I own a company that helps successful professional service firms that are struggling to attract clients.
For over 12 years, I have given marketing and advertising advice to companies like IBM, Sabre, Lexmark International, Adobe, Farmers Insurance, Salvation Army, Reynolds & Reynolds and Dell. Additionally, I'm an Expert Blogger for Fast Company magazine and consult with executives through SmallBusinessBranding.com and my personal site, Strategic Design.
I specialize in:- brand alignment strategies
- marketing programs that measurably increase sales & brand awareness
- executive coaching on branding and marketing best practices
- effective social media strategies
- developing marketing programs that are aligned with sales goal
Thanks, Nick
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- Cre8tive Group
- The agency that turned me from client to employee
- Recourses
- Management consulting firms especially for the communications industry
- Selling web design services
- Good blog for the sales side of design agencies
- Tracking earned value
- Critical aspect of project management that goes unused a lot of times.
- Tabuleiro
- Great plug-in's for Macromedia Director
- Adobe.com
- Probably the best software company in the world for the design space.
- Getty Images
- Home to tons of stock photography
- AceProject
- In my opinion, the best hosted project management systems available
- ResultsMail
- Cost effective email marketing provider
- Buy Gitomer
- Great advice on sales techniques
- AIGA
- Whats a list about design without mentioning the AIGA?
- Alan Creech Blog
- Great blog from a friend in the emerging church scene. He's quickly becoming famous.
- ID magazine
- Great source of inspiration
- DMA 2004 Direct Mkting Response Rates
- Handy table of industry average response rates. Only a year old and much cheaper than the 2005 issue.
- Maker's Mark
- The best handmade whiskey available. Very smooth.
- Gmail
- Love it! Much better webmail than Hotmail.
- Apple website
- Just too cool not to include...
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Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How to Manage Design for Strategic Advantage
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 11/08/2009) 
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 11/08/2009)
Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders (Adweek Book S.)
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What Clients Love: A Field Guide to Growing Your Business
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 11/08/2009)
The SPIN Selling Fieldbook
Amazon Price: $15.40 (as of 11/08/2009)
The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
Amazon Price: $12.80 (as of 11/08/2009)
Ogilvy on Advertising
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 11/08/2009)
S.U.R.E.-Fire Direct Response Marketing : Managing Business-to-Business Sales Leads for Bottom-Line Success
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The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource, Revised Edition
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 11/08/2009)
Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
Amazon Price: $11.43 (as of 11/08/2009)
Marketing Outrageously: How to Increase Your Revenue by Staggering Amounts!
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 11/08/2009)
Value Forward Selling: How to Sell to Management
Amazon Price: $18.45 (as of 11/08/2009)
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