Staff Development Workshops

Trade shows can mean hundreds, maybe thousands of prospects in a few days. And can seem expensive and complicated. This workshop is about strategies and practives that can save thou$and$, increasing your ROI at every show. This is not about trade show marketing or booth etiquette. Topics covered include:

• 10 budget-killers you can avoid
• Work with union labor, and love it
• Shipping 101 or Beware the Drayage
• Controlling costs from A to Z
• Trade show dilemma - rent vs bring
• 15 best tips from the pros

Lunch included

Get ready for Chamber Expo, VIA B2B, KHTS Home and Garden Show as well as other community events. Exhibiting at a community event is an opportunity to be seen, face-to-face, by more people in a few hours then in months using other marketing initiatives. Community expos are not trade shows! Learn specific strategies and techniques proven to get maximum results from your community exhibiting investment, immediately and for months to come. Topics covered include:

• Find exhibiting opportunities
• Set & achieve objectives
• 12 costly mistakes to avoid
• Low cost/no cost displays
• Maximize the potential of leads
• 15 ways to save, big-time
• Directory of SCV Exhibiting Opportunities
• Free Copy of Community Exbiting - Exhibitor's Handbook

Lunch included

In just 4 hours, you learn strategies, practices and techniques that will result in fewer, shorter, more productive meetings.  You will learn how to:

• Reduce the number of meetings in your entire organization.
• Make all meetings shorter and more productive
• Identify and resolve barriers to meeting productivity
• Stay focused on objectives, stay on-time and move agenda items towards closure.
• Gain commitments and  create “contracts” to ensure fulfillment