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MicroMentor Affiliate Program

MicroMentor's Affiliate Program helps your organization quickly and easily connect your clients with high-value business expertise and industry-specific knowledge. Take advantage of the resources and support provided by MicroMentor to enhance your client outcomes, expand your service offerings, and access a vast network of local and national business volunteers.

MicroMentor Success Story: Sandra & Rachel

Read more about why MicroMentor Affliate StartZone client, Sandra Ekland, credits her MicroMentor mentor, Rachel, whom she calls "the goddess of marketing" for helping her to expand her pet care business. StartZone program manager, Mike Skinner likes that MicroMentor provides a "volunteer program in a box" and is glad that his clients "can tap this resource when they need it and move forward with a mentor at their own pace and in their own way."

About the MicroMentor Affiliate Program

The MicroMentor Affiliate Program is a platform for organizations that support microentrepreneurs. Your clients will be able to search our network of over 2,500 expert mentors for the skill sets relevant to their business needs: business plan development, marketing, financial planning, import/export, web design, legal incorporation and sector specific questions.

While you'll be saving you and your staff valuable office hours by directing your clients to take advantage of the business support services on MicroMentor. Through MicroMentor's affiliate program you will have 24/7 access to full reports on the outcomes of your clients' participation in order to inform the development of your programs, bolster your organization's funding proposals and advertise successes in media and outreach campaigns.

Download our Affiliate Program Overview to share with your colleagues at your next staff meeting.

Business Mentoring Works

MicroMentor volunteers directly impact individual entrepreneurs and collectively foster sustainable economic development in disadvantaged communities across the nation. Data from our most recent business outcomes report shows the impressive impact of personalized business mentoring and advising, with participating entrepreneurs reporting:

  • An increase in median annual business sales of $15,390, or 75%.
  • An 87% business survival rate in comparison to the U.S. national average, which is 66%.
  • That they worked with their mentors for an average of 16 hours, with 43% still working with their mentor after one year.

Read more about the impact of mentoring.

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