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Douglas Karr and Nick Carter are now friends
October 23
Nick Carter and Matt Goebel are now friends
October 20
Nick Carter might attend Andrew Gouty's event
October 28, 2009 from 8:30am to 10am
Deep Ripples presents "A Citizen's Guide to Search Engine Marketing" - an introductory look at how Search Engine Marketing helps small business, addressing: -What is Search Engine Marketing? (SEM vs PPC vs SEO vs OSM) -Why should I (a small busin...
October 20
Hi there, I belong to a small, very conservative, church in New Castle, Indiana (about 50 min east of Indianapolis). We are trying to think of some unique ideas to bring up attendance on Sunday nights. I have suggested speakers, singers and missi...
October 19
Lindsey Taylor might attend Nick Carter's event
AddressTwo Hullabaloo at Loon Lake Lodge
September 16, 2009 from 1pm to 6pm
Beyond cold calls and bulk mail, hunt down new business from among your existing contacts. We're forming a hunting party with sales training, networking, workshops, and more—featuring inspirational speaker CJ McClanahan. Workshops offered from to...
September 1
Dick Davis is attending Nick Carter's event
AddressTwo Hullabaloo at Loon Lake Lodge
September 16, 2009 from 1pm to 6pm
Beyond cold calls and bulk mail, hunt down new business from among your existing contacts. We're forming a hunting party with sales training, networking, workshops, and more—featuring inspirational speaker CJ McClanahan. Workshops offered from to...
August 31
Nick Carter updated an event
AddressTwo Hullabaloo at Loon Lake Lodge
September 16, 2009 from 1pm to 6pm
Beyond cold calls and bulk mail, hunt down new business from among your existing contacts. We're forming a hunting party with sales training, networking, workshops, and more—featuring inspirational speaker CJ McClanahan. Workshops offered from to...
August 27

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How did you hear about Smaller Indiana?
Friend
What is your greatest strength?
Leader, dreamer, thinking of new ideas (notably, not carrying them out to completion)
What are you working on?
I'm hosting the biggest sales and networking event in Indiana this fall: AddressTwo Hullabaloo
How big is your business?
small company
What is your Job Title
Owner
What is your Company Website?
http://www.addresstwo.com
What is your Personal Website?
http://www.truevictories.com
What is your alma mater?
Ball State University

Nick Carter's Blog

Nick Carter

Can you spell CRM?

I often joke, most of our customers can't even spell CRM. No, I'm not trying to insult the intelligence of AddressTwo users, but rather the ridiculous over-use of acronyms in any business today. CRM is a term that bears meaning only for a select few computer whizzes who probably invented the term and work hard to educate others on it's meaning in order that they can market their products to them. But, in the interest of reality, let's break it down.

Customer: A CRM system is designed for… Continue

Posted on April 28, 2009 at 10:32am —

Nick Carter

A Dashboard on Business

My wife and I just purchased a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. Now, when we went to the dealership, we were looking for something roomy but with decent gas mileage. Mind you, after the salesman let me drive the V8 Hemi-Powered Grand Cherokee, mileage got demoted in my mind to a mere afterthought. Nonetheless, I asked what it should get. "If you drive it tame, 16 in the city," he told me.

One of the features of this new car that we've used the most has been the rolling-average MPG rating displayed righ… Continue

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 3:50pm — 2 Comments

Nick Carter

Pay Per Tweet - How Bad Can It Be?

Ok, I'm quite positive I wasn't the first Twitter user to think to myself, "wow, what would I have to pay a top tweeter to tweet my link?" Admit it, even if you're a die-hard defender of the notion of unadulterated social media, you can't help but be enticed at the thought of your link in front of 50k followers, and then retweeted, and retweeted. Oh man, I'm salivating. But, despite the potential, this concept is slammed left and right!

Magpie is one of… Continue

Posted on April 13, 2009 at 12:45pm — 8 Comments

Nick Carter

The Failure of Outlook as a CRM

In my previous post, I made a generally safe statement: that Excel fails as a CRM. In this post, I expect there may be a few more objections to the premise from some who have successfully used Outlook as their CRM for years. To that end, I would say that it's also true that people have successfully used their car keys as box cutters, but it's less than ideal. Truly, what it boils down to is the fact that the box cutter was all the way in the garage and the package your keys were already in your… Continue

Posted on March 4, 2009 at 10:31am —

Nick Carter

The Failure of Excel as a CRM

As I talk with most small business owners, I find quite often that they realize the benefit of database marketing and they get (at least in part) the concept of CRM, but they lack the technology to implement it. In this article, I want to address the misconception that an Excel spreadsheet can fill a business' need for CRM. In so doing, I hope I can save at least a few of my readers from much angst, and possibly even devastating business loss.

1. ) First, Excel is single-user only. When you att… Continue

Posted on March 2, 2009 at 7:27pm — 3 Comments

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At 9:55pm on April 13, 2009, Kristen Horton said…
Loved the monitor you brought for Erica (from the Address Two (@addresstwo ?) winning Tweet at Rainmakers Main Event).
At 1:43pm on April 8, 2009, Erica Dobson said…
Are you going to be at the Southport or Southwest RM's this week? If not, where are you located? Maybe I can stop by and pick it up.
At 4:26pm on April 1, 2009, Erica Dobson said…
REALLY!? this isn't an April Fools joke, right? :) I attend the Southport, Greenwood, Southwest and East Side Rainmakers. If you are on the northside then dropping it off at Roundpeg would be the best. Thank you SO much!
At 6:25am on March 26, 2009, Kyle Lacy said…
Nick,
I would focus on LinkedIN and Plaxo. If you want to drive business contacts that is how I would do it. Stay niche.
At 7:51pm on January 21, 2009, Greg Clements said…
Nick,

Hope all is well and business is going good.

-Greg
At 4:09pm on October 16, 2008, Allison Witmeier said…
Hey Nick,

I'd love to get together to learn more about your business model. I'm in the recruitment/hiring business, too.

Allison
At 5:50pm on October 10, 2008, anne davis said…
Nick: Stranded is still avialable and I have put your name down. Will be in touch on how to get ticket.
 
 

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