Establish the date, location and budget of your event. These factors will play an important role in determining the pool of keynote speakers available to you.
How to Promote Your Keynote Speaker
Here are some tips from the National Speakers Association (NSA) on how to promote your keynote speaker.
Meeting Promotion And Publicity Checklist*
Review previous years’ promotional budgets, Determine objectives and scope of program.
Six Steps To Becoming A Powerful Public Speaker
Public speaking ranks right up there in terms of the things we are afraid to do. Whether its the fear of being watched closely by others, or the insecurity and self-conscious feeling of slipping up during the presentation, these six tips will help you give a polished, professional speech that you (and your audience) can be proud of!
1. Know your audience. This is the single best piece of advice for delivering a presentation. What are there interests? Their backgrounds? W…
Getting Motivated By A Motivational Speaker?
In the past years, there has been a sudden rise of motivational speakers. They appear in television and in magazines as well as sold out seminars that are just brimming with people who are just craving to get some direction with their lives.
A motivational speaker, instead of focusing on the financial gains that he or she will most probably get from these seemingly needy people, should focus his or her attention to actually motivating people to actually be the best that …
Working With Vip And Celebrity Speakers
Politicians, VIP’s and celebrity speakers often expect to bring their spouse, travel companion or aide with them when they travel. If other parties are involved make sure you have something in writing that outlines what the understanding is regarding lodging and food reimbursement. If you retain your speaker’s services well in advance of your conference date he or she may be able to arrange other engagements close to your meeting date and location. If this happens, it could m…
Staging A Successul Meeting – Meeting Room Check
Allow time for set-up and rehearsal and allow time between sessions to re-set meeting rooms. Book all meeting rooms in 24 hour time blocks. Verify when presenters will arrive and if they need rehearsal time before their scheduled start time.
Planning A Successful Event – Finding The Right Speaker
The key elements in finding the right speaker for your event involve the following
Finding And Securing A Sponsor For Your Corporate Event
A good amount of time and effort will be required to secure appropriate sponsorship for your meeting or corporate event. This being the case, it is important to start your planning process early. Beginning this process as much as 18 months in advance of a planned meeting date is not unrealistic.
Bring It On: Dealing With Sales Competition
Sales trainers do well to focus on the basics, such as prospecting, presenting, answering objections, and closing the sale. In spite of this training, salespeople often struggle when they come face-to-face with the competition. The first rule of sales competition is ?don?t slam your competitor,? yet many salespeople (inadvertent though it may be) do just that. They don?t say, ?Their product is inferior!? or ?Their service is horrible!? or ?Have you seen their consumer ratings…