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Facebook Ads: 5 Tips For Success Facebook Ads have emerged as a popular and cost-effective way to promote a small business online--here's how to use them. August 24, 2011 Facebook Ads have emerged as a popular and cost-effective way to promote a small business online. According to recent research from MerchantCircle, 22 percent of small businesses have used Facebook Ads, and 65 percent say they would use Facebook Ads again, citing ease and flexibility as the top reasons to run another campaign. But not everyone enjoys success with Facebook Ads—among the one-third of users who say they wouldn't run another campaign, nearly 70 percent say that it didn't work to acquire new customers. With this in mind, here are five tips to ensure you're set up for success with Facebook Ads: 1. The first step is understanding what you want to achieve with your ad. Facebook offers a number of different ad options that work to achieve different objectives. Whatever your goals and approach, make sure that you are set up to measure success. 2.

Entrepreneur + social = mariage impossible ? Peut-on être un entrepreneur désireux de porter son affaire dans les sphères de la réussite et être en même temps soucieux du bien-être collectif de la société ? Cette pensée de « l'individualisme altruiste» où la liberté irait de pair avec un idéal de justice, selon Albert Camus, a trouvé un écho original sur le terrain de l'entrepreneuriat. Elle s'est incarnée dans la création du collectif le « Mouves », le mouvement des entrepreneurs sociaux qui rassemble les entrepreneurs dont la mission est d’ajouter une dimension sociale et sociétale à leur projet. Pour expliquer sa démarche, le Mouves n’hésite pas à allier les contraires. 4 QUESTIONS A Loïs Pignot-Malapert, responsable de la communication du Mouves. L’association de termes « entrepreneur » et « social » est-elle si évidente ? Elle l'est d'autant plus dans l'état de crise économique et sociale dans lequel se trouvent aujourd'hui le pays, l’Europe et le monde. L’argent et le profit sont-ils les ennemis de l’entrepreneur social ?

Mary Catherine Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson (born December 8, 1939) is an American writer and cultural anthropologist. A graduate of the Brearley School, Bateson is the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Since 1960, she has been married to Barkev Kassarjian, a professor of management at Babson College. They have one daughter, Sevanne Margaret (born 1969), an actress who works professionally under the name Sevanne Martin,[1] and two grandsons. Bateson is a noted author in her field with many published monographs. Among Bateson's books is With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, a recounting of her upbringing by two famous parents. Mary Catherine Bateson is a fellow of the International Leadership Forum and was president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York until 2010. Bibliography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]

By Social Entrepreneurs, For Social Entrepreneurs® Welcome to SkollWorldForum.org former Social Edge users! Social Edge was an online community created by the Skoll Foundation from 2003 - 2013. The site has since closed as we have focused efforts on the new Skoll World Forum platform. We have moved over 2000 posts from SocialEdge.org to SkollWorldForum.org, and are constantly adding new, relevant content. Feel free to browse through our contributors and original content, or visit our homepage and customize your experience by filtering our content for exactly what you're looking for. We hope you enjoy your time on the site! Sincerely, The Skoll World Forum Online Team QR Code Generator: QR Stuff Free Online QR Code Creator And Encoder For T-Shirts, Business Cards & Stickers Please Note: Will only work on iPhone and Android devices that have the Skype app installed. 0 chars (max 160) Select your Contact Details QR code type: vCard Format Important: VCARD information embedded in a QR Code will often result in a QR Code too dense for many mobile phones to read. meCard Format Note: Cell Phone, Fax Number and Job Title are not supported by the meCard format. Or use the field below to geo-locate an address. Or click on the map below to add a marker. Click and drag the marker to move it. Select your Twitter QR code type: Twitter Profile Twitter Status Update 0 chars (max 140) Select your Facebook QR code type: Link To Facebook Page Facebook Like Note: iPhone users will need to have the FourSquare app installed on their device for this QR code to work properly. Important: VCALENDAR information embedded in a QR Code will often result in a QR Code too dense for many mobile phones to read. * Required Fields NOTE: This only works with Android phones (at the moment) Encoding Options

Le Groupe SOS, géant assumé de l’économie sociale La nouvelle est passée inaperçue auprès du grand public. Pas dans le secteur de l’économie sociale. À la mi-mars, le Groupe SOS a officiellement repris Alpha Santé, une association de 2 100 salariés qui gère deux hôpitaux et une quinzaine d’établissements pour personnes âgées dépendantes en Lorraine. Plongée dans une situation financière catastrophique, sa direction n’avait pas d’autres solutions pour poursuivre l’activité. Si ce rapprochement fait date, c’est parce qu’il porte à près de 10 000 les effectifs du Groupe SOS. Autant le dire : jamais une entreprise de l’économie sociale n’avait atteint une telle envergure et une telle croissance. De fait, avec le million de personnes accompagnées en 2011 et ses 560 millions d’euros de chiffre d’affaires, SOS fait aujourd’hui figure de géant de l’économie sociale. «Nous sommes meilleurs qu’eux, affirme Jean-Marc Borello, notamment parce que nous n’avons pas d’actionnaires et pas de dividendes à verser. 1977.

Common Grant Application The San Diego Common Grant Application (CGA) was designed to help make the grantseeking process simpler and more efficient by allowing nonprofits to complete one application that may be submitted to multiple funders. Common grant applications have become standard practice among grantmakers and regional associations across the country. With feedback from grantseekers and grantmakers alike, we designed the San Diego Common Grant Application to be as comprehensive as possible. NOTE: You must submit your completed CGA directly to the organization to which you are applying for funding. Download the Common Grant Application

Open Screen Project (Adobe Flash Platform Blog) Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, we made a couple of exciting announcements: advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform including unveiling AIR on mobile devices and Adobe joins LiMo Foundation to bring the Flash Platform to the LiMo Platform. Adobe unveiled AIR running on Android OS. Expected to ship later this year, AIR for Android takes advantage of mobile features from Flash Player 10.1 and is optimized for mobile screens. Developers can use Flash Professional to build apps for the iPhone and deliver those same apps to other platforms on AIR, including Android. Developers can also use AIR to leverage mobile-specific functionality—such as multi-touch, gesture inputs, accelerometer input, GPS and screen orientation—to deliver richer and more immersive user experiences across multiple operating systems through mobile marketplaces and app stores.

How to Add Google Analytics to Your Facebook Fan Page You’ve created a Facebook fan page and people are frequenting your page. But do you really know how many people visit your page, what areas are popular and what parts of the world your visitors come from? Facebook Insights shows some demographic information on your page, but is limited to information about interactions with your fans. The free Google Analytics tool offers more sophisticated and comprehensive data. Adding Google Analytics to your fan page can be done easily but requires some special steps. One of the limitations of Facebook fan pages is they can only run limited JavaScript. However, there is a new solution. What follows are the instructions to set up Google Analytics tracker on your Facebook fan page. #1: Create a Google Analytics account If you already have a Google Analytics account, create a new website profile to separately track visits to your Facebook fan page. Where it says "Add a Profile After the step above, Google will display your tracking code.

The Seven Growth Strategies of Social Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurs apply different growth strategies depending on their company’s development stage and whether they have quantitative or qualitative value-adding ambitions. It is about finding an optimal organizational size and the right way to grow in terms of development, rather than pursuing growth for the sake of growth. In other words, size does not always matter, and small can be beautiful too. In the field of social entrepreneurship one of the following strategies are, therefore, typically applied: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. The choice of growth strategy is closely linked to financing the social venture: models range from what the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship categorizes as : - leverage nonprofit ventures, i.e. 100% external financing through, for example, donations, sponsorships and public funding but where upscaling is generated through private and public sector partnerships;

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