
Sales & Marketing Strategy Consultant at San Gabriel Valley Small Business Development Center {toplinked.com}
Greater Los Angeles Area

Sales & Marketing Strategy Consultant at San Gabriel Valley Small Business Development Center {toplinked.com}
Greater Los Angeles Area
What Andrew Barden Can Do for You:
Andrew can help you avoid the wasted time, wasted money, intense frustration, and hopeless confusion you experience when you ineffectively market your small business.
Andrew Barden is adept at helping small business owners understand the psychology of their ideal clients/customers: why their ideal client will buy what they are offering. With a thorough & accurate profile of your ideal client guiding your strategy, all of your marketing campaigns, online and offline, will produce a significantly higher ROI.
After working with Andrew, you'll be able to make marketing and sales process decisions with confidence and clarity, knowing exactly how to send the right message to the right people in the right way. Visit http://www.AndrewBarden.com to sign up for a free initial one-on-one small business diagnostic coaching session.
Andrew is also a gifted ad copy writer. He can review your marketing campaigns to make sure how you design them, what images you use, and, moreover, what words you use will motivate your prospects to take the action you request. There are proven formats that consistently yield the highest ROI, and Andrew can show you how to implement those principles.
Andrew takes the time to stay on top of all the latest traditional marketing and internet marketing strategies that are producing the best results for small business owners. Andrew lives & breathes marketing & sales strategies, & it shows as his clients leave his office with confident smiles & deeper pockets.
Andrew leads training events in Los Angeles on topics like "Which Business Should I Start?," "How to Write a Business Plan," and "Target Marketing."
Read "Andrew Barden's Small Business Marketing Strategy" blog here: http://andrewbarden.wordpress.com where you can also read more about Andrew's history as a successful entrepreneur. Feel free to invite Andrew to connect with you here on LinkedIn as he is an "open networker."
Start ups, business model proof of concept/feasibility studies, target marketing, sales process strategy, psychological profile of ideal customer/client & catering the marketing message & sales process to fit that customer's natural tendencies. Result: decrease in marketing costs & increase in ROI. Adept at understanding "why people buy" & developing marketing strategies that allow those who are most likely to buy hear your message-- sales strategies that are most effective at closing the sale.
(Government Administration industry)
June 2008 — Present (6 months)
I can help you:
--decide which business to start
--develop a business plan
--develop a marketing plan
--develop a sales strategy
--innovate your business offering
--target your market
--measure your target market's response to your campaigns
--gain access to capital for starting or expanding your business
--retain your current customers.
And the team at San Gabriel Valley Small Business Development Center can help you:
--choose which business structure is best for your new business
--develop management strategy for enduring tough economic times
--master your financial management / book keeping / ... and more!
All at NO COST TO YOU!
SBDC clients' SALES grow FASTER! Small businesses that benefited from in-depth SBDC assistance experienced sales growth of 18.7% between 2005 & 2006- compared to 6.6% for businesses in general!
Visit www.mtsacsbdc.com and click on "Request Counseling" and ask to be assigned to me.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
August 2007 — June 2008 (11 months)
I performed over 1,600 small business assessments/diagnostics and helped small businesses join the OneCoach Business Growth Network annual membership program, giving them all the skills, strategies, and support they need to grow their small business revenues and live extraordinary lives.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Helping start ups with business plan research and writing as well as new entrepreneur coaching for prosperity consciousness development. See www.AndrewBarden.com You'll also find my side business of comedy juggling shows for family audiences, company celebrations, school assembly programs, and church events.
BA, Psychology and Religion, 1996 — 1999
I began at Allegheny College in PA studying psychology and switched to the religion department at Hendrix College, focusing on comparing all the universal worldviews, principles, and practices of the world's religions. In sum, my background is "psycho-spiritual" with a focus on the universal laws that, when followed consistently, lead to a life filled with happiness, health, harmony, and wealth. I also have been a p/t comedy juggler since the early 1990s, spreading laughter and joy to literally thousands of audiences from NY to LA.
Business strategic planning and innovation, consulting and coaching "New Entrepreneurs," "professional marketing brainstormer," helping seasoned small business owners increase their sales through marketing innovation and sales process strategies. Comedy juggling stage shows (a pro since 1992), leading folk song sing-a-longs with guitar accompanyment for all ages, videography, web design, hiking in the San Gabriel Valley (Los Angeles parks), ebaying, playing a rigorous game of tennis, serious ping-pong, pool, basket ball, volunteering for church and charity events, leading summer camp for kids, and giving my wife foot massages on a daily basis (no joke).
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, OneCoach Business Growth Network, Shared Vision Network, BNI, ToastMasters, LeTip, The Abundance Network, Self-Realization Fellowship, http://www.SBDCNetwork.com
Graduated with a B.A. "with distinction" and "magna cum laude" (with high honors), 4.0 GPA within my major and 3.89 overall.