that you have a variety of
experience. Before you tackle the top job, you
should work for more than one organization and
get exposure to the different sectors of a non-
profit, including fieldwork and administration not only will you be exposed to the inner workings of social entrepreneurship but you will also know how get donors or even make contact with potential donors and since there isn't much competition in this market, you won't need to worry about your customers getting poached because you are all working for the same cause

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