New Business Accelerator at St. Louis BizExpo Will Help Owners Build a Better Business
Business owners spend countless hours working in their businesses. At the Oct. 29 St. Louis BizExpo, SBM is giving them an opportunity to spend a few hours working on their businesses.
The new SBM Business Accelerator — Build a Better Business will feature five practical sessions focusing on some of the most important fundamentals of building and growing a successful company.
The concept is simple: Business owners can attend one session that addresses a particular challenge they are facing—or spend the day attending all five and take a fresh look at their entire business.
The Accelerator begins with Building a Vision For Your Growing Business, designed to help owners determine where they want their companies to go and begin creating a vision to get there.
The second session, Designing A Sales Story That Differentiates Your Company From Others, will help attendees think differently about how they explain their businesses to prospective customers. Rather than simply telling customers what the company does, owners will work on communicating what their companies do for others and why that matters.
Next, Carolyn Green of C.Green & Associates will present Building A Winning Marketing Plan: Marketing Maps — How to Choose the Most Direct Path and Stay on Track. With hundreds of potential marketing tactics available, the session will help attendees identify three priorities that can typically be translated into a focused 90-day marketing plan.
Numbers come next. In Know Your Numbers, Bill Collier of Arch Engraving and Business Coach will explain the Income Statement and Balance Sheet in easy-to-understand terms before showing attendees how to read, analyze and optimize their company's financial results.
The day concludes with Lovelina Bhagat of Kanalogic presenting From Chaos to Clarity: Your Journey From Spreadsheets to Systems. The session will help owners identify operational bottlenecks, make smarter technology decisions and develop a more realistic path from manual processes and spreadsheets toward integrated systems.
Together, the five sessions address five fundamental questions:
Where are we going? How do we sell it? How do we market it? How are we performing financially? And do we have the systems to support our growth?
Attendees don't have to participate in the entire Accelerator. Each program is designed to stand on its own.
But for owners who attend all five, the Business Accelerator provides an opportunity to step away from the day-to-day demands of running a company and spend several hours thinking about where their business is today—and where they want to take it tomorrow.
Five sessions. Five critical areas of your business. One day to start building a better company.
The SBM Business Accelerator takes place Oct. 29 as part of the St. Louis BizExpo.
SBM BUSINESS ACCELERATOR - COMPLETE SESSION SCHEDULE (FREE TO ATTEND)
Build a Better Business
Five practical sessions. One powerful day.
You know your business. But when was the last time you had the opportunity to step away from running it and really work on it?
The new SBM Business Accelerator at the Oct. 29 St. Louis BizExpo brings together five practical sessions focusing on the fundamentals every growing business needs to get right.
10:00–10:30
BUILDING A VISION FOR YOUR GROWING BUSINESS
Ron Ameln, SBM
Where is your business headed? Work through questions designed to help you begin building a clearer vision for the future of your company.
10:30–11:00
DESIGNING A SALES STORY THAT DIFFERENTIATES YOUR COMPANY FROM OTHERS
Ron Ameln, SBM
Develop a sales story that focuses not simply on what your company does—but what it does for others and why customers should care.
11:10–Noon
BUILDING A WINNING MARKETING PLAN
Marketing Maps — How to Choose the Most Direct Path and Stay on Track
Carolyn Green, C.Green & Associates
Cut through hundreds of marketing possibilities and identify three priorities that can help form the foundation of a focused 90-day marketing plan.
12:10–1:00
KNOW YOUR NUMBERS
Bill Collier, Arch Engraving and Business Coach
Understand your Income Statement and Balance Sheet in plain English—and learn how to read, analyze and optimize your company's financial results.
1:10–2:00
FROM CHAOS TO CLARITY: YOUR JOURNEY FROM SPREADSHEETS TO SYSTEMS
Lovelina Bhagat, Kanalogic
Identify operational bottlenecks and learn a practical approach for moving from manual processes and spreadsheets toward systems that can better support your company's growth.
ATTEND ONE. OR ATTEND THEM ALL.
ALL SEMINARS ARE FREE TO ATTEND. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.