The Week Ahead Aug 24-28, 2009

Monday:
Tuesday: August Consumer Confidence
Wednesday: July Durable Goods Orders; July New Home Sales
Thursday: Weekly initial jobless claims
Friday: July Person Income and spending

Larson note: Last week came out pretty good. Stocks up and existing home sales up 7.2%! Even the Feds are saying things are looking good.

This week? Yes. I think we have turned the corner. If you don’t have your advertising, marketing and sales play in full swing, you had better hope your competition doesn’t either. I believe that the economy works off of three areas, construction, home sales and cars. If these areas are doing well, so will the economy. Think about it.

The focused industries we are looking to add clients in for the month are Advertising Specialties, Trade Show Booth Builder, Sign Shop, and a Graphic Design Studio, and Printer (small and mid-sized) and looking to add more accounts in the eastern and pacific time zones. We are also looking for sales persons in New England, Texas and Southern California.

Howard’s out of office public schedule for the week:
Monday: Marathon Training 6:15am, Tuesday:
Wednesday: Marathon Training 6:15amThursday:
Friday:
Saturday: Marathon Training Long Group Run
Sunday:

Trade show schedule:
> September 22-24 2009: Assembly Show Stevenson Convention Center
> September 29- October 1, 2009: Motivation show McCormick Place
> October 5-7, 2009, Parcel Forum 09 Hyatt Regency O’Hare
> October 21-22 2009, Mid-Pak Minneapolis MN (Registered but not committed yet to going)
> October 22nd, 2009: 2009 Midwest Fall Business Expo Serb Hall Milwaukee, WI
> November 15-18, 2009 Fabtech Int. & AWS Welding Show McCormick Place, Chicago

Time slots still available to meet & talk over coffee.

Howard Larson
Larson & Associates
Target Marketing & Telesales Professionals for new account acquisition
Making good businesses great and great businesses even better
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P.S. We make telesales for small business affordable by offering programs down to only 15 hours a week. Maybe you could add telesales into your marketing mix call today and find out.

P.P.S. We are offering 2 free (a $75.00 value) ½ hour consultation periods per week to talk about marketing businesses. Call or email to get your spot to pick my brain for 30 minutes today.