September Newsletter

The Lewisville Area Chamber of Commerce will hold the inaugural 2009 Denton County Women in Business Conference and Expo on Friday, September 25, 2009.

The professional development conference and business expo is designed to provide the businesswomen of Denton County an affordable opportunity to attend a professional development conference and participate in a marketing expo promoting Denton County businesses. It will be held at the Lewisville Convention Center inside the Hilton Garden Inn, 785 State Highway 121 Bypass in Lewisville. Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m.

Four speakers are slated for the conference. Dallas speaker Deborah King, AICI CIP, will present "The Art of Communication". She is the President of Final Touch Finishing School, Inc., which she founded in Seattle, Washington in 1989. Deborah brings to the classroom over thirty years of experience in the etiquette and image industry. She is a certified image professional and an active member of the Association of Image Consultants International, National Association of Professional Women, International Association of Protocol Consultants, National Speakers Association, and is affiliated with the Conselle Institute of Image Management. Deborah is an author and is a frequent resource to the media. She travels extensively both domestically and internationally, teaching her principles of etiquette and poise to individuals aged five to seventy-five.

Dallas speaker Damian Skinner will present "Get Your Twit Together". Damian began his career in the entertainment industry in 1998. With an ever-growing affection for problem solving, Damian began teaching small to medium sized businesses how to combine "big budget" studio marketing techniques with the grass roots tactics that had proved successful in marketing his own films. Damian learned firsthand the Social Media methods used by major film & television studios to make sales. He also learned the techniques that allowed the viral marketing division to earn close to a million dollars a year. Damian has parlayed his experience and knowledge and formed Riot Lounge, a business-consulting firm specializing in a "multi-prong" marketing methodology. Combining a unique blend of time-tested problem solving techniques with the latest in state of the art trend-tracking, Riot Lounge has created powerful solutions for the Medical, Non-Profit, Agricultural, Real Estate, Retail, Licensing, Apparel, Manufacturing, Security, Automotive, and Advertising industries just to name a few.

The third speaker will be Andrew Szabo "The Marketing Chef" and the creator of "Irresistible Marketing" - the development of strategies to make your target audience simply salivate in anticipation of your product-service offering. Irresistible Marketing ensures that' prospects, customers, referral sources and other stake holders think of them first, often and well. Andrew has been CMO of a F100 subsidiary; strategist and business development for the world's largest direct marketing agency; boutique agencies; marketed his own small business; client and consultant to agencies. He likes to combine the traditional with guerilla marketing. 28 years experience in executive management, strategy, business development, marketing & sales provides a seasoned, results-oriented focus and counsel to his clients. Andrew founded MarketingStrategy1 in 2001 which has evolved into Marketing Symphony (MS). MS combines seasoned and creative tactical solutions birthed out of intelligent strategy.

The keynote speaker during a plated lunch is Ebby Halliday, owner of Ebby Halliday REALTORS. Ebby became a Texas in 1938 when she was transferred by a national company to Dallas to manage the Millinery Department to the W.A. Green Store in Dallas. Ebby Halliday REALTORS in its 64 years of growth has helped over 19,500 families into home ownership in 2008. Ebby founded the company on service: service to the client, service to the communities they cover, service to the industry itself. Ebby's awards and achievements have filled the book, "The First Lady of Real Estate", to release in the Fall of 2009.

Created with women-owned business and area businesswomen, the conference is designed for anyone looking for affordable professional development and any business with a female target market. Tickets to the conference are now available starting at $49 and vendor packages start at $99. For detailed information about the event, please visit the Chamber's website at www.lewisvillechamber.org or call Chamber Office at 972-436-9571.