1995
PMGroup.com was registered in 1995.
The PMGroup.com domain record shows a registration date of September 2, 1995.
About 5 Minute Workshops
One useful idea. One useful action. Real experience behind it.
5 Minute Workshops is a business-development workshop platform built to help you understand one useful idea and begin or complete one useful action in about five minutes.
Five minutes is the goal—not a time limit. Each workshop helps you understand one useful idea and take one useful action without creating a major project. Some results may benefit from a little additional research, thought, or refinement. Take the extra time when it can produce a better result.
Why this exists
Useful information should help you do something.
There is already more business information online than anyone has time to use.
We don't think the answer is more content.
We think the answer is useful information that helps you do something.
No long course when a short workshop will do.
No filler just to make the page longer.
No advice created simply to keep you reading.
A fair question
Knowing where your business advice comes from matters.
Today, almost anyone can publish business advice. That makes a few simple questions worth asking.
Who is behind it?
What experience do they bring to it?
Can the important claims be checked?
We think you should be able to ask those questions about 5 Minute Workshops too.
Experience behind 5 Minute Workshops
5MinuteWorkshops.com is a PMGroup Solution.
The experience behind 5 Minute Workshops includes early online business development, websites, marketing, real estate technology, and practical teaching.
Some of that history can still be seen today.
Experience you can see
Three pieces of the story.
Rather than ask you to take our word for it, here are records that show part of the experience behind 5 Minute Workshops.
1996
PMGroup was building online business resources in the early web.
An archived PMGroup website captured on December 19, 1996 included real estate, business-to-business, and Northwest information.
2000
Teaching technology for real estate sales and marketing.
In 2000, the Washington State Department of Licensing approved Alec Thomas as an instructor to teach the use of computers and other technologies as applied to real estate and real estate sales and marketing.
Alec received his first instructors license in September 2000.
Why that history matters today
Technology changes. The basic business problems are more familiar.
Businesses still need to attract the right clients, build trust, explain why someone should choose them, communicate clearly, follow up, use new tools well, save time, and make better business decisions.
5 Minute Workshops brings practical experience into a short format built for how busy people work today.
Attract clients
Build trust
Explain your value
Communicate clearly
Follow up
Use new tools
Save time
Make better decisions
Human reviewed
AI can help. A person still makes the final call.
AI is a useful tool. It can help with research, drafts, comparisons, organization, and production.
But AI does not decide what gets published on 5 Minute Workshops.
Workshop content is reviewed and approved before it is published. We look for useful ideas, clear instructions, facts that can be checked, and practical business value.
We don't want filler, made-up facts, or vague advice that sounds useful but gives you nothing useful to do.
A simple test for business advice
Use these questions here—or almost anywhere online.
You don't have to use a different standard for 5 Minute Workshops. These are fair questions to ask us too.
Can I tell who is behind it?
Can important experience claims be checked?
Does it help me do something useful?
Does it explain the idea clearly without unnecessary filler?
Does it avoid claims with no proof and made-up facts?
Is a person responsible for what finally gets published?
Who is behind 5 Minute Workshops?
Alec Thomas
Founder of PMGroup
5 Minute Workshops brings PMGroup experience into short, practical workshops built around useful business action.
The goal is not to make a five-minute idea sound bigger than it is. The goal is to make those few minutes useful.
The goal is simple
Make a few useful minutes count.
Understand one useful business idea.
Take one useful action.
Make those few minutes worth your time.