I'm about to make my first ever trip to New Orleans for BTA's Spring Break event. A few memories come to mind when thinking about New Orleans, The Super Bowl (many of them, in fact the first ten), Mardi Gras, NOMDA Show, and Katrina.
Since I'm going to be a newbie in New Orleans for March 18th & March 19th, I'll be staying at the BTA recommended Intercontinental New Orleans.
Similar to last years event at the Grand Floridian, IBPI is hosting their event on March 16th - 18th, thus you can count on having a well attended event.
Reason One: AWESOME EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS
Spring Break will start at 7AM on the 18th with breakfast, and at 8AM we'll from Dr. Steven Shepard of Shepard Communications with his key note address, "The Dance of Generations: Leading the Multigenerational Workplace."
There's going to be some awesome education sessions also. I'll be looking forward to these sessions on the 18th:
- "Why Revenue/Profit Diversification is Essential in the Evolving Office Technology Industry," led by Jerry Newberry
- "Building a Managed IT Services Division," led by Mat Wolfgram
- "Managed IT Services: Build or Partner?," led by Chip Miceli
- "How to Build a Practice Selling Cloud & Hybrid Solutions," led by Mike Fleetwood
- The dealer panel, "Emerging Technologies — Impact on Sales & Service Operations," moderated by David Ramos
Reason Two: Welcoming Session (5-7PM) Networking, Drinks, Food
Reason Three: Time to Go to Tipitina's one of the most famous New Orleans live music clubs, is a quintessential bayou juke joint featuring the best in local music.
The second day of Spring Break also starts at 7AM with breakfast (hoping I don't sleep through it after going to Tipitina's). Educational Sessions start at 8AM with:
- "Don't Just Move Forward — Accelerate With Managed IT," led by Britt Siedentopf
- "Managed IT Lead Generation & Onboarding Best Practices," led by Lindsay Dick
- "Reaching New Heights Through Social Media," led by Andy Slawetsky
Reason Four: From 2 until 9 p.m., attendees will travel to the National World War II Museum for a tour, dinner and entertainment.
Reason Five: Spending the rest of the Saturday night and Sunday with my wife in charming New Orleans!!
Just one more note, my day job is still selling office technology, been doing that for 35 years this May. When it comes to the educational sessions, what I'd really like to see is more sales people attending these events. I realize the event is more for dealer principals, but over the years, I've learned more from these types of events. Kinda gives you a chance to take a short break, still work, and creates a stronger relationship between sales and principals.
Now to the sponsors of the event!
The Spring Break exhibiting sponsors: ACDI, AgentDealer, Balboa Capital, BEI Services, Buyers Lab, Brother, Carolina Wholesale, Compass Sales Solutions, ConnectWise, Crawford Thomas, DCS, Digitek, ECi FMAudit, EDA, ESP/SurgeX, Evolved Office, GreatAmerica Financial Services, Gwentaa (March 18-19 Breaks Sponsor), Hytec, Image Star, Impression Solutions, Katun, Laserfiche, Laser Pros International, Lease Corporation of America, MSE, Muratec, NA Trading and Technology, Nuance, OKI, OnePak, Panasonic (March 18-19 Breakfast Sponsor), Parts Now, PHSI, Polek & Polek, Q2, Supplies Network, SYNNEX, Tesseract, TonerCycle/InkCycle, Toshiba, TSAWorld, Wells Fargo and Xerox (March 18 Reception Sponsor).
-=Good Selling=-
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