Recent webinar Q&A: Turning your website into a lead generating tool

On Thursday, April 21st, Spark held a webinar, CDFIs: Turn Your Website Into a Lead Generation Tool. We discussed lead generation and the customer decision journey, including how to drive customers to your website, efficiently collect information to qualify them as a lead for your small business ...

On Demand Video: Optimize Your Process to Maximize Impact

How efficient is your current small business loan operation? Do you have insight into the cost of customer acquisition?  Are you measuring the cost of loan origination?  Is everything done manually or do you have multiple systems, each dealing with a different aspect of the process? Alt...

It’s a New World for Mission-driven Small Business Lenders

Over the past four years, marketplace lending has grown by over 700%. Loan volume at 13 of the largest online lenders grew from a modest $2 billion in 2010 to a staggering $16 billion in 2014. As mission-driven and responsible lenders, we have a role to play in this new world. The good news? The&...