Welcome…
If you are “wrestling” with the following questions about your business…
- How can we can narrow our focus to be more profitable?
- How do we ensure that our core message is being communicated?
- How can we package our solutions to be more attractive to our clients?
- Our marketing materials seem so bland…what can we do about it?
- How do we keep our sales pipeline filled?
- What do we do to keep pace with the Internet?
- How do we maintain consistency with our marketing efforts?
AND…are not satisfied with those answers or…don’t know the answers…then you have come to the “right place!”
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We are a coaching and consulting business dedicated to the emerging business looking to “get to the next level.”
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Our mission is to help you “design, build, and, if necessary, repair or refresh” your Sales & Marketing System.
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We serve experienced business executives who know the importance of sales and marketing, but have not implemented a complete sales and marketing system to ensure definable, repeatable success.
- We engage the most creative, dynamic, proven method for small businesses in the industry–Duct Tape Marketing–to elevate businesses to that “next level!”
OUR “IDEAL” CLIENTS…
“DEMOGRAPHICS”
- “OWNER-INVOLVED” BUSINESS
- 3+ YEARS IN BUSINESS
- $500K - $2.5M SALES REVENUE
- 5 - 15 EMPLOYEES
- DESIRE for “2X GROWTH”
- CHICAGOLAND-BASED
- “TECHNOLOGY-CENTRIC” FIRMS
- B2B CLIENT BASE
“PSYCHOGRAPHICS”
- “Reached the point” where it can no longer grow organically simply by “word of mouth,” but needs a systematic, executable, actionable process in place to sustain and accelerate growth.
- Does not yet have a full-time Marketing Director or Strategic Marketing Executive in place.
- Executive Team values marketing, but does not have the “time, energy or desire” to be fully engaged in the sales and marketing process.
- Proudly claim that you are a “technician of some kind” and simply do not like “the whole marketing thing” but know you need it!
“KEY MOTIVATORS”
- Need for repeatable Sales and Marketing System.
- “Tired” of depending upon manufacturers to provide and/or lead sales and marketing initiatives.
- Conveying solutions in terms the novice can understand and fully realize their impact on the business.
- Frustrated with “yet one more slick” print/brochure campaign and mailing.


"Having worked for IBM, I highly value Sales and Marketing Systems. Having worked for technology startups, I highly value the importance of clearly differentiating your business in the marketplace. With the Duct Tape Marketing System, we assist small businesses in the implementation of sales and marketing systems--definable, repeatable, measurable--that communicate that differentiation and, ultimately, produce profitable growth for the business owner!"