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Launch Solutions to Attend SPIE Optics & Photonics

By John Veckerelli on Wed, Aug 21, 2013

PLS Launch Solutions to Attend SPIE O&P

Topics: Optics Company News Trade Show Strategy
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RRPC, MCC optics camp will introduce area high school students to tech jobs

By Katie Steelman on Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Summer Optics Sizzler PR

Topics: Optics Company News Women in STEM
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Launch Solutions to Attend SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing

By Katie Steelman on Mon, Apr 29, 2013

PLS Launch Solutions to Attend SPIE DSS

DSS trade show

Topics: Optics Business Insights Lead Generation Trade Show Strategy
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Watch for @launchsolutions at...

By Katie Steelman on Wed, Feb 20, 2013

APS March Meeting 2013 and SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing

APS March Meeting. PLS will be there.APS March Meeting SPIE DSS, launchsolutions will be there.

Topics: Optics Company News Trade Show Strategy
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Watch for @launchsolutions at SPIE Photonics West 2013

By John Veckerelli on Thu, Jan 24, 2013

SPIE Photonics West and SPIE Bios

Photonics West

Topics: Optics Company News Trade Show Strategy
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Michele Nichols to Teach Marketing Strategy to Optics Industry Group

By John Veckerelli on Tue, Jan 08, 2013

PLS President Michele Nichols to Teach Marketing Workshop at 2013 SPIE Photonics West Conference

Michele NicholsRochester, NY (PRWEB) January 03, 2013

Topics: Optics Company News Marketing Strategy
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PLS President, Michele Nichols to Present @SPIE Photonics West 2013

By John Veckerelli on Mon, Nov 12, 2012

SPIE Photonics West - Optics

Topics: Optics Company News Marketing Mix Marketing Strategy
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Optics and Photonics Industry Needs Marketing, Say Industry Experts

By Michele Nichols on Fri, Sep 14, 2012

Expert Panel Discusses What Will Drive Optics and Photonics Growth

Monday afternoon found me at the Rochester Museum and Science Center with 200 other optics industry leaders to hear the findings from the US Congress-commissioned research report, Harnessing Light. The event was well-attended and well-covered (here, by the Democrat & Chronicle and Innovation Trail).

Topics: Optics Marketing Strategy
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Foundational Marketing Assets: Corporate Photography

By Michele Nichols on Thu, May 31, 2012

An Overlooked Brand Asset

Good photography is a core marketing asset when it comes to presenting a company to prospective and existing customers—it makes the intangible services offering a little more tangible, the technology more real, and the application more compelling. When we work with companies to execute their marketing roadmap, the lack of good corporate photography is often a barrier to getting a marketing project complete on a tight timeframe and budget, whether it’s issuing a press release of a new hire, designing a trade show booth display, or creating a marketing success story.

Topics: Optics Marketing Strategy Branding and Identity
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PLS Launch Solutions & OptoIQ Announce Marketing In Photonics Blog

By John Veckerelli on Tue, May 29, 2012

New Optics Marketing Blog

OptoIQ, a leading digital media source for news and research in optics, photonics and imaging technologies, announces a new blog, Marketing in Photonics, written by Michele Nichols, President of PLS Launch Solutions.

Topics: Optics Business Insights Company News Marketing Strategy
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Elements of an Actionable Strategic Plan

By Michele Nichols on Wed, May 16, 2012

In my recent blog post in the optics and photonics magazine OptoIQ, I cover a business strategy process and how to write a business plan your team can execute. The following are examples for a small precision manufacturing company.

Topics: Optics Business Insights Marketing Strategy

Watch for PLS Launch Solutions @SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing

By John Veckerelli on Tue, Apr 24, 2012

Topics: Optics Trade Show Strategy