Workshop: Overcoming Barriers to Generating Sales
| February 24, 2011 |
| 2:30 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
Seating limited to the first 25 who register
Fee: $25 (workshop valued at $199) coffee, tea, beverages and light snack provided.
Location: Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, Sony Room
NOTE: The Smart-ups Pub-Talk “Funding Your Business Through Selling Product – Not Equity” follows this workshop from 5-8PM at the Oregon Electric Station.

The very successful Portland Ten model which helps early-stage companies reach $1M in sales within 18 months is coming to Eugene to deliver a 2-hour workshop on generating sales.
Whether it’s closing your first deal, switching from consumer to enterprise sales, improving the efficiency of your overall sales pipeline, or scaling up sales efforts to maximize a market opportunity, sales are an integral part to the survival and success of your business.
For any entrepreneur, there can be significant barriers to making a first sale or scaling up your sales force. This workshop will provide you with hands-on principles for facing those barriers head-on!
Hands-on Training! Bring to the Workshop:
- Your business model
- You sales pipeline
- Your deal tracker, and recent sales figures to break down your sales process and identify areas to optimize and generate additional revenue in the months ahead!
Workshop Facilitators:
Carolynn Duncan is the Director of Portland Ten, and an expert in venture capital, angel fundraising, and start-up management. She has assisted entrepreneurs in raising millions of dollars, and founded Portland Ten to increase the quantity of high-growth start-ups in the state of Oregon.
Prior, Ms. Duncan worked in the tech, start-up, angel/venture capital networks in Seattle, Portland, southeast Idaho, and Salt Lake City. She has also been affiliated with FundingUniverse, EPIC Ventures, Eastern Idaho Entrepreneurial Center, Hundred Dollar Business, and Provo Labs, and has advised more than 300 startups during her career.
Jennie Kalberer is the Program Manager of Portland Ten’s Six Week Sprint track. She is Founder and Director of Kahnaway Art and Ecology Center in the Columbia River Gorge, and consults for start-ups and new venture projects. She also is the owner of Clean Like You Mean It, a natural cleaning products company. She worked as an interior designer before receiving her MBA in Finance from the University of Portland, serves on the Board of Oregon College of Art and Craft, and volunteers at Chapman Elementary.
Thanks to our great sponsors for supporting entrepreneurship in our community!
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