Revolutionary Event Attracts Overflow Crowd of 500 Jewish Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and Employees Seeking to Learn More About Business Growth
Brooklyn, NY — This past Tuesday, on June 11th, a crowd of over 500 Jewish businesspeople attended LTB 2013, an event billed as the nation’s first-ever Jewish business conference.
Held at the posh Dyker Beach Golf Course in New York, LTB 2013 – which stands for Let’s Talk Business – aimed to create an innovative platform to help people in the community achieve long-term business growth and advance their careers.
“This was the very first conference of its kind,” said LTB 2013 founder and Ptex Group CEO Meny Hoffman. “It really opened people’s eyes by educating them about important business topics like sales, marketing, social media, corporate leadership – things that can spell the difference between success and failure.”
LTB 2013 featured a multi-faceted, content-driven agenda that was graced with a lineup of distinguished speakers, unique networking opportunities and groundbreaking programming.
Noted inspirational lecturer and Founder of H3 & Co., Charlie Harary, moderated the event with a perfect balance of charisma and professionalism, holding the day together and mesmerizing the crowd with his oratory brilliance.
The first keynote speaker was New York Times best-selling business author Gary Vaynerchuk, who began the day with a high-energy speech filled with inspirational insights about why being passionate about business is a must and how to tap into the power of technology to share that passion with others.
The crowd then made a smooth transition into two separate breakaway auditoriums for focus sessions. In one room, Eric Lofholm, a Master Sales Trainer, taught his proven step-by-step sales process. In another room, Bob Prosen shared tips from his Small Business Acceleration Program, focusing on five ways to succeed in leadership.
Up next was Ramon Ray, a longtime expert in online marketing, who enthusiastically explained the concept behind Lifecycle Marketing, which included seven strategies of attracting customers and maximizing profits.
Scott Ginsberg, better known as The Nametag Guy, was the second keynote speaker. Entertaining and engaging, Ginsberg taught the attendees how to strategically connect with others and maximize their networking skills. He then held an exclusive book signing for hundreds of his books that were distributed to the audience for free.
Following a catered gourmet lunch, LTB 2013 presented an Executive Roundtable featuring a special Q&A session, filled with insightful advice from six Jewish leaders in the business world, including: Chesky Kauftheil, Principal at ACG Equities; Abraham Roth, CPA, Founder & Managing Partner at Roth & Company; Seth Farbman, Esq., Co-Chairman of Vcorp Services; Elly Kleinman – CEO at The Americare Companies; Shaul C. Greenwald, Esq., CEO of Riverside Abstract, LLC; and Menachem Lubinsky, CEO of Lubicom Marketing.
Separating into two auditoriums again, focus sessions were held with Jon Goldman, President of Brand Launcher, who discussed how to stand out from the competition, and renowned speaker David Steel, creator of The Steel Method™, who shared how to talk to prospective customers and dominate the industry.
Meny Hoffman, the CEO of Ptex Group and Founder of LTB 2013, then briefed the audience on the pioneering LTB vision and mission. He urged the crowd to begin implementing the many ideas presented throughout the day. “Success is not measured by how big you’ve made it in business,” he stressed to the audience. “Rather, success is measured by making sure that today is better than yesterday.”
A power break followed and allowed the many attendees – some of whom traveled in from places like Baltimore, Florida, California and even Canada – to network with one another and further develop business relationships.
The closing program was The Launch Pad, a reality show-based competition where aspiring Jewish entrepreneurs pitched their ideas to a panel of wealthy investors sitting live on-stage. Featuring celebrity investor Kevin Harrington and four other famous Wall Street-type investors, successful deals were made on-the-spot in front of an awed crowd, and a few lucky members of our community walked away with over $475,000 in secured investment capital.
Action packed and pumping with energy, this event was fueled by groundbreaking ideas and powerful collaboration that made it a truly momentous day.
LTB 2013 was presented by Ptex Group, an award-winning marketing and business services agency headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. As the Title Sponsor of LTB 2013, Fidelity Payment Services – renowned as one of the largest electronic payment providers in North America – partnered with this event, along with other prominent companies, to make this into the reality it became.
“Many attendees expressed how thrilled they were to be at LTB 2013,” noted Meny Hoffman. “Due to the overwhelmingly positive feedback, we’re already planning more LTB events for the future. This is totally changing the way business is done. The people in our community are yearning to get to the next level and succeed. Our goal is to help them get there.”
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