What can help elevate your career faster than a speeding bullet?? Help you leap tall hurdles in a single bound? And can provide you with the super strength and intelligence of over 9,000 people?

It's SMPS!

Power up your connections and your industry intelligence with this program that will provide you with an opportunity to learn about many of the incredible resources available to you through SMPS, including educational opportunities, white papers, MYSMPS, and much more. Whether you’re a new member or have been a member for years, this session will help you uncover the valuable resources available to SMPS members. Not a member yet? Join us to see why you should be!

SMPS Powers Up Relationships!

One of the greatest benefits of being a member of SMPS is the relationships you create with other A/E/C marketers. Following the Power of SMPS program, each attendee will have the opportunity to address the group with a brief introduction of your firm and your role in it. Use this time to promote the best of your firm’s capabilities to help establish strategic partnerships, teams, and relationships for the future. Attendees are encouraged to bring (write it down and be deliberate) a current marketing challenge or success (research, planning, BD, proposals, BD, management, or promotions) to discuss with your peers. Recognize that you have a helpful team of super friends (even if they work for the "other guys"). Together we make the industry stronger!

Who Should Attend:
Firm Principals
Marketing Director
Marketing Manager
Marketing Staff
Business Development Director
Business Development Staff
Communications Coordinator

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about the tools and resources available to you as an SMPS member
2. Build your network and relationships with industry peers 
3. Gain industry insight on your toughest marketing challenges

SMPS Domains of Practice (for CPSM)
1 - Marketing Research
3 - Client and Business Development
4 - SOQs | Proposals
5 - Promotional Activity
6 - Information, Resource, and Organizational Management

About the Speaker

Chris D. Rickman, FSMPS, CPSM
Principal / Business Manager
ZFI Engineering Co.
Chris Rickman, FSMPS, CPSM joined ZFI Engineering in 1990 as a CAD technician. Since then, he has worked his way into a leadership role and is now a firm Principal and the largest shareholder in the firm. His duties include coordinating all of the marketing and business development activities, managing the daily business operations, and overseeing the IT needs.

Chris became a Fellow of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) in 2013. He is actively involved locally, regionally and nationally in the society. Nationally he has served as chair of the Certification Committee, the Blueprints Taskforce, and the Treasurer’s Taskforce. In 2013, he served as co-chair for Build Business in Orlando, FL. Chris is currently serving as Secretary/Treasurer on the Society’s board of directors.