Craig Jensen
Craig
Jensen is CEO of Executive Software, a software company in Burbank,
California. The company was incorporated in 1981 and has since been
ranked in Software Magazines list of the top 100 independent
software companies in the world.
We started off doing consulting for income and product development
to build a future. The company prospered, but solely from consulting;
the products we developed never seemed to take off as expected.
In 1986, all that changed when I was introduced to L. Ron
Hubbards essays on marketing.
Most people know of Mr. Hubbard as the Founder of the Scientology
religion and the author of Dianetics. But few people realize he
wrote an 11-volume set on the subjects of administration and management.
This instantly revealed to me what I had been doing wrong and resulted
in a 180-degree shift in our marketing direction.
We used Mr. Hubbards survey and marketing techniques
to find, develop and launch a new product that put our company on
the map. The next year our sales increased five-fold.
Repeating those same successful marketing actions and applying
more of the principles found in the Hubbard Administrative Technology,
we more than doubled our revenues the next year and the next year.
Executive Software subsequently appeared on the Inc magazine list
of the 500 fastest growing privately held companies in America for
four years in a row; and even ranked in Software Magazines
list of the top 100 independent software companies in the world.
It is important to note that this success has been accomplished
entirely without the use of venture capital. The company is debt
free and completely self-financing.
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