Due To The Strong Positive Response To Our October 27th Event, We’re Offering A Second…

Complimentary Strategy Session, Exclusively For Privately-Held Business Owners:
 
Exit Planning Strategy and Execution:
Building Value Towards A Successful Exit

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* Attendance is strictly limited to business owners *

  Complimentary Strategy Session, Exclusively For Privately-Held Business Owners:
 
Exit Planning Strategy and Execution:
Building Value Towards A Successful Exit

 Sponsored By
 
 
 
 * Attendance is strictly limited to business owners *

Society of Professional Consultants
Monthly Dinner Meeting

Monday, October 19, 2009
5:30pm - 9:00pm • Hilton Garden Inn • Waltham, MA

Developing and Delivering a Public Seminar

Speaker: Bill Gately

One of the major challenges consultants face is effectively marketing their services. There are a number of ways that consultants can become known and recognized for their expertise. Among the most powerful are talks and seminars. Many consultants don’t consider them because they don’t know what is required to be successful, or where to begin. In this session, Bill will demonstrate “in real time” the process he follows for determining his audience, developing his presentation, identifying a venue, scheduling, registration and follow through. This is “real time:" On October 27th Bill is delivering the seminar he will be using as his example.

In addition, Bill, Steve Balzac and Joanne Dustin will talk about their experience with the SPC half-day seminar for prospective consultants that they delivered along with Bruce Katcher in May. They will provide handouts of tips, techniques and lessons learned that will give you the information you need to successfully launch your own seminar.

Our Speaker, Bill Gately

Bill Gately, president of the Rockland Group, is the founder of two companies and brings over 30 years' experience leading and managing startup, early and mid-stage technology and manufacturing businesses. He has held executive and management positions responsible for P&L, strategy, business development, finance, sales and marketing, product and technology development, and operations.

This strong combination of business and technical expertise allows Bill to provide comprehensive insight into a company's overall performance and culture as well as the performance and culture of each department. Bill is able to rapidly identify the root causes of business and technical challenges and quickly establish credibility with key employees in order to successfully implement action plans.

Bill's proven effectiveness is derived from his ability to communicate at all levels and disciplines within an organization. Having worked in several business, commercial, technical, and operational roles, Bill has a demonstrated track record of successfully working with C-level peers, senior executives, middle managers, and key employees in a variety of business situations. Bill is action-oriented and willingly rolls up his sleeves to implement agreed upon action plans rather than simply providing presentations and advice.

To register: http://spconsultants.org/notices/DinnerMeeting/2009/dinner-OCT-2009.html

• Business Strategy
• Market Strategy
• Product Development
• Technology Commercialization
• Operations Strategy
• Profitability Improvement
• Cost Reduction
• Exit Planning and Preparation
  
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Bill Gately of The Rockland Group will be facilitating a video case study of an actual client business challenge at the offices of Gesmer Updegrove located at 40 Broad Street in Boston next Tuesday, August 4th at 7:15 AM. This event is part of The Exit Planning Exchange's Forum for Entrepreneur-Advisor Collaboration Series.

The client's identity will be held confidential but all other facts are actual. This small manufacturing business owner is facing real world, life changing business and personal decisions with very limited time for analysis. It will be up to the audience to help provide solutions. It promises to be an interesting and informative session.

Advice and insight for business owners, managers, and stakeholders.

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Driving the Profitable Growth of Tech and
Manufacturing Companies in Challenging Environments

*** To download a copy of this presentation go to the Articles-Audio page ***

The global economic and financial challenges of the last several months have sent shock waves throughout US based tech and manufacturing companies. Many of these early to mid stage companies are now totally focused on maintaining their very survival. However, by maintaining an internal focus on survival these companies can quickly forfeit market leadership positions, emerging opportunities, or worse, put themselves in a self-inflicted death spiral.

Challenging times like these can present a rare opportunity to drive profitable growth of your company by outmaneuvering crippled and paralyzed competitors. What are the factors that separate these emerging leaders from the pack? What are the important elements you need to be working on now to drive profitable growth in these challenging times? The key is to maintain a balanced and outward market view while focusing on achieving strategic alignment of your company's core processes. Join us as Bill Gately of The Rockland Group, presents a "hands on" approach to implementing this powerful combination. If you are lucky your competitors will skip this event and stay in their offices to focus on survival.