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Fifty Tips That increase Profits For Your Business
Rogers Park Business Alliance Presents: A business workshop by Bridget Lane from Business Districts, Inc.
Even in today's tough economy your business can increase profits! In a 90 minute workshop, Bridget Lane puts in plain words 50 practical tools and techniques that can increase your profits. You
will receive a binder containing forms to implement workshop ideas and guide your efforts. Don't miss this
opportunity to learn tools and techniques that have an
immediate impact on your bottom line.
Lunch Included.
Bridget Lane specializes in commercial revitalization strategy, fiscal impact analysis, market analysis, and retail business development. Her ten years of experience as a retailing executive, seven years as a professor at Chicago's DePaul University and three years managing Downtown Evanston serve as a practical foundation for her market research and business development consultations.
Recent clients included communities as diverse as Lake Forest, Illinois; Mountain Brook, Alabama; and Plymouth, Indiana. Bridget also has led retail business recruitment efforts and workshops in business development for community development leaders. At the request of Plainfield, Illinois, she analyzed the impact of a proposed 250 unit residential development. She developed store audits for a major upscale man's clothier, created a retail store concept for a successful wholesaler, and developed the marketing strategy for a newly created tax-exempt foundation. Bridget conducts the basic research and analysis necessary to create business development and marketing strategies, moderates focus groups, and develops consumer surveys.
Residential development impacts, industrial recruitment, neighborhood retail business development and mixed-use project enhancement have all been subjects of Bridget's research and consulting work. She created university courses covering retail management, advertising, introductory marketing and personal selling.
Bridget began her retailing career at Jb Robinson Jewelers, where she had line responsibility for sales and profits in the company's largest region. She also sat on the executive committee charged with policy development during the company's rapid expansion. She developed sales, expense and profit budgets. New store location, display and start-up were under her supervision. She implemented employee hiring and development programs.
Earlier in her career, Bridget served as a public and legislative relations coordinator for the Illinois Department of Conservation. She was also a preservation planner at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
For more information on Bridget Lane, visit http://www.business-districts.com/
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LocationBullehead Cantina (View)
1406 W. Morse
Chicago, IL 60626
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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