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SUMMARY:Special Event featuring Steve Zipkoff
DESCRIPTION:Special Event\n\n \n\nSteve "Zip" Zipkoff\n\n \n\n"Delivering Customer Delight"\n\n \n\nThursday\, July 31\, 2014\n\n8:00am-10:30am\n\nFredericksburg Expo & Conference Center\n\n \n\n$30 Chamber Members\n\n$50 General Public\n\n \n\nTitle Sponsor\n\nAtlantic Builders\, Ltd.\n\n\n\nPlatinum Sponsor\n\nFredericksburg Expo & Conference Center\n\nLifeCare Medical Transports\n\n\n\nGold Sponsor\n\nGreenfields Senior Living\n\n\n\nBronze Sponsors\n\nComfort Keepers\n\nCourtyard by Marriott Historic District\n\nLandmarc Real Estate\n\n \n\n \n\n*Special additional workshop for sponsors following general session. Session will be on "If You Want to Find Gold\, Try Prospecting...The Art of Relationship Selling."\n\n \n\nSponsorships are available contact Whitney@fredericksburgchamber.org\n\n \n\n \n\nSteve is the President/CEO of Zipkoff Solutions\, a unique\, innovative management education company born in 1992\, utilizing a "no-box" thinking approach. After over twenty years of accomplishments with Sears\, Roebuck\, KFC\, Burger King and Taco Bell (Pepsico)\, Steve set out to entertain\, educate and motivate audiences with an energy rarely seen. Steve energizes you.\n\nWhat has Steve done?\n\nWith over 40 years of retail marketing wizardry his accomplishments are world renown.\n\n          Created the Sears DieHard battery national marketing introduction.\n\n          Developed the "We Do Chicken Right" national strategy for KFC.\n\n          Established the "Value Menu" for Taco Bell.\n\n          Sustained two years of monthly same store positive sales comps as the Chief Marketing Officer at la Madeleine French Bakery & Caf .\n\n          Spearheaded the introduction of the "Battle of the Burgers" competitive strategy for Burger King.\n\n          Lead an Internet company (One-and-Only.com) to increased revenue and sustained profitability that led to an outright company purchase for over $40 million.\n\nSteve is currently an Instructor at SMU Cox Graduate School of Business where he has earned the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award 25 times for his course on "Delivering Customer Delight ."\n\n \n\nSteve is a highly sought-after internationally known keynote and educational session speaker who provides a unique blend of educational lessons\, entertaining anecdotal stories and motivational inspiration applicable to any business environment to achieve immediate growth and business culture rejuvenation.
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