E-Investment Guide for Green Growth Business Models
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Startup
Join this E-Investment Guide for Green Growth Business Models course developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with support from the U.S. Department of State to equip ASEAN entrepreneurs and business leaders with the knowledge and strategies to succeed in the burgeoning green economy. The course is built on easy-to-follow learning modules that you can go through at your own pace. The modules come with micro learning activities including fire-side chat videos with experts, reading materials, and downloadable activities.
Through this course, you will gain understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship, explore the significance of green growth business models, and learn from success stories across the ASEAN region. The course offers practical insights into navigating the green growth landscape, attracting impact investments, and scaling green businesses.
You will also explore the critical role of incubators and accelerators, learn how to access funds strategically, and understand the importance of impact reporting in the green economy. Engaging activities throughout the course will provide hands-on experience in planning, attracting investment, and scaling green business models, ensuring you are well-prepared to thrive in the ASEAN green growth sector.
Strengthening Global Presence Through Online Marketing
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
Learners will be introduced to what it means and how to strengthen your global presence by winning the moments that matter in our constantly connected world. Google will acquaint learners about people – the ones we’re trying to reach and influence and how their behavior has changed, thanks to the explosion of technology. Learners will be familiarized to shifts in consumer behavior affect us as marketers and business owners. And finally Google will share innovative things learners can do to driver performance in our constantly connected world.
Instructor: Bianca Grey, Account Manager
Course Type: Self-Paced
Lesson Length: 15 minutes
Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
Course developed by:
Course Description
Provides a detailed coverage of trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications and their role in trade and international commerce. Additionally, the course covers the protection and management of brands. There is a written final exam at the end of this course for which participants are required to compose written responses to a series of questions within a specified timeframe and submit their responses, via the eLearning platform, to their tutors for marking.
Learning Objectives
Understand how to make the best use of IP in marketing and how to manage the intangible assets of a private company.
Course Developer
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property (IP) services, policy, information, and cooperation. A self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 193 member states, WIPO’s mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international IP system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Through the WIPO Academy, WIPO offers a range of online training courses designed to introduce business owners, students, IP professionals and government officers to the various forms of IP.
Prepare for your Marketing Cloud Email Specialist Credential
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
Preparing to sit for your Marketing Cloud Email Specialist exam? Check out this trailmix that has been curated to help you get exam ready!
Course Objective
After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
- Exam guide, recommended courses, signing up for your exam, etc.
- Explore our powerful suite of products and start building your digital marketing strategy.
- Take a tour of Email Studio and start setting it up for your users.
- Discover best practices to use when designing and sending an email.
- Learn about laws and regulations for collecting personal data, using it, and protecting privacy.
- Learn to scale your marketing efforts using first-party data, templates, and automations.
- Discover the power of Distributed Marketing and how to implement it.
- Learn the three steps to creating effective marketing emails.
- Learn the value of successful content and how our tools can help you create it.
- Learn how to use Content Builder to create a library of customized, reusable content.
- Learn how to build and deliver personalized emails that create lasting customer relationships.
- Learn how Content Builder can help you organize and manage your content.
- Segment your audience and deliver the right message to the right person at the right time.
- Connect your data, departments, and channels to deliver great 1-to-1 customer experiences.
- Create your ideal integration with the Marketing Cloud REST and SOAP APIs.
- Set up your new Marketing Cloud account, add users, send emails, and track your results.
- Discover the virtues of good content and learn how Content Builder can help you drive customer engagement.
- Use this powerful Marketing Cloud tool to automate and optimize customer interactions.
Course Developer
Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies — cloud, mobile, social, voice, and artificial intelligence — to connect to their customers in a whole new way. They are coming to us as their trusted advisor, and together we are transforming their businesses around the customer.
Salesforce Customer 360 is our vision for how we help customers with their digital transformations. With Customer 360, all your teams — marketing, sales, service, commerce, IT, and analytics — have a single view of customer data on an integrated CRM platform powered by AI. Collaboration is easier, so employees can work together to build lasting, trusted relationships and deliver the intelligent, personalised experiences their customers expect.
Salesforce is committed to a set of core values — trust, customer success, innovation, and equality of every human being. Salesforce is one of the leaders on Fortune’s Change the World list, and has been one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, for twelve years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.
Administer Salesforce from Anywhere During COVID19
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
Learn how to manage users and data, secure your org, and create actionable reports while working from home.
Course Objective
After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
- Stay connected and succeed while working from home during COVID-19.
- Learn how to collaborate with distributed teams and manage remote employees.
- Set up users and control how they can view or edit your business data.
- Control access to data using point-and-click security tools.
- Clean up data with validation rules, formula fields, lookup filters, and Process Builder.
- Track key business information for your stakeholders with reports and dashboards.
Course Developer
Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies — cloud, mobile, social, voice, and artificial intelligence — to connect to their customers in a whole new way. They are coming to us as their trusted advisor, and together we are transforming their businesses around the customer.
Salesforce Customer 360 is our vision for how we help customers with their digital transformations. With Customer 360, all your teams — marketing, sales, service, commerce, IT, and analytics — have a single view of customer data on an integrated CRM platform powered by AI. Collaboration is easier, so employees can work together to build lasting, trusted relationships and deliver the intelligent, personalised experiences their customers expect.
Salesforce is committed to a set of core values — trust, customer success, innovation, and equality of every human being. Salesforce is one of the leaders on Fortune’s Change the World list, and has been one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, for twelve years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.
Furniture Safety Requirements for the US Market
Category:Trade/ Logistics
Course Level Ready to Export
Course Description
The U.S. market has specific safety requirements for testing and certification of furniture sold in the U.S.The requirements include stability, electrical and flammability conditions.
Join UL, an authority on product safety, for an overview on how UL Standards and Certifications demonstrate that furniture complies with U.S. requirements.
Legal Aspects of Cross-Border E-Commerce
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
About this Course:
Learners will be introduced to the legal aspects of cross-border e-commerce. Clients prize Baker & McKenzie for its breadth of access to markets, as it can individually guide cross-border transactions without using external local counsel.
Learners will be acquainted to legal entity critical to doing business in the global electronic marketplace. It includes regulations specific to certain products and services, advertising, intellectual property issues, enforceability of online transactions, taxation and data privacy protection.
Instructor: Elizabeth Opena, Partner, Quisumbing Torres
Course Type: Self-Paced
Lesson Length: 20 minutes
Tool for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
This Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EI) training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have identified problems.
After EI training, participants will better understand how to innovate through an innovative process, and how to use the tools presented to spend time on innovating within their businesses. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to think creatively, come up with innovative ideas and test these with people in and outside their business.
The EI is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- What is Innovation
- Creative Thinking
- Problem Definition
- Create Ideas
- Filter
- Pilot
- Action Plan
Eligible for Certification: Yes
Primer on Intellectual Property
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
Course developed by:
Course Description
This course covers the fundamental aspects of intellectual property (IP): copyright and related rights, trademarks, patents, geographical indications, and industrial designs. It also covers contemporary issues impacting the IP field such as: new plant varieties, unfair competition, enforcement of IP rights and emerging issues in IP.
Learning Objectives
Familiarization with the different types of IP, how to enforce your IP rights if infringed
Course Developer
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property (IP) services, policy, information, and cooperation. A self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 193 member states, WIPO’s mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international IP system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Through the WIPO Academy, WIPO offers a range of online training courses designed to introduce business owners, students, IP professionals and government officers to the various forms of IP.
5 Mistakes We’ve Made with Digital Advertising and How to Avoid Them
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
AdTech and MarTech can be a match made in heaven, but common (avoidable) mistakes can make your programs a living hell. As more B2B marketers look to programmatic advertising solutions, it’s important to have an intelligent strategy and avoid the common pitfalls that trap many modern marketers. Learn from the combined 15 years of experience of Marketo Engage champions Jeff Canada and Jessica Cross as they walk through some of the biggest blunders they’ve made with digital advertising campaigns so that you don’t have to repeat them.
Webinar: Enhancing Digital Skills for Thailand SMEs in COVID-19 (in Thai Language)
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
The US-ASEAN Business Council in partnership with the Office of SMEs Promotion Thailand (OSMEP) and Thammasat Business School is proud to present a Webinar on “Enhancing Digital Skills for Thailand SMEs in COVID-19”.
What the participants will learn:
· The Thailand Government measures to support small business
· Adapting to the COVID-19 crisis
· The digital payment and cashless transactions as tools to reach more customers
· Future initiatives to maximize digital commerce
Speakers’ profile:
· Dr. Wimonkan Kosumas, Deputy Director-General Office of SMEs Promotion, Thailand;
· Ms. Natsicha Voraprukpisut, is a Head of Market Development for Thailand, located in Bangkok. Natsicha is focusing on developing new business, market segments for Mastercard through partnerships, digital and innovations. Joining Mastercard in 2013, Natsicha has brought her 15 years of experience in financial services and banking in many areas. She has lived, and now worked across Asia-Pacific countries including Japan.
· Ms. Boonthida Ratanavilaikul, is currently the Marketing Manager (Thailand and Indonesia) at FedEx.
Green Growth Ecosystem in ASEAN
Category:Digital Literacy & Technology
Course Level Startup
Join this Green Growth Ecosystem in ASEAN course developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with support from the U.S. Department of State to discover the future of sustainable business at the forefront of the green growth movement. The course is built on easy-to-follow learning modules that you can go through at your own pace. The modules come with various learning activities including micro-videos, fire-side chat videos with experts, and interactive lessons.
You will learn to identify growth opportunities within the green economy, analyze public policies that support emerging green business models, and evaluate their impact on the ecosystem. Additionally, the course delves into the critical roles of policymakers, investors, and incubator/accelerator operators in driving the green growth agenda in ASEAN. Through interactive modules and real-world case studies, you’ll gain practical insights into integrating sustainable practices into your business, enhancing resource efficiency, and contributing to a greener, more resilient ASEAN economy.
Effective Presentations
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you create effective and targeted slide presentations?
Learn how to create slide presentations that are well-designed and targeted to particular audiences. Make sure that you express what you want to say clearly, through the use of effective text, images, and examples.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Determine what information is relevant to a particular audience
Create effective and well-designed slide presentations
Basics of Logistics for Export
Category:Trade/ Logistics
Course Level Ready to Export
An overview of the fundamentals in logistics designed for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises who want to export to new market segments overseas.
Introduction to Inclusive Business
Category:Management
Course Level Growing
Course Description
This general introductory course imparts basic knowledge on inclusive business, its definition and features. The course also sets the parameters of the Inclusive Business’ target groups and how they are involved in the value chain. It outlines the different sectors where the BoP is engaged, identifies different IB approaches and illustrates the inclusive business ecosystem. Overall, the intro course makes the case for inclusive business and highlights IB’s positive impact on the SDGs.
Course Objective
In this course, you will develop a deep understanding of what Inclusive Business is. And recognize the relevance of Inclusive Business to connect with investors, policymakers, and low-income communities.
Course Developer
The Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN) – a programme funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Union and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
The Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN) is a global initiative supporting the scaling and replication of inclusive business models. Through its strategic pillars iBAN blue and iBAN weave, iBAN manages an innovative online knowledge platform on inclusive business (www.inclusivebusiness.net) and offers a focused Capacity Development Programme for policymakers and investment seeking companies in developing and emerging countries.
iBAN creates a space where evidence-based knowledge transforms into learning and new partnerships. With its focus on promoting the upscale of inclusive business models and consequently improving the lives of the poor, iBAN is actively contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Intellectual Property Management
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
Course developed by:
Course Description
The course focuses on IP from the perspective of ‘why’ and ‘how’ for participants who have already covered the basics of ‘what’ IP is. In the first three modules, it teaches about the economic significance of IP. Using management examples and established industry methodologies, it covers IP asset identification, IP commercialization, IP valuation, and IP taxation. In the last three modules it offers an indepth look at commercial activities in the digital area by looking at e-commerce and IP, digital management of creative works, and the strategic management of IP.
Learning Objectives
This course targets professionals with a basic knowledge in IP or business management, responsible for generally managing and protecting various forms of IP. Such participants will have a greater understanding to effectively and efficiently develop an IP culture within their organization.
Course Developer
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property (IP) services, policy, information, and cooperation. A self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 193 member states, WIPO’s mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international IP system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Through the WIPO Academy, WIPO offers a range of online training courses designed to introduce business owners, students, IP professionals and government officers to the various forms of IP.
IT for Business Success
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
Determine the types of technology solutions that best address your business goals. Learn how different technology issues and capabilities directly and indirectly effect your business.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Determine the types of technology solutions that best address your business goals
Decide the best way to implement a technology solution given the circumstances of your particular business
Green Growth Entrepreneurship and Investment Strategies
Category:Uncategorized
Course Level Uncategorized
Join this Green Growth Entrepreneurship and Investment Strategies course developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with support from the U.S. Department of State to elevate your understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship. The course is built on easy-to-follow learning modules that you can go through at your own pace. The modules come with various learning activities including micro-videos, fire-side chat videos with experts, and interactive lessons.
Designed for aspiring entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs in ASEAN, this course provides in-depth knowledge of the investment landscape in the green growth sector. You will learn to analyze the criteria used by angel, impact, and ESG investors when identifying and investing in green businesses. Gain insights into the potential for startups and high-growth companies in the region, based on investor perspectives, and develop strategies to meet their financing needs. Additionally, the course will guide you through mapping the broader ecosystem in ASEAN, identifying key stakeholders that support green innovation and growth. Through practical exercises and expert-led discussions, you’ll be equipped to navigate the complexities of green investment and drive sustainable business success in the region.
Basics of Finance
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Growing
Course Summary
How much do you need to sell to make a profit?
Learn basic concepts of business finance that help you calculate expenses and find out when you will make a profit. Explore using a spreadsheet to easily make necessary calculations.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Determine types of expenses
- Calculate your break-even point
- Use a spreadsheet to make your calculations easier
Boost Your Business with Facebook
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
About Facebook Blueprint
Blueprint is an online education tool to help businesses get started on Facebook and Instagram. This Learning Path has been specially selected for SMBs and includes how to create a business Page, how to promote and grow your business and measure the impact of what you do. There are also guides to best practice creative and branding. Learn through stories, facts, videos and interactive quizzes in these short easy to follow modules.