Keith McKenna Entrepreneur

Marketing and sales are not my personal strong suit. I could use some guidance on how to best develop a marketing strategy that suits my target clients. The challenge within my consulting field is that my target customers (ie: small to mid-sized companies) typically resist change and/or are too proud of what they have developed that they struggle to see the opportunity/need for change.

I currently have an Ascent OpEx website and LinkedIn profile (I am working with another resource to revamp this). Most of my activity to date has been networking 1) with peer organizations as a 3rd party resource; 2) within my professional peer group and 3) very limited cold-calling.

I will be joining (2) local chambers of commerce and networking within those organizations and developing marketing content (ex: topical vlog, process/team event examples, etc). Because the chambers are most often heavily skewed to service industries (banks, restaurants, lawyers, etc) I am testing interest in starting up an operations/manufacturing based collaborative.

Although I have peers in the industry that I can talk with, I would like an independent resource that understands the consulting space and would be available for sound boarding ideas, issues, etc.

With 30 years of operational and continuous improvement leadership experience, I will leverage fortune 500 methodologies to help small to mid-sized operational/transactional businesses drive improved performance, reduced cost and increased customer satisfaction. Working across management and front line labor, I will assess the problem/need, analyze available data (collect if needed) and facilitate the team through vision/strategy creation, program/initiative development, team engagement and execution activities.