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Schedule of Events
Saturday, July 18, 2009
7
a.m.
Manufacturer/Supplier Set-Up
8
a.m. - 9 a.m.
Machinery
Maintenance 101
Finishers, Heel
Wheels, 5-in-1 & More
Blase Knabl, Shoe Systems Plus, Goshen,
NY
Open session of questions & answers to your
specific machinery problems.
Repair The Unrepairables
Robert DiRinaldo, DiRinaldo’s Shoe
Repair, Trafford, PA
Past Silver Cup Winner and 20 year Silver
Cup Judge Robert DiRinaldo can teach you to
repair shoes that you thought could never be
repaired.
9
a.m. - 10 a.m.
SSIA Brunch
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
SSIA Business
Meeting
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Making the Most of Your Web Site
Mitch Lebovic, Lebovic Communications
Group
Do you have a web site for your business? If
so, is it serving your business to its fullest
potential? Mitch will share what he's learned
about making your site easier for your customers
to find and use.
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Point of Sale System
Lenny Gershater, VP Positek Inc.
Have you been Shopping lately? Maybe you’ve
noticed almost all retail stores are now using
computer systems at their registers. Learn the
benefits of how using a POS system can help you
manage your time, inventory, purchasing and many
other ways to manage your business.
Identifying Materials to be bonded
Jim McFarland C.Ped, McFarland's Shoe
Repair, Lakeland, FL
Are you having problems bonding some of the
new materials? Past Silver Cup Winner Jim
McFarland will show you how to identify the
materials you see daily, and how easy it is to
bond them.
1
p.m. - 5 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Open
Sunday, July 19, 2009
8
a.m. - 9 a.m.
Machinery Maintenance - When the Dust Settles
Blase Knabl, Shoe Systems Plus, Goshen,
NY
Improve the performance of your finisher.
Helpful solutions to maximize the performance of
you finisher.
9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Excellence in Shoe Repair
for Silver Cup
Quality & Competition
Past Grand Silver Cup Winners and judges
will tell you what winning a Grand Silver Cup
has done for their business. They will also
guide you on what the judges look for to help
you improve the quality of your every day work,
and help you become the Next Grand Silver Cup
Winner.
Increase Annual Sales and Profits
with Custom made
Footwear
Tom Giamalva, Palace Shoe Service,
Rockford, IL & Tom Wilhite, Tauer & Johnson
Footwear, Addison, IL
A success story on how to add real growth to
your existing business.
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Open
2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Supplier Break
Down
The SSIA reserves the rights to change or
cancel any seminar, presenter, or re schedule
any other events without notice at the
discretion of the SSIA Board of Directors.
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