So you want to pick my brain? OK, let's be honest. During the days of our retail stores in Little Hat Company, people had a sixth sense of knowing when I was covering a shift or somehow knew that I would happen to be working behind the counter and would often say to me, "hey good to see you here today, do you mind if I pick your brain?"
The truth is I love business and would often spend hours listening, internalizing, and then helping to create solutions for their marketing strategies or new product launches. Sometimes it would be simple as letting them know what my accountant thought about a certain situation. I love hearing about business and its obstacles and growing pains - it's a puzzle and it always feels good when you "get a piece".
SO now that I no longer have the store fronts and school pick up is out for the summer I have a proposal for all of you who may want to pick my brain for free. Actually the proposal includes a FREE 2 hour sit down dedicated entirely to your business, project, event, or fundraiser. So - there is a catch but its not brain surgery.
Part of branding your company or positioning your product in the marketplace is getting people to know it exists. One way to jump start the momentum of growing your business is by using effective promotional products. What? You know - slap your name or logo on basically anything under the sun. School is just around the corner. One of the least expensive, most effective promotional product is a number 2 pencil or a bic pen. Most of you are already placing quarterly orders for promotional products anyways...Give TRG Northeast your next order of any size and I will give you two hours of my time with my complete attention and all of my experiences and business education at your disposal.
How do I know promotional products work? Ask my friend, Mr. Gagnon. Everytime I make my way to the gym I bring with me my faithful PGagnon and Son sports bottle. Every time my kids go to practice or the beach we fill up our trusty PGagnon and Son sports bottle! LOVE IT!! In fact it is common for when you cross paths with another carrying their PGagnon bottle to perform a "cheers" in recognition that we are supporting local business!
Anything under the sun can be branded with your logo or business name and it can be a very small expense or you can go hogwild and spend 100,000's of dollars. I'm suggesting that for now let's start small and let me show you how cool it is to work with TRG Northeast.
Email me and ask me lots of questions about this crazy idea or just pick up the phone and call me!
Jennifer Houghton
207-450-8441
jennifer@tylerryangroup.com
P.S. My first job out of business school was working for Forbes Marketing Group in Exeter, New Hampshire. I was hired to open up the Midwest and South Central Markets by selling promotional products to colleges and universities. I traveled like a demon, attended a zillion NACA shows, met celebrities, lectured to students on how to effectively promote their programs and events on campus and also experienced many unusual encounters with TV personalities: Skippy from Family Ties, Barry "Greg Brady" from the Brady Bunch, Mohamed from one of the original Real World Cast, and Faith Hill while she was still singing to crowds of 50 people or less....Very cool job right out of college!!
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