The MfS Challenge Online:
14 Steps to Sustained Growth

Because most small businesses go sideways........or south.

Of the 21,000,000 small businesses with 19 employees or less in the U.S., about 5% grow.

The Marketing for Smarties Challenge, 14 Steps to Sustained Growth, is a series of 3-4 online workshops that take place over a few months. It's designed to empower you to swing the odds in your favor.

"I don’t have time for marketing," many owners say. Yet, marketing is the only activity that can improve your top line - your sales revenues. You must market, and market effectively, to make your business grow. It’s labor intensive, time-consuming, and risky. Yet, your business will never grow without it, and a book, a few classes, or a seminar won’t solve the problem.

The MFS Challenge strips the marketing principles and tools that guide major organizations down to their essentials. You'll walk away with:

• a basic, enduring business process that integrates marketing and sales with your daily business life
• a simple, actionable, affordable six month marketing plan that’s right for your business.

Why does it take a few months?
Thinking through strategy, positioning, and copy lines takes time. So does putting in place all the nuts and bolts you need to support campaigns. During the 3-4 months of the Challenge, you’ll think through your most difficult problems, see your business and its opportunities in new ways, and gain enduring confidence in your business, its prospects, and yourself.

Is this a convenient time?
Probably not. It never is. Finding the time is part of The Challenge. Let The Challenge help you join the 5% of the small businesses that grow!

"Feel like I got thousands of dollars worth of consulting advice."

Jim Gialamas
Media Relations Consultant