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Yesterday, Sue Painter did an excellent post titled 3 Steps To Get The Most Out Of BarCamp Nashville Even If You Don’t Know A Soul! I want to follow that post by talking about how to get the most money out of BarCamp Nashville.

Regardless if you are attending or speaking, you can use the simple tactic below to generate leads, sales, brand awareness and partnerships for your business. How? Follow me!

Step 1) Ask yourself, “What does your business specialize in?”

For example, if you specialize in search engine optimization, start there.

Step 2) Find and purchase two books on the your specialty.

The key here is to get two copies of a beginner book and two copies of a more advance title on the subject.

Step 3) Host a drawing for the books

Get the word out before hand and the day of, that you will be giving away some awesome books at lunch. Keep in mind, the lunch deadline pushes people to act. Then surprise people by doing it again at the end of the day. All people have to do to enter into the drawing is give you their business card.

Step 4) Gather two beer pitchers from behind the bar

Fine, other containers will do, but the key here is to keep the drawings divided by book level (beginners vs advance).

Step 5) Follow-Up!

On Sunday afternoon take the stack of business cards you collected and begin to go through them and develop your outreach approach (method, message, etc.). Generally speaking, the individuals that entered for a chance to win the beginner book could make great clients, while the people that entered for a chance to win the advance book could make great business partners.

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Be sure to check out Bar Camp Nashville To Go Or Not To Go by Greg Patarini tomorrow!

Fact: Nashville is becoming a hotbed for entrepreneurship

Ok, it’s likely that you already knew the fact above, so I wanted to take it one step further. Below you will meet some of the companies that are putting Nashville on the map! These startups range from exciting healthcare plays to technology platforms, more traditionally found in silicon valley.

In each video, you will learn about one of Nashville’s hottest startups from its founder. Enjoy!

Top Startups In Nashville

Bonus!

Do YOU want to get on this list? Take your first step by watching the video below!
Tips, tools and tactics to improve your pitch and business plan from Clayton Associates’ own, Andrew Bouldin

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I recently attended TEDxNashville and was blown away by the quality of speakers and more importantly the messages they shared. Among all the great speakers, I found Jeremy Cowhard’s story to be one of the most inspirational. A native Nashvillian, Jeremy used his set of skills (photography) to both impact people’s lives and inspire to do the same. Though a small gesture, Jeremy’s story shows us all that we can use our own set of skills to positively impact others and change the world! Be sure to watch the video below!

How can you use you set of skills to change the world?

As a “TED head”, I decided to compile a list of the 3 best business talks. Each talk offers a unique topic, perspective and set of insights either into the mind of a business leader, or into theories that will change the way you think about the world of business.




I’m off to the TEDxNashville event! If you have any favorites that didn’t make the list, please mention them in the comments below!







About This Talk:Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish — as kids and as adults.







About This Talk: With humor and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden but influential world of brand marketing, on his quest to make a completely sponsored film about sponsorship. (And yes, onstage naming rights for this talk were sponsored too. By whom and for how much? He’ll tell you.)







About This Talk: Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.

BONUS!

About This Video: Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

If you have any favorites that didn’t make the list, please put them in the comments below!

I am a huge fan of Slideshare. I think it’s a great tool to learn new business concepts quickly and easily. Be sure to check out my favorite startup-related Slideshare presentations below. Let me know what your favorite presentations are in the comments below!

What are some of your favorites? Share them by leaving a comment below! Also, be sure to check out a couple of my startup-related presentations here.

About Start-Up Chile

Start-Up Chile is a program of the Chilean Government to attract world-class early stage entrepreneurs to start their businesses in Chile. They provide selected entrepreneurs with a $40,000 grant (no equity taken!) and 6 months to work on their project. Check out the video below and visit their website for more info!

Click here to apply today!