BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200505 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200506 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE SUMMARY:South Sound Small Business Summit DESCRIPTION:**COVID19 (Coronavirus) Update** 04/01/2020**\n\n\n\nWe know how much you'd like to come together to learn and share. Unfortunately\, we will be moving this event for 2020 to an online event. This was a hard decision to make but an important one to make sure that everyone stays safe.\n\n\n\nAll three speakers have agreed to video there presentations and all tickets will be converted to access the online summit on May 5\, 2020. All registered attendees will receive before May 5\, 2020 login instructions and password for the event. All profits will also continue to support the Washington State Small Business Development Center. We know that business owners are flexible and we appreciate your support!\n\n \nWHAT IS THE EVENT?: Created in 2015\, The South Sound Business Summit's purpose is to support the South Puget Sound's (South King\, Pierce and Thurston County) businesses through an educational event that inspires and connects the community.\n\nWHY DOES THIS EVENT EXIST?: We believe that the local business community needs a place to learn from other business owner's success and failures\, marketing techniques and other ways to grow and expand your business. We do this to give back\, not to make a profit\, so that everyone can succeed in business.\n\nWHO SHOULD ATTEND?: Business leaders\, managers and entrepreneurs looking to make the most of their business\, employees and profitability. Businesses with large or small revenue should attend\; the topics help all businesses regardless of size.\n\nThis event participates during the national celebration of the contribution of businesses and entrepreneurs\, National Business Week.\n\n \n\nGeneral Admission Tickets: $35 | Veteran Tickets $30 | Student Tickets: $10\n\nONLINE EVENT WITH ONLINE EXPO\n\n \n\nTICKET SALES WILL BE EXTENDED TO MAY 31\, 2020\n\nAll profits will benefit: Washington State Small Business Development Center (SBDC)\n\nFor more information about the South Sound Business Summit visit: http://www.southsoundbusinesssummit.com\n\n \n\n \n\nThe 2020 South Sound Business Summit is proud to announce this years speaker line up!\n\nNormally to hear these speakers would cost $250-$500\, but because of their commitment to small business its only $35!\n\nMike Michalowicz\nHear from Mike by Video Conference from Trenton\, NJ\n\nAuthor of Fix This Next\, Clockwork\, Surge\, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur\, The Pumpkin Plan\, and Profit First\n\n(Click the Book name to order your book today!)\n\nEradicating Entrepreneurial Poverty\n\n\n Mike launched three multi-million dollar companies before his 35th birthday\n Mike was awarded the NJ SBA's Young Entrepreneur of The Year when he was 26\n Mike sold his first company to private equity and his second firm to a Fortune 500\n Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal\n\n\n\n Mike is an active partner in multiple companies\, including an American manufacturer\, a business growth consultancy\, and an augmented reality tech firm\n\nMike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First\, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur's cult classic\, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognized as the guy who "challenges out dated business beliefs" and teaches us what to do about it.\n\nMike will talk about his mission to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty and look at various aspects of a business to provide a simple framework that helps a business grow profitably and sustainably and make a difference.\n\nDetails include:\n\n\n What he means by entrepreneurial poverty it's not just money! And steps to eradicating it.\n Bio-mimicry learning from nature\n The Entrepreneurial Hierarchy of Needs\n How The GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) formula for determining a business's profit is Sales Expenses = Profit. It is simple\, logical and clear. Unfortunately\, it's a lie.\n\n \n\nElisa Hays\nEmpathy Fueled Solutions and Author of "Letters to My Daughter"\n\n(Click the book name to order your book today!)\n\nIMPACT: A Crash Course In Leadership\n\nSponsored by: The Port of Tacoma\n\nLeadership is about what you do\, the choices you make\, when confronted with adversity. Learn what separates a genuine leader from someone in a position of authority. Be inspired to become the leader people can't resist. Discover how you can lead through any adversity with four powerful\, simple actions.\n\nIMPACT: A Crash Course in Leadership will help you transform your life. By applying the lessons\, you will turn weakened staff into star performers\, and refashion your organization into a whole-hearted\, connected community.\n\n \nBarry Long\nTalk & Roll\n\nChoosing the Positive Path to getting where you want to go\n\nSponsored by: Evergreen Business Capital\n\nBungee jumping\, international travel\, parenting\, are all examples of very challenging tasks. And from Barry's perspective\, even more so while sitting in my wheelchair. In this presentation Barry will share how embracing the power of asking for help\, having fun and ones own attitude will help everyone see they have the ability to achieve anything they want and truly enjoy life!\n\nFor over 20 years\, Barry has had the pleasure of traveling all over the world to make hundreds of presentations to organizations\, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies\, inspiring audiences to strive for greater levels of accomplishment by setting goals that lead to success.\n\nBarry was 22 years old when a near-fatal motorcycle crash completely and permanently altered almost everything I knew about life. Barry discovered early in recovery that choosing to live with a genuinely positive attitude\, setting realistic and achievable goals and learning to ask for help makes anything possible.\n\n\n\nThank you to our 2020 Sponsors\n\nPaul T Long- Trusted Business Lender for the South Sound\n\nTimberland Bank\n\nEvergreen Business Capital\n\nPort of Tacoma\n\nCopy Wrights Printing & Mailing\n\nSouth Sound Magazine\n\nSouth Sound Business Magazine\n\nElevated Image Productions\n\nMaestro Strategic Solutions\n\nWild Child Group\n\nBlue Wings Events\n\nOur Local Chamber of Commerce Sponsors\n\nTacoma Pierce County Chamber\n\nThurston County Chamber\n\nLacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce\n\nYelm Chamber of Commerce\n\nAuburn Area Chamber of Commerce\n\nFife Milton Edgewood Chamber of Commerce\n\nPuyallup/Sumner Chamber of Commerce\n\nGig Harbor Chamber of Commerce\n\nFunds contributed toward this event are not tax deductible. This is a crowdfunded event and is not run by any business or entity. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

**COVID19 (Coronavirus) Update** 04/01/2020**
\n
\nWe know how much you&rsquo\;d like to come together to learn and share. Unfortunately\, \;we will be moving this event for 2020 to an online event. \;This was a hard decision to make but an important one to make sure that everyone stays safe.
\n
\nAll three speakers have agreed to video there presentations and all tickets will be converted to access the online summit on May 5\, 2020. \;All registered attendees will receive before May 5\, 2020 login instructions and password for the event. All profits will also continue to support the Washington State Small Business Development Center. We know that business owners are flexible and we appreciate your support!
\n \;

\nWHAT IS THE EVENT?: \;Created in 2015\, The South Sound Business Summit&rsquo\;s purpose is to support the South Puget Sound&rsquo\;s (South King\, Pierce and Thurston County) businesses through an educational event that inspires and connects the community.
\nWHY DOES THIS EVENT EXIST?: \;We believe that the local business community needs a place to learn from other business owner&rsquo\;s success and failures\, marketing techniques and other ways to grow and expand your business. We do this to give back\, not to make a profit\, so that everyone can succeed in business.
\nWHO SHOULD ATTEND?: Business leaders\, managers and entrepreneurs looking to make the most of their business\, employees and profitability. Businesses with large or small revenue should attend\; the topics help all businesses regardless of size.
\nThis event participates during the national celebration of the contribution of businesses and entrepreneurs\, National Business Week.
\n \;
\nGeneral Admission Tickets: $35 | Veteran Tickets $30 | Student Tickets: $10
\nONLINE EVENT WITH ONLINE EXPO
\n \;
\nTICKET SALES WILL BE EXTENDED TO MAY 31\, 2020
\nAll profits will benefit: \;Washington State Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
\nFor more information about the South Sound Business Summit visit: \;http://www.southsoundbusinesssummit.com
\n \;
\n \;
\nThe 2020 South Sound Business Summit is proud to announce this years speaker line up!
\nNormally to hear these speakers would cost $250-$500\, but because of their commitment to small business its only $35!\n\n

Mike Michalowicz

\nHear from Mike by Video Conference from Trenton\, NJ
\nAuthor of \;Fix This Next\, \;Clockwork\, \;Surge\, \;The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur\, \;The Pumpkin Plan\, and \;Profit First
\n(Click the Book name to order your book today!)
\nEradicating Entrepreneurial Poverty\n\n\n\n\nMike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First\, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur&rsquo\;s cult classic\, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognized as the guy who &ldquo\;challenges out dated business beliefs&rdquo\; and teaches us what to do about it.
\nMike will talk about his mission to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty and look at various aspects of a business to provide a simple framework that helps a business grow profitably and sustainably and make a difference.
\nDetails include:\n\n\n \;\n\n

Elisa Hays

\nEmpathy Fueled Solutions and \;Author of &ldquo\;Letters to My Daughter&ldquo\;
\n(Click the book name to order your book today!)
\nIMPACT: A Crash Course In Leadership
\nSponsored by: The Port of Tacoma
\nLeadership is about what you do\, the choices you make\, when confronted with adversity. Learn what separates a genuine leader from someone in a position of authority. Be inspired to become the leader people can&rsquo\;t resist. Discover how you can lead through any adversity with four powerful\, simple actions.
\nIMPACT: A Crash Course in Leadership will help you transform your life. By applying the lessons\, you will turn weakened staff into star performers\, and refashion your organization into a whole-hearted\, connected community.
\n \;\n

Barry Long

\nTalk &\; Roll
\nChoosing the Positive Path to getting where you want to go
\nSponsored by: Evergreen Business Capital
\nBungee jumping\, international travel\, parenting\, are all examples of very challenging tasks. And from Barry&rsquo\;s perspective\, even more so while sitting in my wheelchair. In this presentation Barry will share how embracing the power of asking for help\, having fun and ones own attitude will help everyone see they have the ability to achieve anything they want and truly enjoy life!
\nFor over 20 years\, Barry has had the pleasure of traveling all over the world to make hundreds of presentations to organizations\, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies\, inspiring audiences to strive for greater levels of accomplishment by setting goals that lead to success.
\nBarry was 22 years old when a near-fatal motorcycle crash completely and permanently altered almost everything I knew about life. Barry discovered early in recovery that choosing to live with a genuinely positive attitude\, setting realistic and achievable goals and learning to ask for help makes anything possible.\n\n
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\nThank you to our 2020 Sponsors
\nPaul T Long- Trusted Business Lender for the South Sound
\nTimberland Bank
\nEvergreen Business Capital
\nPort of Tacoma
\nCopy Wrights Printing &\; Mailing
\nSouth Sound Magazine
\nSouth Sound Business Magazine
\nElevated Image Productions
\nMaestro Strategic Solutions
\nWild Child Group
\nBlue Wings Events
\nOur Local Chamber of Commerce Sponsors
\nTacoma Pierce County Chamber
\nThurston County Chamber
\nLacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce
\nYelm Chamber of Commerce
\nAuburn Area Chamber of Commerce
\nFife Milton Edgewood Chamber of Commerce
\nPuyallup/Sumner Chamber of Commerce
\nGig Harbor Chamber of Commerce
\nFunds contributed toward this event are not tax deductible. This is a crowdfunded event and is not run by any business or entity.
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