The “and” in STRAND

When you work with us, you get my 18+ years of strategy and marketing experience combined with connections to some of the most talented and accomplished partners to help make the plan reality.

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Bruce Carlisle
Bruce wrote some of the first pages of the book on internet marketing strategy. He’s one of the pioneers in how this crazy business works, and he has an innate ability to see opportunity and seize it.
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Colin Cook
Colin was working in biotech before it was cool. Now that it is cool, he’s one of the few who has the experience and savvy to make it look easy. 
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Julie McGill
Working with Julie you get trains that run on better than Swiss time, plus the benefit of a keen eye to keep your strategy on target. And with her sense of humor, you’ll find the lead-up is as much fun as the launch.
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Natalie Musick
Graduating this spring with an MBA in sustainable business management from the Presidio Graduate School, this seasoned product manager is now a triple threat. Natalie has proven that she can launch any product, but she loves launching the green ones.
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Laurie Morgan
Brainstorming with Laurie is like surfing on a tidal wave. Thankfully, there’s a good many tools available to record our meetings, lest too many brilliant morsels would be left lying on the beach.
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Neil Redding
It is an understatement to say Neil thinks outside of the box. For Neil, there is no box, yet every idea he presents comes with a real, tangible action plan to make dreams a reality.
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Courtney Tucker
Courtney sees strategy, not size. Though she’s worked with some of technologies biggest players, she offers the thought leadership that gets the new guy invited to the party.
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“STRAND brings clarity and sound strategic direction to complex problems. Shelli is also a polished, compelling presenter who captivates and inspires even reluctant audiences.”

Jack Balousek
General Partner at Balousek FLP, Entrepreneur & Board Director

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“Shelli and her team have provided fantastic marketing resources for me for more than 9 years. I know I can count on her to really think through the given project, and develop and execute campaigns that yield real results.”

Dana Loof
Executive Vice President at Pano Logic
Adobe
American Cancer Society
Apple Computer
Bigstep.com
Broadcom
Charles Schwab & Company
Cisco Systems
Cisco WebEX   

EFI
Eleven Inc.
EVault/i365
Intuit
Microsoft Corporation
MRM Partners
Novell
Oracle

PanoLogic
SanDisk
Seagate
Six Apart
Sybase
Turning Star, Inc.
Wells Fargo Bank

Orchestrating a lightning-fast
new product launch
 
Helping Cisco sell
Software as a Service
Getting competing sales
teams on the same page
SanDisk needed to launch its new consumer electronics product in just 6 months and needed everything—a product name, overall product branding, and the launch strategy and management of the teams to execute. Read More

When Cisco bought WebEx, they needed to introduce the idea to their internal sales team and get them the materials and training they needed so they could begin selling the WebEx service through their channel partners. Read more.

A new partnership between Cisco and a sometimes-competitor brought two sales teams together to sell a new product jointly. The two companies came to STRAND to get the sales tools and sales training to bring these two previously competing sales teams together—and make it happen within 3 months. Read more.