Welcome to the 2023 iGo Spring Conference & Platinum Meetings - Bulletproof!
A team mindset, confidence, and optimizing your opportunities will power your business through any market. Learn how to create a bulletproof business strategy and make 2023 your best year yet.
Travel & Stay
Join us at the Hotel Alba in Tampa, FL
Reserve your room by March 31 to secure your discounted rate.
We recommend traveling in on April 25 and out on April 29 to get the most out of your time with us at our 2023 Spring Conference & Platinum Meetings.
Hotel Info
Hotel Alba Tampa, Tapestry Collection by Hilton
5303 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33609
(813) 289-1950
Local Airports
Tampa International Airport (TPA)
We recommend traveling in on April 25 and out on April 29 to get the most out of your time with us.
Airport Transport
Complimentary Hotel Shuttle
(7:00am-11:00pm)
813-289-1950
- Taxi
- Rental Car
- Uber/Lyft
Local Food
The Spaniard (Inside Hotel Alba)
Maggiano’s Little Italy
Seasons 52
Charley’s Steak House
Agenda
- 8:30am – 11:55am – ASPIRE Mastermind Meeting
- Speaker: Dan Deist
- LOCATION: Hyde Park room
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch break at Spaniard Terrace
- 1:00pm – 5:30pm – Resume ASPIRE Mastermind Meeting
- 8:30am – 11:55am – ASPIRE Mastermind Meeting
- SPEAKER: Dan Deist
- LOCATION: Hyde Park room
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch break at Spaniard Terrace
- 1:00pm – 5:00pm: ASPIRE Mastermind Meeting
- SPEAKER: Dan Deist
- LOCATION: Hyde Park room
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm – Registration for REUNION day
- 7:30pm – 9:30pm – Welcome Reception at Spaniard Terrace
- 8:00am – Registration for REUNION day
- 9:00am – 9:15am – Opening remarks
- TITLE: Bulletproof is Forever
- DESCRIPTION: A team mindset, confidence, and optimizing your opportunities will power your business through any market. Learn how to create a bulletproof business strategy and make 2023 your best year yet.
- SPEAKER: DAN
- LOCATION: Main Stage/Ballroom
- 9:15am – 10:00am – KEYNOTE SESSION
- TITLE: Becoming Bulletproof: The Ultimate Sales & Marketing Blueprint for Success
- DESCRIPTION: Get ready for a high energy session designed to provide you with the most effective sales and marketing strategies to grow in a constantly evolving market. This session is prepared for home inspectors to transform your business and boost your sales success.
- In this presentation, you will learn:
- – Sales strategies to generate a steady flow of leads and convert prospects into loyal clients
- – Creative marketing strategies to set your home inspection services apart from the competition and establish yourself as a trusted expert
- – Learn to leverage digital platforms and social media to expand your reach and grow your SOI
- – Build stronger relationships with real estate professionals and homeowners, building a referral network for sustainable business growth
- SPEAKER: Jeff Lobb
- LOCATION: Main Stage/Ballroom
- 10:00am – 10:30am
- TITLE: From Commercial Inspections with Love
- DESCRIPTION: Commercial inspections may not be a part of your current product offering – but might be right for you. In this panel discussion, discover if it is worth it and if so, how to break into the market.
- PANELISTS: Dave Sherwood + Donnie Bentley
- MODERATOR: Dan
- LOCATION: Main Stage/Ballroom
- 10:30am – 10:50am – Break time
- 10:50am – 11:00am – SPONSOR – HomeGauge
- 11:00am – 11:30am
- TITLE: Declassified: Updates on membership benefits, programs and more.
- DESCRIPTION: An update from leadership on membership benefits, upcoming events, Leader’s Edge and more. Plus, the latest on HomeBinder and how it can be your home inspection silver bullet.
- SPEAKERS: John Russell and Jack Huntress
- LOCATION: Main Stage/Ballroom
- 11:30am – 11:55am
- TITLE: Keystone Royale: Feedback from the first users about onboarding, features and functionality.
- DESCRIPTION: Keystone is up and running and the initial results are in. Find out everything you need to know about order accuracy, process improvement and how it works with the call center from an inspection company that is using it.
- SPEAKERS: Austin Hintze
- LOCATION: Main Stage/Ballroom
- 11:55am – 12:00pm – SPONSOR – Certified Lights
- 12:00pm – 12:30pm
- TITLE: The World is Not Enough: Maximizing Your Digital Presence
- DESCRIPTION: Are you everywhere you need to be online? What is your real market penetration? Where can you expand to get new customers? Where is the low-hanging fruit? Learn how to assess your current market share and step-by-step strategies to go deeper.
- SPEAKER: Jonathan Giner
- LOCATION: Main Stage/Ballroom
- 12:30pm – 1:30pm – Lunch break at Ballroom West
- 1:30pm – 2:30pm
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: License to HomeBinder: How to use it to get new and repeat customers.
- DESCRIPTION: If you’re a platinum member, you get HomeBinder for free. Find out how people are using it – from an actual user. How to leveredge it to acquire new customers, build better relationships with existing customers, and how it benefits home buyers and real estate agents.
- SPEAKERS: Andrew Fox and Jack Huntress
- LOCATION: Ybor room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: Never Say Never: A closer look at determining if Commercial inspections are right for you, and how to break into the market.
- DESCRIPTION: A deep dive into Commercial inspections to suss out the gritty details on how and when to build it into your service offering, avoid pitfalls, and move forward with confidence.
- SPEAKER: Dave Sherwood
- LOCATION: Hyde Park room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: Golden HR: Retaining your best employees and planning for the slow season
- DESCRIPTION: Do you have a plan in place for the slow season? Non-monetary compensation? How are you making sure that your best employees don’t move on? Learn from the best in the business how to identify HR issues before they happen, groom your best for management, and keep employees happy during the slow season without breaking the bank.
- SPEAKER: Susan Bentley
- LOCATION: Seminole Heights room
- EXPERIENCE MASTERMIND SESSION
- TITLE: Experience MasterMind (for Non-members from 1:30pm-4:00pm)
- DESCRIPTION: Sit down with some of the biggest names in home inspection for a free, collaborative growth session that could change the entire course of your home inspection business.
- iGo Community’s Mastermind Meetings are powerful, hands-on coaching sessions designed to solve the problems that many home inspection companies face. This is a “sample sized” version for inspection company owners who are new to iGo to let you experience mastermind firsthand, and learn how it’s improving the lives and businesses of home inspection company owners across the nation.
- SPEAKERS: Dan Deist, Jerry Linkhorn, and Chad Hett
- LOCATION: Palma Ceia room
- 2:30pm – 3:00pm – Break
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- 3:00pm – 4:00pm
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: No Cost to Low Cost Strategies
- DESCRIPTION: In the competitive world of home inspection, it’s crucial to implement effective sales and marketing strategies for maximizing your business potential while keeping costs low. This session provides no-cost to low-cost solutions to help you get better results, and enhance your marketing, branding, and sales generation efforts
- SPEAKER: Jeff Lobb
- LOCATION: Ybor room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: A View to Management: How to identify, train and promote the employees that are ready for management.
- DESCRIPTION: Growing your business is exciting, but when it comes down to managing and promoting, you may need to get out of your own way.
- Enhance your ability to identify, train, and promote your employees, and discover the key factors that contribute to successful employee advancement. Platinum Coach Blaise Ingrisano explores the importance of identifying and nurturing employee strengths and potential, and how to create a culture that supports employee growth and development.
- SPEAKER: Blaise Ingrisano
- LOCATION: Hyde Park room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: Opening New Markets – Additional details to come
- DESCRIPTION: Additional details to come
- PANELISTS: Harmony Brown, Jonathan Giner, and Austin Hintze
- MODERATOR: John Russell
- LOCATION: Seminole Heights room
- EXPERIENCE MASTERMIND SESSION
- Resume Experience Mastermind Session
- LOCATION: Palma Ceia room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- 4:00pm – 4:30pm – Break
- 4:30pm – 5:30pm
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: The Customer Who Loved Me: Maximizing revenue from existing clients
- DESCRIPTION: When acquiring new customers gets tough, focus on maximizing revenue from existing clients to increase profitability and safe-guard your business.
- PANELISTS: Dave Adams and Josh Niehaus
- MODERATOR: Dan Deist
- LOCATION: Ybor room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: Eyes Only: Using RP Max to land clients.
- DESCRIPTION: Your sources may have tipped you off, but it isn’t public yet. Find out how to use, implement, and market RP Max to land new clients.
- PANELISTS: Chad Hett and Jerry Linkhorn
- MODERATOR: Christian Adams
- LOCATION: Hyde Park room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- TITLE: Mission Critical: Maximizing your client list and generating repeat business through pest inspections.
- DESCRIPTION: Are you leveraging pest inspections as a recurring revenue stream? Learn new ways to maximize your client list and create stable repeat business.
- SPEAKERS: Donnie Bentley and Blaise Ingrisano
- LOCATION: Seminole Heights room
- BREAKOUT SESSION
- 8:00pm – 9:30pm – Evening Reception at Spaniard Terrace
- 9:30pm – 12:00am – Platinum Lounge
- 8:00am – 11:55am – Mastermind Meetings
- Accel GSD: Palma Ceia room
- Advantage: Ballroom East room
- Challengers: Ballroom Main room
- Elite: Ybor room
- Powerhouse: Seminole Heights room
- Supreme: Hyde Park room
- 11:55pm – 1:00pm – Lunch break at Westshore West Ballroom/ Ballroom West
- 1:00pm – 5:30pm – Resume Mastermind Meetings
- 9:00pm – 12:00am – Platinum Lounge
- 8:00am – 11:55am – Mastermind Meetings
- Accel GSD: Palma Ceia room
- Advantage: Ballroom East room
- Challengers: Ballroom Main room
- Elite: Ybor room
- Powerhouse: Seminole Heights room
- Supreme: Hyde Park room
- 11:55pm – 1:00pm – Lunch break at Westshore West Ballroom/ Ballroom West
- 1:00pm – 5:30pm – Resume Mastermind Meetings
Frequently Asked Questions
We have a room block reserved at our conference location, Hotel Alba Tampa. You can make reservations HERE. Please be sure to make all reservations by March 31, 2023 to secure your spot at our discounted room rates.
The closest airport is Tampa International Airport (2.5 miles away). The hotel offers complimentary shuttle service to and from the airport from 7:00am – 11:00pm daily. Call the hotel at 813-289-1950 upon arrival.
Complete agenda coming soon, including a full schedule of main stage presentations, breakout sessions, speakers and more!
Complete agenda coming soon, including a full schedule of main stage presentations, breakout sessions, speakers and more!
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