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The Great Lakes Entrepreneur Bash

Nov.10.2010

The Great Lakes Entrepreneur Bash

How does a leader take an idea from scratch and grow to a thousand employees and millions of dollars in profit?

What is the secret sauce to these company founders' success?

Find out at The Great Lakes Entrepreneur Bash where eight company founders featured in the new book "How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America" will tell you how they built their multi-million dollar companies, moderated by author Robert Jordan.

When:
November 16, 2010
4:30-7:00PM

Where:
UIC Forum – Main Hall C
725 W. Roosevelt, Chicago, IL 60608

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.2010

How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America

Inspired by Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, author Robert Jordan invited 45 of the most successful entrepreneurs from the American heartland to multi-author a book in 90 minutes. The goal was simple, to allow these founders to tell the world how they did it. This book provides a quick jolt of inspiration for anyone starting a new venture of undertaking a bold plan. The book...

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Dec.04.2010 - 11:14 am

Facebook Part 2

Well we’re now at the three month point on Facebook, having run 10 campaigns. 3,677 people now “like” the How They Did It page, that is, they have affirmatively clicked on “like”...

Nov.23.2010 - 7:49 am

There are Humans at Facebook HQ

Launching an ad campaign on Facebook is hit or miss. You determine copy, demographics, keywords, the works. All very slick and 100% automated. But you don’t know why a click is...

Nov.18.2010 - 3:07 pm

Liftoff!

Tuesday marked the launch of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America and the first ever Great Lakes Entrepreneur Bash! The evening was a HUGE success –...

Nov.15.2010 - 8:51 am

Adventures in Book Marketing: Our First Facebook Ad Campaign

So the challenge is: can we target readers on Facebook? And more to the point, will people who “like” the How They Did It book page on Facebook go out and buy the real book? We...

About Robert

Robert Jordan is author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America and president of two companies: RedFlash and interimCEOinterimCFO. A product of the University of Michigan, Jordan loved Ann Arbor so much he almost didn’t come back...

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