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Local Marketing Strategies For Your Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Local Marketing Strategies For Your Small Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Laura has marketed, sold to, and collaborated with local businesses for over 10 years of her career as a marketer and business manager. And you have to hire someone to manage all of that. That's right.

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Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement

Duct Tape Marketing

Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Todd Rammler, president and founder of Michigan CFO Associates.

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How To Improve Your Local Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

Laura earned an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BFA at Carnegie Mellon University. Key Takeaway: Marketing has changed for all types of businesses in the last few years thanks to new platforms, channels, and technology. Sharon, an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BFA at Carnegie Mellon University.

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The Customer Centricity Debate: Who Is Your Real Customer?

Brandanew

At a recently held creative round-table in Walled lake, Michigan, we entered into a good conversation around design and creativity. Many of us tend to believe that our businesses or brands exist to meet the needs of customers that we serve. It’s hard to be a business or a brand functioning in vacuum.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan.

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The Small Business Butterfly Effect: 3 Small Ways to Get Found

Up and Running

Through a series of events and interviews, I was brought on as an intern, became president of the local student group at my university, then stayed as a branch volunteer after graduation, and finally applied and was hired for a position at the headquarters. Though I’m back in Michigan now, I still work with CFI, five years later.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan.

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