Past the Plateau: Los Angeles Marketing & Sales Growth Summit
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 8:30 AM PDT – 1:00 PM PDT
Flight Path Museum & Learning Center · 6661 Imperial Highway, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Hosted by The Marketing Lab
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 | Patty Ross, 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 | Marquita Thomas, 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 | Michael Castiglione, 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 | Brandon Leibowitz, 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 Patty Ross | Golden State Marketing 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 Marquita Thomas | 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 Michael Castiglione | Sandler Training 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 Brandon Leibowitz | SEO Optimizers 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…