1st Annual Utah Small Business Summit

October 17, 2012

 WE APOLOGIZE BUT THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL AND WE ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO TAKE REGISTRATIONS.  IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO OUR WAIT LIST, PLEASE EMAIL CHANDRA AT cwalker@slchamber.com.  

Overview

The Utah Small Business Coalition is proud to host the 1^st Annual Small Business Summit.  This conference is specifically geared to small business owners and managers. The conference will feature inspiring and informative keynote speakers and numerous breakout sessions aimed to help small businesses improve their bottom line.

Event Details

Date: October 17, 2012
Time: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Radisson Hotel Downtown Salt Lake City (215 West South Temple)
Cost: $30
Website: www.utahsmallbiz.com/events

The Utah Small Business Coalition is proud to host the 1st Annual Small Business Summit.  This conference is specifically geared to small business owners and managers. The conference will feature inspiring and informative keynote speakers and numerous breakout sessions aimed to help small businesses improve their bottom line.

 

Conference Schedule:
(Click here to learn more about our speakers and presentations )

7:30 am    Registration Opens/ Continental Breakfast
7:30 am    Optional Event- Meet the Candidates Forum (see below)
8:15 am    Welcome
8:30 am    Keynote: Successful Business Through Successful Relationships, Larry Chatterton, Chatterton Inc.
9:30 am    Breakout Session #1 (5 training sessions offered)
10:45 am  Breakout Session #2 (5 training sessions offered)
11:45 am  Break
12:15 pm  Luncheon Keynote: Branding & Marketing for Small Business, Mike Brian, Penna Powers Brian Haynes
1:45 pm    Breakout Session #3 (5 training sessions offered)
3:00 pm    Breakout Session #4 (5 training sessions offered)
4:00 pm    Closing Networking Reception, Sponsored by Utah's Own
5:00 pm    Conference Concludes

Breakout sessions (subject to change):
click here for more detail and information about the conference presentations 

• Small Business Resources Panel
• Technology for Small Business- Using technology to make your business more efficient and profitable
• How to Use Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for Business
• Promoting Your Business: Press Releases, Blogging and Social Media
• Too Small to Fail- Strategic HR Concepts for Every Company
• Small Business Best Practices and Succes Stories
• International Trade and Exporting
• Small Business Lending and Funding
• 10,000 Small Business Information Session
• Driving Sales to Your Business
• Email Marketing

 


Optional, No Cost Event:

Join the Vest Pocket Business Coalition for a pre-conference Meet the Candidates Forum with Salt Lake County Mayoral  candidates, Ben McAdams and Mark Crockett.  Come hear the candidates discuss their views on local business, campaign goals, and the state of the county.
This event is free of charge and starts promptly at 7:30 am at the Radisson (room to be announced). 

Additional Small Business Opportunity:

EXPAND YOUR SALES THROUGH GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING
Register for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development Procurement Symposium
Tuesday October 23rd @ SouthTowne Expo Center from 7:15 AM to 3:00 PM with 50 – 60 Prime Contractors / Government. Learn more at www.business.utah.gov/PTAC  To obtain a $5 discount by registering for both conferences, click here   

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Conference Sponsors

Major Sponsors

          
 
      
Supporting Sponsors
    

     
  

Inkind Sponsors
    

Sponsorship Levels: Conference Major Sponsorship (4) $10,000 Opening Session Sponsorship (1)  $5,000 Luncheon Session Sponsorship (1)  $5,000 Breakout Session Sponsorships (10)  $2,500 Supporting Sponsorships (5)  Luncheon Table Sponsors $2,500 $1,000 Exhibit Hall Booths (10)  $300 Individual Conference Tickets $30 Sponsorship Features  Conference Major Sponsors                                                                              $10,000 per sponsor Twenty tickets to the conference Mention in press releases and PSAs Prominent recognition in all promotional materials and USBC website Priority seating during the lunch Verbal acknowledgement of sponsorship throughout the event Opportunity at either the opening or luncheon session for five minute presentation Logo acknowledgement in the program Easel with sponsor logo throughout the conference Exhibit table in the Exhibit Hall Opening and Luncheon Keynote Session Sponsors                                               $5,000 per session Ten tickets to the conference Mention in press releases and PSAs Keynote sponsorship identification in all promotional materials and USBC website Priority seating during the lunch Verbal acknowledgement of sponsorship at event Three minute welcome during the session Printed acknowledgement in the program Exhibit table in the Exhibit Hall Breakout Session Sponsor                                                                                                       $2,500 Ten tickets to the conference Mention in press releases and PSAs Keynote sponsorship identification in all promotional materials and USBC website Verbal acknowledgement of sponsorship at event Priority seating during the lunch Sponsor recognition in program with Track description Three minute welcome in track room and speaker introduction Easel with sponsor logo at track room entrance Placement of brochures Printed acknowledgement in the program Supporting Sponsor                                                                                                                 $2,500 Ten tickets to the conference Mention in press releases and PSAs Sponsorship identification in all promotional materials and USBC website Priority seating during the luncheon Priority seating during the lunch Printed acknowledgement in the program Easel with sponsor identification at exhibit hall entrances Exhibit table in the Exhibit Hall Luncheon Table Sponsor                                                                                                          $1,000 Ten tickets to the conference Priority seating behind sponsors Printed acknowledgement in the program Exhibitor Table                                                                                                                           $300 Two tickets to the conference Listing on exhibitor hall easels Skirted table, two chairs Please be set up by 7:45 a.m.  Take down NO EARLIER than 1:45 p.m. Individual Conference Tickets                                                                                                      $30 For information on the table sponsorships, exhibitor tables, or individual tickets, please contact Ryan Evans at 801.328.5063 or revans@slchamber.com  Utah Small Business Coalition Partners: Salt Lake Chamber Local First Utah Salt Lake County Zions Bank Business Resource Center Utah's Own Downtown Alliance World Trade Center Utah Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund Utah Supplier Development Council Vest Pocket Business Coalition U.S. Small Business Administration Miller Business Resource Center Women's Business Center Entrepreneur Launchpad SCORE National Association of Women Business Owners Governor's Office of Economic Development Westminster College Salt Lake City Economic Development Division Utah State Chamber Department of Workforce Services International Rescue Committee

2012 10th Annual Rural Business Conference

Date: April 12, 2012
Time: 7:30 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Richfield, UT
Cost: $10

Register Here

Please join us for the 10^th Annual Rural Business Conference.  As in previous years, this conference will focus on challenges and opportunities of small business growth and economic development in Utah’s rural communities. 

 

In addition to advice on business growth, financing, social media, technology, and international trade, the program will also feature a panel of rural business owners with best practices and positive information about why Utah is leading the nation out of the economic downturn.

 

Keynote Presentations:

 

Alan Hall
Founder of Grow America

 

Grow America founder Alan E. Hall has a personal mission to create jobs and lift local economies. Grow America, a national company emerging from Utah, aligns the partners, mentors and capital that entrepreneurs need to create and grow tomorrow’s successful companies.

 

Alan Hall is also a founder and managing director of Mercato Partners, a top performing growth equity venture capital fund. Its focus is to invest in high growth technology companies that need additional funding and expertise in marketing and sales. Current portfolio companies include: Skullcandy, Fusion-io, Control4, Cymphonix, Mediconnect, CradlePoint and Stance.

Full Bio Below

 

 

Pete Codella
Operator of Codella Marketing, Founder of NewsCactus

Pete Codella, Accredited in public relations, operates Codella Marketing, created the NewsCactus online newsroom software, and co-hosts the Online PR Podcast. He excels where technology meets the practice of public relations.

 

Pete is co-author of Integrated Marketing in the Digital World. He has developed and taught public relations and social media courses for UNLV, UCI and the University of Utah. He’s a veteran award-winning, strategic business communicator. 

Full Bio Below

Breakout Sessions:

-          How to use Facebook and LinkedIn for Business

-          Small Business Lending and Funding

-          Resources for Business Growth Panel

-          International Trade and Exporting

-          Email Marketing

-          Rural Business Success Stories

-          Diversifying Farm Income

-          Marketing & Sales- Drive Business to your Door

(Presenters are being finalized and breakout topics are subject to change slightly)

 

Conference Agenda:

7:30     Continental Breakfast
8:00     Welcome & Introductory Remarks
8:15     Utah on the Move- a story of what's right in Utah
8:45     Keynote- Alan Hall, Grow America
9:45     Break
10:00   Breakout Sessions #1 (4 different sessions)
11:00   Breakout Sessions #2 (4 different sessions)
12:15   Lunch
12:45   Keynote- Pete Codella
2:00     Conference Concludes

Location

Sevier Valley Center

800 West 200 South

Richfield, UT 84701

Click for Directions

 

Cost:

$10- Includes registration, event materials, continental breakfast and lunch

 

Register Here

Conference Presented By:

Funded in part through a grant award with the U.S. Small Business Administration

Full Keynote Bios:

 

Alan Hall

 

Grow America founder Alan E. Hall has a personal mission to create jobs and lift local economies. Grow America, a national company emerging from Utah, aligns the partners, mentors and capital that entrepreneurs need to create and grow tomorrow’s successful companies.

Alan Hall is also a founder and managing director of Mercato Partners, a top performing growth equity venture capital fund. Its focus is to invest in high growth technology companies that need additional funding and expertise in marketing and sales. Current portfolio companies include: Skullcandy, Fusion-io, Control4, Cymphonix, Mediconnect, CradlePoint and Stance.

Mr. Hall is also the founder, chairman and former CEO of MarketStar Corporation, a global outsourced marketing and sales company with a focus on assisting high technology companies increase sales through the small to medium business sectors. The company employs several thousand employees and generates billions of dollars in sales for its marquee clientele, including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Sony, Intel, Verizon and Research In Motion (RIM). MarketStar is owned by Omnicom Group (OMC).

Alan Hall is the chairman of the Utah Technology Council, the chairman of Weber State University’s board of trustees and the chairman of the University’s capital campaign committee, a member of the advisory board of Wells Fargo Bank, and a trustee of the Intermountain Healthcare Foundation.

He is an Ernst and Young and Mountain West Capital Network Entrepreneur of the Year recipient.

Mr. Hall is an author and newspaper columnist and frequent public speaker.

He and his wife Jeanne are the chairman and president of the Hall Foundation. The mission of the foundation is that “there be no poor among us.” Alan and Jeanne Hall are the parents of six married children and fifteen grandchildren.

 

Pete Codella

Pete is Accredited in public relations. He operates Codella Marketing, created the NewsCactus online newsroom software, and co-hosts the Online PR Podcast.

 

Pete is co-author of Integrated Marketing in the Digital World. He has developed and taught public relations and social media courses for UNLV, UCI and the University of Utah. He’s a veteran award-winning, strategic business communicator.

 

Pete is a sought-after consultant and presenter who leads workshops and webinars on all things related to social media and public relations.

 

He has served as president of local chapters of the Public Relations Society of America, International Association of Business Communicators, and the Social Media Club. With PRSA he has been a member of the executive committee for the Independent Practitioners Alliance, served as a western district board member and assembly delegate. This year he is an International Assembly Delegate-At-Large for PRSA.

 

A former singing gondolier at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Pete’s 2009 song, Crazy Little Thing the Web, is a top search result for “social media song.” Pete holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University and is a member of the University of Utah Executive MBA Class of 2013. He blogs at PeteCodella.com and can be found on Twitter @codella.

 

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