PROFILE

All small businesses and start-ups are facing market ups and downs, tightening credit, and global anxiety about what will happen next. In this environment, it’s more important than ever to hire the experience you need to understand your market and develop efficient strategies and plans. You need vision, goals, and decisiveness to grow your business. Barbara Kirk can help.

Barbara has 15 years experience in early stages of product definition and successful product launches, delivery of custom products to a client base, and implementation of operations and process improvements. She works with companies that need help devising strategy, implementing new products, and developing efficient processes to get product out the door.

Barbara is a Senior Director of Marketing and/or Operations. As a consultant and full-time employee, she has:

• Managed high-visibility projects vital to overall success, such as product launch activities; market, new product, and competitive research; custom client deliverables
• Created strategy and tactical implementation plans for new functions, such as operations and customer support plans; reseller and partner programs; product definition/development
• Developed business communications platforms including business and marketing plans, product documentation, customer communications, and web communications
• Developed methodology and standardized processes for high growth organizations to improve operations efficiencies for sales cycle, production, and support procedures

Contact Barbara if you:

• Would like to hire three people but can only afford one
• Are losing money because you can’t get projects off the ground
• Think you’ll run out of money before you’re ready to launch
• Need to research and analyze plans to prioritize goals