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Through the use of practical and high-impact marketing techniques, Ray Hirsh has founded and grown eight successful businesses during his entrepreneurial business career. His extensive background and expertise lies in the retail and service areas, particularly in small and medium-sized closely held or family-owned type businesses.
In a lengthy career as a muti-unit Hallmark Shop owner, he was one of the first operators in the country to achieve the prestige status of “Gold Crown Store Designee.”His front line pioneering business acumen in the retail field was instrumental in Hallmark Marketing’s premiering of new and then unconventional retailing concepts, including the
introduction of products such as: fine giftware, fresh chocolates, and fresh flowers, merchandise now common in these types of retail venues. As adjunct to his Hallmark career, Ray was able to identify allied profit centers, thus parlaying one business into seven additional successful careers in his (“still going”) business lifetime.
These additional ventures included the founding of a unique Hallmark retail concept, a corporate greeting card company, an event planning company, a day spa, a cafe’ and catering company, a franchise development firm, and a boutique small business marketing firm.
At FEET-ON-THE-STREET-MARKETING, he currently works with a wide variety of small business owners in the areas of:
-Sales & Marketing Consultation and Implementation (“right product, right price, right channel, right audience, right time.”)
-Out Of The Box Marketing (hyper-local, sometimes “tunneled,” customized marketing efforts to affect substantial business growth)
-Business Concept Implementation (“end to end” introduction of new products, or new services, or new business concepts )
-Business Infancy Acceleration Programs (recently “born” business concepts striving to get to the next business level)
Also, past and/or present, besides smaller, “hands on” businesses, Ray has been engaged in sales and marketing projects in a variety of capacities for bigger footprint local projects, including companies such as: Peter Piper Pizza, Sprouts, Whole Foods Market, and others.
Ray has been quoted as a small business expert in the Wall Street Journal and Market News International. His businesses have been featured in USA Today, as well as various trade publications. He has been a marketing speaker at: Kiwanis International, Scottsdale Chamber Business Smartz, HealthEOS Sr. Management Seminar, The Alternative Board (TAB), at ASU’s Barrett Honors Entrepreneurship Program, and in Western International University’s Graduate Marketing Program.
Ray has “walked and worn down the shoes” of a small business owner, knows how to anticipate “the hoops to jump through and hurdles to jump over,” and loves to assist small business owners in ensuring their success and longevity.
Through the use of practical and high-impact marketing techniques, Ray Hirsh has founded and grown eight successful businesses during his entrepreneurial business career. His extensive background and expertise lies in the retail and service areas, particularly in small and medium-sized closely held or family-owned type businesses.
In a lengthy career as a muti-unit Hallmark Shop owner, he was one of the first operators in the country to achieve the prestige status of “Gold Crown Store Designee.”His front line pioneering business acumen in the retail field was instrumental in Hallmark Marketing’s premiering of new and then unconventional retailing concepts, including the introduction of product s
such as: fine giftware, fresh chocolates, and fresh flowers, merchandise now common in these types of retail venues. As adjunct to his Hallmark career, Ray was able to identify allied profit centers, thus parlaying one business into seven additional successful careers in his (“still going”) business lifetime.
These additional ventures included the founding of a unique Hallmark retail concept, a corporate greeting card company, an event planning company, a day spa, a cafe’ and catering company, a franchise development firm, and a boutique small business marketing firm.
At FEET-ON-THE-STREET-MARKETING, he currently works with a wide variety of small business owners in the areas of:
-Sales & Marketing Consultation and Implementation (“right product, right price, right channel, right audience, right time.”)
-Out Of The Box Marketing (hyper-local, sometimes “tunneled,” customized marketing efforts to affect substantial business growth)
-Business Concept Implementation (“end to end” introduction of new products, or new services, or new business concepts )
-Business Infancy Acceleration Programs (recently “born” business concepts striving to get to the next business level)
Also, past and/or present, besides smaller, “hands on” businesses, Ray has been engaged in sales and marketing projects in a variety of capacities for bigger footprint local projects, including companies such as: Peter Piper Pizza, Sprouts, Whole Foods Market, and others.
Ray has been quoted as a small business expert in the Wall Street Journal and Market News International. His businesses have been featured in USA Today, as well as various trade publications. He has been a marketing speaker at: Kiwanis International, Scottsdale Chamber Business Smartz, HealthEOS Sr. Management Seminar, The Alternative Board (TAB), at ASU’s Barrett Honors Entrepreneurship Program, and in Western International University’s Graduate Marketing Program.
Ray has “walked and worn down the shoes” of a small business owner, knows how to anticipate “the hoops to jump through and hurdles to jump over,” and loves to assist small business owners in ensuring their success and longevity.
