Past the Plateau: Los Angeles Marketing & Sales Growth Summit
About this Event
You’ve Built the Business. Now It’s Time to Break Through the Plateau.
Past the Plateau is a live, in-person Los Angeles marketing and sales growth summit created for established business owners, founders, and entrepreneurs who are ready to identify what’s holding back their growth and build a clear plan for what comes next.
This is not Marketing 101.
In one focused half-day, four experts will take you through four critical areas of business growth:
Marketing Strategy → Lead Generation → Sales → SEO & AI Search
You’ll learn how to strengthen your marketing strategy, build a better lead-generation funnel, improve your sales process, and increase your visibility across Google and AI-powered search platforms such as ChatGPT.
The goal? Leave with a focused, realistic 90-day growth plan you can start implementing immediately.
What You'll Learn
Elevate Your Marketing Plan | , Golden State Marketing
Move beyond scattered marketing tactics and develop a clearer strategy around your audience, positioning, messaging, goals, and opportunities for growth.
Build a Better Funnel | , Marketing With Marquita
Learn how to create a stronger lead-generation funnel that attracts the right prospects and moves them toward becoming customers.
Selling Past the Ceiling | , Sandler Training
Identify weaknesses in your sales process, improve your sales conversations, qualify opportunities more effectively, and confidently sell at higher price points.
Increase Your Website Sales & Leads With SEO & AI Search | , SEO Optimizers
Learn how to increase your visibility when customers search on Google, Google Maps, ChatGPT, and other AI-powered platforms. Discover how SEO, keywords, content, local SEO, authority, and AI search optimization can help generate more traffic, leads, and sales.
What You'll Walk Away With
This isn't designed to be four presentations you watch and forget about.
You'll leave with:
- A clearer marketing strategy
- A stronger approach to generating qualified leads
- Practical ideas for improving your marketing funnel
- A better understanding of Google, SEO and AI search visibility
- Strategies for improving your sales process
- New connections with Los Angeles business owners and entrepreneurs
- A focused 90-day growth plan for your business
Who Should Attend?
Past the Plateau is designed for established business owners, founders, entrepreneurs, executives, and decision-makers who are ready for their next stage of growth.
This event is especially valuable if your business has hit a plateau, your existing marketing isn't producing the results it once did, you want more qualified leads, you want greater visibility on Google and AI search, or you need to turn more opportunities into customers.
If you're looking for Marketing 101, this probably isn't the event for you.
If you've already built something that works and you're asking "How do we get to the next level?", you're in the right room.
Meet the Speakers
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Patty Ross is the CEO of Golden State Marketing and a marketing strategist with more than 25 years of experience helping businesses develop practical, results-focused marketing strategies. She founded Golden State Marketing in 2006 and works with businesses across B2B and B2C industries. Patty is also an experienced speaker and educator who regularly teaches entrepreneurs and business owners through SCORE, chambers of commerce, business organizations, and workshops.
Session: Elevate Your Marketing Plan
| Marketing With Marquita
Marquita Thomas is a marketing strategist and business leader with more than two decades of experience in marketing, lead generation, business development, and organizational leadership. Her work focuses on helping businesses better understand their audiences, strengthen their positioning, build more effective marketing funnels, and turn marketing activity into meaningful business opportunities.
Session: Build a Better Funnel and the Tactics to Fill It
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Michael Castiglione is a sales trainer, coach, and business leader who helps companies strengthen their sales processes, develop their teams, and break through revenue plateaus. Through Sandler's sales methodology, Michael works with business owners and sales professionals to improve prospecting, sales conversations, qualification, closing, accountability, and leadership, with an emphasis on creating repeatable systems for sustainable sales growth.
Session: Selling Past the Ceiling
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Brandon Leibowitz is the founder of SEO Optimizers and has been helping businesses increase their online visibility since 2007. With more than 19 years of digital marketing experience, Brandon specializes in SEO, local SEO, keyword research, content strategy, link building, and AI search optimization. He helps businesses improve their visibility across Google, Google Maps, ChatGPT, and other AI-powered search platforms to generate more qualified traffic, leads, and sales. Brandon is also a frequent speaker, educator, and guest on hundreds of podcasts.
Session: Increase Your Website Sales & Leads With SEO & AI Search
Four Experts. Four Growth Bottlenecks. One 90-Day Plan.
Marketing strategy gets you focused. Lead generation creates opportunities. A stronger sales process turns those opportunities into revenue. SEO and AI search help more potential customers discover your business.
Past the Plateau brings all four together in one room.
Join us live in Los Angeles for a focused half-day of learning, planning, and connecting with other established business owners.
Tickets: $99
Space is limited. Reserve your seat and start building your next 90 days of growth.
Agenda
Past The Plateau Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Doors Open: Coffee, Networking & Sponsor Connections
Info: Check in, grab coffee, meet fellow Los Angeles business owners and entrepreneurs, and connect with our event sponsors before the summit begins.
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Welcome & Summit Overview
Info: Get oriented for the morning and identify the business growth challenges you'll be thinking through during each session as you work toward your 90-day growth plan.
🕑: 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Elevating Your Marketing Plan
Host: Patty Ross | Golden State Marketing
Info: Learn why marketing strategies that once worked can begin producing diminishing returns and how to refocus your plan around your audience, positioning, messaging, and growth goals.
Roadblock addressed: “We keep doing the same marketing, but we're getting diminishing returns.”
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Building a Better Funnel & the Tactics to Fill It
Host: Marquita Thomas | Marketing With Marquita
Info: Learn how to map your customer journey, identify where prospects are dropping off, and choose the right lead-generation tactics to attract and nurture more qualified opportunities.
Roadblock addressed: “We're generating leads, but they're the wrong ones or they go cold before we ever talk.”
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break, Networking & Connections
Info: Recharge, connect with other attendees, and visit our event sponsors.
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Get Found on Google & AI: SEO/GEO for Lead Generation
Host: Brandon Leibowitz | SEO Optimizers
Info: Learn how to increase your business's visibility across Google, Google Maps, ChatGPT, and AI-powered search. Brandon will break down SEO, GEO, keywords, content, and authority strategies that can turn search visibility into qualified traffic, leads, and sales.
Roadblock addressed: “We're getting traffic and spending on marketing, but not enough qualified leads.”
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Selling Past the Ceiling
Host: Michael Castiglione | Sandler Training
Info: Learn how to improve sales conversations, qualify opportunities more effectively, reduce unnecessary discounting, and confidently close higher-value business.
Roadblock addressed: “We're having good conversations, but deals stall or we discount to close.”
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Q&A, 90-Day Growth Plan & Next Steps
Info: Bring the four sessions together, ask questions, identify your biggest growth bottleneck, and turn what you learned into action. Choose your top priorities and leave with clear commitments for what you'll focus on over the next 90 days.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 99.00
