Hawaii...for your business

The best way to position your tree care company for explosive spring sales is to join hundreds of industry leaders at TCIA’s Winter Management Conference. In Hawaii, you’ll find the answers you need to not only survive but thrive in this changing economy. And you’ll enjoy a well deserved island getaway too! Winter Management Conference 2010 is an unprecedented value this year. We've rolled back registration pricing to 2007 levels! And you won’t find hotel rooms priced this low again.

Winter Management Conference always boasts the highest caliber professional speakers. The meeting is always at a beautiful, upscale resort in the dead of winter. Yet survey after survey makes clear that attendees overwhelming value one aspect of the conference above all others – networking with fellow owners and managers.

Why networking?
For some, networking means a bunch of people sitting in a room on folding metal chairs talking about what they do and asking others for help finding employees or increasing sales. Networking is much more than that. It is also much more rewarding. Networking, whether at Winter Management Conference or elsewhere, is making other people better at running their companies and helping people solve their problems. But is giving with no expectation of return really networking? If so, why travel all the way to Hawaii to do it?

At the Hilton Waikoloa, company owners can learn and share from others in different parts of the country. You can network in your own city or state at a local meeting, but everyone will be keeping one eye out for competitors and be less willing to truly share. At WMC, owners from different regions and different markets will never be competitors. People are tremendously willing to share their knowledge when asked.

Learning, networking and growing as business leaders is an ongoing progress. No one is without ideas and no one knows it all. At WMC, you will meet people who are starting out and eager to learn everything, people who have run businesses for years and have specific information needs this year, and some who really do approach knowing it all but still want to keep up on what’s new so they don’t lose their competitive edge.

Why now, more than ever?
Developing a network of relationships takes time, like saving for retirement. And the later you start the harder it will be. Many business leaders have become cautious in 2009 as they wait for signs of recovery. But focusing only on internal issues can be very isolating and during these tough times it is more important than ever to talk with others in our industry who are facing the same challenges. It is more important than ever to look at new ways of doing business, re-define growth and financial strategies, and spend time with other company owners. No one can stay abreast of all of the trends pushing our industry along. So by staying connected, you stay informed. The feeling of being connected and "in the know" is a wonderful thing – especially when the economy and the business of tree care seems to be changing at an ever faster rate.

Whose businesses are growing while others are contracting? How are they doing it? You won’t find out sitting in your office hoping the phone will ring. You will find out at TCIA’s Winter Management Conference. Join us in Hawaii. You can’t afford to miss it.