Friday, April 4, 2025
Meeting Format:
Connections & Networking: 9:00 to 9:30 am
Business Development Program: 9:30 am to 12:00 pm
Break and Networking: 12:00 to 12:15 pm
National Members-Only Lunch & Mastermind Session: 12:30 to 2:00 pm
*Doors will open at 9:00 am for networking at the venue.
Enterprise Bank – Creve Coeur
11401 Olive Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63141
OR…
via Zoom
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
The Champion’s Code: How to Generate Momentum and Grow Your Speaking Business Through Good Times and Bad
The best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, Ross consistently speaks at over 120 events per year and has even keynoted conferences on all seven continents. He’s a solopreneur who has built a lifestyle business with no employees or assistants, which allows him to travel nonstop with his wife and daughter. He purely keynotes and doesn’t have other profit centers, so he’s laser focused on booking gigs. In this session, Ross will peel back the curtain and share the inside secrets on how he’s built his business by building relationships, negotiating win-win deals, and ultimately just doing things very differently.
In this session you will discover:
- Innovative ways to give and receive referrals, not just to your fellow speakers, but to your clients.
- How to leverage video testimonials, philanthropy, and social media in order to grow your business.
- Ideas on creative negotiations in order to find “Value” when clients don’t have your “full fee.”
- Methods to be more creative in your sales pitches, your customization, and how to create “slump-busters” in order to keep your calendar full.
- Ideas on pre and post gig networking that could hopefully lead to more international travel and lifestyle destinations.
Mark your calendar and reserve your spot today!
SPEAKER BIO:
Ross Bernstein is a best-selling author of nearly FIFTY SPORTS BOOKS. He’s an award-winning, Hall of Fame, peak-performance, business speaker who’s keynoted conferences on ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS — Yes, even Antarctica… and has been featured on CNN, “CBS-This-Morning,” ESPN, and Fox News, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today. He’s worked for some pretty awesome brands over the years, including: Harley Davidson, Levi’s Jeans, Buffalo Wild Wings, and even the 2022 Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. He’s a proud member of NSA’s Million Dollar Group; and one of only THREE members of NSA to have earned the CSP, CPAE, and Global Speaker Federation’s “Global Speaker Fellow” designations, His mission is to get us all thinking DIFFERENTLY about how we can raise OUR games to the next level.