My first real business project was in 1996 when I built a marketing website for my dad's business, Anacortes Brass Works. ABW sells large runs of belt buckles to businesses, primarily, and the website was a real boon. It was a fun project.
Through the nineties, friends and I built a lot of websites to learn the new medium.
From 2000 to present, I work by day in the Fortune 10 as a business advisor. My skills are technology and transformation. I work with some of the largest brands in the world to figure out how to use more data and education to transform and mature their businesses efficiently.
On the side, I love helping local entrepreneurs advance their causes. There is Chris, Pete, Lee, Ted and many other friends who I've been lucky to help move the needle on their ideas and their careers.
I'm not a coach, exactly, but I think I am motivational; at least I've been told so. I have master's degrees in Information Systems (business + the internet) and Business Administration. I am a certified Project Management Professional. I have been doing business consulting professionally since 2005 when Siemens Corporation made me an internal consultant. And realistically I have been helping businesses grow and advance since high school when I first started to understand my parents' businesses and their associated challenges.
AppsJack's latest project is working with a Woodinville-based friend, Lee, to scale his new business called Shape My Grip. SMG has a patented grip for bicycles that will hopefully eventually move into other sports and healthcare applications. A partner, Sebastian, and I are coming in as business consultants to sell more of his products faster, using Amazon and Fulfillment by Amazon.
AppsJack is best at providing product management services to its customers. We help them understand their market and defined products and product releases aimed at capturing A) money and B) knowledge about what people want. We drive hard to advance product development and innovation.
We partner with business owners to accelerate their sales and advance their careers, all in the name of fun, partnership and profitability.
Many people are not very confident marketing themselves or their products. It can be nerve-racking and stressful. We partner very closely to support our clients, make them feel good, make them feel confident and help them make the right decisions to mature their products and move their businesses ahead.
AppsJack works with a very high sense of urgency and the latest technologies to define and advance the agendas of our clients while skillfully mitigating key risks.
The requirements for pulling off this kind of services business at scale are:
- A great team. We have a network that includes some of the most amazing talent around in all fields of business development from hard to soft skills in all industries.
- The best from technology. None of this would be possible without technology. We stay abreast of the latest technologies and implement where and when we can with out clients.
- Clients who inspire us. Our clients come from a variety of walks but are generally seasoned business people who are ready to go out on their own or advance a product or service they have already started. We work with them to help set the vision, understand the impediments and give a huge boost toward their goals.
- Flexible compensation arrangements. We are willing to work for profit-sharing, for example. So that clients don't have to stomach huge up-front costs as we get going accelerating their business or project, we help align on incentives for everyone to win.
- Unusual focus on community. AppsJack organizes regular meetings and spends a lot of time out in public, including volunteer work with great causes.
Contact us today if you'd like to hear more about our project and what we're building here in Seattle and the Eastside.
~ Eric
