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Account management
B2B business development
Brand
management
Business trends
Closed-loop marketing | bus dev | sales
Corporate communications
Creative ideation
Customer acquisition programs
Demand | lead generation
Email campaigns | database marketing
Global marketing platforms
Industry alliances
Market research | SWOT analysis
Marketing | sales alignment
Media training
Messages | positioning
Opportunity assessment
PR | media relations
Project | program management
Proposals | targeted pursuits
Research studies | white papers
Sales growth
Social media
Strategic partnerships
Writing | editing
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Services
Our expertise? We plan and deliver executable and successful branding and
messaging, communications, PR/media relations, demand generation, business
development and sales support programs.
Our campaigns, targeted proposals and sales pursuits enhance your market position, engage clients and prospects, and generate new revenue streams. Most important, we're able to work with virtually any size budget – from large enterprise
to small, medium sized and emerging companies.
Our services are based
on the belief that success is in the details, supported
by a relentless focus on delivering collaborative, integrated
– yet pragmatic and cost-effective – marketing
solutions. We rapidly build a marketing strategy, plan
and tactics or enhance what's already planned or in place.
- Create and implement innovative business development, PR and client acquisition programs
that generate revenue
- Lead brand building and deployment initiatives
- Build and manage marketing plans, winning proposals and sales pursuits
- Craft compelling value propositions, messaging and tag lines so your clients and prospects understand "WIIFM?" ("What's in it for me?")
- Write strategic marketing, PR communications, and sales plans
- Source and nurture press, trade media and analyst relationships
- Plan and implement demand generation initiatives
- Manage new product and service launches
- Secure and manage industry and media alliances
- Conduct market surveys, research studies, and intellectual capital projects
- Write white papers and case studies
- Build and manage online marketing campaigns - e.g., SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEM (Search Engine Marketing) and Google Analytics
- Write copy for email, direct mail, newsletters, other outbound marcom programs
- Organize senior forums, conferences, special events
- Manage agencies: PR, Media, Design, Print, Advertising
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With a strong focus on target
audiences, we build and confirm your product/service
brand story, develop key messages and value proposition, and write integrated an marketing, PR communications, and sales plan. This document highlights the "who, what, when, and how" for your organization's demand generation programs. We also create a calendar and marketing budget.
Block Consulting
Qualifications and Media Kit
• Block Consulting Services Overview
• Sales Success in Six Easy Steps: Bylined article published on HR.com
• Own Your Market: CLOSEDLoop Marketing and Business Development presentation. Highlights channels and activities that will successfully position your company, engage clients/prospects, and grow sales
• Sunset Magazine San Francisco Idea House: Secured $2M joint venture with Sunset for client to build first urban Idea House, ranked one of the world's 12's greenest homes. The Idea House's 45-foott wind turbine inspired San Francisco Mayor to launch city-wide Urban Wind Task Force. Results announced at City Hall press conference, Sep. 2009
• The Power of Thought Leadership: Profile and revenue-generating example (>$1M in sales)
• Strategic Alliances: Introductions, referrals and client strategic alliance/co-branding programs grew sales>$4M
• Spencer Stuart sales initiatives added >$3M in sales for Technology, Communications & Media Practice
• Ernst & Young
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Marketing, business development and sales programs secured >$183M in sales
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Block led two targeted pursuits, won $61M in client engagements
• Endorsements
• Press Quotes
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Market your Expertise Effectively:
Lowe’s Commercial Services,"Use conferences and industry forums to springboard to promote yourself..."
(Lowe’s Commercial Services)
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Advertising in the 21st Century:
"Post an ad on craigslist, as well as in a small local paper. Face-to-face networking and referral-building is still the most effective way for small business owners to advertise..." ( Lowe’s Commercial Services)

"Everyone who got where he is
had to begin where he was." - Richard L Evans
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