Town Square

Town Square Collage

Our annual Town Square event (where personal historians show their products and vendors sell their wares) will be held in the Cool Springs Conference Center adjacent to the Franklin Marriott Hotel from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 10. This year’s event will be closed to the public so that members and regions can better focus on demonstrating to each other successful methods of marketing and public presentation.

Regions Hometown Hospitality:

Imagine the transformation of a conference meeting space into a lively showcase for the glorious variety of APH creativity, with hometown hospitality offered by every region. All APH members are encouraged to display samples of their work–books, CDs, DVDs, videos, and other projects. Member tables will be set up by region for this purpose at no charge. We’re also inviting you to showcase “what’s so special” about your hometown by designing an eye-catching exhibit in cooperation with others from your region, even bringing delicacies from your specific region to share.

Here’s our challenge this year: Collaborate with your regional neighbors now to create a group display and win the Best Hometown Hospitality Prize. (Only collaborative group exhibits will qualify for this special competition.) Collaborating groups may qualify for free shipping of group display materials. Contact APH Regions Chair Sarah White, the Honorable Mayor of Town Square 2007, for more details.

Vendor Expo:

Although vendors have participated in the past, we are pushing it to a new limit this year. Equipment of all types will be on display. Apple is supplying a demo PowerMac loaded with software for our Viewing Room and will be conducting Final Cut Pro desktop editing seminars as well as demos of iPods, iBooks, iLife and other products during Town Square. Trew Audio will be demonstrating professional microphones, recorders and accessories. Other local camera and grip equipment rental houses will be on hand to demonstrate their extensive lines of cameras, lenses, tripods, lights, stands, sandbags, etc. And all of these vendors will be equipped to make sales on site. Try it and buy it in the same location. We are making the store come to you!

APH members with items to promote or sell are invited to rent vendor tables to display and market their products as well. That includes anyone interested in selling books, recording and video equipment, software, or office supplies; printers of brochures and business cards; marketing and/or business coaches; and providers of transcription, editing, graphic design or printing and binding services, etc. Come one, come all.

Vendor tables available at a discounted rate of $50 for APH members, $75 for nonprofit organizations, and $100 for non-APH commercial organizations. For more details, visit Vendors/Ads. To reserve a table, use the Advertisement and Vendor Table Registration Form (90k pdf).

The early birds who booked their vendor tables prior to September 15 are shown below. Find out more by visiting their website.

Memoir Mentor

Roots & Branches Productions

Photo Book Press

Speed Coaching: (New in 2007)

One-on-one, five-minute speed-coaching sessions will give individual members the opportunity to seek advice from some of APH’s most successful personal historians. Sign up at the registration desk or at Town Square for a session with our experts in Marketing, Interviewing, Books, Videos, Audio, Design and Publishing, Business Start-up, Leading Workshops, Ethical Wills, Websites, and Internet. Come with prepared questions and benefit from our volunteer coaches’ years of experience.
Lettice Stuart, past president of APH and the subject of articles in Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, will lead this program. She will be joined by Libby Atwater, Barry Baines, Bob Breakstone, Gloria Nussbaum, Scott Purcell, and Rae Jean Sielen, to name just a few.

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