(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 20, 2011 ) Kihei, HI – Many consultants offer concentrated consultations designed to overhaul a business or kick out its kinks. However, they usually take place in a non-stop day or two that overwhelms the business owner and doesn’t address issues of how to implement decided-upon changes when returning home. That’s one rationale for creative marketing expert and author Marcia Yudkin’s uniquely structured one-on-one Maui marketing retreats in the winter of 2012. At a relaxed, productive pace, with time for sightseeing and fun on the beach, marketing solutions emerge and a business a business owner can plan the best ways to implement new ideas (www.yudkin.com/maui.htm ).
“Any ‘bizcation’ combines leisure and work, but my marketing retreats do so in a way that maximizes creative problem-solving and planning for change,” says Yudkin, author of Strategic Marketing, Persuading People to Buy and 13 other books. “Just as importantly, the structure enables a busy business owner who finds it hard to afford vacations to deduct the cost of travel and consultations in Maui as a legitimate business expense.”
YudkinÂ’s guided marketing retreats take place in Kihei, Hawaii, and cost $1800. The business owner sets their goal for the week and receives a one-hour phone consultation before the Maui meetings, eight consulting hours Monday through Friday and a one-hour phone follow-up after returning home. For two consecutive weeks, the consultation fee is $2500. A studio condo in Kihei is available at a reasonable cost for the week or two.
“Check with your accountant about your own situation, of course,” Yudkin notes, “but as a U.S. taxpayer, you’re likely to be able to count all your transportation, consulting and lodging costs as tax-deductible expenses.”
