This session will focus on all aspects of marketing for any small businesses, with a focus on hospitality — restaurant, grocery, and retail products. In particular, we’ll cover marketing in a post-COVID world — how to get your business noticed on a small business budget, what marketing tools will be critical in the next few years, and how consumer expectations are changing in 2021 and beyond.

Cyndi Darlington is an entrepreneur, marketer, and teacher, with particular expertise in the retail and restaurant industries. After 20+ years in corporate marketing for established brands like Amtrak, Prudential and Islands Restaurants, she founded Darlington Marketing Co. (DMC) 11 years ago, and the company has grown to be a leader in the Southern California marketing community.