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Microenterprise

Benchmarking the Performance of Business Development Services

This guide illustrates a step-by-step process that organizations providing business development services can use to generate benchmarking data related to these services on the microTracker site, and through consulting services with microTracker staff.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 1 more

Publication

09.01.2016
Microenterprise

Increase your Client Outcomes IQ

The guide is designed as a useful tool for microenterprise practitioners who want to use client outcomes data to raise funds, improve program services, and set organizational goals.

BY Tamra Thetford, & 1 more

Publication

09.01.2016
Microenterprise

Sustaining the Delivery of Business Development Services

This brief publication offers strategies and practices for mobilizing funding for microenterprise training services.

BY Luz Gomez, & 1 more

Publication

09.01.2013
Microenterprise

Scaling through Distance Learning

Compelled by the drive to serve larger numbers of aspiring entrepreneurs amid a tighter funding environment, many microenterprise development organizations are, not surprisingly, looking more closely at distance learning.

BY Tamra Thetford, & 2 more

Publication

08.01.2013
Microenterprise

Building Businesses by Building Credit

With the continued challenge of poor credit quality stemming from the financial crisis, many organizations have looked to new approaches to serve clients who want to grow or start a business but are hampered by poor or nonexistent credit.

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Publication

08.01.2012
Microenterprise

State of Business Development Services

Documents the scale and scope of business development services work by U.S. MDOs as of 2010.

BY William Girardo, & 1 more

Publication

05.01.2012
Microenterprise

Distance Learning and the Changing Face of Business Development Services

A long-time challenge facing microenterprise programs is how to reach out to larger numbers of entrepreneurs efficiently despite the distance in proximity to a program office.

BY Luz Gomez, & 1 more

Publication

08.01.2011
Microenterprise

Using a Brands Strategy for Scaling Business Development Services

FIELD’s case study of a brands strategy employed on behalf of both producer and retailer entrepreneurs examines Southeastern Ohio’s ACEnet and its experience creating three brands in the food and arts sectors.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 1 more

Publication

08.01.2011
Microenterprise

Focused on Growth

This document summarizes the experience and lessons of six Scale Academy members with substantial focus on business development services.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 1 more

Publication

08.01.2010
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