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Conference Program

In addition to compelling keynote presentations Austin Open4Business
features five educational tracks.
Select the track name to see the scheduled panels.

• Sales
  
  • What Successful Negotiators Know...
  • Taking the Black Magic Out of Sales Forecasting
  • Networking Your Way to Sales Success
  • Leveraging your position as CEO or Sales Manager to Drive Sales
• Marketing
  Sponsored by Constant Contact.
  
  • Online Strategies to Grow Offline Relationships
  • Customer Value Management: The Secret to Acquiring and Maintaining Customers
  • The Power of Email Marketing: Affordable & Effective Strategies to Grow Your Business
  • 10 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Boost Your Marketing
• Human Resources
  Sponsored by Administaff.
  
  • Executive Roundtable: Leadership and Engagement
  • How Social Media Impacts the HR Process: The Wall between Business and Personal Life has Fallen!
  • 2009 UBA National Health Plan Survey – How does your benefits program stack up?
  • Administaff
• Funding
  
  • Company Builder; Tools and Techniques for a Successful Launch!
  • Pitching to Investors: How to catch an investors attention in 1 minute
  • The Climate for Small Business Lending
  • Alternative Financing
    
• Sponsored Sessions
  
  • Health Reform and The Impact to Business
  • Weidner Barnes - Improve Your Bottom Line by Managing for Results
  • 21st Century Advertising : How Community & Technology have Created New Channels

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Each track will be led by a host who will facilitate interactive discussion.

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Austin Open 4 Business 2009 Conference Schedule

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Tuesday November 10, 2009
TRACK:	Sales	Marketing	Human Resources	Funding	Sponsored Sessions
Nov 10 08:00 AM 60 min	Registration
Nov 10 09:00 AM 45 min	Keynote (Synopsis) Jack McDonald (Perficient)
Nov 10 09:45 AM 15 min	Break
Nov 10 10:00 AM 60 min	What Successful Negotiators Know... (Synopsis) Amy Hardin (AcSELLerate Sales)	Online Strategies to Grow Offline Relationships (Synopsis) Ricci Neer (Rock Star Media, LLC)	Executive Roundtable Leadership and Engagement (Synopsis) Moderated by: Rob Nielson (RFG, Inc.)	Company Builder; Tools and Techniques for a Successful Launch! (Synopsis) Dave Angelow (Consultants that Work)	Open
Nov 10 10:45 AM 15 min	Break
Nov 10 11:00 AM 45 min	Taking the Black Magic Out of Sales Forecasting (Synopsis) Chuck Besondy	Customer Value Management The Secret to Acquiring and Maintaining Customers (Synopsis) Lin Scheib (Lightning Life, LLC,)	How Social Media Impacts the HR Process The Wall between Business and Personal Life has Fallen! (Synopsis) Moderated by: Doug Whatley Panelists include: Gregg Kronenberger (Boulette & Golden) Sherry Scott (Silicon Labs) Susie Buehler (nGenera Corporation) Lori Knowlton (HomeAway, Inc.) Sue Darrow (Catapult Systems)	Pitching to Investors How to catch an investors attention in 1 minute (Synopsis) Hall T. Martin (Austin Entrepreneur Network)	Health Reform and The Impact to Business (Synopsis) Janet Trautwein (National Association of Health Underwriters)
Nov 10 11:45 AM 105 min	Lunch and Booth Exhibits
Nov 10 01:30 PM 45 min	Keynote (Synopsis) Pike Powers (Fulbright & Jaworski)
Nov 10 02:15 PM 15 min	Break
Nov 10 02:30 PM 45 min	Networking Your Way to Sales Success (Synopsis) Scott Ingram (NetworkInAustin.com)	The Power of Email Marketing Affordable & Effective Strategies to Grow Your Business (Synopsis) Julie Niehoff (Constant Contact)	2009 UBA National Health Plan Survey – How does your benefits program stack up? (Synopsis) Moderated by: Dennis Passovoy (RFG, Inc.) Shannon Scott (RFG, Inc.) Kathy Phillips (RFG, Inc.)	The Climate for Small Business Lending (Synopsis) Panelists include: Lewis Aven (CU Business Solutions) Dave Oldfield (Comerica Bank)	Weidner Barnes - Improve Your Bottom Line by Managing for Results (Synopsis) Raechel Barnes (Weidner Barnes) Marv Weidner (Weidner Barnes)
Nov 10 03:15 PM 15 min	Break (Synopsis)
Nov 10 03:30 PM 45 min	Leveraging your position as CEO or Sales Manager to Drive Sales (Synopsis) Richard Balius (Sales Management Academy)	10 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Boost Your Marketing (Synopsis) Pete Monfre (Clarity Marketing Support) Dave Wolpert (Swordfish Communications )	Administaff (Synopsis)	Alternative Financing (Synopsis) Moderated by: Lamar Romero (Romero Capital and Funding) Panelists include: Cole Harmonson (Far West Capital) Jaime J. Noyola (PeopleFund) Ted Reynolds (TEAM Funding Solutions)	21st Century Advertising How Community & Technology have Created New Channels (Synopsis) Eric Winchester (S-Collective) Elijah May (Business District Group)