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Banff, Anyone?February 19, 2008 at 1:59 pm by Blair Closing for Creative Firms is a seminar/workshop that I've done once a year for the last few years. It's primarily focused on building and using process-framed case studies to help derail a pitch and close business without having to write a proposal. For this year's event I was targeting the Bahamas in March, but my schedule got away from me (plus a month in Barbados over Christmas gave me my island fix for awhile).
Plan B, however, is Banff, one of the world's most beautiful places. I made a quick trip on the weekend to scout locations (by quick I mean a seven-hour snowy drive that includes navigating Rogers Pass in the Selkirk mountains. The summit of Rogers Pass gets 10m of annual snow fall - that's 33 feet.) Turns out my favorite meeting room in North America is available - the Ivor Petrak Room at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. This room was host to the first C4CF seminar a few years back. For me so far, the only rival the Ivor Petrak room has is the library at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh where I did a talk two years ago.
Working on details now but mark May 8th
& 9th on your calendar. It's shoulder season so there's no skiing
and the golf and fishing are iffy at best, but the scenery is
spectacular. I'm hoping to secure a special guest speaker for cocktail
hour on the first night. (The topic will have nothing to do with
business development but everything to do with the Canadian wild.) I'm going to keep this one small. To get this meeting room I need to guarantee hotel room nights, which I never like to do, but I think it's time to convene in Banff again. Stay tuned... Tags: seminars (1) closing (2) |
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