Welcome to Build Business

 

Build Business: "Reinvent. Retool. Rebound" will bring together today's leading marketers and business developers to explore the lessons learned and strategies firms put in place to respond to and overcome the current challenges in the A/E/C industry.

 

Among the questions the Conference Planning Committee hopes to answer for Build Business attendees in Boston: Did firms retool their business development, marketing, management, or human resources practices to weather the storm, minimize the damage, and prepare for a rebound? How did companies reinvent themselves, adapt their message, or alter their brand?

 

A secondary focus of the educational program is to thoroughly explore the impact and potential that social media and digital marketing offer marketers and business developers as we enter the Web 3.0 world. Can social media and digital marketing be forces in A/E/C marketing?

 

An intensive 2.5-day conference, Build Business is packed with approximately 36 powerful learning sessions, dynamic keynote speakers, and networking opportunities where you will make and renew priceless contacts with decision-makers responsible for building the firm's business and bottom line. The conference program will bring together experts, practitioners, and your peers to present the best practices, case histories, concepts, techniques, technologies, and strategies that helped firms survive and better position themselves for future market and economic disruptions.

 

Early-Bird Discount: Register on or before January 31 to take advantage of the discounted registration rate—save $200! Click the link below to access the current registration form and fax or mail it with your payment to the SMPS National Office by this date.


Session Information Now Available

Please enter the Build Business Learning Center to read the breakout session descriptions and speakers' bios, access PowerPoints and handouts (as they become available), and to plan your personal conference schedule.

 


NEW DOWNLOADS

2010 Build Business Registration Form
 
2010 Sponsorship Prospectus (Early Version)

 


Past Conference Information

 

NEW! 2009 Podcasts

Listen to interviews with SMPS CEO Ron Worth, CAE, FSMPS, CPSM; SMPS National President Thomas E. Smith, Jr., AICP, FSMPS, CPSM; SMPS National Chapter Delegate Kevin Hebblethwaite, CPSM; and more. Right-click your mouse over the name of the interview, choose “save target as” and copy the .wav file to your computer. (Please be patient…these files take a few minutes to download.)

 

PSMJ’s A/E Rainmakers Speak podcasts are brought to you by A/E Rainmaker, the monthly newsletter that shows you how to attract and keep great clients. For more information or to subscribe, visit www.psmj.com.


2009 Conference Photographs


2009 Session Handouts

 

2008 Conference Photographs

 

Thank you to our 2010 Sponsors

 

 

McGraw Hill Construction ActiveViz VHB/Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. Nitsch Engineering Cardphile Brand Savvy CRJA Landscape Architects Champlin Architecture Clockwork Design Group Helbling & Associates Integrated Marketing Systems PSI Tec Inc. Engineering and Design Vantage Walter P Moore Damianosphotography Woodard & Curran Deltek Balfour Beatty