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Boston Business Boot Camp adds Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association as a sponsor

WALTHAM, MA and WESTON, MA… 

The Boston Business Boot Camp, a three-day conference designed specifically to help green professionals grow their respective businesses, recently added the Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association (MNLA) to its list of sponsors. MNLA joins Constant Contact, Paychex, Vendetti Motors and Peace Frog Organic Solutions as part of the list of sponsors for the conference, which will take place on March 1-3 at the at Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts.

“Green industry professionals are experts at what we do—beautifying the outdoors. It’s running our businesses where we need the most help,” said Keith Upham, founder of the Boston Business Boot Camp and owner of the Weston, MA-based landscaping/design company The Upham Landscape Company. “MNLA’s sponsorship of the Boston Business Boot Camp recognizes the need for its members and all green industry professional to continue to grow in the other areas of running a successful business.”

The Boston Business Boot Camp will feature professional speakers to discuss aspects of business: sales, marketing, productivity and more. The featured speaker will be “Ace of Sales” Jeffrey Gitomer on Day 2, March 2 of the Boot Camp. Gitomer is a New York Times best-selling author of such titles as The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, The Little Black Book of Connections and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude.

Adds Upham, “We designed this Boot Camp for green industry professionals but the information Jeffrey will be sharing is stuff every small business owner should know.”

Other speakers include: Carissa St. Laurent of Constant Contact, Michael Gannon, Esq.; Jeffrey Scott of Jeffrey Scott, Inc.; Bonnie Kirchner of Sea Change Financial Education; Tony Bass of Tony Bass Consulting, Inc.; Frank Crandall of Crandall Consulting and Keith Upham.

Sessions planned for the Boot Camp include: 

  • Growing your Business Using Email & Social Marketing”
  • “Planning For Profit”
  • “The Seven Habits Of Highly Successful Green Industry CEO’s”
  • “Growing Your Landscape Business By Referral”
  • “Attracting, Hiring & Retaining Key Employees”

The Boston Business Boot Camp anticipates up to 200 attendees from a variety of green industry disciplines, including landscapers, lawn care pros, tree service specialists, pest control business owners, masons, fence companies, nursery/greenhouses, outdoor lighting, and pool installers. The cost to attend is $995 per person. Companies signing up three or more attendees will receive a five percent discount. Companies signing up five or more may deduct 10 percent from the total. 

In addition, a variety of sponsorship opportunities are available. Those include the Platinum Sponsorship ($15,000), Silver and Silver Lanyard ($3000) and Bronze ($750). 

Interested attendees and sponsors may contact Keith Upham directly at 617-839-1451 or visit http://www.bostonbusinessbootcamp.com for more information.

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Sales guru Jeffrey Gitomer to headline Boston Business Boot Camp, a conference specifically designed for green industry professionals.

Jeffrey Gitomer
Sales guru Jeffrey Gitomer will be speaking at the Boston Business Boot Camp

New York Times best-selling author of “The Sales Bible” featured speaker on Day 2 of Boston Business Boot Camp, to take place at Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts, March 1-3.

WALTHAM, MA and WESTON, MA…

Early morning sales conferences are renowned for their coffee breaks. Besides being a time to network, it also provides opportunity for attendees to recaffeinate with their hot beverage of choice. With the recent addition of sales guru Jeffrey Gitomer, bestselling author of the The Sales Bible and a weekly newsletter Sales Caffeine, a second cup of joe might not be necessary for the Boston Business Boot Camp, a three-day conference designed specifically to help green professionals grow their  businesses.

“It’s not every day you can add the author of the Bible to your speaker’s list,” joked Keith Upham, founder of the Boston Business Boot Camp. “Seriously though, Jeffrey is one of the most dynamic sales speakers in the world. He not only takes over a room, but provides more of a jolt to an audience than 10 cups of coffee.”

Adds Upham, “We designed this Boot Camp for green industry professionals but the information Jeffrey will be sharing is stuff every small business owner should know.”

Gitomer’s best-selling titles include: The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, The Little Black Book of Connections and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude. All of his books have been number one best sellers on Amazon.com, including Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless, The Patterson Principles of Selling, The Little Red Book of Sales Answers, The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way, The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching!, The Little Teal Book of Trust, Social BOOM!, and The Little Book of Leadership. His literary efforts also include a weekly syndicated column entitled Sales Moves, with a readership of more than four million.

Gitomer is also a renowned speaker, giving more than 100 presentations per year for corporations like Coca-Cola, D.R. Horton, Caterpillar, BMW, AT&T Wireless, MacGregor Golf, Ferguson Enterprises, Kimpton Hotels, Hilton, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, AmeriPride, NCR, Stewart Title and Comcast Cable. Those presentations include speaking at public and corporate seminars, running annual sales meetings, and conducting live and Internet training programs on selling, customer loyalty, and personal development.

“In creating Boston Business Boot Camp, we wanted to give green industry professionals nationwide a world class event,” said Upham, who is also the owner of Weston, MA-based landscaping/design company The Upham Landscape Company. “With Boston as our location, we were part of the way there. Adding a world class speaker like Jeffrey Gitomer to an already impressive agenda of activities and speakers brings us all the way there.”

Other speakers appearing at the March 1-3 conference to be held at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts, include: Carissa St. Laurent of Constant Contact, Michael Gannon, Esq.; Jeffrey Scott of Jeffrey Scott, Inc.; Bonnie Kirchner of Sea Change Financial Education; Tony Bass of Tony Bass Consulting, Inc.; Frank Crandall of Crandall Consulting and Keith Upham. The range of topics covered will include sales, marketing, financial planning, HR, time management, and more.

The Boston Business Boot Camp anticipates up to 200 attendees from a variety of green industry disciplines, including landscapers, lawn care pros, tree service specialists, pest control business owners, masons, fence companies, nursery/greenhouses, outdoor lighting, and pool installers. The cost to attend is $995 per person. Companies signing up three or more attendees will receive a five percent discount. Companies signing up five or more may deduct 10 percent from the total.

In addition, a variety of sponsorship opportunities are available. Those include the Platinum Sponsorship ($15,000), Silver and Silver Lanyard ($3000) and Bronze ($750).

Interested attendees and sponsors may contact Keith Upham directly at 617-839-1451 or visit http://www.bostonbusinessbootcamp.com for more information.

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Speakers added to Boston Business Boot Camp, a conference specifically designed for green industry professionals.

Keith Upham
Keith Upham, founder of Boston Business Boot Camp

First annual conference to take place at Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts, March 1-3.

WESTON, MA…

The Boston Business Boot Camp, a three-day conference designed specifically to help green professionals grow their respective businesses, recently added Carissa St. Laurent of Constant Contact and Jeffrey Scott of Jeffrey Scott, Inc. to its roster of speakers.

St. Laurent’s segment, entitled “Growing your Business Using Email & Social Marketing” will focus on how business owners can utilize the Internet and social media to grow their business. Scott will speak on two topics, entitled “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Green Industry CEO’s” and “Growing Your Landscape Business by Referral”.

“We have some incredibly talented people in the green profession that can literally turn a backyard into a work of art. When it comes to turning leads into customers, branding or marketing their business, let’s just say they’re green in another way,” said Keith Upham, founder of Boston Business Boot Camp and owner of The Upham Landscape Company. “We designed the Boston Business Boot Camp help those folks raise their business acumen to the level of their skill as green professionals. Having speakers the caliber of Carissa and Jeffrey only sweetens the pot.”

Other speakers appearing at the March 1-3 conference to be held at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts, include: Michael Gannon, Esq.; Bonnie Kirchner of Sea Change Financial Education; Frank Crandall of Crandall Consulting and Keith Upham. The range of topics covered will include sales, marketing, financial planning, HR, time management, and more.

“It’s ironic that we refer to this as a boot camp, because we’re not focusing on any activity that requires boots. It’s all about running your green industry business better,” said Upham. “Beyond speakers with a variety of different specialties—sales, marketing, financial planning, HR, time management—we have an abundance of networking opportunities with fellow green business owners.”

The Boston Business Boot Camp anticipates up to 200 attendees from a variety of green industry disciplines, including landscapers, lawn care pros, tree service specialists, pest control business owners, masons, fence companies, nursery/greenhouses, outdoor lighting, and pool installers. The cost to attend is $995 per person. Companies signing up three or more attendees will receive a five percent discount. Companies signing up five or more may deduct 10 percent from the total.

“This is a $15 billion a year industry that’s been growing at 12-15% annually,” Upham says. “We (business owners) need every bit of business education there is available to help us manage our businesses better and be more competitive with the large franchises. As a whole, we’re great at landscaping, but our business skills need constant sharpening.”

In addition, a variety of sponsorship opportunities are available. Those include the Platinum Sponsorship ($15,000), Silver and Silver Lanyard ($3000) and Bronze ($750).

Interested attendees and sponsors may contact Keith Upham directly at 617-839-1451 or visit http://www.bostonbusinessbootcamp.com for more information.

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