DT2 helps sharpen the competitiveness of existing business owners and recruit compatible new businesses and new economic uses to build a commercial district that responds to today's consumers' needs.
Curtis Elwood is the Leader of this team and you may contact him here or call him at 314.397-5093. Meetings are the 2nd Thursday of each Month, 7 PM. Contact Curtis for location.
Business Seminars
Transforming Mom & Pop
Cost effective ways to help your business compete
DT2, the Downtown Dutchtown Business Association, is holding a seminar for small businesses that focuses on bringing business skills and knowledge, in cost effective ways, to small business owners.
The half day seminar will be held Saturday, July 15, 2007, at The Gretchen Inn banquet facility, behind the Feasting Fox which is located at 4200 South Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63111. The event will run from 8:30am-1pm.
Registration begins promptly at 8:00am with a continental breakfast being served. RSVP by July 2nd. The cost for the seminar is $10 for DT2 members, $15 for non-members. Please RSVP to earl@dt2stl.org
Attendees can meet for a networking lunch from the menu at the Feasting Fox restaurant next door immediately following the seminar. Lunch is not included in the Seminar cost. Please RSVP for the lunch also when you reserve for the seminar. Payment by check can be sent to DT2, PO Box 1806, St Louis, MO 63118
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New Year's Business Article:
Resolve to Communicate better with your Customers
It's start of a New Year, so that means it's time to make some meaningful New Year's Resolutions. You know, the kind that will make more money for your clients and yourself. It's time to take a new look at what exactly you are selling for your clients. It's also when you look at who really are your customers and prospects.
You need to take a good look at exactly what you are offering and to whom you are making that offer. Have you looked at your product lately? Really, really, looked at it? Who does it appeal to? Why? What benefits do they get from it? What benefits do they get if they are buying it for someone else?
Weekly Business Booster Classes
- every Tuesday, 4:30-6 PM
- Location: The E-Zone at Meramec & Virginia
(on-line seminars with handouts and scripts available, taught by the nation's experts in the subject matters)
March 2006: All About Marketing!
(download 1st Quarter Business Booster Class Schedule here.)
- 02.21.06: How to Write a Marketing Plan
- 02.28.06: Lead Generation
- 03.07.06: Brand Building Basics
- 03.14.06: The 12 Laws of Customer Loyalty (rsvp)
- About this Class: as you read this, one of your best customers is about to walk. What can you do to stop customer churn and, instead, ignite loyalty? One key strategy is found in the fact that customer loyalty is built in stages over time and each of these loyalty stages carries a different customer experience requirement. Couple that with the fact that new research suggests that 95% of customer decision making happens in the unconscious mind, and its easy to see why winning todays loyalty game demands much more than amped up customer service solutions.
- About the Instructor: Jill Griffin is author of the internationally-published business best seller, Customer Loyalty: How to Earn It, How to Keep It. This book has been named to Harvard Business Schools Working Knowledge list of recommended books. Ms. Griffin is co-author of Customer Winback: How to Recapture Lost Customers and Keep Them Loyal, named one the 30 Best Business Books of 2002 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. Her two books serve as textbooks for the MBA and undergraduate courses on customer management at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
- 03.21.06: Word of Mouth Marketing
- 03.28.06: Partnership Marketing
April 2006: Business Organization
May 2006: Business Technology and Tools
Request classes here.