Long Time No See!
January 27, 2010
It’s been awhile since we posted, mainly because we have been so busy. Through this and next week we will be posting some new website launches and other things we have been up to, including some new case studies and book reviews.
In the meantime we have seen a lot of great articles and ideas out there. One article that caught my eye recently was this one from MSNBC.com (the link could be broken in firefox). A key paragraph that sums it up for me is:
With unemployment hovering at 10 percent and the economy still shedding jobs, many would-be employees have concluded that the best way forward is to go into business for themselves, whether they want to or not.
The number one reason I found this article interesting is because it very much applies to Raise Small Business Marketing. We always planned to start a business, but certainly not yet. I am only 33, the goal was to be in a better place financially with more knowledge and resources at my disposal. However the lack of jobs in the area where my wife works forced our hand before we were ready.
It’s the best thing that could have happened. I now see that there would have been no time when we would have considered ourselves “ready”. Well I was and I am. We are always learning as a company, figuring somethings out as we go, but overall we have been much more successful than I could have hoped.
The other point this brings home is how to make yourself stand out when there are so many start ups in the marketplace. That is what we do, don’t hesitate to contact a professional to help you build an identity, set goals, make plans and work towards those goals. Budgets, media buying, web tracking; all of that is difficult to learn and takes away from the time you could spend building your business. Talk to us and we will help you find your way. It is our job to make your life a little easier and help you from making expensive mistakes.