{"id":180,"date":"2010-03-05T23:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T04:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2010\/03\/05\/2010-mjsa-expo-new-york\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T23:35:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T04:35:25","slug":"2010-mjsa-expo-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2010\/03\/05\/2010-mjsa-expo-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 MJSA Expo New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/S5EtZZ2kHTI\/AAAAAAAAD3U\/oW2HScFvM1I\/s1600-h\/lightbulb.jpg\"><img style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;width: 231px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0e891_lightbulb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday: Not Just Surviving, but <em>Winning<\/em>.<\/strong> If you want to walk away from Expo with a notebook full of applicable business and marketing strategies, don\u2019t miss this day. &#8220;Surviving the Great Recession: Proven Ways to Deal with Challenging Times&#8221; (11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) and &#8220;What You Can Do Now: Winning Strategies for a Changed World&#8221; (2:30 to 4 pm.) will each be moderated by one of the industry\u2019s leading consultants: <strong>Ben Janowski<\/strong>, president of The Janos Group Ltd. and <strong>Andrea Hill <\/strong>of Hill Management Consulting. Janowski has spent more than 20 years working with such prominent organizations as Golay-Buchel, Frederick Goldman, and De Beers. Hill is the former CEO of The Bell Group\/Rio Grande, where she integrated strategic planning and designed organization and control systems to align the company. Janowski and Hill will lead a cross-section of industry executives, from major suppliers to designers to banks and financiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday: Focus on the Future.<\/strong> If you still don\u2019t know the benefits of &#8220;tweeting&#8221; and &#8220;friending&#8221; on social media sites, or you want to tap into the trends of customized design and virtual inventory, you\u2019ll want to attend the Monday sessions. &#8220;From Old Media to Social Media: Promoting Product in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century&#8221; (11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) will feature <strong>Peggy Jo Donahue<\/strong>, MJSA\u2019s director of public affairs; <strong>Carrie Soucy<\/strong>, a veteran journalist and current owner of Miamore Communications; and experienced marketers <strong>Ann Arnold<\/strong> of Lieberfarb, <strong>Veronica Wei Sopher<\/strong>of<strong> <\/strong>Ben Bridge Jeweler<strong>, <\/strong>and<strong> Michael Schechter<\/strong> of Honora. Later, from 2:30 to 4 p.m., hear from some of the industry\u2019s leading CAD suppliers and custom jewelers-including <strong>Doug Kern<\/strong> of Gemvision and noted designers <strong>Lee Krombholz,<\/strong> <strong>Jim Tuttle<\/strong>, and <strong>Lisa Krikawa<\/strong>-as they take you into the world of &#8220;Future Stock: Putting the \u2019Custom\u2019 in Customer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday: Profiting by Design<\/strong>. To put it bluntly: If you want to meet world-class designers, you need to be here. Presented in partnership with the American Jewelry Design Council, the presentation features a partial &#8220;who\u2019s who&#8221; of the jewelry design world: Consultant Marlene Richey (author of the MJSA Press book <em>Profiting by Design<\/em>), Cindy Edelstein of the Jeweler\u2019s Resource Bureau, and AJDC members Jose Hess (moderator), Michael Bondanza, Barbara Heinrich, William Schraft, and Diana Vincent. (Yes, it\u2019s name dropping, but they\u2019re <em>good names<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>MJSA\u2019s At the Bench Live:<\/strong> The association\u2019s signature hands-on demonstrations return to Expo with sessions by JCK Rising Star <strong>Chris Ploof<\/strong> (&#8220;Working with Alternative Metals,&#8221; Sunday) and the award-winning Krombholz (&#8220;Creating Custom Finishes,&#8221; Monday). Both sessions start at 1 p.m. The Bench and Tool Sponsor is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stuller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjsa.org\/about_us\/media_resources\/mjsa_news\/detail\/expo_new_york_seminar_program_will_present_ideas_to_thrive_in_2010_147\">Press Release<\/a> available at from <a href=\"http:\/\/mjsa.org\/\">MJSA <\/a><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjsa.org\/events\/mjsa_expo_new_york\/free_seminars\">Full Seminar Schedule available here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b301_4698837677539896356-1326081019166284520?l=dailyjewel.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday: Not Just Surviving, but Winning. 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