ASI Show Chicago Education Tracks
  Entrepreneur's Essentials
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2018 • EDUCATION DAY
       
10:00 a.m.-
10:50 a.m.		   Self-Promotion Campaigns That Wow, Engage and Get Results
1 BASI/MASI Credits
 Promotional products have more value than typically suggested. The power of this medium is the ability to engage, promote and excite clients in an actionable manner. While promotional products have extreme value but clients still want and demand results and with shrinking budgets the demands and even more intense; for ourselves AND our clients – nevertheless, we must continue to market nonetheless. This seminar will stir your creative juices on the development, implementation and execution and follow through strategies so you can engage your clients with amazing success.
About Cliff Quicksell, Jr.
       
11:00 a.m.-
11:50 a.m.		   The Science of Success: Selling to the 21st Century Buyer
1 BASI/MASI Credits
In this era of unparalleled access to information, some of today’s most successful salespeople are leveraging science to drive their sales. Stephanie Chung has merged the worlds of neuroscience and nuanced sales techniques to create Neuroscience Selling. Your client’s brain performs an estimated 38 thousand trillion operations per second while you’re selling, and in this unique session, you’ll explore why they make decisions on a chemical level; dopamine and oxytocin releases are central to the discussion. You’ll also gain insight into your own brain by discovering how your body language may be sending a message even when you’re not speaking. You’ll leave armed with innovative methods you can use to cut through the clutter and capture the attention of today’s most savvy buyers.
About Stephanie Chung
       
Noon -
12:50 p.m.		   5 Strategies to Help You Hit $10 Million
1 BASI/MASI Credits
 Every promotional products distributor undergoes a radical evolution as they grow. In this session you’ll explore the five distinct stages of business growth, helping you to understand where you are now and to prepare for your next stage. You’ll explore the challenges and opportunities in each phase, discuss the three critical roles in a distributorship, and discover how you can inspire your organization to change. Before you leave you will:
  • Discover your unique value proposition
  • Understand the pitfalls and opportunities that you’ll encounter in your next season of growth 
  • Answer the seven questions that will help you understand your role as you grow
  • Learn how to build a better promotional products support team as you grow
  • And, discover the #1 method of training in the promotional products industry.
About Bobby Lehew
       
1:00 p.m.-
2:00 p.m.		   Prop 65 Requirements: What Suppliers & Distributors Must Know to Do Business in California
1 BASI/MASI Credit
 This summer, big changes are coming to a regulation that, while meaning well, cost businesses selling products in California more than $50M in 2017. California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 – more commonly known as Proposition 65, or Prop 65 – is getting a makeover: New warnings, shifting burdens and more specific internet and catalog safe-harbor requirements will take effect on August 30, 2018. In this session, presented by Los Angeles-based attorney Erik Swanholt, you’ll learn about these imminent changes, how suppliers and distributors can comply, and how to best avoid Prop 65 “bounty hunters.”
About Erik Swanholt

About Alyssa Titche
       
2:10 p.m.-
3:00 p.m.		   Family Business Insights: Improve Your Dynamics and Dialogue
1 BASI/MASI Credit
 Family businesses are the backbone of the promotional products industry. In this special session for ASI members who are part of a family business, you’ll discuss ways to examine family dynamics as they pertain to running a company. The interactive conversation, led by Dr. Steve Treat, will include specific insights and skills that can help family members of all ages turn differences into understanding.
About Steve Treat
       
3:10 p.m.-
5:00 p.m.		   Business Owner’s Bootcamp: Create Wealth With the 3 Strategies Millionaires Follow
2 BASI/MASI Credits
 Building a sustainable, profitable and competitive business while leading a company has never been more challenging than it is today. In this session, you’ll discover how to apply three simple and effective strategies to increase your cash flow and compound your profitability right away. You’ll learn techniques that all millionaires use to create wealth and ensure the financial strength of their businesses, and leave knowing how to:
  • Increase your profitability by 46%
  • Double your sales without bringing in new customers
  • Triple your productivity and crush your business goals.
About Stephanie Chung