And Then There Were Ten

Here are the names of the lucky winners of the eight tickets to The Art of Marketing – coming to Calgary on Monday June 14^th:

• Volker Mendritzki
• Kashif Choudhry
• Chuck Warnica
• Nora Bouz
• Kae Shummoogum
• Berta Gomez

I took the names of all those who entered and created a random number generator, in Excel, to come up with the six winners above.

I then created a second random number generator to choose two of the six people from the list above as winners of a pair of tickets. The winners of  a pair of tickets were Volker Mendritzki and Kae Shummoogum. Everyone else won a single ticket.

Winners can contact me by phone (+1.403.874.2998), Skype (Craig.Elias), email (Craig.Elias@ShiftSelling.com) or by using the contact form found at http://ShiftSelling.com/Contact

So that’s eight tickets I’ve given away but I have one extra pair. Thursday morning I will send out a message via Twitter (CraigElias is my Twitter name) saying that I have two more tickets to give away and the first two people to phone my cell phone (+1.403.874.2998) and mention my favorite two words that are in that tweet will win those tickets.

If you don’t win it’s well worth the money to attend. Save $50 off the ticket price by registering here,

Here is a list of the speakers and a brief bio on each of them:

Chip Heath — Strat­egy and Communications
Chip Heath is the Thrive Foun­da­tion of Youth Pro­fes­sor of Orga­ni­za­tional Behav­ior in the Grad­u­ate School of Busi­ness at Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity. He is the co-author of the New York Times best­seller book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Sur­vive and Oth­ers Die. Chip’s lat­est book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, writ­ten with his brother Dan, was released in Feb­ru­ary 2010 and is already a NY Times and Wall Street Jour­nal best seller.

Sally Hogshead — Per­sua­sion and Influence
Nine sec­onds. That’s the length of the aver­age atten­tion span today. Just nine sec­onds! Peo­ple become dis­tracted by the next prod­uct, the next ad, the next option. How can you pos­si­bly hold your cus­tomers’ inter­est long enough shape their opin­ion? How can you break through the clut­ter to nail your next sales call, or moti­vate your inter­nal team? For that mat­ter, how can you influ­ence any decisions?

Sir Ken Robin­son — Inno­va­tion and Cre­ativ­ity
Last month I fea­tured Sir Ken’s inspir­ing TED Talk in the blog. Sir Ken Robin­son, PhD is an inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized leader in the devel­op­ment of cre­ativ­ity, inno­va­tion and human resources. He has worked with gov­ern­ments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with inter­na­tional agen­cies, For­tune 500 com­pa­nies, and some of the world’s lead­ing cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions. In 1998, he led a national com­mis­sion on cre­ativ­ity, edu­ca­tion and the econ­omy for the UK Gov­ern­ment. ‘All Our Futures: Cre­ativ­ity, Cul­ture and Edu­ca­tion’ (The Robin­son Report) was pub­lished to wide acclaim in 1999.

Mitch Joel — Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing and Social Media
When Google wanted to explain online mar­ket­ing to the top brands in the world, they brought Mitch Joel to the Google­plex in Moun­tain View, Cal­i­for­nia. Mar­ket­ing Mag­a­zine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing” and called him, “one of North America’s lead­ing dig­i­tal vision­ar­ies.” In 2006 he was named one of the most influ­en­tial author­i­ties on Blog Mar­ket­ing in the world. Mitch Joel is Pres­i­dent of Twist Image — Canada’s best Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions agency (Mar­ket­ing Magazine).

Gary Vayn­er­chuk — Per­sonal Brand­ing in the New Media Land­scape
Online mar­ket­ing trail­blazer Gary Vayn­er­chuk is a 33-year-old entre­pre­neur whose dual iden­tity as both busi­ness guru and wine guy has made him known as the “Social Media Som­me­lier.” A self-trained wine expert, he rev­o­lu­tion­ized the wine indus­try with his video blog, Wine Library TV (affec­tion­ately known as The Thun­der Show), and grew his fam­ily wine busi­ness from $4 mil­lion to $60 mil­lion in five years. What raised Vaynerchuk’s noto­ri­ety even more than his busi­ness acu­men was his fore­sight com­bined with his pio­neer­ing, multi-faceted approach to per­sonal brand­ing and business.

Max Len­der­man — Brand­ing and Expe­ri­en­tial Mar­ket­ing
Max Len­der­man is Exec­u­tive Cre­ative Direc­tor at GMR Mar­ket­ing, the largest expe­ri­en­tial mar­ket­ing com­pany in North Amer­ica, where his work has won numer­ous indus­try recog­ni­tions, the lat­est includ­ing the 2009 Effie Award and the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Ex Awards. He pre­vi­ously founded and ran Gear­w­erx Expe­ri­en­tial Mar­ket­ing, Canada’s pre­mière expe­ri­en­tial mar­ket­ing agency, with offices in Mon­tréal and Toronto.

Have an EVENTFUL week!

Craig