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• Speaker Academy Informational Session

  • When
    Monday, September 09, 2019
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Officenter, 5775 Wayzata Blvd., 8th floor Conference Room, St. Louis Park, MN

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  Do you have dreams of being a speaker, and are curious about how this all works? Are you already speaking and wondering about the next step? Please join the Speaker Academy faculty at our open house.
  

  • Learn about NSA-MN Speakers Academy program.
  • Find answers to your questions about the next step to help you meet your speaking goals.
    
  • Meet other aspiring and professional speakers who are also looking to learn and grow.

  Although there is no charge for this event, your RSVP is appreciated.
  

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• Chapter Meeting: What's Stopping Millennials or Gen Xers or Boomers from Hiring You--and What to Do About It

  • When
    Saturday, September 14, 2019
  •  
    8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

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  Guest Speaker: Anna Liotta, CSP, MA
  President, National Speakers Association

  What's Stopping Millennials or Gen Xers or Boomers from Hiring You--and What to Do About It)

  At present, the workforce is 29% Boomers, 23% Gen-Xers, and 45% Millennials. Bad news: what captivates one group is turning off another. Worse news: you can't just target the final decision-makers with your marketing. During the sales process you--or maybe only your website--will touch all three generations.  How do you adapt your marketing and sales pitches, so they are effective regardless of who is receiving them?
   
  In this fast-paced, action-focused session you will learn:
  

  • Your own generational blind spots that are sabotaging making a connection with older or younger clients
  • The one piece of research you must do before talking to a decision maker
  • How to accommodate contradictory needs of different generations in one sales pitch
  • How to update your visuals, websites, interactive activities, and even your CRMs so they get your message across to all generations

  This is a must-attend session for speakers of all generations. Well, only if you want to close more business!

  8 a.m. registration
  8:30 a.m. buffet breakfast
  8:45 a.m. program begins
  

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• Speaker Academy Informational Session

  • When
    Monday, September 16, 2019
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Officenter, 5775 Wayzata Blvd., 8th floor Conference Room, St. Louis Park, MN

  Register

  Do you have dreams of being a speaker, and are curious about how this all works? Are you already speaking and wondering about the next step? Please join the Speaker Academy faculty at our open house.
  

  • Learn about NSA-MN Speakers Academy program.
  • Find answers to your questions about the next step to help you meet your speaking goals.
    
  • Meet other aspiring and professional speakers who are also looking to learn and grow.

  Although there is no charge for this event, your RSVP is appreciated.
  

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• Chapter Meeting: Marketing with a Book

  • When
    Friday, October 11, 2019
  •  
    8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    DoubleTree, 1500 Park Place Blvd., Minneapolis MN 55416

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  Guest Speakers: Marc LeBlanc, CSP and Henry DeVries
  

  

  Marketing with a Book

  Has anyone asked you, “Where’s your book?” You know how speakers often have this problem: they lose bookings and leave money on the table because they haven’t got a book out yet. Learn the latest trends for the preparation, publishing, and promotion of a book that grows a speaking business, makes a profit for the speaker, and attracts high-paying clients. Leading the session are Henry DeVries and Mark LeBlanc, CSP, coauthors of the book Build Your Consulting Practice, and cofounders of Indie Books International. 

  DeVries is a weekly columnist for Forbes.com, a speaker for Vistage International, and the author of nine business books, including the 2013 bestseller from McGraw-Hill, How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett, now in five languages including Chinese. LeBlanc, past president of the National Speakers Association, is the author of the underground bestseller Growing Your Business, which has more than 70,000 copies in print. Together they also wrote, along with Kathy McAfee, the book Defining You: How Smart Professionals Craft the Answers to Who Are You? What Do You Do? How Can You Help Me?

  As a ghostwriter and editor, DeVries has worked on 300 nonfiction book projects in the last decade. His proposals have earned five-figure advances for clients. He has won multiple Best Business Book of the Year awards and achieved numerous Amazon #1 Best Seller Rankings, including: marketing, sales, business skills, and negotiating. As a professonal speaker he trains business leaders how to persuade prospects, job candidates, and investors with a story. LeBlanc, also author of the book Never Be the Same, has conducted over 145 business development retreats across the country called The Achievers Circle. He has special expertise on the core issues speakers and professionals face on a daily basis. Mark is the poster child for what can happen when you write the right book.  He has been invited to speak more than 1,000 times on his expertise – business development.

  Agenda
  

  • Part I -- Mark LeBlanc, “Writing the Right Book” (40 minutes), includes two short interviews
  • Break
  • Part II -- Henry DeVries, “Persuade With a Story” (50 minutes)

  8 a.m. registration
  8:30 a.m. buffet breakfast
  8:45 a.m. program begins

  
  

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• Fall Social

  • When
    Saturday, October 19, 2019
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Diane Amundson's Home

  Members Only Event

  Join us for a day at Diane's home in Winona enjoying the scenic views on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River!

  Registration to open soon.
  

  
  

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• Chapter Meeting: Retreats to Riches

  • When
    Thursday, November 14, 2019
  •  
    5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

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  Guest Speaker: Michelle Villalobos
  
  Retreats to Riches: How to Design, Fill & Profit from Small Events

  In this webinar, Michelle will share with you a surprisingly simple and different approach to driving income and delivering impact through transformational small events.

  Here’s a hint: creating a great event isn’t enough, you must also build a “big back end” to drive Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) after the event!

  Once you understand how to do this and create stability for the long term, you’ll have the opportunity to create more freedom, fortune, fulfillment and FUN in your business!

  You’ll Learn…
  

  • How just 4 small retreats a year can easily generate an additional 6 figures in revenue to your business
  • The #1 thing that every retreat MUST have, without exception (and most people don’t know about)
  • 3 specific things you must know about your target audience to ensure that your retreat is compelling for them
  • 7 no-cost marketing strategies to fill your retreats
  • The key 2 elements of a “big back end” that will give you stability and freedom
  • You’ll also see case studies and examples of successful retreat models from a wide variety of industries including wellness, business, marketing and personal development

  Michelle Villalobos, AKA: The Superstar Activator, helps Superstar speakers, authors, coaches, consultants and other expert entrepreneurs build and grow sustainable, lifestyle-friendly, impact-driven businesses.

  She discovered the retreats business model during a particularly challenging time in her life and within 14 months, quadrupled her business, was able to hire support for the first time, and freed herself up enough to take a 1 year road trip around the USA.

  Since then she and her team have focused on mastering how to market, fill and deliver retreats, and share what they’ve learned with clients.
  

  5 p.m. registration
  5:30 p.m. buffet dinner
  5:45 a.m. program begins
  

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• Chapter Meeting: The Story Finder

  • When
    Friday, December 13, 2019
  •  
    8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    DoubleTree, 1500 Park Place Blvd., Minneapolis MN 55416

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  Guest Speaker: Ed Tate, CSP
  

  The Story Finder: How to Create New Stories in Minutes!

  "You are either remarkable or invisible."
  - Seth Godin, author of the book Purple Cow
  

  Most presentations are invisible, boring and forgettable. They lack original material. If it's not the PowerPoint Parade (one forgettable slide after another), it's the Data Dump (one mind-numbing statistic after another). The only statistic people care about during this type of presentation is when will it end!
  

  In this session, you will:
  

  • Discover how to be remarkable with your own content
  • Hear and diagnose Ed's award-winning remarkable stories
  • Practice Ed's 4 Elements of Effective Story Telling
  • Create new material immediately, using a proven story creation framework
  • Always have new material no matter how often you present to the same
  • audience
  • Learn 15 different ways to creatively introduce your ideas
  • Build confidence
  • Have lots of fun in this interactive accelerated learning program

  Presentation Outcomes:
  

  1. Create your own original stories and separate yourself from the crowd
  2. Break your presentation routine
  3. Connect immediately with any audience at anytime
  4. Re-examine, re-energize and strengthen your existing presentations
  5. Close more business
  6. Make your presentations remarkable and memorable
  7. Uncover humor
  8. Be the one that your prospects and clients look forward to seeing again and again!

  Ed Tate is an award-winning international keynote speaker, trainer, author, executive, and motivational movie star. Worldwide he is known as “The Speaker Who Energizes, Educates and Entertains.” To date, he has spoken professionally in 50 states, 25 countries and on five continents.

  Ed won the “American Idol of Public Speaking”; becoming the 2000 World Champion of Public Speaking – Toastmasters International’s most prestigious speaking award among its 352,000+ Global members.

  In 2008, Ed earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation by the National Speakers Association, It is the speaking profession's international measure of professional platform skill. It is an honor bestowed on slightly more than 12% of its members.

  Ed’s success in business has spanned more than two decades. For 14 years, he was a successful national account executive selling over $500 million in products and services to corporations and entrepreneurs throughout the United States. He co-created two business units that produced over $1.25 billion in revenue.

  Since 1998, Ed has been principal of Ed Tate & Associates, LLC, a professional development firm that provides keynote and endnote presentations and workshops, as well as in-person and do-it-yourself tools and expertise on Winning High-Stakes Business Presentations: How to Sell Products, Services and Yourself!
  

  8 a.m. registration
  8:30 a.m. buffet breakfast
  8:45 a.m. program begins

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• Holiday Party

  • When
    Wednesday, December 18, 2019
  •  
    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    John Tscholl's Home

  Members Only Event

  Celebrate the season with your NSA-MN friends and colleagues!

  Registration to open soon.
  

  
  

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• Chapter Meeting: Selling from the Stage

  • When
    Saturday, January 11, 2020
  •  
    8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

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  Guest Speaker: Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP, CEC
  

  Selling from the Stage: Using Stories to Attract High-Value Clients
  
  Reveal how to make every speech spin off multiple high-dollar bookings. Getting the business is the toughest part of the business, and this program shares simple guerrilla marketing tactics that are simple, easy, and highly effective.  

  In this fast-moving 75-minute program, you’ll learn:
  

  • Why speaking is a great way for speakers, consultants and coaches to attract high-value clients
  • How to get bookings, both free and fee
  • How to structure a presentation that sells
  • The secret to selling from the stage without sounding commercial
  • Three types of stories that, when you tell them, make prospects line up to hire you.

  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 22 million books sold worldwide, including Guerrilla Selling, Guerrilla Trade Show Selling, Guerrilla TeleSelling, Guerrilla Negotiating and Guerrilla Retailing. Unconventional, engaging and funny, he's addressed audiences large and small in more than 1,000 cities and 44 countries, on every continent except Antarctica.

  After 40 years as a professional speaker, he now coaches other professional speakers on method, material and marketing. He holds the highest level of certification recognized globally by meeting planners. In 2001 he was named "Speaker of the Year" by Meeting Professionals International (MPI), San Diego, and he’s been voted one of the world’s “Top 5 Sales and Marketing Speakers” for the past 5 years straight.
  

  8 a.m. registration
  8:30 a.m. buffet breakfast
  8:45 a.m. program begins
  

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• Chapter Meeting: Create a Business Lifestyle Which Leverages Your Expertise, Knowledge, and Platform

  • When
    Thursday, February 13, 2020
  •  
    5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

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  Guest Speaker: Marquesa Pettway, CSP
  
  The Speakerpreneur^TM Signature System

  If you are feeling like your speaker business isn't lifting your life overall (financially, lifestyle wise, client wise, impact desired), do not miss this chapter meeting. Hear this message from Marquesa to learn more.
   
  Here are a few of your outcomes:
  

  • Creating a Speakerpreneur^TM Biz Lifestyle which allows you to leverage your expertise, knowledge and platform (online and offline)
  • What am I really selling as a speaker and it's not a speech!
  • The Money Maker of your Speaking Business Your Six Figure Signature System
  • Sometimes professional speakers skip this part which leads to financial havoc
  • Important information for speakers at all levels
  • Multiple Income Streams with one expertise
  • Am I systematized, really??
  • Leveraging every presentation
  • Are you a Speakerpreneur^TM
  • The Virtual Business

  Plus so much more...
   
  Former CNN Associate Producer, now Business Reinvention Expert, Marquesa Pettway (CSP ) turns entrepreneurs into Six Figure Speakerpreneurs with her SpeakerBlueprint Signature System resulting in a highly influential platform.

  Speaker Magazine Columnist from 2015-2017 a column she created "Speaker Toolkit - Column", Syndicated Columnist for TV, Professional speaker, and the founder and chief coach of The National Center for Speakerpreneur Training. She served as the Live Broadcasting Host for Women Speakers Association. She's spoken all over the world in every single state and a few countries.

  Ms. Pettway has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and professionals since 2005. She's recognized an as expert by MSNBC, New York Newsday, Toastmasters International Magazine to name a few.  New York City Resident for 25 years!
  

  5 p.m. registration
  5:30 p.m. buffet dinner
  5:45 a.m. program begins
  

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• Chapter Meeting: Getting Paid Speaking Gigs

  • When
    Friday, March 13, 2020
  •  
    8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

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  Guest Speaker: David Avrin, CSP
  Global Speaking Fellow

  Getting Paid Speaking Gigs: The Hard Truth About the Business Side of Speaking
  
  The hard truth about our profession is that most professional speakers will never make a living as a professional speaker. Worse yet, upwards of 20% of our industry simply quits each year to go get a “real job.” Why? Because they believed the assertion that if you have a good story, strong stage skills and passion for your message, that you will be in-demand. It’s not true. Not even close. You have to market. You have to sell your speaking.

  In this honest, provocative and content-rich session, Customer Experience and Marketing speaker, David Avrin, CSP will pull back the curtains on his successful speaking business to show how he and his team fills his calendar by going after the speaking gigs they want.

  NOTE: We will NOT cover speaking skills, keynote creation, storytelling, back-of-room sales or anything performance related. This session is about the business side of the speaking business.
  

  8 a.m. registration
  8:30 a.m. buffet breakfast
  8:45 a.m. program begins
  

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• Chapter Meeting: Dramatically Boost Your Speaking Income with Expert Positioning

  • When
    Saturday, April 11, 2020
  •  
    8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

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  Guest Speaker: Debbie Allen, CSP
  
  Dramatically Boost Your Speaking Income with Expert Positioning

  During this content-rich and fun presentation you will discover a proven step-by-step action plan and no-nonsense marketing strategies to build a highly profitable speaking business.

  Discover how to accelerate your speaking career by developing a recognized ‘go-to expert’ brand. Plus, also learn how to effectively reinvent when you need to shift your market and increase your income.
  

  Learn How To:
  

  • Expand your speaking business income with the expert positioning model of marketing.
  • Reinvent your existing speaking business when you need to shift your market and/or increase your income.
  • Build a powerful brand that attracts your most ideal clients.
  • Grow a highly profitable speaking career and build a speaking empire.

  8 a.m. registration
  8:30 a.m. buffet breakfast
  8:45 a.m. program begins
  

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