Note: We moved this meeting up the street to the Marriot next to Best Buy (not
the Courtyard by Marriot) due to the size of the crowd attending.
FREE
4-Hour Seminar on Business Development
& Marketing for Inspectors.
Michael Rowan will be sharing his knowledge on diversification and business development
for inspectors
Nick Gromicko will be speaking on the marketing, sales generation and exit strategies
for inspectors
Tuesday October 10, 2006
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
See RED notation above!
The hotel is located just north of Atlanta at 3390 Venture Parkway, Duluth, GA 30096
Michael Rowan
Michael Rowan is an industry leader in technology for home inspectors,
with a successful multi-inspector company as well. Michael started his career
in home inspections in 1985. Michael attended college full-time and secured a
diploma in Building Surveying/Inspection after which he spent 4 years finalizing
his degree in Building Surveying/Inspection from Reading University, England.
Following this qualification, Michael secured a Post Graduate Degree in Construction
Project Management and immigrated to the United States. Upon immigrating, Michael
finalized his State Certified General Contractor's License in the state of Florida,
became a member of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI), Florida Association
of Building Inspectors (FABI) and has taken numerous seminars and courses. Michael
is also State certified to teach a home inspection course under Inspection Depot,
Inc. and other courses associated with the home inspection industry. Michael has
written the Home Guide reporting system and many other articles that are used in local, regional and
national trade journals. Michael has personally completed over 10,000 home and
building inspections.
Nick Gromicko
Nick Gromicko is an activist for the inspection industry and a speaker at dozens
of inspection events every year. After three years of military training in the 1980's Nick
accepted a position as a Research Analyst for the University of Pittsburgh's Nuclear
Physics Department. Four years later he left to form several multi-inspector
firms, eight environmental companies, and two laboratories. As a REALTOR with
RE/MAX, Nick was one of the country's first agents to work solely with buyers.
In 1990 he founded InterNACHI which grew into the world's largest inspection trade
association, host to nearly 500 events a year, with a 205,000-page, 100 million+
hit per year main site, over 4,000 websites, and a nearly 300,000-post, free speech
message board. In the mid 1990's he sat on the Board of one of the largest public
sewer authorities in the country and was President of Northtowne Custom Homes.
Nick owns a New York ad agency, a Wyoming mining company and an off-road accessory
manufacturing company. He is author of two books and dozens of inspection-related articles.
He helped start a school for children, a free health clinic, a food bank, and the
Master Inspector Certification Board which administers the inspection industry's
Certified Master Inspector professional designation and where he volunteers as its Director. He is also
a board member of REALmatcher, Inc., Reports, Inc., the Florida Association of
Professional Home Inspectors, and the International Society of Home Inspectors.
Nick lives near the continental divide in Nederland, Colorado, population 1,394 at
what he calls "the top of the world."
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