Jun 12, 2018 | Case Studies
Shelley Rogers has been a leader in a field that’s now very trendy. But many years ago no one even knew the field existed. That field? Electronics recycling. Little did she know that her initial success would lead to an even more ambitious move that ended in...
May 15, 2018 | Case Studies
In 2004 Dan Green was a mortgage officer. He started blogging about important trends in the industry, focusing on giving timely, relevant, non-biased advice. He thought it would be a smart way to stay in touch with existing clients, as well as reach out to new ones....
Apr 18, 2018 | Case Studies
In 2011 Dan Bradbury was building a company called Business Growth Systems that taught marketing to small business owners. They would hold seminars explaining how to build infrastructure to create and track demand for products and services. Often those seminars...
Mar 12, 2018 | Case Studies
In 1992 Doug Chapiewsky started CenterPoint Solutions, Inc. He’d spent time at Bell Labs helping to develop what would become the call center model. But back then it was simply a single number that would then fork out to different people answering the phone. ...
Feb 5, 2018 | Case Studies
In 2006 when Claude Theoret began building elements of the company which would later become Nexalogy, the term “big data” didn’t even exist. It was just called data mining. Today we’re familiar with the term and easily recognize big players like Amazon,...
Jan 9, 2018 | Case Studies
Mark Carlson bought Minnesota Mailing Solutions in 1998 for around $1M and grew the business over 10 years, eventually selling it for $4.5M. It was his ability to stay unemotional and focused on business fundamentals that ensured he walked away with the best offer...