When I launched my marketing consulting practice in 1999, I started mostly from scratch. Up to that point I’d successfully landed clients via direct mail, cold calling and networking, but I was eager to embrace thought leadership marketing in place of expensive direct mail campaigns and meeting prospects via random networking at business events. I
I hear statistics all the time such as…”80% of all small businesses fail in their first year.” Does this mean that small business success is largely the victim of bad luck? On the contrary, I believe most business failures result from charging into the marketplace with untested assumptions. The answer lies in performing sufficient market
Mari Gottdiener specialized in getting credit bureaus to address and correct credit-report errors. After struggling to find clients throughout the general population, she discovered that mortgage brokers were ready-made prospects. They had an ongoing need for her services on behalf of their loan applicants. Mari decided to become a resource for the national mortgage broker
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