Marketing Resources Overview

The focus on marketing in this part of the site (the "Business Resource Center") is to provide in-depth advice on making daily marketing decisions as well as provide planning templates.

Here you can find advice on the following topics:

Sales Management

Pricing Decisions

Advertising (coming soon)

Product Development (coming soon)

You can also download these templates:

Price Elasticity Analysis (xls, 166k)

Competitive SWOT Analysis (xls, 22k)

Marketing Mix Priority Analysis (xls, 45k)

Market Analysis (xlsx, 24k)

If you would like to review the basics of marketing...

Please review the overview and references to marketing in the "Getting Started" Section of the site:

Getting Started > Marketing Strategy
Getting Started > Marketing Strategy > Marketing Research
Getting Started > Your Business Plan > Market Analysis in your Business Plan

B&D Consulting Enters Mentor-Protege Agreement
NETCONN Solutions is proud to announce that their Mentor-Protege Agreement with B&D Consulting, Inc. has been approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

Hispanic Festival in Hagerstown
The Fourth Hagerstown Hispanic Festival will be held in Fairgrounds Park on Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm

New Location for TIC management
We're now located on the 3rd floor in TIC 321.

Small Business Development Center moved
The SBDC has moved from TIC 209 to TIC 322.

New Training Room
New larger training room available in TIC 323

Links
News Archive

Business-2-Government Contracting Workshops

The Western Maryland Small Business Development Center and the TIC have partnered to make available to the community two B2G contracting workshops presented by Maryland PTAP.

MIT Enterprise Forum Webcast
The TIC is a viewing site for the MIT Enterprise Forum webcast "From Lab to Market: Success is Not Final, Failure is Not Fatal."

The Innovator and Entrepreneur Group
meetings will not be held during the summer. They will resume in the fall.