Archive for the ‘Fig Tree News’ Category

Carter Welch Interviewed by Eagle Tribune Television (click image to see video)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

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Extreme Business Makeover Deadline Approaches

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Our deadline is upcoming for the Extreme Business Makeover.  We’ve received tremendous interest and we hope to have a selection before the end of the year.  You can read our most recent article in the Eagle Tribune.

Carter Welch speaks to Merrimack Valley Business Leaders

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Carter Welch recently spoke at the Eagle-Tribune’s series:  “Weathering the Economic Storm”.   He was part of a  panel of local business experts who agreed that as bad as the economic storm has been over the last six months to a year, sunnier skies are ahead.  Carter told the group, “The rain hasn’t stopped, but the basement is dry.”

To read more of the article about the series, visit the Eagle Tribune to read about Carter’s talk.

The Fig Tree Group Announces Extreme Business Makeover

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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Check out today’s Eagle Tribune Newspaper for a major article about this!  We will have more to post in the coming days!  The article is posted on the Extreme Business Makeover site.

I’m very proud to be part of a group of business owners who are coming together to help one special company change its fortunes.  Visit the site of Extreme Business Makeover NE, which I co-founded with BobDiRosa of Market-Edge Services.

Fig Tree Can Save Your Life, Too

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

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In 2007, a young British couple fell (al fresco) 50 feet from a wall in Majorca, Spain and were saved from certain death by a fig tree.  They fell the equivalent of 6 stories but luckily the tree broke their fall.  One of the responding officers was quoted, “Normally people do not survive a fall of more than three floors.  It was the tree that saved them.”  While we can’t promise miracles, The Fig Tree Group can help your business survive tough times, too.

Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Fig Tree

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

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Fact #1: The fig tree grows best and produces the best quality fruit in harsh, dry, hot environments.

Shouldn’t your business be able to do the same?  Today’s economic environment is among the harshest, toughest situations we have seen in a long time.  Learn the lessons of the Fig Tree and take this opportunity to build the roots deep and wide, much like the fig tree – network, focus on basics, get your marketing story right, contact old customers…anything you can do to spread your roots.