Doubling Up: Growing from One Tea Room to Two (and beyond)

Speaker: Timothy Smith, Chief Leaf, The Tea Smith LLC

Once you have established your business you have earned the opportunity to grow and expand. This seminar will cover key points you can use to help make your expansion successful, and avoid potential errors that could inhibit your growth as well as injure your original success.

By the end of this session you will be able to:

Identify the best time to plan for growth.
Be better able to identify and evaluate opportunities.
Understand key resources that are needed.
Evaluate how growth can impact current operations.
Identify pitfalls to avoid.

LEGEND



AHEAD OF THE CURVE	SALES & MARKETING	SMALL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS	TEA KNOWLEDGE	FOOD SERVICE	HEALTH & WELLNESS

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Timothy Smith
Chief Leaf, The Tea Smith LLC

	Born into a family of entrepreneurs, Tim believes that operating a small business is more than a mere job, it is a lifestyle. After selling his distribution company to a publicly traded corporation, the urge to return to a private company found him in the form of specialty tea. Tim received a BSBA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and his MBA from Creighton University. A lifelong proponent of small business, he has been Vice President of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of The Small Business Council, and a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business. He has been CVO for several trade organizations and not for profit groups. International experience includes leading an industrial trade group to the Hanover Industrial Fair and consulting with foreign companies enhancing their distribution and marketing efforts in the US.