Toledo Web Professionals

Seats are limited, please ensure you secure your ticket at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-persuasion-masterclass-with-bill-liao-tickets-51421116945 Learn the key techniques for sales, fundraising and obtaining virtually anything your startup needs. In an increasingly diverse and complex business environment the need to read the room, to build trust quickly, and deliver information clearly, has never been more important. What are the tools we need to make sure first impressions count? In this Masterclass, the entrepreneurial investor and philanthropist Bill Liao shares his secret weapons for getting the deal done quickly while creating a framework for long-term, trust-dependent, relationships, both in the professional space and the personal. At the end of three hours you will: • Be more confident about building rapport • Have learned the importance of listening as well as speaking in successful negotiations • Have practised the last closing technique you will ever need to learn • Please, come as empty handed as possible, no notepads needed! A Masterclass is a class given to talented students by an expert. In music settings, the teacher listens to and critiques the performance of individual students, one at a time, while the other students look on. Seats are limited, if you register and are subsequently unable to attend please cancel your booking to allow someone else to attend. Schedule • 3pm: Doors open, check in, socialize • 3:30pm - 6:30pm: Masterclass • 6:30pm: Socialize with attendees • 7pm: Optional dinner nearby with attendees Seats are limited, please ensure you secure your ticket at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-persuasion-masterclass-with-bill-liao-tickets-51421116945 About Bill Liao Bill Liao is a Chinese-Australian entrepreneur, venture capital investor, diplomat, author, and speaker with a distinguished record in the areas of business, development and community activism. Bill is co-founder of the CoderDojo movement, co-founder of Weforest and is a general partner of SOSV as well as a founder of their Bio-Tech practice Rebelbio. SOSV is a $300m international accelerator venture capital fund. Learn more about Bill from from his October 2017 visit to Toledo: http://techtoledo.com/bill-liao/#bio