I really had to sit down and write about the marketing seminars that we have been giving for about a year and a half now. You see, we partnered up with our good buddy Larry Rossini at the Small Business Development Center last year to put on a series of what we call “Marketing Bootcamps”. These things are about 3 hours long and run the gamut from Marketing 101 to website design and development to social media to how to close a sale. The whole gang here at GRM puts a huge amount of work into these things…and we always get so much more out of them than what we put in.

The last one was just a couple of days ago and we had so many folks show up that we had to quickly create an overflow room! Luckily, we were planning on streaming the entire seminar through our website. Check it out if you haven’t already, it’s still there. Before you know it we had a packed main room and about 10 to 15 folks in the overflow room watching on a big screen. To look out at the audience and see people generally interested in being there and hearing what you have to say…I gotta say it’s a big rush. The questions they ask, the points they make that even we haven’t considered…trust me it’s definitely a two-way learning session. And then at the end of the 3 hours they still want to stick around and visit with all of us, well, we’ve never had so much fun!

I personally want to thank the SBDC, the Small Business Administration and most of all…the small business people that attend our seminars. You serve as a reminder of why GrassRoots Marketing was founded 5 years ago…to be dedicated to and focused on being marketers for small businesses. Thanks! And we’re all looking forward to our next Bootcamp on website design and development later this year.