Market Intelligence and Strategy Associates

Marketing and Business Development

Research, Insights, Strategies, Programs ... Results

Optimized for Small Business!

423 967-0549 or bob@market-intel.com

          Successfully managing your business is a tricky proposition – whether you're among the largest multi-national corporation, a prominent retail chain, a thriving small business, or a promising start-up - in good times and, especially, when the economy is bad. 

• Customers are demanding, and their needs ever-changing
• Competitors continually challenge you with something new
• Changes in the public’s tastes or a new wrinkle in regulations can pull the rug from under your best laid plans   
• An inventor’s ‘next big thing’ threatens to shake up your marketplace

Managers and business owners know that the long term prosperity of the business requires planning and preparing to meet the future in a constantly changing business environment.  But, just as surely, every manager and owner knows that to survive into that future, the business must successfully meet urgent day to day demands – the care and feeding of customers, sorting out glitches with suppliers, managing and motivating employees … the list is endless.

To bring some balance to this short-term versus long-term dilemma, many managers – from the smallest start-ups to the largest multi-national enterprise – turn to experienced experts outside their companies. 

Market Intelligence & Strategy Associates brings you just such expertise.  We are experienced in the methods of marketing and business intelligence.  Just as important is our real world experience - the business and marketing savvy to weave our market and business insights into strategies and programs that position your company for success.   

     Bob Brothers blogs about marketing matters at the Market Intelligence Blog and about sustainable energy at The Alternative Energy Page.  Some recent posts ...

Think your job is nothing like a rock star's?  His path to success can teach a lot about succeeding anywhere.  Here's what it takes ...

TALENT, but talent's not enough
SHOWMANSHIP
BUSINESS SENSE
MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK

You can become more successful by investing some of your time and energy to strengthen your talents, increase your visibility, and make yourself more valuable to the people who matter. 

More at
http://market-intel.com/blog/2009/11/01/be-a-success-think-like-a-rock-star/ 

‘Left brain vs right brain’ thinking in B2B marketing http://market-intel.com/blog/2009/07/02/left-brain-versus-right-brain//http://market-intel.com/blog/2009/07/02/left-brain-versus-right-brain//

The ‘why’ (and some hints at ‘how’) of knowing your customers better     http://market-intel.com/blog/2009/05/18/know-thy-customer-to-become-a-more-successful-supplier/

The good, the bad, the practical about “Clean Coal”    http://rcbrothers1.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/clean-coal/

Alcohol alternatives in motor fuels   http://rcbrothers1.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/fuel-alcohol-1c-2c-4c/

         Market Intelligence & Strategy Associates brings you expertise to focus and energize your marketing strategies.  We are experienced in the methods of marketing and business intelligence.  Just as important is our real world experience - the business and marketing savvy to weave our market and business insights into strategies and programs that position your company for success.  

       To start exploring how we can help, call us at 423 967-0549 or email: 

             bob@market-intel.com

Visit Portland, Oregon Associate Stephanie Rummery at

www.smallbusinessstrategies.org