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AAF Houston Monthly Luncheon

Wednesday 21-Apr-10 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CDT

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Junior League of Houston

1811 Briar Oaks Ln.
Houston TX 77027
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Speaker Hank Blank

Position: President
Company: Blank and Associates

Event Description

Networking Your Way to New Business

Hank Blank’s Networking Your Way to New Business presentation will help you improve your networking skills and help you get more business in 2010.

75% of all business opportunities come from networking and referrals. 70% of all jobs come through networking yet most people don’t know how to effectively network.

People think they are networking when they attend events with people they know and talk to old friends. That is not networking, that is socializing.

Hank will talk about the various benefits of networking, where to network, how to work an event and how to have the people you meet thinking of you. Hank will outline how you can develop a network of hundreds of contacts in a year.

Hank will outline how to come back from networking events with relationships versus just business cards.

Hank will also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of social networking versus personal networking.

Hank has spoken to numerous companies such as Jacuzzi, Sundance dealers, Volvo and many organizations across the country and has been featured in many media outlets.

For more info just Google Hank Blank.

A brief audio clip of part of Hank Blank's presentation.

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AAF Houston Monthly Luncheon

Wednesday 21-Apr-10 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CDT

Speaker Hank Blank

Position: President
Company: Blank and Associates

Biography

Hank runs Blank and Associates. Core competencies include providing advertising, public relations and marketing solutions for companies. New business development, and agency selection for companies needing new advertising, PR and interactive resources.

Hank builds his business through the power of networking. He has spoken on networking to a variety of companies and organizations throughout Southern California and has been featured on CBS Market Watch, OC Metro, Forbes.com and a variety of other publications.

Hank has 25 years of advertising and marketing experience forged on a broad range of packaged goods, consumer and franchised accounts throughout North America.

Hank was classically trained at big agencies on the East Coast.

Hank began his career at DDB Needham in Toronto working on the McDonald’s restaurants account.

He later joined J. Walter Thompson where he worked for 10 years in Toronto and Chicago.

Hank then ran the Domino’s Pizza business at Ross Roy advertising in Ann Arbor, Michigan for 4 years.

In 1992 he moved to California where he was Executive Vice President and Partner with Townsend & O’Leary advertising in Orange County.

Hank has developed his expertise on a number of major brands, including CENTURY 21, Kellogg’s, Warner Lambert, S. C. Johnson, Unocal, Sempra Energy, divisions of Revlon and Campbell Soup, Burger King, Subway, Scott Paper, and Labatt’s Breweries.

Hank has two children that live with him. Both are available for adoption.

Hank’s interests include working out, yoga, and a broad range of cultural interests.

Hank has run 6 Marathons but doesn’t really know why.

Hank comes from a long line of nomads and was born in Toronto, Canada. His sister was born in Beirut, Lebanon and his brother in Warsaw, Poland.

He was nominated to be Volunteer of the Year for OC in 2003.