Community Economic Development Fund

How’s Your Sales and Marketing?

CT State Community College -- Housatonic
Beacon Hall 331
870 Lafayette Blvd, Bridgeport, CT 06604
(Free parking in college garage)

Free but registration required.

A marketing rocket ship

Nothing else matters if you can’t sell it. Marketing and sales drive the financial success of every business.

Integrated marketing is the practice of unifying your communication efforts such that each aspect in which you participate reinforces or amplifies the impact of the others. We will take you on a whimsical tour around the astrological heavens of marketing to learn your horoscope.

Searching for love or money but unsure how to get customers to give you both? Looking for a forecast of business fortune and fame in the years ahead? Is your concept on the cusp of something big or are you in retrograde?

Learn how to use the Small Business Integrated Marketing Zodiac to chart your future. Consulting with the stars is easy and the planets never lie. Follow our advice and you’ll enjoy a lucky destiny. Ignore our declarations and beware of your business fate.

Plus, CEDF is pleased to offer access to the world’s leading source of free online education for entrepreneurs in partnership with Santa Clara University’s My Own Business Institute.  In MOBI’s Sales and Marketing Badge Course, you develop the skills you need to build your brand and hit your sales goals. The course is an accelerated version that includes seven of the most important sales and marketing topics from the MOBI catalog. Complete it and earn your digital badge from MOBI and maximize your sales potential.

Frederick Welk is a CEDF Business Advisor and serves as Director of Business Education and Communications. Before joining the organization in 2013, he spent more than 30 years in specialty retailing and franchise development, operating his own company for 23 years. As an adjunct lecturer for CT State Community College, he has taught a variety of entrepreneurship, marketing and accounting application courses.

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