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Seven Oaks Consulting provides marketing insight and action as well as skilled writing and editing services.  Our practice focuses on helping individuals, small and mid-sized businesses who make a positive difference in the world.  If your company provides goods or services that leave the world a better place than you found it, we're interested in working with you.
 
Our clients are individiuals such as physicians, nutritionists, herbalists, authors and motivational speakers.  Our clients are small businesses such as health spas, resorts, retail stores, online marketers and others. Our clients are global firms providing services to the education (both K-12 and Higher Education), healthcare, and retail sectors.
 
For over twenty years, Jeanne has helped businesses like yours succeed. Her marketing expertise provided publicity for two former state governors that resulted in great television and press coverage of their education and arts programs.  She's helped non-profit launch $30 million education products and an India-based test preparation and tutoring company launch their services into the United States market.
 
Whether you hire us for one project or outsource all your marketing projects to Seven Oaks Consulting, our vision and expertise can help your company acquire and retain customers, with a focus on measurable, action-oriented marketing results.   We welcome projects both large and small, and have the flexibility and team on-call to handle your project.
 
Recently completed projects include:
  • Public relations for a new spa and resort in California
  • Copywriting for an alternative health website
  • Marketing plan for a national non-profit education organization
  • Market plans and research for an India-based education services provider
  • Websites for a global higher education corporation
  • New suite of sales materials for a Fortune 500 publisher
  • Business development for an innovative creative services company
  • Articles contributed to Love to Know
 
 
 
 
 
Jeanne Rudmann Grunert
 
President, Seven Oaks 
CEO, Grunert Family Holdings Inc.
 
Jeanne Grunert is the owner and founder of Seven Oaks Consulting. Formerly the Marketing Director for an education division of a large global company, Ms. Grunert brings extraordinary business acumen and insight to her work. As a successful entrepreneur in her own right, and founder of three diverse business concerns, Ms. Grunert “practices what she preaches” in the development of competitive business strategies. Her career spans over twenty years in marketing communications, direct response marketing and online marketing.
 
As a corporate marketing director, Jeanne led communications projects for state parternships, and worked directly with two former U.S. governors on projects related to education and the arts.  She's worked for both non-profits and for-profits in the education, publishing, finance, and retail sectors.
 
Her freelance writing career began at the age of thirteen when she won a national science fiction writing contest and studied with Nancy Kress and Stephen Donaldson at the Brockport Fiction Writer's Forum.  Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in print and online ever since.  
 
Ms. Grunert holds a Master of Arts in Writing from Queens College, New York City, and a Master of Science in Direct and Interactive Marketing from New York University, as well as specialized certificates in Business Administration, Adult Education, and Retail Management. She is also a published author and was a frequent guest speaker in New York University’s Direct and Interactive Marketing Program.
 
Ms. Grunert oversees all business development for Grunert Family Holdings Inc. and its major divisions, including Seven Oaks Consulting. 
 
 
The Seven Oaks Consulting Team
 
John A. Grunert - Treasurer
John Grunert holds a B.S. Degree in Economics from Adelphi University and post-graduate credits in economics from SUNY Stony Brook.  Mr. Grunert oversees financial operations for Grunert Family Holdings and its subsidiaries as well as shipping and receiving for the retail division.
 
 
Graphic Design
We frequently team with KrausCreative, an innovative creative agency, on projects requiring graphic design and interactive technologies.
 
 
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      Awards 
American Graphic Design Award 2007  Brand Positioning
Awarded to Jeanne Grunert and Integrated Marketing Services (IMS) for
brand positioning
 
2004 Excellence in Marketing Award
New York Univesity
 
2004 Lester Wunderman Award
Excellence in Direct and Interactive Marketing
 
2004 American Graphic Design Award
Best Catalog for The College Board
 
2002 American Graphic Design Award
Best Direct Mail Package
The College Board
 
Belles Lettres Writing Competition, Personal Essay, Third Place
 
Brockport Science Fiction Writers Contest, First Place
  
Jeanne Grunert's Academic Credentials
 
New York University, Master of Science
Direct and Interactive Marketing
Degree "with distinction" (top academic honors)
 
Queens College, New York City
Master of Arts, Writing
 
Auburn University, Alabama
Master of Business Administration
Certificate in Business Fundamentals
 
Summa Cum Laude graduate and first in English department, Molloy College, Bachelor of Arts degree
 
Teaching Certification from Nasau County, NY BOCES in Adult Education
 
Additional certificate in Retail Management from The Friedman Group