Austin, TX – SCORE Austin and Sam’s Club invite small business owners to attend Spring Training for Small Business Owners, a FREE seminar and networking event to help start, grow and improve your small business. 

Spring Training is part of the annual Small Business Festival, powered by The City of Austin’s Economic Development Department and Capital One Spark Business.

Spring Training for Small Business Owners includes:
• The DIY Guide to Sales with Nancy Strojny
• A panel on Options for Funding Your Business 
• Luncheon speaker Ron Cates on Demystifying Digital Marketing 
• A Small Business Roundtable with SCORE mentors
• A day of participant-driven roundtable mentoring 
• Networking with industry leaders
• Your business questions answered by Austin SCORE mentors

Sign up for our third session of SCORE's Sam's Club Training Day to enjoy lunch with our special guest speaker. Ron Cates is engaging and entertaining and will cover the core elements of a successful marketing strategy, taking into consideration both budget and time constraints.

This presentation has been created exclusively for SCORE Austin, the SCORE Foundation and Sam’s Club by Ron Cates, one of the world’s leading experts on digital marketing.  Low cost and no cost online marketing tools that are simple and effective will be emphasized, along with strategies that tie them together to amplify each other and safe time. Advanced marketers will learn new tricks, but absolute beginners will never feel lost. The primary focus will be on email and social media, but other marketing resources will be included. This is an entertaining, fun, educational, can’t-miss class that will absolutely, positively grow your business!

Speaker Bio: Ron Cates is internationally renowned for his marketing expertise (the press has called him a “digital marketing icon”). Ron Cates has been the keynote/featured presenter or Master of ceremonies at hundreds of high-profile conferences and events around the world. Forbes called Ron a “digital marketing icon." Ken Yancey, CEO of SCORE: "Ron is the best speaker I've ever seen, on any topic, period.” Charles Rowe, National President/CEO of the SBDC: “ Our annual conference features hundreds of excellent speakers, so we’ve literally experienced thousands of great presenters.

Ron Cates is the only one to receive a lifetime invitation to speak at our event.” Ann Marie Moebes, Executive Vice-president, American Marketing Group: “Not only is he the grandfather of email marketing, he’s the best presenter and emcee we’ve ever seen."