Best-Selling Author and Small-Business Expert Michael Gerber in Denver August 6 for "Awaken the Entrepreneur Within You".

Called World's #1 Small Business Guru by Inc. Magazine, He Will Help Entrepreneurs Start New Businesses or Fix Businesses That Aren't Working

DENVER -- Michael Gerber, the man Inc. Magazine calls the world's #1 Small Business Guru, will be in Denver August 6 for a one-day intensive to help entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs start a new business or fix businesses that aren't working.

The Denver event kicks off a 55-stop tour that continues through the end of 2008.

"Awaken The Entrepreneur Within You" will be at the Omni Interlocken Resort, 500 Interlocken Boulevard, in Broomfield. It's an intense full-day introduction to the entrepreneurial secrets outlined in E-Myth Revisited and previews additional insights to be included in Gerber's next book, Awaken the Entrepreneur Within You, to be published next year.

The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and costs $299, or $350 for VIP seating. Register online at www.michaelgerberevents.com or call toll-free 1-888-881-1001.

Gerber wrote the perennial bestselling E-Myth Revisited, the most successful small-business book ever written with more than three million copies sold. He founded E-Myth Worldwide, his training, coaching and consulting firm that has helped more than 50,000 businesses in 145 countries. He also founded In The Dreaming Room, a new company devoted to awakening the entrepreneurial spirit in people who want to start the business of their dreams.

"There's a myth in this country, I call it the E-Myth, that says small businesses are started by entrepreneurs risking capital to make a profit," Gerber says. "The real reasons people start businesses have little to do with entrepreneurship."

"Most small businesses fail because people start them for the wrong reasons and go about doing it the wrong way," Gerber says. "Creating a successful business is a learnable, replicable experience that anyone can go through. I'll help people who show up for our event start their own business - or fix the one they already have."

The problem, Gerber says, is that "people who start their own businesses are really technicians suffering from an entrepreneurial seizure. So instead of creating a great company, they create a job. And they end up working harder than they should for too little return. The result is that even many 'successful' businesses close their doors because the owners walk away from enterprises that have sapped all their energy."

Editors/Small-Business Reporters: Michael Gerber will be in Denver July 26-27 and available for interviews. He's also available for phone interviews anytime between now and the Aug. 6 event. Contact Jerry Brown at 303-594-8016.