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Friday Evening August 22
7:00 until 10:00 PM Companion Tools Welcome Suite
(Tentatively scheduled for suite 374, but ask at the front desk.)
Early registration - pick up your caps name tags and programs.
Network, meet Jerry Rigdon of Companion Tools, and help us eat his snacks.
We'll have two computers set up here, one with internet access, so we can
visit a few websites, and show each
other a few computer tricks.

Saturday August 23
8:30 Breakfast - Sports Center - 2nd floor
Continental breakfast and late registration.

9:00 - Meetings - Sports Center - 2nd floor
9:00 - 9:30 Greetings/introductions/updates
9:30 - 9:45 Ergonomic fanning techniques
Gary Mauer & audience work on fanning techniques.
9:45 - 10:30 Water Technology
Robin Tucker of Tucker Manufacturing
10:30- 11:30 Business to Business
Jerry Rigdon & Theresa Martin on becoming part of your business community
through community
involvement
11:30 - 12:00 Internet Marketing
Tom Thomas on web marketing, and his new Window Cleaning Center - a mall that the consumer can use to find window cleaners.

12:30 Picnic - Sports Center lawn - Unger tent
We'll feast on roast beast and freshly picked sweet corn in a tent
sponsored by Unger Enterprises

1:30 Hands on Demonstrations - Sports Center deck

1:30 - 2:30 Bucketless Window Cleaning
Bill Price shows us the system he developed for Ettore
2:30 - 2:45 Glass Protection
Gary Mauer demonstrates the newest glass protector concept using 3 Star
Barrier
This won't take long at all, because it'll only take a few seconds to apply
the stuff to windows Bill Price
just cleaned.
2:45 - 3:45 the Ledger
Jerry Rigdon demonstrate his Ledgers - squeegee handles that reach OVER
ledges and other
obstructions that used to require ladder work.
3:45 - 4:45 Tucker poles
Robin and Carole Tucker demonstrate the squeegeeless approach to window
cleaning using their Tucker
Poles and deionized water.
4:45 - 5:00 Wrap-up
We'll distribute product samples donated by ABC Window Cleaning Supply, J
Racenstein and Ettore.

7:00 until 10:00 PM Ettore/Computer Suite
(Same suite as last night - we'll remind everyone of the room number.
A little last minute networking, snacks and show and tell with the two
computers set up here.
Sponsored by Ettore Products Company.

Total # of attendees - 33 from 10 different states
(This list of 18 companies does not include 15 employees and guests.)

Randy Feuillerat - Randy's Window Cleaning - Wisconsin
Jerry Elger - Real Clean - Wisconsin
David Ashley - Morningstar - Illinois
Jeff Klass - First Klass Window Cleaning - Wisconsin
Theresa Martin - Martin's Window Cleaning Corp. - Texas
Chris Wallace - ABC Window Cleaning Supply - Colorado
Robin Tucker - Tucker Manufacturing - Iowa
Gary Erb - - Quality Window Cleaning - Iowa
Gary Mauer - MOM's - Wisconsin
Jack Dunfee - Economy Glass - Wisconsin
Jacob Unger - Washington State
Jeff Ausprung - Al's Window Cleaning - Wisconsin
Bill Price - - Wyndow-Tech - Michigan
Larry Boyler - I Can See Clearly Now - Wisconsin
Rick Beauchamp - Beau's Window Cleaning - Indiana
Rick Kadletz - Mod-Missouri Window Cleaning - Missouri
Steve Digilio - Window Cleaning Plus - Illinois
Tom Thomas - Brite-Way Publishing - Tennessee