Event Archive
June 2010
6/1/2010
Building High Performance Organizations: An eWorkshop on Culture Change & Leadership Development
Denison Consulting
Get up to speed on the Denison Solutions quickly, efficiently and conveniently.
Building High Performance Organizations: An eWorkshop on Culture Change & Leadership Development is designed to:
•Familiarize consultants, executives and managers on how to utilize the Denison Solutions to improve profitability, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, quality, and growth in your organization
•Demonstrate how the Denison Solutions have been applied in both public and private organizations worldwide in mergers and acquisitions, turnaround situations, organizational restructuring, new leader transitions, and many other change initiatives.
6/2/2010
The Art and Science of Getting Good Referrals
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
We all know referrals are the lifeline of our business; yet, something always seems to get in the way of us asking for referrals. This presentation is designed to help you overcome your personal obstacles to asking for referrals. It will also introduce an online tool which makes referral seeking effortless.
6/2/2010
Entrepreneur Education 2.0: Growing Sales
Ann Arbor SPARK
Growing sales in an early stage technology company can be the greatest challenge. While your customers struggle to understand the value in a new solution, you must develop the habits and mindset that engages customers to learn where they find value and to develop an explicit agreement on the value they will receive. This unit will help you explore the sales barriers you face both externally and within yourself, and the systems and methods for accelerating sales.
6/2/2010
How to Host a Successful Artist Studio Open House
The Arts Alliance
This Arts Alliance educational event will focus on putting an open house together for the artist's studio. From music to refreshments to volunteers. All you need to know to put together a successful open house! FREE to Arts Alliance Members. $25 for Non Members.
6/2/2010
Local Small Businesses: How Did They Start?
MI-SBTDC & AADL
Join us on Wednesday, June 2 at 7:00 pm in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Downtown library as we host a panel discussion with local small business owners who know what it's like to start from the beginning and create a successful local business in Michigan.
6/4/2010
New Business Pitch Competition
Ann Arbor SPARK
The Eastside Innovation Campus partners are committed to fostering and supporting entrepreneurship in Eastern Washtenaw County. The EIC First Pitch Competition will showcase five innovation-based entrepreneurs and will provide the winner of the pitch competition a number of gifts and services to support their venture including a one year incubator lease at SPARK East and up to $50,000 in business acceleration services. The pitch competition will be judged by a panel of noted funding and business experts. Applications to be selected to compete in the 1st EIC new business pitch competition are due by COB May 14th. Selected competitors will be notified by e-mail or phone by May 21st.
6/8/2010
Gas, Diesel, and Hybrid Technology ways for Achieving Cost Effective Fuel Economy
Center for Automotive Research
Without question, the pathway to sustainable personal transportation entails a collection of solutions to help reduce our impact on the environment and our dependency on foreign oil. Many don't believe that battery electric vehicles will make significant inroads for at least 10 to 15 years, or longer without continued economic stimulus or a technology breakthrough; both risky propositions. This panel is a subgroup of authors working on a National Research Council (NRC) committee that recently released the report, "Assessing Fuel Economy Technologies for Light Duty Vehicles."
6/8/2010
Ann Arbor OpenCoffee
Ann Arbor SPARK
This is a networking event for entrepreneurs, investors and those who work with technology & innovation businesses, particularly in IT, cleantech and life sciences.
6/8/2010
Seminar Series
Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Regional Chamber
Program: 5 Steps to Freedom in Business
6/8/2010
Marketing Roundtable - Marketing ROI and Research
Ann Arbor SPARK
John Wannamaker famously complained, "I know I'm wasting 50% of my marketing budget, I just don't know which 50%!" Wannamaker wanted a better return on investment(ROI). Sound familiar?
Learn how savvy marketers measure desired customer behaviors, and tie them back to specific media and messaging stimuli.
Explore marketing-ROI challenges and solutions, from small pay-per-click campaigns through sprawling media events.
Our Knights of the Marketing Roundtable will present case studies, how-to's, and how-not-to's, and take your questions on causality and accountability.
Peace between the CFO and the CMO is possible!
6/9/2010
Inventive AdWords - Tricks for Maximizing ROI
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
Practical lessons I've learned from working on AdWords campaigns for 50 non-profits with little or no web marketing budget. These tricks have helped some of these organizations increase traffic up to 10 times and conversions up to 4 times.
6/9/2010
BioArbor - Let's Make a Deal: How M&A's Happen
Ann Arbor SPARK and MichBio
An acquisition is the most likely exit available to founders and investors of life science companies today. But how do such transactions actually happen? How do you appropriately prepare your company? What are acquirers looking for in companies – and what are the red flags they avoid? BioArbor has assembled a highly experienced panel to discuss the buyers’ perspective on mergers and acquisitions. You won’t want to miss this informative session on the state of affairs of life sciences mergers and acquisitions.
6/10/2010
NetWorks!
Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Regional Chamber
Program: "Home Grown Stories"
Ever since opening their doors in 1995 Matt and René Greff have run their business according to their belief that in order to truly succeed, businesses need to be involved with and give back to their communities.The Greffs opened the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti in and began state-wide distribution of their beer in 2006 and recently formed a joint venture company with partners in Bangalore, India to explore opening Arbor Brewing Company pubs in the emerging Indian market. She attributes the growth and success of the Arbor Brewing Company brand over the years to the triple bottom-line approach of People, Products, and Profits.
6/10/2010
Lunch & Learn
Saline Area Chamber of Commerce
Scott Lyon, Small Business Association of Michigan will be talking about recent Health Care Legislation and what it means to Business Owners.
6/10/2010
Summer Speaker Series-Technology Commercialization: Growing Pains and Solutions
Ann Arbor SPARK
A combination of five “automotive” operations engineering tools can address the manufacturing related commercialization challenges facing emerging technologies. The systemic perspectives provided by Theory-of-Constraints and value stream mapping will ensure that functional interfaces and hand-offs are considered. Lean thinking and quality systems will squeeze out waste and improve customer satisfaction. Simulations will find bottlenecks and reduce the risk and uncertainty around capacity investments. First adopters of these operations engineering tools will achieve dominant market positions, greater economies of scale, and superior financial returns.
6/12/2010
Fundamentals of Starting a Business
MI-SBTDC
This free seminar is designed for individuals who are considering self-employment, or are at the beginning stages of starting a business. You will be introduced to the key characteristics of successful business ownership, and what it takes to start and run a thriving business.
6/15/2010
Get Connected
Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Regional Chamber
Come learn all the advantages of membership. Whether you’re a new member, prospective member or current member looking to find out what’s new at the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce, this session will provide you with an overview of the products, programs and services currently available to members.
6/16/2010
Morning Edition
Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Regional Chamber
Sponsor: University of Michigan Athletic Department
Held monthly, this lively morning program is designed to keep members up-to-date on community issues.
6/16/2010
Improve Your Prospecting – Find Qualified Leads
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
Struggling to find enough good prospects for your business? Prospecting is simply discarding unqualified leads and retaining the "gold". The job of prospecting is to find buyers that may purchase your product (qualified leads). Learn how to build an appropriate mix of prospecting activities, including valuable lessons you can apply immediately to improve your prospecting effectiveness - tips that will also take the pressure off of yourself and your prospects.
6/16/2010
Entrepreneur Education 2.0: Business Model & Key Metrics
Ann Arbor SPARK
The Business Model explains how your company will make money and the strategies for building up your core strengths. Evaluate your business against the elements of a successful business model. Learn how to define the metrics that will help you keep score in your business and measure progress. Identify the key factors that drive your business and profitability.
6/18/2010
Starting Your Own Business
Ann Arbor SPARK
At this forum you will learn about personality traits that impact entrepreneurialism, create a marketing plan for your business, learn about legal, accounting, franchises, business plans and financing options. You will receive one on one counseling with a business expert and have an opportunity to get advice from a variety of business experts and organizations that are available to support new ventures.
6/22/2010
Fundamentals of Writing a Business Plan
MI-SBTDC
This workshop will help you understand the necessary content and best format for your business plan, and show you the resources to create it.
6/22/2010
Holistic Usability: Making Stone Soup for Stakeholders and Clients
Michigan UPA
What things do you create that allow people to make connections and share experiences?
Through the concepts of holism and corporate culture, this talk will present case studies that examine how UX techniques, methods, skills, and deliverables can be repurposed to create good experiences for all people who come into contact with our work. (Christina’s talk is based on a workshop given at the 2010 UPA Conference in Munich, Germany in May 2010.)
6/23/2010
Security Threats & Social Media / Networking Sites
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
Scam Spotting: What the Spammers Don’t Want You to Know Learn the latest scams on Facebook and how to avoid them. Two of the nation’s top social media security professionals arm you with the knowledge and techniques known only to security professionals and law enforcement.
6/24/2010
Summer Speaker Series-Small Business Information Assurance without IT Insurance
Ann Arbor SPARK
In today’s interconnected digital business environment, even micro businesses face rapidly changing Information Assurance needs. A continually evolving information environment creates ongoing technical challenges. Organizations have to constantly make new choices about the best practices to mitigate current and emerging information security vulnerabilities. Small businesses have even more challenging decisions to make about Information Assurance than large organizations because they do not have the resources or resilience to withstand computer security risks, and often do not even have either the expertise or the resources to identify and mitigate those risks.
6/25/2010
Donuts and Search Marketing
Pure Visibility, Inc.
Overwhelmed by the vast world of Internet marketing? Pure Visibility can help with its Donuts and Search Engine Marketing seminar. This no-charge group session will give you an overview of search engine marketing, including search engine optimization, paid search advertising, and social media. You will have the chance to pose questions and we'll talk at whatever level is comfortable for the people that show up. Donuts, coffee, and search marketing experts provided.
6/30/2010
Location Based Apps and Mobile Marketing - Changing The Way People Purchase,
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
Location, Location, Location! means more than ever with the rise of mobile devices and location based applications. Today's consumers are on the move and are making purchases using real time input from peers, mobile search results, and hot tips from others who have been there before.
Come here LA2M Founder, and Ingenex Digital Marketing CEO Derek Mehraban teach you:
• How your business can take advantage of location based apps.
• How to maximize your mobile search and be found when customers are ready to buy.
• How to push the limits of traditional marketing and set your business apart with the latest trends in mobile marketing.
• How to use Mobile and Location Tracking for your own personal use to have fun!
6/30/2010
Speaker Series- Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs
Ann Arbor SPARK
The interactive presentation will cover the types of intellectual property, the biggest pitfall in patent law, and the biggest misunderstanding in patent law. It will end with a short discussion on what do investors want to hear when they ask about your intellectual property.
6/30/2010
Hot Shots: Career Connections at Melange
Ann Arbor SPARK
Bring your resume, and come and mingle with growing, innovative companies in a fun and relaxed environment! This event is only for talent seeking opportunities for themselves. Recruiters and staffing companies should use other venues to meet with these company representatives. If you would like your company to participate, contact Amy Cell at Amy@AnnArborUSA.org.