Kick Off Keynote & Brunch
High Performance Leadership: Engaging the Generational Workforce
How to Apply Leadership Principals to Improve Employee Engagement and Build a Better Culture for Growth and Profitability
Speaker: Jason Young
Location: Atlantic City Convention Center – Rooms 411/412
Date: Sunday Sept. 10, 2017
Time: Brunch served at 11 AM / Presentation starts 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Enjoy an inspirational encounter with Jason Young, a former senior-level manager at Southwest Airlines and a “rare breed” when it comes to developing leaders and customer service initiatives. Participants will be treated to a compelling experience that will change the way they view themselves, their customers and their company. Jason will offer insights and practical information that can be implemented immediately.
Are You Leaving Dollars on the Table, Shelf or Pallet?
Speaker: Ian Baldwin
Location: Atlantic City Convention Center – Rooms 411/412
Date: Monday, Sept. 11, 2017
Time: 8:00am – 9:00am
Light breakfast served starting at 7:30 AM
Learn how to succeed with your product and your brand. Your customers will be thrilled, proud and come back to do more, spend more. Ian will address how can people be so interested in gardening (More American households (91 million) are involved in gardening than ever before) and so shy in spending (is less than two months cable for most of those households)?
Ian will specifically address:
- … how success creates customer loyalty.
- …how to make the most of an interested, educated, time-conscious consumer who does research on-line prior to shopping and then visits your store.
- … how to leave a customer feeling more confident and excited knowing that the products they bought were tailored to their needs.
- …how the progressive retailers are moving towards “Solution Selling” with tried and true examples of how even small incremental sales of more “tie-ins” can build out the consumer’s basket AND make them happy!
- …how to sell the whole “success kit” of hard goods with the plant material!
Lunch & Learn Workshop
De-Mystifying Social Media for IGC’s
Speaker: Laura Munro
Location: Atlantic City Convention Center – Rooms 411/412
Date: Monday Sept. 11, 2017
Time: 12:15 pm
Lunch served. Attendance limited to 150. Reservations required.
Many garden centers are so busy running their business that they neglect a social media presence. If you count yourself among this group, you might want to reconsider. Over 70% of businesses report gaining new customers through Facebook alone. Take an hour out of your Arett Show visit on Monday, Sept. 11th… and while you enjoy lunch, attend a beginner’s social media workshop.
Admission to these special events is FREE to Arett customers. Open House attendees can register for these events at the same time they register for the Open House. To register online, visit ArettOpenHouse.com.
