Join The Wizard Of Ads Group for a half-day marketing seminar geared for owner-operated Main Street businesses.

"Small" business owners have a unique set of issues facing them, and The Wizard Of Ads Group specializes in this particular worldview.  We are the only marketing group, to our knowledge, that is global in scope (we have satellite offices across the US as well as in Canada, England, Latin America, and Australia), but local in focus (we only work with owner-operated companies at the local level).

We're assembling some of our top speakers from across the US and Canada to share their secrets on how to streamline your marketing and grow your business:

• Learn how to get more bang for your marketing buck!
• Make commercials more effective with powerful messaging.
• Trim the excess fat and really dial in your marketing budget.
• Learn the 12 Most Common Mistakes in marketing and how not to commit them.
• Cut through the clutter and speak to customers in the style they prefer.
• Social Media: Do's and Don'ts for owner operated businesses.
  

This is an open seminar and all business owners are invited.  The only requirement is a desire to learn more about marketing. You will experience a fast-paced, jam-packed program with specific action items you can take with you and implement when you go back to work the next day.  We will not--NOT--spend the day giving you sales pitches.  There is nothing to buy at the back of the room.

Every attendee will receive three business books for showing up at no extra cost:  Secret Formulas of the Wizard Of Ads, Magical Worlds of the Wizard of Ads, and one book from a Wizard Of Ads Group partner. 

Plus, we have two additional surprises for you, each worth over $100, that we will give to you at the seminar (these are real, tangible items, not "discounts" or some other sales gimmickry). 

We promise that you will receive real value for your time spent with us, and we will not fill up the afternoon with sales pitches.

We'll cover a lot of territory throughout the afternoon and we've enlisted some of our most engaging thinkers and speakers to present their ideas in St. Louis.

Here are some of the highlights:

Charlie Moger is a Wizard Of Ads Group partner based in Houston, TX. He is flying in to share his presentation Weapons Of Mass Seduction where he compares the process of persuasion in marketing to the things he learned as re-entered the dating pool a few years ago. This presentation brought down the house at South-By-Southwest in Austin back in March, and Charlie is excited to be presenting it in the shadow of The Arch in St. Louis on May 16th.

Steve Rae was among the original 12 Wizard Of Ads partners to form a satellite office when the group was formed over 10 years ago. Steve will be giving two presentations in St. Louis, including The Six Things Every Business Owner Should Know About Marketing That Marketing People Won't Tell Them (Until Now). Steve owned two radio stations in his hometown of Stratford, Ontario before selling them and focusing his efforts full-time on helping make entrepreneurs' dreams come true.

Tim Miles recently wowed the TED community with his presentation For All Your Special Needs at the TEDxMizzou conference in Columbia. The presentation explores what his son - with a communications disorder - has taught Tim - a communications professional - about communication. As TED conferences require that all keynotes are no longer than 18 minutes, Tim is expanding the presentation to its unedited 30 minute length.  Additionally, Tim will team up with Steve Rae to share some of their top client success stories, while pulling back the curtain to expose the strategies that made them work.

One of our resident experts for web conversion and social media, Paul Boomer will be presenting two key modules in the program: (1) the aforementioned presentation on the things you should and should not focus on with social media; and (2) Paul's famous "hot seat" web critiques that have been done across the country to rave reviews.

And finally, Wizard Of Ads Group partners Ryan Patrick and Mike Slover will tag-team the core Wizard Of Ads presentation The 12 Most Common Mistakes In Advertising: What Works, What Doesn't and Why! This presentation was wowed literally tens of thousands of attendees since its original inception. Through the years, we have evolved this presentation to stay current with the latest developments in the evolution of the marketing environment.

Tom Wanek and Jeff Sexton were recently added to the bill and they will bring their world-class expertise to the table as well.