Results Revolution is the home base blog for Marianna & Andy Chapman’s consulting business, HALO Business Advisors. We do this because we like to share information that is helpful with locally owned small business owners – many of whom wouldn’t otherwise have access to this type of information in a format that practically works for their type of business model. We’re speaking from experience in the trenches of small business ownership and/or working with small business owners, and our guests on ResultsRevTV are successful small business owners with real-life experience just like you.

For us, it doesn’t get any better than getting off of this blog and shaking your hand face-to-face. We regularly conduct workshops and seminars for conferences, groups and private business training events. For more about our speaking and live event, click here.

Mission

The Results Revolution is a nationwide initiative seeking to create strong economies based on locally owned & operated small businesses. We accomplish our mission by equipping and encouraging locally owned small business owners as well as small business development leaders to do effective marketing.

What is Local?

For the purpose of this project, we define a “locally owned and operated small business” as one that is independently owned and operated by a local community member and one where the community member has full autonomy and local decision-making authority with respect to his or her business practices.

Key Components of the Results Revolution

• FREE Weekly ResultsRevTV. Each week we will interview a successful small business owner and uncover the story and how-to behind their marketing success. Learn from your peers, network with other small business owners and improve your marketing!
• FREE Results Revolution blog written by founders Marianna Chapman or Andy Chapman with additional guest authors who offer regular marketing advice on a variety of small business and local marketing topics.
• FREE Weekly Marketing Lesson practical and scaled for small business delivered straight to your Inbox. Register your business here!
• Results Revolution Resources
• Results Revolution Webinars
• Results Revolution Live Events with Marianna and/or Andy

About the Our Readers

The Results Revolution is a community of locally owned and operated small business owners who have united under the banner of our mission statement. The Results Revolution is highly engaged group of take-action business owners working hard to grow our small locally-owned businesses.

The Results Revolution is made up of…

• Business owners of locally owned and operated, independent small businesses and restaurants.
• Retail, professional service, restaurant and food service and wholesale product business categories.
• Approximately 60% female and 40% male business owners.
• Approximately 70% of them have businesses located in Southeastern United States (as of 3/1/10).
• Business owners who have at least a basic understanding, appreciation and engagement in social media.
• Business owners who have a strong determination to grow their business and their community through support of their fellow business owners.
• People who believe that supporting local businesses is about more than a location – it’s about supporting businesses nationwide who fit the category of “locally owned and operated independent small business.”
• Business owners who are HIGHLY engaged multiple times per week in our community.
• Business owners who are taking ACTION because of something they learned in the Results Revolution.

Our Media

At the Results Revolution, we’re not a motto or slogan. And we’re not a traditional media outlet peddling advertising options. We’re inexplicably a booming community of locally owned and operated, independent small business owners using a variety of methods to communicate, learn and grow our businesses through smarter marketing that informs consumers about the value and experience found in our local business and the importance of supporting locally owned and operated businesses. The Results Revolution is holistic approach to education and motivation and unique in the opportunity to invite sponsorship and partnering options to support this initiative so critical to the success and growth of American small business owners.

To grow and connect our members, we use the following tools:

• Social Media: Facebook Page and Facebook Events, Twitter, LinkedIn groups, LinkedIn profiles, YouTube, Ustream, a blog and more.
• E-Mail marketing and communication
• Web based video TV show distributed through all of the above channels as well as community member channels.
• Web site & blog including archives of posts since 2003
• Traditional & new media publicity channels
• Weekly web-based classes
• Print media
• Promotional items

Our Founders

The Results Revolution was founded by small business marketing consultants Marianna and Andy Chapman. This project is the result of their passion to help locally owned and operated, independent small business owners succeed. If you want to know more about them, you can check out their bios on their business’ web site, HALO Business Advisors.

If you want to get in touch with them for any reason, please use the contact form on this web site. They’ll get your message – we promise!

Disclosures

The bottom line? Yes, we have advertising partners on our web site (they are listed under PARTNERS and we get paid for them to advertise there, for the most part). We also offer links to resources in our Resources section and in various blog posts. We might also put links in the sidebar of our web site. We only post Resources that we deem valuable, but we also use affiliate links as often as possible when we do that. What does that mean? It means that if you click through and buy through the link on our blog we get a small commission on what you buy. I promise to try to always disclose affiliate links, but please accept this section as the general rule: we use them. If a company we love doesn’t offer an affiliate program, we’ll still recommend them. If a company we do NOT love offers an affiliate program – we’re still not going to recommend them. We only share resources that we have used and can personally endorse. It’s critical to our integrity and reputation that we be able to personally back up the recommendations we make – and even give you further advice about them if you ask us. We’re not sharing junk here.