America's Best Jeweler's (ABJ) Goes to the Head of the Class at Couture

Important Peer to Peer Education Series Presented by Stuller

Apr 23, 2010 - New York, NY

At a time when attending Couture, the industry's premier event, has never been more important, it becomes even more so with the addition of the ABJ Breakfast education series; presented by Stuller, June 3-6, 2010 at the fabulous Wynn Las Vegas. 

Requested once again by the nation's leading retailers, this peer-to-peer seminar series will provide critical information and key business practices that attendees can convert into viable methods for achieving success in their jewelry businesses.

America's Best Jewelers (ABJ), presented by the National Jeweler Network, is a groundbreaking program that establishes a benchmark tool for retailers to measure their own performances against those of their peers throughout the industry. The program, spearheaded by Whitney Sielaff, Editorial Director of the National Jeweler Network, facilitates an environment of taking a leadership position that allows for the betterment of the industry as a whole. Currently, America's Best Jewelers has more than 800 retail jeweler members. It fosters education to give retailers practical, real-world success strategies that can immediately be integrated into their business.

Starting off the mornings at Couture, this daily facilitated ABJ panel and discussion group, presented by Stuller, will address critical
industry challenges and day-to-day issues.  Once again, Couture provides its attendees with meaningful education sessions whose relevant topics include social networking, economic recovery, and human resources. 

"The Couture retailer and America's Best Jewelers advisory groups have helped in developing an excellent set of topics for this year's program." said Sielaff.  "Social networking is exploding across our industry right now, and it's on the agenda twice so we can drill down into all the areas jewelers need to focus on. Additionally, we?ll be discussing pivotal issues for positioning companies to profit as the market rebounds. Jewelers share and gain an incredible amount of information in these sessions. Last year's sessions were filled each morning, and we're expanding our capacity to accommodate as many jewelers as possible."

*Thursday, June 3, Breakfast 7:30AM-8:00AM, Program 8:00AM - 9:00AM*

Peer Panel 1: Social Networking 1 - Best Practices  
Learn how jewelers are maximizing their productivity in exploiting social networking, from Facebook to Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp and beyond.  Covering relevant principals of successful social networking, from time management to content practices, to deciding who participates and more.

*Friday, June 4, Breakfast 7:30AM-8:00AM, Program 8:00AM - 9:00AM *

Peer Panel 2: Preparing and Positioning for the Rebound
As the U.S. economy begins to recover from the worst recession of our generation, jewelers will discuss how they're building foundations that will position them to capitalize on opportunities presented by the new marketplace, exploring disciplines from marketing to inventory.

*Saturday, June 5, Breakfast 7:30AM-8:00AM, Program 8:00AM - 9:00AM*

Peer Panel 3: Social Networking 2 - Best Practices
Join your fellow jewelers to continue the social networking discussion, concerning maximize return from social networking. What are realistic expectations? What tools do you need to get started? How do you gain customers?

*Sunday, June 6, Breakfast 7:30AM-8:00AM, Program 8:00AM - 9:00AM *

Peer Panel 4: Human Resources Best Practices - Hiring in the Current Market
After embracing lean philosophies for the past several years-often including difficult decisions regarding employment strategies-jewelers discuss if and how they're adapting their staffing to address the expanding market potential being driven by the economic
rebound.

*For press inquires, please contact: *
Megan Alexander
Nielsen Jewelry Group
770 Broadway, 8th Floor
New York, NY  10003
Phone: 646-654-4471
email: megan.alexander@nielsen.com

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