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After 17 years in the enterprise software business, including working for Ross Perot’s Electronic Data Systems, Mark acquired a failing photography software company with about 200 angry customers.

During the next 7 years, Mark’s client list expanded to over 1000 studios, established markets in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, establish marketing/licensing agreements with Kodak, Fuji, and Express Digital, acquired 2 failing competitors and grew annual revenue from $85K to over $1MM – 40% of which was recurring revenue.

When he sold his business in 2005, his firm served over 90% of the premier high volume studios in the U.S. and had been repeatedly recognized by the leading industry publications as the premier software solution for their market.

These days, Mark helps small businesses from Maine to California solve their marketing, operations and technology problems. He teaches business owners seven strategies to improve their bottom line, obtain and keep more customers, and find sources of revenue “hidden” inside their business.

He teaches business owners how to make their marketing and advertising accountable to them, transforming them from an expense into an investment. He also works with business owners to systemize their business processes and automate time-wasting work that eats into profit and steals away the freedom all business owners seek.

The name? “Business is Personal” is a statement in response to those who say “It’s not personal, it’s just business.” Donald Trump says it, others repeat it. I disagree. In fact, I would argue that few things are more personal than your own business. Your business reflects your values, how much you care about your clients, what’s important to you, what (in most cases) you truly love to do. Clearly, his businesses are very personal to Trump. I suspect he means business DECISIONS aren’t personal, but that’s not often the context of the quote when others repeat it. So there, and enjoy.

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Bits Of Happy
October 22, 2008 at 12:39 am

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Jennifer October 10, 2007 at 12:51 am

Hi,

I stumbled upon your site today and was quite impressed.

I wanted to let you know about CheckUPC.com — a search engine for barcodes similar to UPCDatabase — except its far better organized and has more detailed info on products.

Levon Guiragossian November 13, 2007 at 1:36 pm

Business is Personal – would agree.

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