“Growing Your Business Like Crazy”

3 Part Mini Conference

Why you need to attend:

Building your business and do not know where to go next?

“Stuck in business neutral” and don't know you should grow or diversify?

Challenged by your business in both courage and resilience on a weekly basis?

Not finding the right people to grow your business?

Aware that your business is being hurt by a bad partnership or bad company alliances?

Realizing that ‘networking' to find customers is ‘notworking'?

Wanting to grow your business and hate to cold call ?

Not knowing where to find new customers?

You'll learn how to:

Channel your “craziness" to be a satisfied and passionate entrepreneur

Develop the resilience to ride the waves of success and failure

Build the best team for your business that can drive success

Develop internal partnerships and external relationships that give you a competitive advantage

Build your own personal brand through networking

Forget about cold calling and build your sales

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Scheduled Conference Agenda by Session

Why Be Crazy? Passion, Resilience and Humility                   

Riding Success and Emerging From Failure Like Crazy                      

Driving You Crazy? Building A Professional and Family Life

Team Building That Drives Success Like Crazy    

Your Are Not The Only One That is Crazy: Building Your Personal Brand

Selling Like Crazy: Simple Strategies that Bring Big Business

Forget Cold Calling: Growing Relationships with Your Customers Like Crazy

I'm Back. I'm Still Crazy, So Now What?

3 Parts of When + Where

PART 1: Individual consulting calls will be set up with Barry Moltz before the conference so you can get the most out of the presentation

PART 2: Conference Day: Thursday, October 21, 2004 from 8:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.

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More Conference Details

PART 3: November telephone meeting to discuss specific follow ups from the our October conference.

How much for all 3 Parts

Registration Fee:   $1,395

Fee includes breakfast, lunch and snacks, plus workbooks, guides and books from all presenters.

Early Registration Fee:   $995

Register before September 15, 2004

Bring a business associate? 10% added discount. Contact Barry!

What You Will Receive By Enrolling In The Conference

•  Autographed books from all presenters (minimum 4 books)

•  Barry Moltz' Personal Business Inventory Workbook

•  George Ludwig's Power Selling Assessment Guide

Scheduled Conference Faculty

Barry Moltz:   Author of “You Need to be a Little Crazy: The Truth About Starting and Growing Your Own Business”

He has been running small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for 15 years. He co-founded Prairie Angels ( www.prairieangels.org ) which invests in local seed stage companies. Barry also is on the Advisory Board of the Angel Capital Association ( www.angelcapitalassociation.com ) which is the national professional alliance of angel groups. Barry speaks at 100 business events a year through out the country. He has received numerous awards such as the Chicago Software Association's Angel of the Year and is a member of the   Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Barry was chosen by I-Street Magazine as one of the Top 100 People of Chicago's Hi-Tech community in 2001 and 2002.

Jackie Huba:   Author of “ Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Sales Force”  

Her book has been called the “new mantra for entrepreneurial success” by the New York Times and “an absorbing read” by Harvard Business School. Jackie and her co-author, Ben McConnell, have been been quoted in the Financial Times, Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Boston Herald, Inc. magazine and others on how customer advocacy has become the new currency in today's advertising saturated world. Ben and Jackie have evangelized audiences at Disney, Microsoft, Whirlpool, Cisco, and small/medium businesses around the country how to make customers volunteer members of the sales force.

Melissa Giovagnoli, Author of “Networlding: Building Business Relationships and Opportunities for Success”

Melissa is one of the world's leading experts on the development of individual and community leadership networks as a means of growing and accelerating brand loyalty and performance improvement inside and outside organizations. For more than a decade Melissa's organization, Networlding, has provided exceptional relationship marketing and management programs for organizations like AT&T, CNA, Motorola and Disney.

Melissa has also been a guest on both radio and television including The Today Show, CNN, WGN, CNBC and FOX. One of her books was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Melissa is the author and/or co-author of eight top-selling books. Her seventh book, co-authored with CMO of Office Depot, Jocelyn Carter Miller, held the #10 spot on Amazon (in Chicago) for a year.

George Ludwig, Author of “Power Selling: Seven Strategies for Cracking the Sales Code”

George Ludwig has more than 25 years of sales, sales management, and sales training   experience, including five years of presenting his sales success seminar all over the country.   As a nationally known keynote speaker, sales trainer, coach, and corporate consultant, Ludwig trains over 10,000 people per year from various corporations and associations,   including Sprint, Southwest Airlines, Mazda North America, Century 21, Purdue University, Johnson & Johnson, and many others. He is a popular contributor to trade publications   and newspapers, including Selling Power, Sales and Marketing Management, Entrepreneur, Investors Business Daily, Time, and The New York Times.

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Howard Tullman, President of Kendall College, Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Captial Investor and Advisor

Howard A. Tullman is President of Kendall College in Chicago , Illinois and Chairman of the Board of The Cobalt Group, a Seattle-based provider of Internet services and B2B marketplaces for the automotive industry. Mr. Tullman is also General Managing Partner for the Chicago High Tech Investors, LLC (CHIP) and a Director of The Princeton Review . He also serves as an Advisor to certain of the Venture Funds operated by the First Analysis Corporation and by William Blair New World Ventures.

Mr. Tullman was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Worldwide Xceed Group, Inc., a New York-based provider of digital strategy and Internet design services. Mr. Tullman led a successful reorganization and sale of the business in July, 2001, to eSynergies, Inc., a public company (ESYG) based in California . Prior to serving as CEO at Worldwide Xceed Group, Inc., Mr. Tullman was the Chairman, CEO, and one of the founders of Tunes.com, Inc. (formerly JAMtv Corporation), which operated the premier music mega-sites on the Internet, in partnerships with the publishers of Rolling Stone, the Source and DownBeat Magazines. Tunes.com was sold in February, 2001, to Emusic.com, Inc. (EMUS), a public Internet music commerce company which was, in turn, sold to Vivendi/Universal in 2002.

Besides his direct business interests, Mr. Tullman lectures regularly on venturing and entrepreneurship to senior managers, executive and business owners at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and in Kellogg-affiliated programs in Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. He was later appointed by President Clinton to serve a term on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

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