Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive?

Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive?

Building a business or a career is a continual process of expanding your goods, services, skills, and network.  The first day that I sat down to start my career as a recruiter, I had no contacts.  I had a telephone, an empty legal pad, and a box of blank 5 x 8 index cards.

After a decade, my contact management system contained tens of thousands of contacts.  I had personally tracked and created files for these people.  Most of them I have reached out to by phone, email, or professional networks.  I still make new connections every day.  Little has changed except that my file system has gone from paper to a computer.

I continually added clients.

Here is a partial list of companies where I had recruiting contracts:

    1. PepsiCo
    2. Pepsi Bottling Group
    3. Frito-Lay
    4. Coca Cola, USA
    5. Coca Cola Foods
    6. Mobil Oil Company
    7. Soft Soap
    8. Pillsbury Green Giant
    9. International Playtex
    10. Quaker Oats
    11. Dannon Corporation
    12. No Nonsense Fashions
    13. Coca-Cola Foods
    14. Del Monte Foods
    15. The Clorox Company
    16. Nestle
    17. Brach & Brock
    18. Catalina Marketing
    19. Health Resource Corporation
    20. Majers Corporation
    21. Welch Foods
    22. Softsoap
    23. E & J Gallo
    24. Sunny Delight
    25. M & M Mars
    26. Tambrands
    27. Nabisco
    28. News America Marketing
    29. El Dorado Marketing
    30. Imagitas
    31. ConAgra Foods
    32. ConAgra Armour Swift-Eckrich
    33. Polaroid Corporation
    34. Dial Corporation
    35. Dep Corporation
    36. United Vintners
    37. 7-Up
    38. Miller Brewing Company
    39. 13-30 Corporation
    40. Hain Celestial Group
    41. Q-Interactive
    42. Label Dollars
    43. Promo Edge
    44. Centiv
    45. The Sunflower Group
    46. PromoWorks
    47. The Wine Spectrum of Coca Cola
    48. Kaiser-Roth
    49. DSD Communications
    50. Black & Decker
    51. ActMedia
    52. Linkewell Health
    53. Bush Brothers Beans
    54. Marketing Technology Solutions
    55. Sunny D
    56. Twenty-Ten Corporation
    57. InStore Broadcasting Network
    58. Insignia Pops
    59. The Beecham Group
    60. GlaxoSmithKline – GSK
    61. Jacobs Suchard
    62. Cody Kramer
    63. SVP Worldwide
    64. Mauna Loa
    65. Garden Burger
    66. EAS
    67. New World Pasta Company
    68. Vacation Connections
    69. Lala USA
    70. Continental Promotion Group
    71. Kayser Roth
    72. Morningstar Farms
    73. Duracell
    74. Kiss Products
    75. Phillips Food Brokerage
    76. Unicous Marketing
    77. Kelley Clarke Food Brokerage
    78. Wizards of the Coast
    79. Oberto Sausage
    80. Fanfare Media
    81. Linkwell Communications
    82. Lindt
    83. Nurserymen’s Exchange
    84. Maybelline
    85. Advantage 360
    86. American Italian Pasta
    87. Warner Lambert
    88. Fuel Rewards/Centego
    89. First Flavor
    90. Potlatch Corporation
    91. Crossmark Food Brokerage
    92. RB (Reckitt Benckiser)
    93. Marketing Force
    94. J&J Snack Foods Corporation
    95. Cartera Commerce Inc.
    96. Alcon Laboratories
    97. Ray-O-Vac
    98. Naterra
    99. ICOM
    100. Slim Fast (Unilever)
    101. Potlatch Corporation
    102. Dean Foods
    103. …and others

    Companies Come and Companies Go.

    In the list are many companies that no longer exist.  In some cases, the brands still exist.  However, these brands are part of another company.  To stay in business, I had to continue to grow new business.

    Companies come and go.  People come and go.  Processes change.  Opportunities are here today and gone tomorrow.  People who build new relationships and expand their relationships will build security.

    Change is constant in business and careers.  The process of building a business and building a career never ends.

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