Project Focus: MicroMentor, LinkedIn for the Little Guy

MicroMentor Web application

Highlights:

  • Re-vamped interface
  • Intelligent Matching
  • Salesforce Force.com Integration

Dayspring recently launched a site for MicroMentor, an organization whose new website is addressing the recession head-on. A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report1 shows that microenterprises (that is businesses with fewer than 5 employees) account for about one-sixth of all jobs created in the private sector in the U.S. Given today’s economic climate, this number is especially significant.

But these businesses often struggle to get, among other things, the “social capital” that they need to be successful—access to the people that have the business, market and technical expertise they need to succeed.

MicroMentor is filling that gap. Dayspring worked with MicroMentor to create the new site that matches entrepreneurs with business mentors—a kind of LinkedIn for the little guy. Check it out (and maybe sign up as a mentor to share your business skills with an entrepreneur who’s looking for you!).

Read the full case study

1http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewbd.nr0.htm

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