Joining us on this segment is John Ratliff—-he’s the President and founder of Appletree Answering Service, Inc. Founded in 1995, The company was recognized in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 by Inc. Magazine as one of the country’s fastest growing privately held businesses, with an eight year history of at least 30% revenue growth.
Joining us on this segment is Randy Cohen—-he’s the founder of Ticket City.
Randy founded TicketCity in 1990, and is one of the most well known and successful entrepreneurs in the secondary ticket market. He continues to work to expand TicketCity’s market share, focussing on acquisitions and putting together large ticket deals. The company of course is one of the top growth companies as rated by the Entrex PCI– Private Company Index.
What is public relations, and do you really need it?
Craig James joins us to share how he found an unmet need in the small business arena and then designed a system to help that segment with sales training.
Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain has a diverse background with more than two decades of experience in marketing, management, and sales. Besides spending many years working in the corporate world, he has started and run more than five small businesses.
Born and raised in the Philippines, Margarita McClure spent a good part of her life thinking she would end up with a career or a business in the food service industry. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Hotel & Restaurant Administration, then received an Associate Degree from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco where she graduated at the top of her class.