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What do Business Leaders Say Regarding Sustainability and Profit?
This is a powerful statement on how sustainability can help drive profitability.
Podcast on how small to mid-sized businesses can afford and benefit from sustainability certification
This podcast series, titled Sustainability Explored, from host Anna Chashchyna, studies all things sustainable.
She interviews David Goodman, of Edenark Group, to discuss the Edenark Group ISO 14001 program and how it is both affordable and beneficial to small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The Edenark Group ISO 14001 program is the world’s best environmental sustainability program for small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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The world’s premier employee performance enhancement program.
Why Do You Need to Become “Certified” Sustainable?
Thank you, Verge Funding Group, for sharing our message and service –
Do the Right Thing
Organizations can benefit from doing the right thing.
The Edenark Group ISO 14001 program allows companies to lower costs, while improving competitive differentiation, brand image, sales, profit and employee performance.
The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world’s best environmental sustainability program.
Will you be a market share giver or taker?
Consumers want to purchase from certified sustainable companies. Will you use sustainability to take market share or will your competitors beat you to it.
Select the Right Sustainability Certification Program for Your Organization
If you follow this guide, you will be happy with the certification program you select.
The Internet and Covid-19 Will Drive Your Business to Become Certified Sustainable
There is a 99.9% chance your business is defined as a SME (small to mid-sized enterprise with under 500 employees and/or under $1B in annual sales). You and your peers might be small, but you employ 67% of the world’s employed workforce. You run the world economy.
Your business is not like governments or large businesses. You don’t have big budgets or big staffs. You need to see immediate beneficial results – a project’s ROI must not only be positive, but also fast.
What do you need most?
Answer: According to studies, the #1 thing all businesses (no matter their size or where we are in an economic cycle) need is competitive differentiation – standing out from your peers and convincing the prospect to buy from you versus the other guy.
Why is this harder for you, a SME, than it is for bigger companies?
Answer – SMEs are more sales-centric and more dependent on face-to-face selling. You don’t have big budgets, to create brand imagery. Your ‘brand’ is typically individuals.
What has the internet…and Covid-19…done to make things worse for you?
Answer – The internet has created a platform for consumers to pre-review a company online. They are making go/no decisions based on if they feel your company satisfies their needs….before you have the chance to have a face-to-face.
What is the top thing consumers are looking for and that companies can stand out by having?
Answer – 87% of consumers want you, a candidate for their business, to be certified sustainable. There is +$2 TRILLION in consumer spending LOOKING to move to certified sustainable companies.
How are certified sustainable SMEs that promote their certification as a differentiation tool performing against their non-certified competitive peers?
Answer: Growing dramatically faster. +75% overall growth; +67% investor ROI; +24% Net Income; +15% sales gains; +11% EBITDA.
Net, if you want to differentiate and stand out from your competitors, a powerful, and financially-beneficial, flag to wave is sustainability certification.
This brings us back to our tag line – Doing the Right Thing can lead to a Good Thing. In letting Edenark Group help you become certified sustainable and also help you promote same, you are doing the right thing for the environment, all your current and future stakeholders; and also building your brand and making more money.
Author: David Goodman, Palm Beach Gardens’ 2021 Local Business Person of the Year, and CEO of Edenark Group (https://edenark.com/ ), which provides the world’s premier environmental sustainability certification program, the Edenark Group ISO 14001, designed/priced for SMEs.
10 Great Reasons to Become Certified Sustainable
The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world’s best environmental sustainability certification program for small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Why should an organization become certified sustainable?
There are many reasons. We list 10 –
https://edenark.com/why-becoming-a-certified-sustainable-organization-makes-sense/