by Tim Johnson | May 15, 2023 | Blog, Strategy
You’ve been invited to pitch investors as part of raising your next funding round. Congratulations! Now you have to get your presentation together and get prepared. As readers of this blog know, UPRAISE is the marketing services provider to startups at Plug and Play,... by Tim Johnson | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog, Strategy
Whether for sales support or brand awareness, it’s a central tenet for any marketing campaign that organizations must be active and differentiating on a continuous basis. Generating an ongoing stream of news is often the most powerful approach to keeping a company’s...
by Tim Johnson | Oct 17, 2022 | Strategy, Blog
No one knows if the U.S. economy is going to enter a recession in the near term. Goldman Sachs wrote in November, “The U.S. will probably stick a soft landing next year: the world’s largest economy is forecast to narrowly avoid a recession.” As a Forbes...
by Tim Johnson | Jul 25, 2022 | Leadership
For more than 30 years, Tim has helped companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 500 in industries as diverse as agriculture, consumer electronics, financial services, many shades of tech and more. Prior to starting UPRAISE, Tim was the managing director of...
by Tim Johnson | Jul 11, 2022 | Blog, Strategy
Starting in May, a few clients contacted us to let us know they were receiving pressure from their investors to cut budgets in advance of the anticipated recession. This has proven to be very short-sighted advice and we were able to convince some clients this would be...