Atlanta Showguide 2017 by Small Business Expo

ATLANTA SHOWGUIDE November 9th | Cobb Galleria Centre, Hall A

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WELCOME. SMALL BUSINESS EXPO is the only national B2B trade show, networking event and conference dedicated to small business owners and business decision-makers. You can shop for new products and services that will help your business exceed its goals, attend business critical workshops and network with thousands of other like-minded small business professionals.

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TODAY AT SMALL BUSINESS EXPO Small Business Expo is all about networking and building contacts. We encourage you to attend as many workshops, seminars and networking opportunities as possible. Exhibitor Hall Check out great products and services provided by the top vendors in the industry to help your business grow and meet its goals. Speed Networking

Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater Presentations Join us for these incredible presentations: 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM: VIP Expert Panel by Bill Walsh & Friends

In these fast-paced and fun 45 minute speed networking sessions, you have 3 minutes to introduce yourself to one person (and listen to the other person’s introduction) and then exchange business cards. At the sound of the gong, it is time to meet the next person. By the end of this networking session, you will have met approximately 15 other business professionals. Speed Networking is first come, first serve.

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Get Found On Google Search And Maps by Drew Tonsmeire, Google

Get Dotted®

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Grow Your Business Online by Drew Tonsmeire, Google

With our new color coded system, networking has never been easier. Upon arrival at the expo, attendees and exhibitors will be provided with colored “Dots” to indicate their industry affiliation. This is a great tool to break the ice and meet the right people in your field. Get Dotted® and start making those valuable business connections!

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: How To Find, Fund & Flip Houses In Your Area For Big Profits! by Armando Montelongo, Real Estate Expert & Celebrity TV Star

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: The 5 Key Tips to Master Stock Marketing Trading by Randy Tate, Stock Market Software Expert

Informative hour-long seminars on a variety of topics led by industry pros.

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Success By Design - The 7 Core Elements To Build An Unstoppable Business! by Bill Walsh, Founder and CEO of Powerteam International

Ask An Expert

Networking After Party

Get free advice & your most urgent questions answered by leading small business industry experts. We have experts from industries such as PR, SEO, Social Media, Accounting, Web Design and everything in between!

Keep the ball rolling with our official Networking After Party, hosted by Network After Work.

Workshops

Business Card Exchange

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM at Big Sky Buckhead 3201 Cains Hill Pl. NW Atlanta, GA 30305

Showcase your business card for all of the attendees in this convenient and central spot.

GET DOTTED

FINANCE INSURANCE REAL ESTATE

CONSULTING

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MARKETING ADVERTISING PR & MEDIA

ENTREPRENEUR START-UP

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

TECHNOLOGY

GOVERNMENT NON-PROFIT EDUCATION

RETAIL eCOMMERCE

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AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS Small Business Expo 2017 - Atlanta A After Party

G Get Dotted Industry Meetings

S Small Business Expo

Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater (Main Stage)

P Speed Networking Sessions

W Workshop & Seminars

NOVEMBER 9 • THURSDAY 9:00am – 5:00pm

SMALL BUSINESS EXPO Exhibitor Hall Opens

9:30am – 10:15am

Speed Networking Session 1

9:30am – 10:15am

W 25 Year Old Internet Rockstar Shares How to Make Money Online Speakers: Austin Walsh

Workshop 2 (Room 118)

W 5 Lessons I Learned in My First Year as a Small Business Owner Speakers: Vince Green

Workshop 7 (Room 113)

W 8 Steps To Publishing Success Speakers: Black Card Books

Workshop 8 (Room 106)

Cobb Galleria Centre

Tag a SmallBiz Selﬁe with your colleagues by taking a picture of your group at the entrance to the Expo and posting to your social media with hashtag #smallbizexpo.

Speed Networking

In these fast-paced and fun 45 minute speed networking sessions, you have 3 minutes to introduce yourself to one person (and listen to the other person's introduction) and then exchange business cards. When the buzzer goes off, it is time to meet the next person. By the end of this networking session, you will have met approximately 15 other business professionals. Bring lots of business cards!

In this workshop you will learn exactly how to sell your product and services online. You will learn speciﬁcally what it takes to build a website that generates more leads and sales. In addition during this session you will also learn some critical drivers to create residual income by selling some of your own intellectual property over the Internet.

9:30am – 10:15am

Launching a small business is no easy task. Come learn strategies from an Allstate Insurance Field Sales Leader to get your small business off to a successful fast start and plan for your business’s future.

9:30am – 10:15am

How Writing A Book Can Skyrocket Your Revenue Imagine walking into a room of like-minded business owners who are all focused on one thing – growing their businesses in a unique and impactful way. Imagine using the strategies you learn to WIN your prospects attention and EARN the right to have their business. Imagine learning the RIGHT way to become the trusted authority in your marketplace. Imagine earning enough money to solidify your ﬁnancial future and having extra money so you can enjoy your efforts. Please join us and in just 45 short minutes you will learn a step-by-step system to OWN your market and reap the rewards of being a successfully published business author!

9:30am – 10:15am

W Building Online Relationships: Effective Communication in Today’s Online World Workshop 10 (Room 104) Speakers: Grant Freeman Leave this presentation with actionable ways to improve your customer communications using social, email, text and video.

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 9:30am – 10:15am

W Bullseye Marketing: How to Strengthen Your Business' Online Presence by Using Various Workshop 6 (Room 114) Digital Marketing Channels Speakers: Andrew Lundstrom, Vishay Singh If you’re on the second page of Google, 90% of users don’t know you exist. With over 100 billion monthly searches on Google, having a strong online presence is the difference between generating more business opportunities and getting lost among the ocean of competitors. Learn how to strengthen your business' online presence through different marketing channels like paid advertising, online reviews (word of mouth), Search Engine Optimization, and social media.

9:30am – 10:15am

W How the Cloud Enables Small Business Success Speakers: Emily Houghton

Workshop 9 (Room 105)

W How to Find Sponsorships For Your Books, Products or Events Speakers: Roberto Candelaria

Workshop 3 (Room 117)

Small business are the lifeblood of the economy, however, managing one is no small feat. Increasingly, small businesses are leveraging new technologies like the cloud to increase efﬁciency, reduce risk and maximize their visibility. In this workshop, NetSuite will provide third-party insights into how companies are taking advantage of cloud technologies, and delve into speciﬁc customer examples that showcase where the cloud has driven meaningful improvements on both the top and bottom line.

9:30am – 10:15am

What Sponsorship Is… And Why You Want Sponsors! Why Sponsors Need YOU… Get Paid To Help Them Reach Their Business Goals. Get your book, website, events, products and dreams sponsored… Finally be able to breathe knowing the bills are paid. How to ﬁnd the “right” person for your sponsorship… You won’t spend countless hours making sales calls. How to connect with the person writing the sponsor check! Roberto has seen too many talented people panic and lose hard earned money only to scramble to ﬁnd a day job because they didn’t know how to approach a sponsor to get funding for their great ideas. Don’t let this happen to you.

9:30am – 10:15am

W How To Leverage The Power Of Your Personal Brand On Social Media Speakers: Rey Perez

Workshop 5 (Room 115)

With over a decade of sales and marketing experience Rey Perez will teach you 5 proven strategies to sell more with less resistance and help you build an even more successful business. You will learn how to create a highly effective personal brand, gain massive exposure, leverage the power of social media, increase your lead ﬂow, and lastly, convert more sales.

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 9:30am – 10:15am

W How to Partner with Celebrities Speakers: Frank Lewis

Workshop 4 (Room 116)

The right brand-celebrity partnership can be a very successful tool in building brand equity and establishing believable connections with consumers. Frank Lewis Ceo of national distributed magazine Men's Business Quarterly has partnered with tons of brand inﬂuences. Frank will show you how to ﬁnd a celebrity to partner with your event or product and how to Get access to tons of celebrity contacts.

What you learn: CELEB ENDORSEMENTS EVENT ATTENDANCE BY CELEBRITY Activate a celebrity appearance for your next big thing and beneﬁt from celeb appeal. We’re pros with experience working on projects like yours CELEBRITY SEEDINGS Secure celebrities for social media campaigns leverage their personal Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts resulting in instant and widespread recognition. SOCIAL INFLUENCERS Get your brand into the hands of those masters of Word of Mouth. Partnerships with celebrity social inﬂuencers who get your message out to their fan base.

9:30am – 10:15am

W How to Use Social Media to Build Your Business Speakers: Bill Walsh

Workshop 1 (Room 119)

At the social media workshop you'll learn the ﬁve key drivers to create more success using social media for your business. This fresh approach with unique ideas combined with new applications and processes in will make it easier for you acquire New Customers, drive new sales and make more money. This is a workshop you do not want to miss.

9:30am – 10:15am

W Social Marketing With A TWIST Speakers: Kay Bellamy

Workshop 11 (Room 103)

Research shows that humans have an attention span of 8 seconds, which by the way is less than goldﬁsh. Not all businesses are exciting and fun to the naked eyes and ears and ﬁnding ways to keep people reading, watching and sharing your information can be challenging. Whether you sell burial plots or lemonade, unless you have Beyoncé drinking the lemonade and the cast of The Walking Dead hanging out at the cemetery, your 8 seconds are up! How do you captivate your audience and keep them engaged with your business? You have to be extraordinarily creative when marketing your business online! Learn what to write in your posts/blogs, what to talk about in your videos and what to say to potential clients to get and keep them engaged. This workshop will empower business leaders, organizations and entrepreneurs to be fearless; toss inhibitions to the wind and come alive digitally!

9:45am – 10:15am

VIP Expert Panel Speakers: Bill Walsh

Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater (Main Stage)

Come & Learn from top Business and Philanthropic Global Leaders on the speciﬁcs required to create Success. Each panelist will share priceless concepts on what it takes to breakthrough your biggest challenges & achieve your biggest goals! A must attend!

10:00am – 10:30am

CONSULTANTS Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area B

10:00am – 10:30am

RETAIL, ECOMMERCE Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area A

With our new color coded system, networking has never been easier. This is a great tool to break the ice and meet the right people in your ﬁeld and to start making those valuable business connections!

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 10:00am – 10:30am

TECHNOLOGY Meeting // Get Dotted

10:30am – 11:15am

Speed Networking Session 2

10:30am – 11:15am

W 8 Steps To Publishing Success Speakers: Black Card Books

Meeting Area C

Speed Networking

Workshop 8 (Room 106)

10:30am – 11:30am

Get Found on Google Search and Maps - Presented By Google Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater (Main Stage) Speakers: Drew Tonsmeire The web is helping small businesses grow. As the place where people turn to learn, discover, ﬁnd, and buy things, it’s connecting customers to small businesses and small businesses to customers. Being online can have a big impact - in fact, businesses have revenue growth 4 times as high over the last year and were 3 times as likely to have created jobs in the last year. At Google, we see the power of the web working for American small businesses every day. Millions of small businesses are found on Google Search and Maps every single day across the nation. With a little bit of elbow grease and the help of technology, we believe every business can grow online. In this workshop, you'll learn about how Google search works, how to create or claim your local business listing using Google My Business and about other free tools from Google that can help your business get found online.

11:00am – 11:30am

ENTREPRENEUR, START-UP Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area C

11:00am – 11:30am

MARKETING, ADVERTISING, PR & MEDIA Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area A

11:00am – 11:30am

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area B

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 11:30am – 12:30pm

How to Find, Fund & Flip Houses in Your Area for Big Proﬁts! Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater (Main Stage) Speakers: Armando Montelongo • How to Create Instant & Passive Income • How to FIND Big Proﬁt Deals • How to Get FUNDING • 3 Keys to FLIP in Less Than 30 Days

Speed Networking Session 3

12:30pm – 1:15pm

W 8 Steps To Publishing Success Speakers: Black Card Books

Speed Networking

Workshop 8 (Room 106)

12:30pm – 1:15pm

W Advertising Online - How To Buy Likes, Tweets, Clicks and More Speakers: Ramon Ray

Workshop 6 (Room 114)

W How to Breakthrough & Live Your Wildest Dreams Speakers: Karen Hoyos

Workshop 4 (Room 116)

Join a powerful and engaging presentation on how you can buy advertising to help reach more potential customers for your business. While organic (free marketing) has its place, owners of growing businesses know they must spend advertising dollars to reach a wider audience, more consistently. Join four time entrepreneur, global speaker and best-selling author Ramon Ray as he gives you the insight you need to advertise your product and solutions.

12:30pm – 1:15pm

Essence for Success is a powerful workshop, through which Karen Hoyos will give you speciﬁc strategies that have been designed and tested by millions of people around the world. These principles lead to increased production capacity and immediate results in business as well as in personal life.

In this workshop you will learn how to: -Anchor your success creating an avalanche of extraordinary results. -Deal with all obstacles under any circumstance. -Clarify and edify your life’s vision. -Get inspired to take massive action that will attract success and abundance in every area of your life.

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 12:30pm – 1:15pm

W How to Find Sponsorships For Your Books, Products or Events Speakers: Roberto Candelaria

Workshop 3 (Room 117)

12:30pm – 1:15pm

W How To Franchise Your Business Seminar Speakers: Tom DuFore

Workshop 7 (Room 113)

W How to Increase Your Business Through the Public Speaking Speakers: Bill Walsh

Workshop 1 (Room 119)

W How to master the CASHFLOW Quadrant System in your Life & Business! Speakers: Tina D Lewis

Workshop 2 (Room 118)

Discover how to franchise your business and if your business is a viable candidate to be franchised. In this session you will learn about multiple expansion strategies including: Franchising, Business Opportunities, and Licensing. You will also learn what makes a business franchisable, franchise compliance, the process and steps to franchise a business, marketing a franchise, and much more. If you own a business and have through about expanding, this is a must attend seminar. The session is conducted by a franchise expert with more than 12 years of franchise experience.

12:30pm – 1:15pm

Come & Learn the key SECRETS on how to utilize public speaking to generate more leads and build your business. Our guest speaker will also share how to sell from the stage and turn what you are passionate about into a successful public speaker business. It is a must attend for authors, coaches and consultants as well as anyone that is seriously interested in making money as a public speaker.

12:30pm – 1:15pm

TBA

12:30pm – 1:15pm

W HyperGrowth-Build a Sustainable AND Proﬁtable 7+-Figure Business....and Stay There! Workshop 5 (Room 115) Speakers: Carl Gould Want to build a cash machine that runs on auto pilot? Have you already launched, had some initial success, and now looking to scale your business? Then this session is for you. Differentiate your business, hire the right team, and build the systems that will free you up to grow your enterprise! Carl Gould is a Growth Guru who built three 7-Figure+ businesses by age 40, and will show you the secrets of doubling your revenue while increasing your proﬁts.

12:30pm – 1:15pm

W Managing Credit For Business Success Speakers: Mitch Graul

Workshop 9 (Room 105)

Good credit is one of a business owner’s most valuable assets. But strong credit isn’t something that you simply have or you don’t have. Building credit is an active, ongoing process that takes careful management. This workshop we will be focusing on the credit and ﬁnancing needs of businesses like yours. We’ll cover how credit and lending work, explore the possibilities of credit ﬁnancing, and show you how to make the most of your credit opportunities – both traditional and nontraditional.

12:30pm – 1:15pm

W Sell Like a BOSS! Story Marketing Mastery Speakers: Heather Havenwood

Workshop 11 (Room 103)

One of the most challenging skills a business owner will learn is personal story and self-promotion. However, it is the #1 skill that can make the biggest difference in the bottom line.

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 12:30pm – 1:15pm

W The Power of the Inbox - Tips for Successful Email Marketing Speakers: Matthew Montoya

Workshop 10 (Room 104)

An email marketing list is one of your company’s most valuable assets. Each email address is a potential customer, attendee, visitor and beyond. What is the first impression you give when seen in the email inbox? And when they see you there, what do they do? If you’re underutilizing your list, or not providing a great first impression with your email design, you may not be getting the results you deserve. This powerful workshop takes you step-by-step through the keys to effective email marketing: What it really is (and isn’t) what it can do for your business. And the five easy steps you must take to harness the power of the inbox! • Grow a healthy list • Create great content that engages your customers and drives new business • Customize a beautiful, mobile-friendly template that matches your brand • How to get your emails opened • Tracking your results From revealing why regular email doesn't work, to insider tips and techniques like automated list building tools and the design elements that work (and those that don't!), this seminar will give you the keys to the most effective marketing you can do: email marketing. Join us!

1:00pm – 1:30pm

CONSULTANTS Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area A

1:00pm – 1:30pm

RETAIL, ECOMMERCE Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area C

1:00pm – 1:30pm

TECHNOLOGY Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area B

1:15pm – 2:00pm

Speed Networking Session 4

1:30pm – 2:15pm

W 8 Steps To Publishing Success Speakers: Black Card Books

Speed Networking

Workshop 8 (Room 106)

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 1:30pm – 2:30pm

Grow Your Business Online - Presented By Google Speakers: Drew Tonsmeire

Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater (Main Stage)

Today, we no longer go online, we live online. Throughout the day, we turn to whatever device is at hand to learn, discover, ﬁnd, or buy things. These intent-rich moments are shaping our decisions and preferences. For businesses, this change in consumer behavior means inﬁnitely more opportunities to connect with customers at the moment they’re looking for what you offer. Being online can have a big impact - in fact, businesses have revenue growth 4 times as high over the last year and were 3 times as likely to have created jobs in the last year. At Google, we see the power of the web working for American small businesses every day. Millions of small businesses are found on Google Search and Maps every single day across the nation. With a little bit of elbow grease and the help of technology, we believe every business can grow online. In this workshop, you'll learn about how Google search works and about other free tools from Google that can help your business grow online.

2:00pm – 2:30pm

ENTREPRENEUR, START-UP Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area B

2:00pm – 2:30pm

MARKETING, ADVERTISING, PR & MEDIA Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area C

2:00pm – 2:30pm

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area A

2:30pm – 3:30pm

The 5 Key Tips to Master Stock Marketing Trading Speakers: Randy Tate

Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater (Main Stage)

• How to Build a Million Dollar Portfolio • 5 Keys to Making a Fortune in the Stock Market • How to Create Generational Wealth • Secrets to Beat Wall Street’s Best Traders

3:00pm – 3:30pm

CREATIVE Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area C

3:00pm – 3:30pm

FINANCE, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area A

3:00pm – 3:30pm

GOVERNMENT, NON-PROFIT, EDUCATION Meeting // Get Dotted

Meeting Area B

3:15pm – 4:00pm

Speed Networking Session 5

Speed Networking

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 3:30pm – 4:15pm

W 5 Keys to Build Wealth Through Real Estate Speakers: Bill Walsh

Workshop 1 (Room 119)

W 8 Steps To Publishing Success Speakers: Black Card Books

Workshop 8 (Room 106)

• How to Create Instant & Passive Income • How to FIND Big Proﬁt Deals • How to Get FUNDING • 3 Keys to FLIP in Less Than 30 Days

3:30pm – 4:15pm

W BECOME THE CHOICE, NOT JUST A CHOICE Speakers: Gene Hammett

Workshop 9 (Room 105)

How to Use the New Art of Emotional Resonance to Deeply Connect With Prospects in Competitive Markets

There is a mega trend impacting company growth worldwide. It is the ﬁght for ATTENTION. We all crave attention. Attention is the new business currency. Millions of messages come at us faster than ever before, and it confuses the average prospect. If you are in a highly competitive service-based business, you want your message to be heard. No, wait…you NEED your message to be heard inside their soul. It is what makes the difference between sustainable success and stagnation. • Understand Emotional Resonance for customer acquisition • Stand out from the white noise of the competition • Build deep trust by establishing yourself as a credible expert • Dominate your market as the go-to authority in your ﬁeld

3:30pm – 4:15pm

W COFFEE – Beyond the Bean Speakers: Kathi Zollman

Workshop 6 (Room 114)

Have you ever wondered where your morning cup of coffee comes from? Take a journey into the world of coffee as we explore coffee from seed to cup. Learn about the world’s coffee growing regions as we discuss coffee at origin. How is coffee flavor evaluated? We’ll talk about the terminology to describe what you experience in the cup. And what about certifications? We will explain the differences in organic, Rainforest Alliance, Bird friendly and other certifications you might hear. And then after the coffee is harvested and processed it’s roasted, turning it from green to rich brown before we enjoy it as our morning brew. Coffee Roasting science, and what a roastery looks like; Coffee Roaster businesses vary from mega corporations to single operator facilities, we’ll give you a snapshot of these types of operations along with opportunities in the world of coffee roasting. Join us for a lively caffeinated coffee discussion!

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 3:30pm – 4:15pm

W Hottest New Systematic Way to Make MONEY Trading Stocks! Speakers: Randy Tate

Workshop 4 (Room 116)

W How to Build a 7 Figure Internet Business Speakers: Kara Scott Dentley

Workshop 2 (Room 118)

W How to Generate 6 Figures Annually as a Forex Trader & Trainer Speakers: Justin Ford

Workshop 3 (Room 117)

W How To Leverage The Power Of Your Personal Brand On Social Media Speakers: Rey Perez

Workshop 5 (Room 115)

• How to Build a Million Dollar Portfolio • 5 Keys to Making a Fortune in the Stock Market • How to Create Generational Wealth • Secrets to Beat Wall Street’s Best Traders

3:30pm – 4:15pm

At this session you will learn how you to launch and build a successful online business from a wildly successful entrepreneur that travels the world helping and coaching entrepreneurs about the law of success.

3:30pm – 4:15pm

Forex, also known as foreign exchange, FX or currency trading, is a decentralized global market where all the world's currencies trade. The forex market is the largest, most liquid market in the world with an average daily trading volume exceeding $5 trillion. All the world's combined stock markets don't even come close to this. But what does that mean to you? Take a closer look at forex trading and you may ﬁnd some exciting trading opportunities unavailable with other investments by utilizing highly effective tools & services to help traders make the right decisions in the Forex markets. In addition you will learn about what it takes to become a trainer with one of fastest growing companies in America.

3:30pm – 4:15pm

W INCREASE SALES BY 30% -Learn a Simple Step-By-Step System to Understand Your Customer Workshop 10 (Room 104) in 90 Seconds Speakers: Rod Mac Kenzie You could have the edge, but do you have the tools to stay sharp? Freedom Performance Group brings the latest in corporate education to the small business owner through or e-learning platform & seminars. Learn how to outperform the competition and communicate clearly & effectively in any situation. This seminar will show you how to quickly connect with your prospect to maximize your message in any industry. Crack your own personality code at: www.Changing-My-Future.com Free e-book download for attendees

3:30pm – 4:15pm

W The Basics Of Exporting: Take Your Business Global And Increase Sales And Profit Speakers: Dr. Akbar Muhammad, Yusef Muhammad Workshop 11 (Room 103) American Business Television has launched an International Trade Export Promotion Program to extend a worldwide series of workshops to introduce small and mid-sized regional businesses to the basics of exporting — including costs, risks, commercial transactions, finding overseas markets, trade financing, documentation and logistics.

3:30pm – 4:15pm

W Workshop & Seminar: Verizon Wireless

4:30pm – 6:00pm

TBA

Workshop 7 (Room 113)

Success by Design: The 7 Core Elements to Build an Unstoppable Business! Speakers: Bill Walsh Inspiration2020 Showcase Theater (Main Stage) • How to Make the Person in the Mirror a Dynamic Leader • How to 10X your Leads & Sales • How to Optimize Your Internet Marketing • How to Attract Powerful Partners • How to Go From Busyville to Productivity Central

AGENDA & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS 6:00pm – 9:00pm

The Ofﬁcial Networking After Party @ Big Sky Buckhead (co-hosted by Network After Work)

Join us after the Expo from 6:00-9:00 PM for our After Big Sky Buckhead (3201 Cains Hill Pl NW, Atlanta, GA 30305) Party, hosted in conjunction with Network After Work. Exhibitors & Sponsors receive free entry. The After Party will take place at Big Sky Buckhead, 3201 Cains Hill Pl NW, Atlanta, GA 30305.

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INSPIRATION2020 SHOWCASE THEATER 945 AM - 1015 AM

VIP Expert Panel

by Bill Walsh & Friends Come & Learn from top Business and Philanthropic Global Leaders on the specifics required to create Success. Each panelist will share priceless concepts on what it takes to break through your biggest challenges & achieve your biggest goals! A must attend!

1030 AM - 1130 AM

Get Found On Google Search And Maps

by Drew Tonsmeire, The web is helping small businesses grow. As the place where people turn to learn, discover, find, and buy things, it’s connecting customers to small businesses and small businesses to customers. Being online can have a big impact - in fact, businesses have revenue growth 4 times as high over the last year and were 3 times as likely to have created jobs in the last year. At Google, we see the power of the web working for American small businesses every day. Millions of small businesses are found on Google Search and Maps every single day across the nation. With a little bit of elbow grease and the help of technology, we believe every business can grow online. In this workshop, you’ll learn about how Google search works, how to create or claim your local business listing using Google My Business and about other free tools from Google that can help your business get found online.

1130 AM - 1230 PM

by Armando Montelongo, Real Estate Expert & Celebrity TV Star • How to Create Instant & Passive Income

• How to Get FUNDING

• How to FIND Big Profit Deals

• 3 Keys to FLIP in Less Than 30 Days

130 PM - 230 PM

How To Find, Fund & Flip Houses In Your Area For Big Profits!

Grow Your Business Online

by Drew Tonsmeire, Today, we no longer go online, we live online. Throughout the day, we turn to whatever device is at hand to learn, discover, find, or buy things. These intent-rich moments are shaping our decisions and preferences. For businesses, this change in consumer behavior means infinitely more opportunities to connect with customers at the moment they’re looking for what you offer. Being online can have a big impact - in fact, businesses have revenue growth 4 times as high over the last year and were 3 times as likely to have created jobs in the last year. At Google, we see the power of the web working for American small businesses every day. Millions of small businesses are found on Google Search and Maps every single day across the nation. With a little bit of elbow grease and the help of technology, we believe every business can grow online. In this workshop, you’ll learn about how Google search works and about other free tools from Google that can help your business grow online.

230 PM - 330 PM

by Randy Tate, Stock Market Software Expert • How to Build a Million Dollar Portfolio

• How to Create Generational Wealth

• 5 Keys to Making a Fortune in the Stock Market

• Secrets to Beat Wall Street’s Best Traders

430 PM - 600 PM

The 5 Key Tips To Master Stock Market Trading

Success By Design - The 7 Core Elements To Build An Unstoppable Business!

by Bill Walsh, Founder & CEO, • How to Make the Person in the Mirror a Dynamic Leader

• How to Optimize your Internet Marketing

• How To 10x your Leads & Sales

• How to Go From Busyville to Productivity Central

• How to Attract Powerful Partners

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