Recent articles include ...

 

“When Sales are Stalled and Profits Flat, Don’t Lower Prices or Spend More on Marketing.  Be Clever!”

Published in June 2007 edition Chief Executive Magazine on-line Entrepreneurial CEO section

 

How to Shape Up Before the Next Recession”

Published July 2007 edition CEO Refresher

 

“Who’s Really Responsible for the Growth of Good New Jobs”

Industry Week on Line, Op Ed July 2007

 

“The Seven Laws of Performance Excellence”

IndUS Business Journal, December 2007

 

“Accelerating the Market Adoption of Innovation” (unpublished)

Jerry Vieira is a Certified Management Consultant and President and Founder of the QMP™ Group, a Portland, OR-based management consulting firm that specializes in transforming and rebuilding the Marketing & Sales Growth engines of small-to-mid-sized firms.

 

In addition to guiding turnarounds and organizational transformations, Jerry lectures and publishes articles on market strategy, sales, management and performance excellence. His talks are insightful and entertaining. Clients repeatedly say “He makes us think and take action”

 

Jerry earned an MBA from the University of Rhode Island, and holds two Bachelor of science degrees in electrical engineering and music.  In his career, he has held management positions in engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sales management at Fortune 500, high tech, medical, manufacturing and consumer products companies. He can be reached directly at jerry@qmpassociates.com.

Speaking Topics

 

· The Six Core Marketing Strategies: What we’ve learned about what works,  from 5,000 years of warfare and 100 years of marketing science

 

· Facing down the enemies of change (even when it’s us!)

 

· The Seven Laws of Performance Excellence: The lost art of the leader

 

· Market-Based Turnaround Strategies: They’re probably not what you think

 

· The 10 Common Barriers to the Progress of a Business Initiative  (and how to overcome them)

 

· 5-3-1: The 5 causes of poor sales performance, the 3 foundations of success and the 1 thing that lasts

 

· Rebuilding an Organization rebuild: The Owner’s Manual

 

· For CFOs: The Inside Secrets of Marketing & Sales

 

· How to Not Compete with the Big Guys (and laugh all the way to the bank)

 

· For CEOs: Six Critical Questions to Ask of Your Marketing Executive 

 

· Cash-Injecting a New Business Without Diluting Your Own, or Your Investors’, Ownership

Jerry Vieira

QMP President & Founder

BSEE, BSM, MBA, CMC

 

“I learned and was inspired”…

 

                     ……...what one person said who heard Jerry speak

Jerry Vieira

President & Founder of The QMP™ Group

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