2011 Marketing Seminars and Workshops
Branding and Marketing Strategy Presentations
Hands-On, Practical Marketing Tips & Tools
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2011 Marketing Workshops and Presentations:
AUGUST 2011
Thursday, 8/25/2011 Marketing and Sales: The Winning Combination for Profit Create a plan that tells customers who you are and why they should buy from you, then close the sale with winning sales strategies. Includes the top 5 "must have" marketing tools to improve lead generation and 7 sales tools that will improve your close rate with new customers. Presenters: Christine Brown, Marketing Resources & Results and Jeanne Bluffstone, Bluffstone Public Relations. Location: Cleveland Crowne Plaza. Please register by RSVP 800-900-7735.

JUNE 2011
Monday, 6/13/2011 Association of Professional Landscape Designers Marketing & Branding Workshop. 9 am - 4 pm How to Brand and Market your Landscape Design Business Creating a Marketing Program Designed to Build Awareness, Brand your Company and Attract New Customers
Participants will:
- Discover why you MUST brand your landscaping design company
- Learn the 4 most important ways to accomplish your branding
- Customize your marketing program to fit your individual budget
- Find out 5 easy lessons to effectively use those free (but time consuming) social media tools * Identify easy ways to monitor marketing results and use measurement tools to improve your business
Regardless of where in the 3 levels of marketing experience you currently feel you rank: the novice beginner, the intermediate junior level marketer or the advanced expert, you’ll find benefit from the marketing strategies and tactics shared during this program. Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) International Conference, Marriott Downtown Key Center, 127 Public Square, Cleveland Ohio.
- 6/15/2011 Weds. Lunchinar Hatties in Hudson, sponsored and hosted by Simplex-IT. Marketing Strategies and Branding Your Business on the Internet with social media - small and medium sized businesses -- speakers panel.

APRIL 2011
- 4/2011 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Public Relations - Using PR to Promote your Product, Service or Business" Hosted by the Akron Urban League. Partnership for Minority Business Accelerator PMBA. Akron, Ohio. Presented by Chris Brown
- Each participant will learn the ins and outs of how to use PR to build their business.
- Discover how to write a press release that will help them to promote their business, product or service.
- Learn how to re-purpose a press release in 5 ways to get more mileage out of the press release that they have written.
- Brainstorm different topics o write a press release about and will create a mini-media list with 10 places to send their press release.
- Find out the difference between advertising and PR and when to use which technique to achieve your goals.
PR: How To Tips to Promote your Product, Service or Business.
MARCH 2011
- 3/7/2011 Monday 2:15-3:30pm "First, Solve a Problem: How One Entrepreneur Started and Grew a Professional Service Business" Kent State University, Business Building, Kent, Ohio. Introduction to Entrepreneurship MW Denise Easterling class guest lecturer.
- What I wished I knew before I started
- 3 Ways starting your own company is better than buying a company or working for an employer
- The hardest part about being an entrepreneur
- The first thing an entrepreneur should consider
- What I worried about (but didn't need to) and why
- How I figured out that I wanted to start my own company
- Two websites that can help you when you launch your product
- Two important steps to take as soon as you get back to your computer after this talk
- Open format Q&A
FEBRUARY 2011
- Thursday 2/17/2011 National Network of Embroidery Professionals
Three workshops at the national conference:
- How to Use Your Blog to Attract New Customers
- Social Media Strategies that Market Your Business
- Use Video to Improve Your Marketing Results
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