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Recognizing local businessesA s president of the Mount

Pleasant Business asso-ciation, welcome to 2011

Mount Pleasant Entrepreneur & Business Expo!

The Mount Pleasant Business Association (MPBA) was estab-lished in 1992 to bring together businesses in our locale for mutually valuable purposes. As leader in the promotion and enhancement of the Mount Pleasant Business community, MPBA provides its members with information, advocacy, education and networking based on a foundation of integ-rity, social responsibility and excellence.

We are extremely proud to be partnering this year with the Town of Mount Pleasant to present the first Entrepre-neur and Business Expo. We are equally proud to have the Moultrie News, our hometown newspaper, as our sponsor. Our

partnership has allowed us to join together in our common goal to seek opportunities to support our local business com-munity that will help foster a sustainable local economy. This event was designed to allow an existing or aspiring business to network with other businesses and service provid-ers that can help start or grow business, thus creating jobs. The Expo will bring recognition to the Town of Mount Pleas-ant and the Mount Pleasant Business Association while we position our collective efforts as the premier small business and networking event in the Charleston area.

Thank you for your participa-tion in today’s events.

Shawna L. GarrisMPBA President

Assistant vice president, Tidelands Bank

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Mount Pleasant Business and Professional board of directors are pictured here. Clockwise, Shawna Garris, President; Jason Biggs, Vice President; Kent Thune, Treasurer; and Lynne Klosik, Secretary. Chuck Diggle, Immediate Past President is not pictured.

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A healthy and vibrant business communityD ear residents, entre-

preneurs and business partners,

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our inaugural Entrepreneur and Business Expo.

Mount Pleasant is indeed a great place to incubate promis-ing ideas, foster a new venture, or develop an existing business.

We, at the Town of Mount Pleasant, have taken great steps towards creating a healthy and vibrant business community.

Our new business seminars implemented this summer have been a great success.

Our new business incubator is now open and welcoming creative ventures in a dynamic and proactive environment.

Our first business expo wel-comes keynote speaker Clay Clark and offers cost effective ways to promote your busi-ness, new trends in networking and personal and professional development.

None of this could have been possible without the partner-ship and synergy existing between the Town of Mount Pleasant, the Mount Pleasant Business Association and the Moultrie News.

I would like to acknowledge and congratulate these two entities for their long-standing commitment to our business community and to the town of Mount Pleasant.

I invite you to take a closer look at our business projects. Take a seminar, visit our new business incubator and im-merse yourself in our business culture.

Discover why Mount Pleas-ant was named “One of the Best Cities for Start Ups” by Business Week and “One of the Best Places to Live” by Money Magazine.

Best regards,

Mayor Billy SwailsTown of Mount Pleasant

Food for thought

Population - 67,843 (41 square miles)

Male - 48.1%

Female - 51.9%

Median age - 39.1

Median household income - $92,930

Number of dwelling units - 30,674

Population per household - 2.43

Students enrolled (2010/2011) - 11,718

Largest employer - Town of Mount Pleasant

Crime (2009) Offenses which involve injury to persons or property - 1,527

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Agenda

8 - 9 am Volunteer check in

9 - 11 am Vendor registration and set-up - Lobby

11 am Business Expo Begins

1 - 1:30 pm Introduction & Welcome• Rob Fowler• Mayor Billy Swails• Mount Pleasant Business Association

President Shawna Garris

1:30 - 2:40 pm Keynote Presentation - “Make Your Life Epic” U.S. Small Business Administration’s Entrepreneur of the Year - Clay Clark

3:30 - 4:15 pm Seminar #1 - Entrepreneurship 101 The Point Grill - Clay Clark

4:30 - 5:15 pm Seminar #2 - Accelerating Business Success: Growth Strategies Of High-Performing Organizations - The Point Grill - John Carroll

6 pm - 8 pm “After Expo” Networking Event - The Point Grill Hosted by the Mount Pleasant Business Association with music and entertainment provided by Shane Griffin

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Make your life epic: Advice from Clay Clark

F eatured speaker Clay Clark will speak on “Make your life epic - How to work on your business

instead of working in your business:

Produce enough to pursue your pas-sions.

Clark started his first businesses (making T-Shirts) while still in high school.

To pay for his college education he turned his Oral Roberts University dorm room into an office suite.

At the age of 20, he was recognized by the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce as the city’s “Young Entrepreneur of Year.”

Since 2002, Clark has started numer-ous successful business ventures and one association including: DJ Connec-tion, Epic Photography, Thompson Pho-tography, Cherished Traditions Video, Fears & Clark Realty Group, Plug-It-In Marketing, the Make Your Life Epic Success Institute and the Tulsa Bridal Association. In 2007, he was again rec-ognized nationally by being named the United States Small Business Adminis-tration “Entrepreneur of the Year.”

In 2008, he was named by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as the “National Blue Ribbon Quality Award Winner.”

He has been featured in the New York

Times, the Washington Post and he has entertained and educated in front of more than 1,000 audiences since 2001.

Clay Clark is the president of the Make Your Life Institute, an organization ded-icated to empowering people to achieve profound success and life-balance.

During Clark’s business career he has received numerous awards for his pragmatic results driven approach to business including the: United States Small Business Administration Entre-preneur of the Year, the Metro Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the United States Chamber of Commerce National Blue Ribbon Qual-ity Award, the 40 under 40 Award and more.

Clay Clark interacts with and inspires more than 30,000 people per year.

In his endless quest to provide the most practical, pragmatic and effi-cient training seminars in the country Clay has done in depth research into numerous case studies featuring the “best practices” of: Southwest Air-lines, Walmart, Outback Steakhouse,

Starbucks, QuikTrip, UPS, Disney, the Henry Ford success story, the writ-ings of Napoleon Hill, Yum Brands, the Andrew Carnegie success story and countless others.

Clark has written and produced nu-merous training materials for organiza-tions all over the country.

They included an E-Book and his soon-to-be-released book entitled, “From the Dorm Room to the Board Room.”

Clark has conducted high-level con-sulting projects for companies in the mortgage business, the insurance indus-try and numerous other industries.

He is married and currently resides with his three children in Tulsa, Okla. where he s spends his time constantly developing new training material while fulfilling his numerous on-going con-sulting contracts.

For more information on the Busi-ness Coaching by the Make Your Life Epic Success Institute visit his website at www.MakeYourLifeEpic.com or call 918-851-6920.

Clay Clark, Motivational speaker

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Vendor and SeminarLocations1 Direct Marketers of

Charleston 2 Private iPrint Promotions 3 Southcoast Community

Bank 4 East Cooper

Entrepreneurial Women5 Comcast 6 Geeks On Call 7 Multiplastics 8 Body & Soul Therapy, LLC 9 Primary Care Optometry

10 Buzzoff Termite & Pest Control

11 Buzzoff Termite & Pest Control

12 Mount Pleasant Magazine 13 Ross Evans,

Edward Jones Investments14 AAA Vacations 15 Duncan Parnell 16 Holiday Inn Express & Suites 17 Grubb & Ellis/WRS 18 Lowcountry Lighting Center19 The Publications Specialist 20 Cookies By Design 21 Seay Development 22 Park West Dentistry23 Raymond James &

Associates24 Salt Marsh Properties 25 McCay, Kiddy &

Associates, LLC 26 Klok Law Firm, LLC 27 Center for Women28 Workplace Benefits 29 Dunhill Staffing Systems 30 Citrus Fresh Carpet

Cleaning Inc. 31 WCBD-TV News 2 32 East Cooper Medical Center

33 First Command Financial Planning

34 Healing TouchMoore Massage MP Acupuncture

35 Vapor Apparel 36 ML Watercolors

Kim A. Hellman, CPA 37 Patriots Point Naval &

Maritime Museum 38 Hudson’s Import Service, Inc. 39 Morris Financial Concepts 40 Minuteman Press of

Mt. Pleasant 41 Heritage Trust Federal

Credit Union42 Preferred EyeCare Center 43 PLaCE Studios44 relocality inc.45 Innovink46 Benefits Advantage Company47 Charleston Regional

Business Journal 48 Charleston Metro

Chamber of Commerce 49 C E Mckenzie &

Associates, LLC50 SCORE 51 SBA/Small Business

Development Center 52 Tidelands Bank53 Trident Technical College 54 Small Business Enterprise

Program 55 First Reliance Bank 56 C.T. Lowndes & Company 57 Town of Mount Pleasant58 MPBA59 Moultrie News60 Town of Mount Pleasant

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Hidden strengths that create dramatic results

A lso featured will be John Carroll. John Earl Carroll is a national award-winning columnist,

author, consultant, executive coach and serial entrepreneur.

He strategically connects hidden strengths that create dramatically im-proved results and profits for his clients.

Carroll is one of only 19 professionals on the planet recognized by peers for his work consulting with emerging growth companies.

Carroll has worked with sales profes-sionals, managers and entrepreneurs in businesses, trade groups and charitable organizations.

An accomplished and engaging speaker, he has been internationally recognized for sales and facilitation excellence.

His approaches have attracted at-tention around the planet, including articles appearing in Chief Executive China magazine.

A national award-winning columnist, Carroll is also the author of Sales Illus-trated: 68 Sales Lessons from Everyday Life (available in three languages). His columns have appeared regularly in the Charleston Regional Business Journal and the Catholic Miscellany.

With firsthand experience in manufac-turing, distribution and service indus-tries, he is a true entrepreneur, having launched or helped to launch six organi-zations, one of which was recognized in

the Emerging 10, the 10 fastest growing businesses in the Charleston region. Carroll is also the first layperson to serve on the Clergy Personnel Advisory Board of the Catholic Diocese of Charleston. He currently serves as board chair for Camp Rise Above, a camp for children with special medical needs. He is a founding board member of Lowcoun-try Local First and has served as board president of the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center and president of the Mount Pleasant Business Association. He is the father of two grown daughters and lives in Mount Pleasant, with his wife Lori.

Key elements•Strategy, systems and people - When

an organization has all three working in alignment with a clear focus on its cus-tomer, it is likely to grow and prosper. These are the three key areas where Un-limited Performance works with client organizations:

•Strategy - Facilitate development of a specific direction over the long-term,

create short-term implementation plansto accomplish the larger goals and hold people accountable for activities in sup-port of those plans.

•Systems - Look at current processes to evaluate how consistent they are withthe organization’s strategy. From a lead-ership perspective, how consistent is thewalk with the talk? From a sales and op-erations perspective, why would some-one want to do business with us? From an associate’s perspective, why would someone want to come to work with us?

•People - Work to develop the best in each person throughout the organization,focusing on the obstacles that preventgreater productivity and more satisfying results. By helping to identify and remove those obstacles, people are better able togrow in their value to the organization and create wealth, both for themselves and the organization.

Carroll’s approach revolves around a simple idea: improving organizational and individual performance. He tailors solutions to the existing talents and re-sources within the organization to im-prove the client’s condition.

John Carroll, executive coach

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Stop by our booth to discuss any concerns

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MONDAYShop

Mount Pleasant!

TUESDAYBusiness seminar:

Preparing for “What If”

Peter Lucash, CEO of

Digital CPE, LLC

WEDNESDAYBIZ INC

Grand Opening, 5:00 p.m.

THURSDAYMount Pleasant

Business Associationmeeting, Business

DevelopmentUpdate, Town ofMount Pleasant

FRIDAYBreakfast

with the Mayor, 8:00 a.m. @

Cooper River Room

For more details contact: Quin D. Stinchfield, Business Development Coordinator @ 843.884.8517

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BUSINESS APPRECIATION WEEKSEPTEMBER 12 – 16

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Patriots Point is more than a memorable travel destination: itis the ideal venue for every type of special occasion. Our 18event spaces on and off ship have stunning harbor views anda remarkable historic atmosphere, and will accommodatelarge and small groups. Plan your next event at Patriots Point.You won’t forget it.

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Gift Filled BasketCharleston Mercury Full Moon

Blueberry PreserveCinebarre – 4 movie tickets

Karen’s Korner Frame Shop &Art Gallery, $100 gift certificate

towards custom framingOlde Colony Bakery, 15 oz. Benne Wafers

Patina Blu, Kelly Anne CareyDesigner Tea Towel

Taco Mamacita, Ilucha T-Shirtand Dinner for Two

The Man Cave, Set of 8Clemson Cups

The Man Cave Set of 8 Carolina Cups

Stop by our booth in the front lobby andhave your photo taken for our Hall of FameMount Pleasant Entrepreneurs and Business People Online PhotoGallery

Piggly Wiggly Pig Swig Pig Tail Ale, 6 pack

Piggly Wiggly 2009 CaliforniaGrace Bridge Wine

Two Piggly Wiggly T-Shirts (you may exchange the color and

size at any Piggly Wiggly Store)

EightBottles of

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Evening Post Books, Set of three books: Sister Santee,

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Prizes!at the EXPO

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Booth Numbers

PLaCE Studios 43Relocality, Inc. 44Innovink 45Benefits Advantage Company 46

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September 14, 5:00 p.m.

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