Buzz Marketing event at Unit of 1 meeting (3/10/05)

Hello all -

I've been to Unitof1 events before and can tell you that they are very helpful. This meeting sounds like the kind of helpful, sink-your-teeth-into-it advice that technology startups need for marketing their stuff.

- Skip

http://www.unitof1.com/article-305-flat-0-0.html

Mark Hughes, Author of "Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff,"
to Speak at Unit of 1 Breakfast Club March 10 at Philadelphia Marriott West
Philadelphia, PA - February 21, 2005 - Mark Hughes, the Chief Executive
Officer of Buzzmarketing.com, and the author of the forthcoming book
"Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff," will be the featured
speaker at the Unit of 1 Breakfast Club, Thursday, March 10, 2005 at the
Philadelphia Marriott West in West Conshohocken, PA. The event is scheduled
from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Admission is $10. A continental breakfast will
be served.

Hughes is a word of mouth marketing expert both in consumer marketing and
internal employee communication marketing. His career includes stints at
PepsiCo's Pizza Hut division and American Mobile Satellite (now XM Satellite
Radio). He was a Vice President at Pep Boys, running a $42 million
marketing budget, and most famously, the Vice President of marketing for
Half.com, which sold to eBay in less than six months for $300 million and
grew from zero to 8 million registered users in three years. Hughes has an
MBA from Columbia Business School in Marketing and International Business.
Hughes is a guest lecturer on creative marketing at New York University and
the University of Pennsylvania, and serves on the Board of Advisors for
several companies. He is a contributing columnist for the magazine of
international advertising knowledge, Admap. His forthcoming book,
Buzzmarketing arrives in July 2005 from publisher Penguin/Portfolio.
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DETAILS:
What: Unit of 1 Breakfast Club
Topic: Buzz Marketing with Mark Hughes
When: Thursday, March 10, 2005, 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 am
Where: Philadelphia Marriott West in West Conshohocken, PA
Cost: $10
RSVP: events@unitof1.com