The ACT NOW Small Business Camp is a professional leadership conference designed especially for those who dream of success in America Today. It brings together more than 300 influential professionals and business owners throughout South Carolina - Sumter, Columbia, Florence and Greenville

Business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, professionals and those looking for career advice. You will leave with:  Four reasons why now is the best time to start or have a small business.  The best way to stand out from the competition.  How to save thousands on your advertising budget.  And, how to set-up your business for exponential growth even in a global recession.

This camp is even for people who are just thinking about taking the entrepreneurial plunge and features millionaire business coaches, business strategist, motivational speakers, Internet experts, lawyers who instruct you on how to structure your business, accountants who share with you how to handle the financial challenges you will encounter, the Small Business Administration-SBA, YWCA, Santee Wateree Regional Transportation Authority - RTA, USC Sumter, Tuomey HealthCare Systems, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Stanley Welch Clothiers, Debbie Bowen ERA Wilder Realty,South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, Tindal Construction Company, Family Support Services LLC, Fairway Home Care, Willie’s Residential Care, Universal Benefits, Inc., Platinum Limousine and Transportation Services, PEE DEE Medical Transport Inc., M&M Carpets, Inc., County Council, members of the Chamber,  SC Employment  Security Commission, South Carolina Community Bank and the Small Business Owner Of-the-Year.

ACT Now Small Business Camp

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.     Early-Bird Special featuring the Chamber of Commerce, County Counsel, SC Employment  Security Commission, Vocation Rehabilitation, YWCA and the South Carolina Community Bank.

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.   Overcoming Unemployment
Today the recession has plagued our city with an unmerciful unemployment rate and the best way to fight back might just be to start a business. Our motivational speaker shows you how to free yourself from outmoded thinking and transform your dreams through innovation and masterful execution.

Speaker:
Cornell Grady, President,
High Impact Group

9:20 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.    Welcome Address: Jim Giffin-Small Business Administration and 
Anthony Dennis Sheriff.  Both Giffin and Dennis are adjunct professors at Morris College.

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.    2008-2009 Small Business Owner of the Year Winner
This winner will share how he turned his business from an 80 percent customer base and 20 present government into a 90 percent government and 10 percent customer.  Also you will gain insight into him winning a 2 million dollar contract bid.   Mr. Tobiere received the 2008-2009 Business Person of the Year Award

Keynote Speaker:
Joseph Tobiere, Owner
Vigier’s Computer Services LLC

Come ready to hear about the latest developments, explore new technology and see the potential that lies ahead.

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.    Session A- Successful Business Owners Share their Secrets
This session will explain how you can break in and carve out a lucrative niche in your respective market.  Examine some of the best business trends, leadership and management skills…geared to help you make the right decisions in your business.  Also help you advance your career, reduce your tax burden, protect your estate, and increase your wealth.

Moderator:

Keith Britton, Director of Admissions Services – Student Affairs Division
University of USC Sumter

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.    Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.    Session B - Women, Minority and Home-Base-Businesses
You don’t have to quit your job to start a successful business. Our speakers reveal how to activate your dreams, gain financial freedom and live the life you’ve always dreamed.  This session is rich in content, rich in reality, and rich in spirit.  You will learn secrets and strategies from some of the most successful business women in South Carolina today.

Moderator:

Michelle Logan-Owens, VP
TUOMEY HealthCare System

LUNCH                                         

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

1:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.    Session C – 360° Internet Marketing Plan - To Reach Thousands Of Potential Customers Waiting To Buy Your Product/Service. 
To effectively connect with new clients, improve customer service, or promote a brand, companies today must be wired to new technology and interactive strategies. Give your business the competitive EDGE by maximize your internet marketing leverage with  Linked In, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and hundreds of other social networking sites.

Speakers:
G Allan Roberts,
Superior Image USA

Moderator:
Andrenette Hudley, Executive Director

YWCA

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.    Session D - Power Networking hosted by the ACT NOW Professionals Network Join us as some of the city’s most powerful networkers share the three basic rules of networking. Plus, we’ll hear one powerful networkers 30 Second Pitch.

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  - How to Turn a Small Business into a Million Dollar Business
Mr. Wilson has been for years traveling the country sharing his business opportunity that has caused him to become rich.  And now he’s ready to share with you how to transform your dreams and turn a small business into a million dollar business.

Keynote Address:
Ted Wilson, President and CEO
Universal Benefits, Inc

Receive a Special Offer to Attend the ACT NOW Small Business Camp on June 15^th in Sumter, South Carolina.

You will leave with:

• Four reasons why now is the best time to start or have a small business.

• The secret to selling anything to anybody - and how to increase your profits.

• Easy and inexpensive small business marketing ideas and web marketing strategies that get results.

• The best way to stand out from the competition and get people to contact you.

• The easiest way to eliminate objections and consistently sell more.        

• The insider strategies to increase your profits in less time.

• How to market your product to the world using the only REAL techniques that make the Internet pay off.

• How to set-up your business for exponential growth even in a global recession.

• How get government cash to stimulate your businesses growth.

• A few simple methods to get Google to send you new fresh customers every day.

• Ten timeless persuasive ways to get your employees to work more productively.

• How to save thousands on your advertising budget while increasing sales & profits.

• Why Yellow page advertising, newspaper advertising & magazine advertising are dead.

• How you can get more people to buy? Discover how to get attention in 15 seconds and make a $100,000 this year!

• Put you’re marketing on autopilot reliably attract more clients every month, increase sales and sell more too existing clients with this marketing system.

• How to locate and identify large groups of people ready to buy your product or service.

• If you already own a business... We will show you what a goldmine you're sitting on right now - that you do not know about - that's worth $10,000 to $1,000,000 in sales - immediately.

• Web site marketing strategies that increase online lead generation & sales.        

• How to transform your website into a money-making machine

When you attend the ACT NOW Small Business Camp for the discounted price of $99 you will receive the free e-book Network Effect Traffic System outlining Internet Marketing Expert G. Allan Roberts self-help book: This book contain secrets of how he made $100,000 of sales in just 90 days using the Internet.

PLUS Roberts will share with you his secrets of how to dominate Google search results with 360° internet marketing and leave your competition scratching their heads. “It’s like taking a black marker and scratching out all your competitors out of the phonebook.”