Event

May 15 IMC East Bay Breakfast Meeting

Hate marketing in tough times? Tired of trying the same old tactics and getting nowhere ? Having trouble getting prospects attention? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then join us for the May IMC East Bay breakfast meeting and learn how to get others to do your marketing for you!

On May 15, Patricia Coate, West Coast director of emerson consulting group, will discuss new ways to leverage your marketing efforts without spending lots of money or time. You will learn how to:

-- Get your clients to do your marketing;

-- Get your colleagues to do your marketing;

-- Get the media to do your marketing; and

-- Get the Internet to do your marketing.

Be sure to join us for this discussion and walk away with a well defined critical path for keeping your credibility and visibility high in these recessionary times.

Patricia Coate, West Coast director of emerson consulting, inc., has more than 25 years experience as a business communications and public relations strategist, publicist, writer and editor. Prior to launching emersongroups West Coast office in 2006, she was editor of the Handbook of Business Strategy, an international business journal published in England. She has also served as a PR coach to several Silicon Valley start-ups and internet companies.

Earlier in her career she was an in-house communications executive for some of the largest corporations and financial firms in the country.

She currently splits her time between the Bay Area and Portland, Oregon, and attends IMC meetings in both regions as often as she can. Earlier this year, she was named the co-chair of marketing for IMC USA.