I’m a firm believer that attending conferences and seminars is one of the best ways to keep your business moving forward in any economy. And if you want to get a ton of value for your investment, you should be at the Business Success Summit in St. Louis March 26th, 2009. Scheduled expert speakers include: Sam Black, author of “How to Build Your Business Using the Phone…Effectively!” will transform your sales process with her presentation: “When the Phone Rings”. Keynote presenter, financial consultant and living legend Bob Hardcastle is the past host of the nationally syndicated “Money Talk” radio program and author of four books on wealth and money management. His presentation, “Money Is Still Talking – Are You Listening?”, is a must-see for everyone concerned about finding and keeping customers and creating a thriving business in this New Economy. Karen Hoffman is going to share the how-tos for “Using Barter strategically To Pay for Your Marketing & Business Expenses”. Bill Hebert, a 30+ year veteran business owner in the St. Louis area, co-owns the St. Louis Chapter of the Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle. He’s going to share how to “Shift Your Focus to Double Profits In 2009”. Larry Norber, founder and president of AudioVu.com, a website services supplier that specializes in website conversions designed to move casual visitors to live breathing prospects and generating increased website traffic utilizing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and broadcast email. Don’t miss his talk “Basic Search Engine Optimization Is Not Rocket Science”. And me, Stacy Karacostas, founder of SuccessStream Sales & Marketing Solutions. I’ll be showing you how to “Turbo-Charge Your Marketing Materials in 4 Simple Steps”, so you can create marketing materials that:

• Grab your ideal customer by the eyeballs and don’t let go;
• Speak directly to them in a way that is likable, interesting and enticing;
• Make your company stand out from the crowd;
• Convince prospects to pick up the phone, visit your Website, and buy from you

On top of all that small business expertise, they’re going to end the Business Success Summit with a Panel of Experts to be available to answer any and all questions put to them, until the questions have been exhausted! But in case that’s not enough to make you want to be a part of this small business success event… Here are The Top Five Reasons not to let the recession stand in the way of joining us at this most IMPORTANT MARKETING & MONEY-MAKING Business Success Summit ever held in St. Louis. Counting down from five to one…. Reason #5: Since you don't dare invest money anywhere, you might as well invest it in yourself, your know-how, your self-improvement and your business. Reason #4: You aren't going to get a bail-out from anybody but yourself. And it's more than likely too late to be born to rich parents. Or to marry rich. Reason #3: What happens in your business, finances and life still has much more to do with how you think and what information you acquire and who you connect with and what you do, than with the goings-on in Washington or on Wall Street. Reason #2: You can't just "wait this out" and hope everything will soon return to normal." As Dan Kennedy says, an entire New Economy is developing, presenting new challenges and new opportunities, requiring new strategies - which is one of the reasons we are calling this The Most Important Business Success Summit Ever. Reason #1: The Who's Who of Business Growth Strategies in St. Louis will be there plus the specialist-vendors we should all rely on for accelerated implementation – and all of them are experts who do and personally profit from what they teach. The once a year gathering of more growing St. Louis businesses and entrepreneurs per square inch than any other...it's The event of the year, everybody who you need to meet is coming, so you just can't be the poor soul left at home. You know if you miss this you'll hate yourself in the morning!!!! Get all details about The MARKETING & MONEY-MAKING, CUSTOMER-ACQUIRING AND RETENTION SUMMIT here: http://www.StLBusinessSuccess.com [tags] Small Business, Marketing Experts, Stacy Karacostas, St. Louis Business Success Summit, March 26th 2009 [/tags]