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Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Example Customer Interview Guide

See examples of themes and questions that can be addressed in a customer interview with an existing or prospective customer. You can use this guide as a starting point to create your own guide by selecting and tailoring questions relevant to your business and adding your own.

6 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Using a Breakeven Analysis to Inform Pricing Decisions

Before your social enterprise can evaluate different pricing strategies for its products, it must first understand two crucial pieces of information. In this deep dive, we will learn how to 1) Understand your social enterprise’s cost structure and 2) Conduct a break-even analysis.

7 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Business Model-Impact Canvas

Use this simple business model canvas template called “The Impact Canvas” that is tailored for social enterprises to lay out your business idea.

10 minutes | Business Planning, Employee Success Program | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Partner & Customer Evaluation Tool

We’ve created a tool to help you evaluate potential, and even current, partner and customers, based on what is important to YOUR organization. This makes it easier to pursue, release, and/or keep a partner or customer to help you increase your impact!

12 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Common Pricing Strategies

Learn more about the common pricing strategies with a few bonus strategies!

2 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Pricing Power

Understanding pricing power is crucial because it directly influences a company’s ability to thrive and adapt in a dynamic marketplace.

20 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Example Business Plan

Review an example of a business plan to gain a perspective on the structure, format and language of an ESE business plan.

10 minutes | Business Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise

Price and Product Benchmarking

Develop a point of view on how your products are priced relative to competitors in the market.

11 minutes | Business Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Lead Qualification Tool

You can use this tool to determine whether prospective customers are a good fit for the organization and how likely they are to become customers.

10 minutes | Business Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Net Promoter Score Survey & Analysis

Learn more about how to conduct a NPS survey and analysis, and see an example analysis output.