The Basics of Marketing               

Thursday, November 12, 2009
8:45 – 12 noon
Grace Conference Room

Marketing experts say that this may be the best time to brand and position your company for future growth. Many of your competitors may have reduced their advertising, marketing, and promotion during the recession. Therefore, this is the time to establish a comprehensive marketing program to take advantage of the recovery. People will not buy a product or service they do not know about or don't understand. Create a Marketing Program to help build the foundation of your business and it will take care of that for you! Quite simply, it plots out who you are, where you are going and how you are getting there. It gives you the information on how to market your business through a series of steps that identify its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with definitive, customized actions on the right way to build your business. Join us for this informative, interactive workshop and leave with the basics to design your very own Marketing Program.

Some of the building blocks of the blueprint will include:

This session will be especially helpful to anyone that is trying to increase their customer base or increase the annual sales volume.

Speaker:

Fern Nissim, CMD  is the Principal of Integrated Marketing Source in N. Grafton, MA and brings her 20+ years of experience in the strategic marketing field. She has developed, designed and implemented numerous successful and highly regarded image-building campaigns, communications and development programs, which resulted in unprecedented growth for nonprofit and corporate organizations. She is very active in the business community, has a number of professional certifications and is a featured speaker at many business programs each year.

Sponsored by: Bay State Savings Bank and Sovereign Bank