Past Events

Thank you for your interest in past events with NSA-PHL. Our archives below display open meetings from the past several years.

Mastering the World of Professional Relationships

Friday, October 29, 2010, 9AM-12PM
Presenter: Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, Incoming NSA National President

Having a high level of professional awareness in the speaking business requires you to be work closely with related professional associations and information sources. The successful professional speaker, consultant, coach, author, and thought-leader needs to master a variety of professional relationships.

If you want to land at the "top of the list" for meeting planners, corporate decision-makers, New York publishers, journalists and bloggers, conference program chairs, and other centers of influence, you need to become a master relationship builder AND relationship maintainer!

In this program, you'll learn the ten commandments of professional speaking as they relate to:

• Meeting planners, agents, and speaker bureau relationships
• The meetings industry and convention industry council organizations
• Standards of behavior and code of conduct: tricky situations
• Partnerships with non-NSA entities
• Partnerships with NSA speakers
• Speaking internationally
• Vendor relationships
• Working with the media

Building Your Business: You Can STILL Make it Happen!

Saturday, September 25, 2010, 9AM-12PM
Presenter: Marjorie Brody, CSP, PCC, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame

Being a talented speaker is often not enough to build a successful, sustainable speaking business.

This session looks at the “gestalt” – the entirety – of what it takes to build your business.

This includes product and topic development, finding the right clients, sales and marketing, and running the business as a business — even in difficult times.

Marjorie Brody will provide practical strategies that helped her, and other successful speakers, consultants, authors, experts, and thought leaders. Best of all, you can apply these strategies immediately to increase your traction in the marketplace as an expert who speaks.

How to Build a Million-Dollar Speaking Business…with Income Streams that Last for Life

Friday, May 21, 2010: 1:00PM to 5:00PM
Presenter: James A. Ziegler, CSP

The purpose of this presentation is to give professional speakers and consultants the tools that will enable you to use your existing expertise to generate higher-level multiples of profitability than you could ever realize from traditional "single-client" platform speaking.

The topics we cover will be far-ranging and specific, including:

• The concept of a speaking-centric business model with multiple inter-related, prioritized, profit centers
• How to avoid distractions disguised as opportunities
• How to monetize your core competency before you tackle new projects
• Learn to let go of bad ideas that aren’t working
• The nuts and bolts details of running a profitable public seminar business
• How to assess the power and revenue potential of adding a consulting revenue stream
• Massively increase the financial return from your platform speeches
• The role product development and product sales can play in your business
• Why every event is a product-production opportunity
• Selling educational materials from the platform …oh my!
• Developing and growing strategic alliances
• Lifetime revenue streams, including referral contracts, performance agreements, licensing, and strategic affiliates
• Building your scale-able and sale-able business model
• How to secure sponsors to pay for your speeches and events
• How to use technology to increase business, expand your marketing reach, dominate the internet, and measure productivity

Guerrilla Publicity: Connect With the Media for $50K in Free Publicity!

April 24, 2010, 9:30AM-12:30PM
Presenter: Jill Lublin

Let the media tell your story and bring clients right to your door. Jill shares her proven publicity secrets for getting the attention of national media, including The New York Times, CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and more--all based on her international Bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity.

In this action-packed half-day program, you will discover how to:

• Get the media talking about your products and services
• Instantly increase your visibility, competitive edge, and market share
• Quickly respond to breaking news and trends in your industry
• Accelerate your current marketing efforts at no additional cost
• Gain new repeat business--all from word of mouth “buzz” marketing
• Deploy the 7 guerrilla tactics for mastering any interview with magazines, newspapers, or TV.

Speaker Video Day

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Your opportunity to get your best material on both DVD and in digital format ready for your website, uploading to YouTube, and to get more bookings from meeting planners and speaker’s bureaus!

Really help people and EARN $250,000+ per year

Friday, March 19, 2010, 1:00PM-5:00PM
Presenter: Michael Charest

Why did you become a speaker? Chances are it was to create a great life for yourself and help people reach their goals and dreams in the process, right?

Have you created this great life for yourself yet? How many people are you helping? Are you living YOUR best life? Have you achieved financial prosperity?

How would you like to really help people and EARN $250,000+ per year? That's over $20,000 per MONTH! Are you anywhere close to this? Do you even think it's possible? Well, it is. Michael is doing it, AND YOU CAN TOO!

Intensive Event

Saturday, January 23, 8:00AM-5:00PM

Specific strategies, tactics, and tools to help YOU grow your business as an independent professional, business owner, and entrepreneur. Join us for this one-of-a-kind program and get more focused, attract more prospects, stimulate more referrals, and ultimately create a path and plan for generating more business! Learn more about our 2010 Intensive Event

Holiday Party

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 6:00-9:00PM

Join chapter members and others interested in NSA-PHL for an evening of connecting, sharing ideas and networking!

Social Media Lab

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 8:30AM-4:30PM

Do you want to engage in social media marketing to build your business? Do you want to get started but you're not sure where to begin? Do you wish someone would just walk you through the process of building out all your major social networking sites? The Social Media Lab is a hands-on day of guided implementation that gives you the "how-to" basics for promoting your business through social media - PLUS the "do-it-now" environment where you bring your laptop and get things done (or started!)

From Cold Call to Bold Call: Winning the keynote booking wars

Friday, October 16, 2009: 1:00PM to 5:00PM
Presenter: Lt Col Rob "Waldo" Waldman, CSP

Being a great speaker and having awesome content is useless unless you know how to market and sell your brand. From tracking down relevant leads to having an arsenal of Top Gun marketing materials, Lt Col Rob  “Waldo” Waldman - “The Wingman” - will show you dozens of innovative sales and marketing tactics that will get you booked—and build your brand—in a commoditized speaker world.

Waldo is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and a former combat decorated fighter pilot with 65 real world combat missions in Iraq and Serbia. But he’s also earned his wings in business as a top sales producer for several companies before founding his own firm Wingman Consulting. Past President of NSA GA, he was recently selected one of the Top 40 Business Leaders in Atlanta and is the author of Never Fly Solo (McGraw-Hill) which flies into bookstores everywhere on 1 Dec. For more information about Waldo, visit www.YourWingman.com

Taking Your Presentation To The Next Level

Friday, September 18, 2009, 1:00PM to 5:00PM
Presenter: Patricia Fripp

If you are a novice or Hall of Fame speaker this session is a MUST!

In this fast-moving, highly-interactive session you will have chance to ask questions, watch as magic is created in 'mini-coaching' sessions, and see why Patricia Fripp is known as a Legend on and off the platform.

You will learn:

• The three ways to emotionally connect to every audience member
• Two formulas that make your stories and examples come alive
• What Jerry Seinfeld knows that you should
• Ten little-known delivery techniques that improve every performance
• How to go from good to great to...awesome!!!!!
• How to get invited back over and over again.

Help Me Hire YOU! 21 Surefire Strategies from a Speaker-Turned-Planner

Saturday, May 16, 2009, 8 AM to 12PM
Presenter: David Newman

As a full-time speaker who spent a year booking 160+ events, David will show you how to build your business and increase your visibility, credibility, and hire-ability! Learn exactly what gets speakers hired using 21 specific strategies from someone who booked speakers daily. Extensive handouts will be provided.

As a result of attending this program, participants will learn:

• 21 step-by-step strategies for increasing your magnetism, credibility, and marketability as an expert who speaks
• What meeting planners and conference producers really look for when making buying decisions
• How to rapidly make subtle changes in your own positioning, packaging, promotion, and performance to dramatically boost your business
• 21 specific, actionable steps speakers can take immediately to re-position, re-package, and re-focus their business to attract dramatically more and better bookings by learning what a full-time speaker turned conference producer looks for (and runs away from!) when booking paid speakers for events.

Book Yourself Solid™—A Lead Generation and Small Business Marketing System

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 6 p.m.
Presenter: Michael Port, Coach, Consultant, Author

Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid, The Fastest, Easiest and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Even If You Hate Marketing and Selling, has trained and inspired over 20,000 service professionals and small business owners throughout the world. He is known as "the guy to call when you're tired of thinking small.”

How to Re-Think, Re-Position and Re-Tool Your Way to Speaking Success

Saturday, March 21, 2009, 8AM to 12PM
Presenter: Phillip Van Hooser

Can you challenge the conventional wisdom and thrive? You bet! Phillip Van Hooser did. Listen as he explains why…

• taking any speech for any fee on your topic may serve to raise your fees…and bottom line
• negotiating fees can sometimes be a good thing
• bigger (as in staff, offices and inventory) is not always better
• creating products could be a really lousy idea
• hiring a speech coach could hurt, not help, your performance
• paying big bucks for product development is just plain crazy
• letting clients go can get you more income
• refusing referral fees can result in even more business
• working with speakers bureaus may stunt your professional growth
• missing family birthdays, dance recitals and ballgames may make you a better parent

Maybe you don’t consider yourself a contrarian, but you occasionally find that some common “wisdom” touted by speaking, training and consulting self-proclaimed “gurus” just doesn’t fit your personal business model. Maybe you want to grow your business, serve your clients better, get more repeat and referral business and sell more products, but you’re just not sure how to make it all happen. Maybe you want to rethink and retool your business practices, but you’re fearful of sacrificing where you are to get where you could be. If any of these statements ring true with you, our guest for this session will help you see a different perspective that might help you generate more profits, passion and personal satisfaction from your work.

Members Only Dinner Conversation and Q&A with Scott McKain, CSP, CPAE

Saturday, February 4, 2009, 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Scott McKain, CSP, CPAE

NSA-MidAtlantic had an opportunity to meet and learn from one of NSA's most respected speakers, Scott McKain, CSP, CPAE.

Who is Scott McKain?

• Scott has been honored with induction into the “Professional Speakers Hall of Fame” -- and is a member of the “Speakers Roundtable,” an elite group of twenty business speakers considered by many to be among the best in the world
• Scott has written two best-selling books and has a new one coming out in February. His book "All Business is Show Business" was #1 on Amazon.
• Scott McKain’s calling is business – but his passion is the platform
• He was the speaker and emcee of the “Great American Workout” held on the White House lawn, telecast live on NBC's “Today” show and attended by President George Bush
• Scott "Keeps it real" while he rocks our world

NSA-MAC Intensive

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Plug into Profits: Internet Strategies to Boost Your Business. »Learn more

Secrets of Using Humor, Props, and Laughter to Engage Your Audience and Enrich Your Revenues

Saturday, November 15, 2008, 8AM to 12PM
Presenter: Tim Gard

The right kind of humor or a great prop, used at just the right time can help us to convey our ideas, assist our audiences in grasping and remembering our message and may mean the difference between a learning experience and a learning ordeal.

Used effectively humor and props become visual, auditory, or kinesthetic items that allow any audience to better experience your stories and reinforce your message. With a little training, you can find props anywhere and be able to use ordinary items in extraordinary ways on the platform.

Even better, your props can become additional sources of revenue and can provide you with amazing marketing opportunities. Discover for yourself why Tim’s unique use of toys and props make him one of the most popular and original humorists on the platform today.

This fast-paced interactive Comic Visions® program is filled with memorable stories, playful moments and brilliant timing. While you are smiling ear to ear, Tim is subtly slipping in strategies of how to use just the right Comic Visions humor option at just the right moment to take your presentations to the next level.

How to Get More Local Business and Love Staying Home!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 5:30pm-8:30pm
Presenter: Laura Stack, MBA, CSP

Not all professional speakers live out of a suitcase!  Learn to create value for organizations right in your own backyard. Discover the guiding principles, strategies, and tactics for penetrating your geographic area.  Enjoy speaking a whole lot more…in state!

• Learn key guiding principles to booking local business
• Take advantage of local networking, partnership, and referral sources
• Learn specific strategies for marketing to local corporations and associations

You will gain marketing strategies to penetrate your local geographic market, create value for local businesses and associations, and meet your life balance goals.  This is a members-only event not to be missed.

NSA Speaker Marketing Bootcamp

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Join the National Speakers Association MidAtlantic Chapter for the NSA Speaker Marketing Bootcamp on Saturday, October 25, 2008 for a hands-on strategy session – plus “do-it-now” tools – to jumpstart your success in booking more corporate and association speaking engagements, generating more revenue, and bringing more clarity, focus, and momentum to your speaking business.

NSA-MAC has assembled a team of seasoned speakers, marketing experts, designers, and meeting planners to lead this one-of-a-kind program with a team approach to maximize your learning and get you into meaningful action immediately during the bootcamp itself.

Enrollment is limited to 20 people for this seminar-style program to maximize your learning and make sure you get plenty of hands-on implementation strategies for your specific business PLUS time to answer your most pressing speaker marketing questions.

No theory, no fluff, and no bull – just an arsenal of smart speaker marketing ideas, tactics, and tools to help you generate more clients and more revenue in ways that you find easy, effortless, and enjoyable.

Don’t miss this one-day event that will significantly impact your bottom line as an expert who speaks professionally.

Session Desription: Everyday Secrets for Staying Booked Everyday!

Saturday, September 20, 2008
Presenter: Dr. Alan Zimmerman

Learn Dr. Zimmerman's 20 simple, practical, low-cost, no-fail secrets for having all the bookings you'll ever want. Don't expect any fancy theories or complex systems because all you are going to get is down-to-earth strategies that you can use today to fill your calendar tomorrow.

Here are the key take-aways from this session:

• Learn 5 ways to tweak your content so your audience wants you back
• Learn 5 strategies to keep your customers and potential customers thinking about you
• Learn 10 techniques that bond you with the meeting planner and the audience so they invite you back

Preventing Death by Lecture! with Bonus Afternoon Session

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Presenter: Sharon Bowman

Session Description: You know there are better ways to get your message across to your audiences than straight lecture. But what do you do to engage listeners when you have a lot to cover in a short amount of time? How do you turn listeners into excited learners, eager for more?

During this highly-interactive program, you’ll learn how to use dozens of short, quick presentation strategies that engage and involve audiences throughout an entire presentation or training, regardless of the topic of your talk or size of your group.

You’ll also leave with your own copy of Sharon’s best-selling book "Preventing Death by Lecture"as well as other resources that will help you take your own presentation and training skills to a new and exciting level.

Join us for a high-energy, hands-on learning experience!

Bonus Afternoon Session: Take four lunch bags and a handful of index cards. With these materials, discover a new and remarkable design process that will save you time, effort, and expense. Whether you are speaker, presenter, trainer, or facilitator, this design process will make your message unforgettable. Practice using this tool with the topics you talk about. Leave this project-based clinic with a new speech, presentation, or training designed and ready for you to polish
and present.

Guerrilla Marketing for the Advanced Professional Speaker

Saturday, March 15th, 2008, 8 AM to Noon
Presenter: Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP

This program will arm you with literally hundreds of simple, low-cost or no-cost sales and marketing tips, tactics and tricks that can build your speaking business. Presented by one of the most respected members of NSA, Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP, is a coauthor of the legendary Guerrilla Marketing series, with more than 14 million books sold worldwide, including Guerrilla Selling, Guerrilla Trade Show Selling, Guerrilla TeleSelling, Guerrilla Negotiating and Guerrilla Retailing. Unconventional, engaging and funny, he's a 27 year veteran of the platform, and has addressed audiences large and small in more than 1,000 cities and 44 countries and has spoken on every continent except Antarctica.

Obtaining Corporate Sponsorships

Thursday, February 7th, 2008, 6 to 9 PM - Special Presentation by Aldonna Ambler, CSP.

NSA-MAC Intensive

Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Present Like a Pro. Learn more.

Build on Your Own Uniqueness!
From Marketing to Presentation: Be Different!

Sept. 15, 2007, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Presenter: Cheewa James

Increase bookings! Exploit your distinct individuality — experiences, talents, ethnicity, heritage and challenges you've overcome. Create catchy marketing materials and products. Learn techniques for turning mundane presentations into messages with impact and soul. The by-product for audiences? You generate an appreciation for diverse qualities. Increase bookings! Exploit your distinct individuality – experiences, talents, ethnicity, heritage and challenges.

Information Marketing Mastery for Professional Speakers

Information Marketing Mastery for Professional Speakers; Get more bookings! Sell More Products! Create Residual Income from your Expertise!

Description: This high-energy “how-to” session offers you a multitude of creative direct & internet marketing techniques for professional speakers. You’ll walk away with a wealth of up-to-the-minute strategies, innovative techniques and bold new ideas proven to get more bookings and sell more products & services . Don’t miss this chance to energize and ignite your marketing strategies.

You’ll learn the best strategies for marketing through different channels such as direct mail, affiliate programs, catalogs, selling via email and e-zines, and direct from your websites.

Members Only Holiday Party

Like other members meetings, this is a great chance for you to network, connect, and share ideas with other professional speakers. However, since this is our last meeting of 2007, we will be having a little fun as well!

Here's what was on the agenda for this meeting:
• Dinner will be catered
• We will honor our NSA MAC Past Presidents
• Speaker games! (participation encouraged but not required)
• Time to network, connect, and share information with other professional speakers

Meeting info:
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 6:00PM to 9:00PM
Look for the Sun Empowerment Center
830 West Trenton Avenue, Suite 5, Morrisville, PA 19067”