2012 Growth Conference

Make 2012 the year you achieve your biggest branding, sales and profit goals. Nearly a dozen hands-on seminars to help your business soar to your highest vision. Growth strategies from top business authors, radicals and visionaries. Meet & tweet with host Amy Cosper, editor in chief of Entrepreneur. Networking throughout the day to build partnerships and connections. Business growth perspectives from the Entrepreneur of 2011 winners. From morning to afternoon, you'll find hundreds of ways to seize fresh business opportunities and tackle tough challenges.

Chris Brogan - Author, Trust Agents

Harness The Power Of Social Media

Learn the ins and outs of how to use social media, the web and mobile technology to make an astounding impact on the bottom line of your business. Industry influential and bestselling author Chris Brogan leads the way.

Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft and more on the future of business communications and social software technologies. He is the New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur magazine. Chris's blog is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years of experience in online community, social media and related technologies.

Pitch Your Business To Be Featured In Entrepreneur

Get ready to show your business off for a shot at being featured in Entrepreneur magazine and/or on Entrepreneur.com. It's up to you to sell yourself and your story—and you've got three minutes to do it with an editor's full attention. To increase your chances of being featured, tell the editors what makes your business newsworthy, what you do that's innovative, and what opportunities and challenges you've leveraged to get your business to where it is today. Remember, Entrepreneur is about helping business owners like you—so be sure to include unique strategies and insights that others may learn from.

Join us in honoring the Entrepreneur of 2011 award winners and gain insight from their experiences as the leaders of growing businesses. Winners will be announced from each of three categories during this complimentary luncheon portion of the event.

This free event is made possible by The UPS Store

Speakers include:

How to Raise Money Now

with Asheesh Advani

Discover fresh strategies in challenging times, and tap into angel financing, insider financing and venture capital.

What Your CPA Isn't Telling You

with Mark Kohler

Discover tax remedies and legal structures that will help you save and protect your business.

Small But Social: How Small Businesses Can Win With Social Media Marketing

with Jason Falls

Find the best ways to cultivate customer relationships that drive business.

Unleashing Your Competitive Edge: The Psychology, Sociology and Technology of Productivity

with Jason Womack

Come learn how to plan, prioritize and produce systems of work to do more in less time.

All Fired Up: Tips to Ignite Customer Passion for Your Brand

With Erika Napoletano

Learn what matters—and what doesn't—when it comes to branding your business in order to attract target customers.

Overcoming Business Hurdles

Panel Discussion Moderated by Colleen DeBaise

Entrepreneur.com's special projects editor moderates a timely discussion with experts and entrepreneurs on the strategies helping businesses conquer some of today's biggest challenges.