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Small Business Marketing
Development Partnership of Southwest Minnesota

The Problem:

Customer orientation
Goals
Mission and objectives
Sales profitability
Strong distribution

The Solution:

Find and direct your customers
Crate reachable goals
Establish a mission and develop objectives
Increase sales profitability
Generate a strong distribution network

The Outcome:

The Small Producer and Manufacture Groups will focus on crafts, gifts, and food items that would most likely be marketed to gift shops, resorts and specialty boutiques.
The Machine Tool shop Groups will focus on shop capabilities and will be marketed to larger manufactures of machine tool shop items.

 

Contacts:

Theresa M. Smidt
Project Corrdinator
Small Business Development Center
Southwest State University
1501 State Street, ST 105
Marshall, MN  56258

 

Phone: 507/537-7386
1-800-542-0684 ext. 7386
Fax: 507/537-6094
E-mail: tsmidt@hotmail.com

 

Duane Hoversten
Project Manager

 

E-mail: dhoverst@ridgewater.mnscu.edu
Ruth Ann Karty
Executive Committee member

 

E-mail: rakarty@clarkfield.ruralink.com