If you’ve been following Business Black Box at all lately, you know how we feel about this event.
Maybe it’s because it will focus on three areas that are so key to businesses these days: Sales (because we don’t know anyone who isn’t looking to increase their bottom line); Marketing (because, who doesn’t need to increase awareness of their product or services?); and the Small Business/Start Up (because in this economy, they will be the bread and butter of the business world!)
But then again, maybe it’s because there are a lot of cool people involved. The keynotes are all local gurus in their own right: Dan Waldschmidt, Trey Pennington and Jake Hayes. Then, there are panels filled with local entreprenurs, self-starters or other really cool titles who can tell you all about how they made it work. Or how they blew everything up one day and started over.
Maybe it’s because we’ll be among hundreds of our best friends. (Or, at least, people who think the same way we do about the Upstate business community.) But then again, maybe it’s because we’ll get to meet hundreds more.
Whatever the reason we are going, it’s no where close to the many reasons you should go. And to that end, we’re gonna spell it out real simple for you here.
When: Saturday, April 17, 2010, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. (Yes, we said Saturday. Yes, we know a typical work week ends on Friday. But this isn’t a typical business event and it’s no typical work week.)
Where: Carolina First Center, 1 Exposition Drive, Greenville, SC
Who: The event was organized by the same people who organized Enterprise Launch. If you don’t know them, they’re pretty cool and so is their company. But Launch Greenville is also hosted and sponsored by a bunch of neat people—WORD 106.3 FM, Hubspot, Infusion, Webfilings, Bit Tyrant, Nimlok, Edward Jones, Marks Family Services, IntroMojo, the Greenville Chamber, Immedion, Franchise Mart and Upstate Town Planner. Oh, and us. Business Black Box. We’ll be there, too.
Agenda: If you want breakfast, show up at 7 a.m. to get registered and grab a bite. From 8 until lunch, hear keynote speakers talking about all the same stuff you’re dealing with and how to handle it. During and after lunch, you’ll start meeting panels of local business men and women who are making it all happen. At 4 p.m. you’ll get a chance to meet the speakers and network with everyone else who’s hanging out.
Other news: If you’re on Twitter, follow the #launchgvl stream. If you’re on Facebook, join in the conversation by following us or Enterprise Launch.
Tickets: $149 by visiting the Launch Greenville site. (Pssst…..enter in code “BlackBox” at registration and get $50 off!)
All the info and more is on the Launch Greenville website (in case you missed all those cool hyperlinks above!) Can’t wait to see you there!
@chels I know what you mean, its hard to find good help these days. People now days just don’t have the work ethic they used to have. I mean consider whoever wrote this post, they must have been working hard to write that good and it took a good bit of their time I am sure. I work with people who couldn’t write like this if they tried, and getting them to try is hard enough as it is.
I was just chatting with my friend about this last week at Outback steak house. Don’t know how we landed on the topic actually , they brought it up. I do recall having a excellent chicken salad with sunflower seeds on it. I digress…