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Present Zen
Please join us for our next workshop in the Grow Your Business Series on the topic of “Making Better Sales Presentations” with our guest speaker, Mark Reynolds, Sales Executive for The GrowBiz Group and Business Coach for New Enterprise Forum.  Mark will use his experience running national sales organizations to [...]

Overcoming The “Lake Wobegon” Effect

Can you believe that 80% of companies said they delivered a “superior experience” to their customers? 

The customers, on the other hand, said 8% of companies delivered a superior experience.

In Lake Wobegon everyone is “above average.” Of course, if everyone is “above average” doesn’t that make them “average.”

Do companies [...]

By The Center for Michigan – December 17, 2009

By Melissa Preddy

Michigan, MSU bank on research corridor

In Ann Arbor and East Lansing, GDP figures are flat or sagging this decade, knocking Ann Arbor from first among its Big 10 peers in 2003 to the fourth last year. The Lansing/East Lansing market held steady in the No. [...]

The Business Leaders for Michigan Turnaround Plan is a sensible but ambitious attempt to pull together –  from the perspective of the business community – many of the reform ideas that  have been floating around for the last couple of years.

There are five ways to re-establish grow in the state, according to this group:

1) Michigan must [...]

Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) Program

A major issue faced by Michigan’s start-up community is the absence of applicable, executive-level talent. Additionally, when a qualified executive is available for his or her next engagement, the community often lacks the necessary volume of deals to offer a smooth transition. This opens the door to the inevitable situation where [...]

Growing a company is not always about choosing the largest segment of the market. In fact, the smartest marketing strategy is probably about owning a segment of the market.

See the chart below – and call GrowBiz – for a strategic market review.

Posted by Seth Godin on July 18, 2008 | Permalink

When you launch a [...]