Noble & Masters Marketing, Inc., New York

What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?

Our business service to independently owned businesses and professionals is non-existent in the market place. We offer unlimited marketing representation to our clients that are often visited by salespeople showing up unannounced at their workplace with unsolicited offers, either selling ads or supplies. Small businesses haven't the time or resources to hire marketing firms, as do larger companies, to investigate the worthiness of such offers. Our firm acts as a deterrent to persuasive, off-the-street solicitors and allows our clients to refer all such solicitations to our marketing team that thoroughly investigates each offer and firm, allowing the client to remove him or herself from the equation and have us do the work for them by reporting our findings, prior to any consideration to purchase.

What was the inspiration to start or run this business?

The inspiration to start this firm was based on the fact that in our endeavors under our sister company, which services small businesses, now going on 30 years, found that the the number one complaint by small businesses was in fact unsolicited, pushy salespeople showing up or calling our customers, often with programs that were found untrue, costing independent businesses millions in lost revenue annually due to their inability to verify the truthfulness of such solicitations and offers. This is where we step in, the client doesn't need to make a split second decision, they refer them to us.

What do you love most about your job?

What I love about this "job" is offering my colleagues the ability to have a professional and successful marketing team doing all of the work that ordinarily can only be done on behalf of large corporations for only pennies a day, more than affordable and a fully operating marketing service covering all aspects of marketing research and assistance to our clients, including, but not limited to, free ad layout and designs for our clients, plus free press releases.

What is the best reaction you've ever gotten from a customer?

The very best reaction we received was that 8 out of 10 of our sponsors from the sister corporation, American Student Books, Inc. when hearing this yet to be announced service, were thrilled and very impresses, "...long overdue" was most of what was stated.