Monthly Chapter Meeting Information

Featured Speakers:

Sam Horn

Sam Horn is a 14-time Emcee of the world-renowned Maui Writers Conference and the author of such books as Tongue Fu!®, ConZentrate, What's Holding You Back?, and Take The Bully By The Horns (all from St. Martin's Press) which have been featured in Publishers Weekly, CBS News Radio, Library Journal, Chicago Tribune, WGN—Chicago, Investors Business Daily, and Readers Digest.

She is also the author of POP! Stand out in Any Crowd, (Sept. ’06 Perigee) and works with individuals and organizations to create one-of-a-kind identities that help their business, brand, idea, invention, project, or product POP! out of the pack. Most importantly, Sam is known for her fun, motivating, highly interactive programs that focus on real-life ideas you can put to use immediately.

Are You Ready to Become an IDEApreneur?  Marketable, Money-Making Ideas To Take Your Speaking Career to the Next Level

Stop thinking of yourself as a speaker.  You are actually an IDEApreneur who makes a living from your mind and mouth.

Our ability to stay viable in this increasingly competitive industry depends on our ability to keep our antennae up for fresh, leading-edge ideas, stories, solutions and suggestions people haven't seen or heard before.  In this innovative, hands-on session, you'll discover Sam's step-by-step process for becoming an IDEApreneur. 

Sam knows you're busy, so she promises the following take-aways to make this time and money well-spent.  You'll discover how to:

1.    Turn common everyday events and experiences into uncommon insights that stand out and get noticed by meeting planners, media and decision-makers

2.    Identify your P.O.D. (Points of Distinction) so you break out (vs. blend in) and become the go-to resource on your subject  

3.    Transform generic into genius by "Cliff-Noting" concepts into compelling "Money-phrases" that audience members understand, remember and repeat

4.    Turn your intellectual capital into Equity Ideas that produce ongoing income on the stage (speaking), on the page (books) and online (e-commerce) for years to come

5.    Create and corner a niche by filling out your W-9 form so you develop a signature approach, identity, topic and brand that locomotes your marketing

There are thousands of speakers/authors/coaches on the topics of leadership, communication, sales, motivation and health and wellness.  If we want to break out, we must be FIRST TO MARKET with ideas that aren't available elsewhere.  This fun, hands-on workshop shows you how to leading the crowd, not follow it.  Discover for yourself why Seth Godin calls Sam's POP! process "revolutionary." Bring a priority project so you can immediate apply these ideas and walk out with a compelling, commercially viable identify that will catapult your national visibility, number of speaking engagements, and income.

Ed Tate

Ed Tate, internationally known keynote speaker, has earned a reputation as the “speaker who energizes, educates, and entertains.”

Since starting his speaking business 10 years ago, Ed has generated over $1,000,000 in speaking fees, products and services. Using the principles he teaches today, while an executive in the computer industry, Ed has sold more than $500 million in computer products and services. He co-created two business units that produced over $1.25 billion in revenues. 

Ed Tate became the 2000 World Champion of Public Speaking. Out of 175,000 members of Toastmasters International, Ed won the coveted World Championship of Public Speaking—Toastmasters’ highest award.

Selling from the Front and Back of the Room. How to double your income every time you speak!

“You owe it to your audience to allow them to take home your product  so your speech can have a lasting impact and help create change in your customer’s life. Without product there’s little chance you’re doing more than blowing hot air over a crowd.” – Ron LeGrand

Most speakers leave money on the table. Either they don’t produce and market “back end” products or worse, they market themselves poorly. In this interactive presentation, you will: 

·         Discover how to create an irresistible offer in such a way that people line up to buy your product, services or next program.

·         Weave subject matter and salesmanship

·         Gain a Step-by-Step process that works every time

·         Convert lookers into buyers

·         And Much More…  

Debra Fine

Debra Fine is an author and keynote speaker who began her career as an engineer. She now designs both her presentations and researches her books to teach technically oriented professionals conversation skills and networking techniques that help in developing business relationships. Debra’s newly released The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) is her second in the “Fine Art” series following her best-selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills—and Leave a Positive Impression.

 Join Debra Fine and learn how The Fine Art of Small Talk worked for her and worked against her. Debra will reveal how her handy last name, her refusal to take "No" for an answer, and her lack of funds led to the success she now enjoys as a speaker and author.