ASHEVILLE,The Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council will kick off its 2005 events schedule on Jan. 18 with a discussion about increasing sales and building value in a company to justify a selling price.

Doug Schuster, founder of Parallax International, will be the speaker.

The session will take place at AB Tech Community College at Enka.

To register, go to: www.awnc.net/special_events-entrepreneurial_council.html