Want to make an EXTRA $3,000 – $5000 per Speech?

Would you like to build a lucrative speaking business with multiple income streams and do it with integrity and ease?

We have a rare opportunity to learn from the best, a world champion speaker, and three time “North Atlantic Best Sales Professional of the Year” Craig Valentine.

Register Here

Friday February 17th event from 11 – 2pm at the Edge of Webster

Check out this video of Craig Valentine

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Keynotes and breakout sessions are great and you can offer more value to your client by being the Emcee for the event.

We are proud that the National Speakers Association 2012 – 2013 National President Ron Culberson is coming to St. Louis to share his secrets to being an emcee everyone will love.

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Friday January 13th event from 11 – 2pm at the Edge of Webster

Check out this video of Ron Culberson

Pay attention to how he integrates humor into this presentations

As speakers, we are often asked to emcee awards programs, special events and fundraisers.  Sometimes it’s for a fee and sometimes it’s for free.  Either way, emceeing can be a wonderful way to add revenue to your business by exposing your skills to a new audience.

Unfortunately, just because you’re a good speaker, you’re not necessarily a good emcee.  In fact, there is an art to emceeing and it uses our speaking skills in a unique way.

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In this program Ron Culberson, a seasoned speaker and emcee, will teach you the tips and techniques you need to add professionalism and fun to your role as Master of Ceremonies.  Whether you’re hosting a recognition event, running an auction or facilitating your child’s scout meeting, these ideas will turn you into an emcee that everyone wants for their next event.

In this program, you will learn how to:

• Focus on the goal of emceeing
• Help to plan the agenda
• Research relevant information
• Keep the focus on others while shining a light on yourself
• Integrate the theme of the event in your remarks
• Stay on top of the logistics
• Share your expertise through an optional presentation
• Create good, consistent introductions and transitions
• Pay attention to things that happen
• Add lots of humor to the event without sacrificing the seriousness

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Join us for our holiday party to catch up with old friends, and meet some new members of the NSA St. Louis chapter.  It’s a potluck dinner so please bring your own dish and we will supply the beverages.

Please feel bring to bring spouse, sweetie, partner or whomever.  Please register so we can prepare adequate food, drinks, and seating.

Members of NSA St. Louis only.  If you are not on this list then you need to renew your NSA St. Louis dues for 2011-2012 here.

If you are coming please RSVP HERE

What:
NSA Holiday Party and Potluck

Where:
Carol Weisman’s condo
8025 Maryland, 5A Clayton, MO 63105

When:
Thursday December 15th at 6:00pm – 8pm

Why:
See old friends you haven’t seen for years.
Because we have new member benefits you probably don’t know about.
Share the best practices, resources, and ideas that made 2011 great.

Also, if you are interested in getting more out of NSA and making decision on behalf of the chapter check out our leadership opportunities.

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What could you learn from someone who quit their day job and survived on product sales alone?

What if he tracked every product sold, at every presentation, how many attendees, and the dollars earned per head for the past five years?

Join us on November 18th, 2011 at the Edge of Webster 11-2pm for the next NSA St. Louis meeting open to members and guests.

Guests invest $39

Click buy now to register for the event

NSA St. Louis members FREE

If you are not on the list then you must renew your dues for 2011-2012.

Currently 70% of Darren LaCroix’s income is derived form product sales and does NOT sound like an infomercial while on stage.

He is also the 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking.

You’ll discover Darren’s 12 Marketing Musts, his two “they don’ts”, and the one “they want to.” His ideas will change how you think about product and how it should be an integral part of any professional speakers business no matter what level you are at!

Some ideas will earn you money, some ideas will save you money, which would you prefer?

In 2002 Hawaii Workshop he had the number one selling session tape as he co-presented:  Up beat Packaging Upped my Product Sales So Up Yours!

Learn more about Darren at his other speaking websites

• www.365InspirationalQuotes.com
• www.52GetPaidToSpeakTips.com
• www.Top10SpeakingTips.com
• http://twitter.com/darrenlacroix
• http://www.facebook.com/StageTime
• www.YouTube.com/stagetime

Internet Marketing Speaker Ford Saeks will Help You Increase the Performance of Revenue-Generating Efforts and Supercharge Your Sales Results!

At the 2011 NSA Convention Ford’s session was one of the most attended breakouts and received raved reviews from those who participated. I can’t think of anyone who is a member who wouldn’t want to grow their business.

Do you want to…

• Increase Sales and Revenues
• Attract Loyal and Repeat Customers
• Get Targeted Traffic to Your Website
• Improve Search Engine Rankings
• Monetize Social Media Marketing (SMM)
• Increase Results Even on a Limited Budget
• Ignite Creativity and Innovation
• Gain the Competitive Edge
• Create a Massive Action Marketing Plan
• Enjoy Higher Profits
• Dominate Your Market
• Improve Sales Performance
• Get your Phone to Ring with Prospects
• Implement SEO Best Practices
• Create Compelling Sales Copy
• Benefit from Direct Response Marketing
• Increase Landing Page Conversions
• Produce Impressive Marketing Results

Watch this video of Ford

Ford Saeks has helped many speakers monetize their business using social media and internet marketing strategies.

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Registration Details

Join us on Saturday October 29th 9 am – noon at Salt Restaurant in the Central West End. NOTE: THIS IS A NEW LOCATION FOR OUR MEETING, and breakfast is included for all. If you are an NSA member, please still register if you plan on attending.

Investment for guests = $49

Investment for NSA St. Louis members = FREE

If you are attending please as a guest or a member fill out this survey to ensure we have appropriate food, materials, and seats.  This is an extra step if you are a guest.

Click this link for survey

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Meeting Location

Salt Restaurant: 4356 Lindell Blvd St Louis, MO 63108

The best of the best will share his secrets behind creating memorable moments that impact audiences to take action.

If your speech is bullet point after bullet point, suffer from stale stories, and have no emotional hook then you need to be at our next meeting. Lou will help you extract your personal experiences, life lessons, and business applications to connect with audiences at a deeper level.

Friday September 9th, 2011 11 am – 2pm

Location – Edge of Webster 359 Marshall Rd St. Louis, MO 63119

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Investment

Guests $39

NSA St. Louis members FREE. Renew your 2011 -2012 dues for only $120/year

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Lou was voted one of the favorite speakers by meeting planners as listed in Meetings and Conventions Magazine, July, 2010.

When you invite Lou Heckler to be part of your special event as a motivational speaker, keynote speaker or speech coach, you avail yourself of his unique blend of knowledge, integrity, experience, humor, and heart.

Most of Lou’s motivational speaking, keynote speaking, and speech coaching assignments come to him as repeat or referral business. This is because he takes a personal interest in the success of each event and individual.

It is also because the face-to-face time he spends with a group or person is a fraction of his preparation and follow-up time. His constantly updated presentations are researched and tailored to fit client needs. He interviews (usually by phone) key personnel ahead of the engagement to discover current directions and concerns. He arrives the day before a meeting or convention at which he will be speaking. He attends the sessions leading up to his slot so that he will add to his understanding and appreciation of the specific business area. He takes time to socialize at scheduled functions. He allots time after his speech to mingle informally with the group. In the weeks following the event, Lou stays in the picture by forwarding key, helpful information to the client as he finds it.

As a speech coach, Lou is noted for endowing the people he teaches with: confidence, recognition of effective performance structure, and enhanced skill in storytelling. His coaching clients include both professional speakers and executives.

Word of mouth has propelled Lou Heckler through two successful decades of motivational speaking, keynote speaking, and speech coaching in hundreds of cities. Through it all, he has kept current and kept his life balance. For a speaker and coach you will enjoy, respect, and long remember, get to know Lou.

http://louheckler.com/

You don’t want to miss this opportunity to be coached by one of the best speaking coaches in the world.  He knocked it out of the park this year at the Global Speakers Summit 2011 in the Netherlands and the NSA Annual Convention in Anaheim 2011.

See you there!

Are you TOO busy for business growth or ready to reinvent your passion for career?

We are bringing you the best NSA has to offer and now doing in ways that you have never seen before.  The community of NSA is bringing St. Louis the most successful and influential people in today’s market.  This year we hosted events with the national NSA president Laura Stack, past president and Cavett Award Winner and past national president, and next generation keynote superstar Rory Vaden.

We’ve been doing some really cool things with the website that will make members more money, save them time working with meeting planners, and generate revenue to reinvest in chapter events and benefits.

Each speaker profile is synced with the national database that you can update yourself, whenever you like.  If you upgraded  your eSpeakers profile then additional links, social media marketing, video, and meeting planner resources appear on your page within the NSA St. Louis website.  Join us at our next meeting to learn more.

List of NSA St. Louis members

Search NSA St. Louis members by topic

Speak your voice and be heard at the “Be Heard Breakfast”

This week we have the NSA Chief Executive Officer Stacy Tetschner coming to St. Louis for a “Be Heard Breakfast”.  Voice your challenges, expectations, concerns for what you can expect and receive from the national association and local chapter.

Cost: FREE to NSA St. Louis (breakfast is included)

This is only open to paid members of NSA St. Louis.

Date: Tuesday, August 9^th

Time: 8 am

Location: St. Louis Diner, 1137 Washington Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63101-1121

Meeting with the Masters

Join us!  We are getting together in a private residence to share new ideas learned from the #NSA11 Influence Convention.  We will be having a surprised guest call in using Skype video which you can ask any question on their expertise.

Cost: Included in 2011 – 2012 Membership dues.  Renew today!

This is only open to paid members of NSA St. Louis.

Date: Tuesday, August 11^th

Time: 5-7pm

Location: Sent to NSA members privately.  Call or text me for directions if needed.

Are you getting value from your NSA St. Louis membership?

You would say no if you haven’t been coming regularly since 2011 and many including new member Manley Feinberg have said, “I can’t believe you get all this information for the price.”  He has been coming enough and implemented the ideas in order to qualify for national membership.  Congrats Manley!

I want you to be successful.  Make every meeting you can.  You never know who you will meet and how they will impact your business.

The next meeting where guests are welcome is Friday, September 9th, 2011

Your NSA St. Louis 2011 -2012 President

Doug Devitre

Join us for a special meeting with 2011-2012 NSA President, Laura Stack, aka The Productivity Pro®!
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Laura will spill all regarding her favorite hardware, software, accessories, gadgets, and vendors/websites that make her office hum like a well-oiled machine! Your fee includes an extensive handout with a list of EVERYTHING Laura uses in her office and speaking business to stay organized. Buy the right hardware and software, automate manual processes, track electronic information, do things more quickly, be more efficient, and discover websites that will save you time and money. You won’t want to miss this! And NO, you can’t have the handout if you don’t come.

Laura is putting together a custom program for the NSA/St. Louis chapter which will include elements from two of her most popular chapter programs, “Cool Productivity Tools: Using Technology to Stay Organized, Efficient, and Connected” and “Organizing the Speaker’s Office: Setting up Your Systems for Success.”

Laura will:

• Bring and show-n-tell her hardware, software, accessories, gadgets, and favorite vendors/websites that make her office hum like a well-oiled machine.
• She will also share the systems you’ll need to succeed in the speaking business.
• Share resources on her web site just for professional speakers. Visit http://theproductivitypro.com/r_speakers.htm for more information.

Register Here for NSA St. Louis Meeting

11 am – 2pm June 17th
Location – Edge of Webster
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Laura Stack is a personal productivity expert, author, and professional speaker whose mission is to build high-performance productivity cultures in organizations by creating Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations and the 2011-2012 President of the National Speakers Association. Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces. She is the bestselling author of four books: SUPERCOMPETENT; The Exhaustion Cure; Find More Time; and Leave the Office Earlier. Laura has been a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, Xerox, and Office Depot. She is the creator of The Productivity Pro® planner by Day-Timer and has been featured on the CBS Early Show, CNN, and the New York Times. Her clients include Starbucks, Cisco Systems, Wal-Mart, and Bank of America. Visit www.TheProductivityPro.com to sign up for her free monthly productivity newsletter.

Ed Reggi is a proud member of Commercial Theater Institute in NYC; Actors Equity Association; Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor; and he is a Webster University C.A.T. Alum. Reggi performs around the world. At home in St. Louis, he is managing producer and lead instructor with the Nine Academy at the Nine Network of Public Media and directs the award-winning Paper Slip Theatre.

We’ll learn how to find the right story to tell; what skills are needed to tell the story; how to tell stories in an authentic way; how people relate to stories, and thus the storyteller.

This is part of a series run by the Institute for Creative Comebacks and is free of charge. Our own Robert Fishbone has appeared in a previous event.

Tuesday afternoon, April 26, 2011
2 pm until 4:30 pm
REJIS, 4255 West Pine Blvd., St. Louis 63108
Refreshments will be served.

Please pre-register at www.bouncebackstl.org

On Friday April 8th, Ed Rigsbee, CSP will teach you how to sell to trade associations and professional societies by going after their soft underbelly—publication editors. In building a relationship with any association, Ed will teach you how to first build a relationship bridge with the association’s editor by offering articles adapted from your books, keynotes or seminars. Then, you’ll learn how to use the editor relationship to bridge the divide into the meetings department. And, you’ll learn how to find these associations through free Internet directories and web sites. (Half-day Program)

• This is the implementation system designed especially for those who hate to make cold calls.
• Learn where to go to find the free search sites that will connect you with associations that can book you for paid engagements.
• Learn how to let association publication editors connect you with association meeting decision makers—soft sell through the back door!

Through this system, Ed will teach you how to access the national trade and professional association market, 7,500 strong in the United States alone. Get in through the back door by becoming a resource rather than just another cold call.

Second) Writing Articles that Association Editors Will Publish (supporting
program/fund raiser seminar)

Don’t have any articles?

Rigsbee will cover how to craft your writing to make your material even more desirable to association editors. Learn hooks, sloganization, bullet point writing and calls for action. Following this workshop, attendees will be armed with the article template and skills necessary to hook the interest of association editors with the kind of articles that those same editors truly desire.

Program Schedule: 9 am to 2pm

• 9 am to 11:30 – How to Get Paid Association Bookings, Even in Difficult Times
• 11:30 to noon – Lunch
• Noon to 2pm – Article Writing Workshop

$20 for the whole day

Come to the Edge of Webster on Friday April 8th, 2011  from 9 to 2. (Note the new time.)
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Watch this clip of Ed in action

More Links to Ed Rigsbee’s resources:

Articles:
http://www.rigsbee.com/morearticles.htm
http://www.rigsbee.com/associationarticles.htm

Social Media:
http://twitter.com/EdRigsbee
http://www.facebook.com/ed.rigsbee
http://www.linkedin.com/in/edrigsbee

Blogs:
http://smallbizalliances.blogspot.com/
http://edrigsbeesworld.blogspot.com/
http://rigsbizresults.blogspot.com/
http://relationshipglue.blogspot.com/
http://gottalovela.blogspot.com/