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Month: May 2016

Hiring to Win

Part 'how-to-hire' instruction, part stories-to-learn-from, and all entertainment. This talk will energize the audience to approach hiring in a whole new way

Get Organized and Stay That Way

This presentation shares a very simple, very straightforward approach to organization that you can learn quickly and implement immediately.

Master the Selling Cycle

maintain customers. In this session, Andrea Hill teaches the selling cycle. Using specific examples, fun anecdotes and stories, Andrea Hill shows business owners how to improve their business performance by attending to the entire selling cycle.

Let’s Get Real About Social Media Strategy

This presentation will help attendees better understand the true potential of social media, which will help them set better expectations, analyze and prepare budgets, manage staff involved in social media activities, and facilitate better strategies for their business.

Successful Selling: Become the Salesperson You Want to Be

This presentation involves interaction with the audience, as Andrea Hill leads them through a self-assessment to help each participant understand where they are on the Success Orientation grid. Then, Andrea teaches the group what is involved in being a successful salesperson, and how to get from where they are now to where they need to  be.

Graphic Design for Non-Designers

In this session, Andrea gives a very engaging overview of what design is, how it works, and why we need it. She then takes those big concepts and applies them directly to different aspects of a business, from the design of interiors to the design of websites.

Customer Psychology 101

Join Andrea Hill for this romp through customer types and behaviors that will have you laughing out loud and shaking your head with recognition. After this presentation, you'll be far more equipped to make the most of each customer interaction, saving you time and money now, and yielding more closes and satisfaction in the long run.

What’s in a Small Business Strategy?

In this session, Andrea provides an engaging, highly-informative overview of what should be in each small business owner's strategic plan, and illustrates how all the elements of a good strategic plan work together to deliver better marketing strategy, sales results, brand story, operational planning, hiring, team-building, supply chains, distribution, and profits.

Maximize Your Tradeshow Performance

In this session Andrea Hill will teach you how to quickly qualify and assess potential buyers, enabling you to make the most of your time at the booth. She will also review with you the essentials of preparing before, during, and after the show for effective follow-up.

From Haggling to Happy: How to Stop Custom Jewelry Negotiations and Get Better Margins

In this session you will learn the elements of a store brand and how that brand can be used to promote a perception of value, how to improve your pricing strategy by decoupling cost and price, how embed high perceived value in your custom jewelry sales pitch, and how to use final presentation to ensure the customer walks out fueled on high satisfaction.

The Keys to Better Margins are Hiding in Your Shop

In this session you will learn the basics of how to reduce unnecessary movement and increase productivity, how to find shop bottlenecks and what to do when you find them, how to do a quarterly shop audit to identify opportunities for improvement, and how to transform the phrase ‘ continuous improvement’ from a thing people say to a thing people do.