Our Team
Allan Curtis
Allan is the co-owner of the InSights Group, an organization founded in 2007 to help entrepreneurs and business professionals strive and achieve new levels of success. As the Orator, Allan helps to provide an interactive forum for motivation, education, and tools for everyday success. Allan’s hats at the InSights Group include Orator, Social Media Strategist, Organic Marketing Trainer, and a Twitter Coach. With over twenty years experience as a backyard water recreation creationist, designer and artistic water shaper, he has worked with bringing images to life as the owner of a multi-million dollar swimming pool company.
A sought after speaker on creativity, organic marketing and social media. His life’s dreams include reading 10,000 books, holding his breath for 3 minutes, and running a marathon. He’s checked two of the last three items off his list. Allan has been on the board of directors of several successful start-up companies, owned and operated several small businesses including two antique auction firms and supports the Hope for Autism Foundation through fund raising and public awareness efforts.
A graduate of Northern Michigan University after exploring artistic and creative studies he holds a degree with a focus of physics and math. Al holds certifications in several holistic modalities of Reiki Master, Core Conscious Transformation, DISC Personality Study Certified and Physiognomy. Al resides in a 100+ year old farm house surrounded by an old west village complete with an old mill mine shaft and pond. His family, complete with three daughters, enjoys antique auctioning, downhill skiing, slurpee drinking and marble collecting.
Allan Curtis:
Orator of the InSights Group
Social Media Strategist
Organic Marketing Trainer
Twitter Coach
Contact Allan:
At the Office: 810-623-5839
On the Road: 248-798-0236
Drop him an electronic note here
Connect with Allan via Social Media
Sandi Maki
Sandi is the co-owner of the InSights Group, an organization founded in 2007 to help entrepreneurs and business professionals strive and achieve new levels of success. Sandi helps to provide an interactive forum for motivation, education, and tools for everyday success. Sandi’s hats at the InSights Group include Social Media Creative, Organic Marketing Inventor, Rainmaker, Accountability and Enthusiasm Coach.
Prior to InSights, Sandi has brokered domestic domicile deals (licensed Real Estate Broker), labored in the backyard water recreation industry, typed, planned, strategized and accounted her way around an office. She holds degrees in Business Administration and Psychology and is a student of Holistic modalities of Reiki Master, Core Conscious Transformation, DISC Personality Study Certified and Physiognomy. She has been on the board of directors of several successful entrepreneurial startups and supports the Hope for Autism Foundation through fund raising and public awareness efforts.
As if she isn’t already having enough fun, Sandi has been the voiceover talent for various companies’ ads and promotion. She’s been a featured persona of a national brand campaign (can you hear me now?) and can currently be found on Amazon.com explaining social media, organic marketing and blogging.
After hours Sandi can be found at most neighborhood middle school sporting events with her daughter, an amazing and wonderful gift, and her delightful and inspiring son. Her favorite things include Toby Keith, Irish accents, tropical islands and chocolate and peanut butter used in combination.
Sandi Maki
First Lady of the InSights Group
Social Media Strategist
Organic Marketing Trainer
Marketing Idea Maker
Contact Sandi:
At the Office: 810-623-5839
On the Road: 248-798-0239
Drop her an electronic note here
Connect with Sandi via Social Media
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Social Media Strategy
Everywhere we turn, we hear that social media has become an important force in business marketing, which is very true. Money goes where people go, and people are going to social media sites.
Having an account in a social media platform (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) is not the same as having a social media “strategy”, and having a strategy is essential for success.
Allan Curtis and Sandi Maki have a common sense approach to integrating social media into a business marketing plan, and would love to help you define, develop, implement and maintain a successful strategy.
The process begins with setting some social media goals, and incorporating the best elements of what is available in the social media world today, with the ability to grow and change tomorrow. A successful strategy can be developed utilizing your existing web presence, and gaining the maximum amount of traction by adding the most important social media elements to your marketing mix.
Sandi Maki and Allan Curtis are co-founders of the InSights Group, an amazing collaborative learning organization. Without traditional funding, a marketing or advertising budget they used organic marketing strategies and social media to grow the InSights Group. Creating the roadmap as they went, learning and growing on the way, they’ve found what works in the world of social media. The social media strategies taught at the InSights Group were developed as a part of those experiences, and they’ll be sharing some of what they have learned with you.
Sandi and Al have presented to a diverse array of audiences, from a small group in a conference room to a national convention. They are hired as social media strategists, conduct classes and training regularly both at our facility, the InSights Group in Brighton, and on location. You can find their CD series available on Amazon.com, and webinars, audio downloads, and podcasts available on the InSights Group website.
Email: sandi@insights-group.com to request a strategy consult.
