Why are some agencies successful while others are struggling? What are your competitors doing to achieve consistent growth and success? Why are some agencies getting the phone to ring and others are not? What do highly successful agency principals know that you don’t? The 2010 Alliance Convention & Expo, September 23-26, will answer these questions and many more.

This year’s convention will feature an esteemed panel of highly successful agency principals who are willing to share their secrets of success. While these agency owners put their pants on every day like you and me, they are clearly anything but ordinary when it comes to how they are building and running their agencies—these agency principals are a cut above the rest, and you’ll want to be at this year’s Alliance Convention & Expo to learn their secrets of success.

This year’s convention and expo will kick-off with a golf tournament on Thursday morning and luncheon to follow, with continuing education, marketing workshops and classes running throughout the day. Brand new at this year’s convention is a professionally run Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament that will begin late Thursday afternoon and will have great prizes. After the poker tournament is underway, the doors will open to host hospitality suites around the poker tournament where attendees can socialize, mingle, and network while watching some of their friends play at the poker tables.

Friday morning there will be more continuing education courses, marketing workshops, and classes from 8:00 AM-12:00 PM. The tradeshow floor will be open from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, so if you are looking for appointments, marketing ideas, technology solutions, or virtually any other product or service to help you better run your agency or make more money, you won’t want to miss the 150 exhibitors on this year’s tradeshow floor. Additionally, Progressive Insurance will be giving $10,000 away on the tradeshow floor Friday, but you must be present to win! Friday evening there will be hospitality suites from 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. followed by an ‘80s band and dance party.

Saturday, continuing education courses will begin at 8:00 a.m. and run throughout the day. The tradeshow floor opens at 9:00 a.m. and closes at 5:00 p.m. The tradeshow floor will recess for our luncheon from 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. As mentioned above, if you want to learn the secrets of success used by highly successful agency owners, you won’t want to miss this special luncheon. At 7:30 p.m. we will enjoy dinner under the stars and be entertained with fire dancing. After dinner, and back by popular demand, the Funky Hippies ‘70s band will be packing the dance floor with their great music.

Sunday morning we’ll enjoy brunch together and a special guest as we close another highly successful convention and expo packed with education, networking, old friends, appointments, marketing ideas, technology solutions, and virtually anything you could possibly use to run your agency more effectively and make more money. It’s no wonder the Alliance Convention & Expo is the largest P&C producer tradeshow in the west! We look forward to seeing you there!