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Learn the steps needed to develop innovative and mutually beneficial sponsorship relationships. Nancy Michaels divulges the simple 10-step process that she used to gain over $200,000 in sponsorships in one year.

How do you make a good lasting first impression and set the stage for a big contract, or sell products and services directly from your web site? The answer: by writing copy that leads your prospects in precisely the direction you want them to go.

You want to promote your products or services but don't have a ton of money to spend. You want the most bang for your buck. So should you do it yourself or hire a publicist? What can you do yourself without mortgaging the farm and spending lots of time? Rick Frishman will share simple techniques for getting the most from your publicity efforts. If you want to start getting the media coverage you deserve, don't miss this session!

Do you have powerful stories that fall short of their potential because you are afraid of their power? Would you like to use more emotion in your stories but don't know how? Are you ready to take your stories to the next level? In this teleseminar you'll learn how to make your stories have even more impact on your audiences.

Evolution didn't prepare us for this: prehistoric humans did not need the ability to read the Wall Street Journal. As speakers, we are in the information business; we are deluged with information coming at us from all directions, and the sense of overwhelm can rob us of productivity and make us feel eternally behind. How do we keep track of all the business and non-business tasks we are working on?

Marketing often feels like a struggle. You are always trying to convince someone that you are the right person for the job. You are trying to get clients. The problem is, trying to get clients is a strategy that is ultimately doomed to failure. Your prospects don't want to be gotten. That's why you may experience so much resistance and rejection.

Steve Miller will share how he established and runs what he calls his "Clubs" - what we might call über-mastermind groups. He attributes 90 percent of his business in the last 10 years to the two groups he put together and runs. He'll share how he started, how he gets members, what goes on in the meetings and in between, how he gets income from the members, and his secret for their never wanting to leave.

Your career is going along fine, yet you haven't had that "big break" you would like. You're making steady progress, but want a quantum leap. Wouldn't it be great if you had a manager, like entertainers do, to help guide your career? John Azzaro has taken what he learned working with entertainers and applied it to speakers like Dewitt Jones, Captain Gerald Coffee, Matt Weinstein, Alan Parisse, Jim Cathcart, Jeff Salz, Bert Decker, and Joan Brock, to name a few.

This program will show you in detail how to use your articles and content to gain higher search engine placement, draw targeted traffic to your Web site, and grow your mailing list. Then, leverage these contacts to generate bookings, consulting assignments, and further exposure. Learn from Philippa's latest insights and practical take-home techniques as she reveals the inside secrets of her #1 marketing strategy.

If you were at the 2004 National Speakers Association convention, you heard one of the most remarkable, innovative, impactful, memorable keynote speeches we've had in many, many years. Joe's "Success Means Letting Go of What USED to Work!" will go down in the annals of NSA history as a presentation people talk about for years.

You've heard of colleagues making lots of money by getting new clients through the Internet. But you've tried Search Engine Optimization (SEO), AdWords, and other techniques, with only a trickle of new business. You want to find ways to reach new customers, but without continuing to make an Internet marketer or your webmaster rich while you reap just a little. Here's how.

Discover valuable information, high-powered skills, techniques, and insider secrets to master the unique, high-pressure trade show environment. Susan Friedmann, CSP, "The Tradeshow Coach", will share practical, potent strategies, and easy-to-use information you can use to attract more business at trade shows.

Have you lost engagements because you couldn't negotiate effectively with the meeting planner? Have you felt you negotiated well, then later learned you'd left money on the table? Would you like to know how to create win/win negotiations so everyone walks away feeling good about the deal, and you walk away with more money in your pocket? In this powerful, practical, down-to-earth, teleseminar, Jim will cover all of these elements, and more!

You've watched as your colleagues have added teleseminars to their offerings and seen them have great success. You want to start offering these yourself, but you don't know all the intricacies. Where do you start? How do bridge lines work? What format works best? What day of the week and time of day? How much should you charge? What about registration and logistics? And then how do you manage the call itself to give the highest value?

You can dramatically increase your cash flow if you could just improve how people find your products and services. Your web site copy and design are key, yet how do prospects find your site? Through search engines. Knowing how to get your site into Google's top 10 search results requires search-engine optimization (SEO). And knowing how your site can close the deal is critical. Steve Mertz will tell you how, as well as pointing out the most common mistakes and how to prevent them.

You've heard of colleagues licensing their material, but you're not sure exactly how to do that? Hear from someone who has done it dozens of times and made more than a million dollars licensing intellectual assets. Find out how to do it, what's included, and what to watch out for. Mitch will explain how to leverage your intellect, license your materials, and boost your income.

When you start creating small, niche-focused one-page Web sites you'll have income streaming into your pocket, whether you're awake or asleep....

Whether offered at colleges, to businesses or corporations, or to the public, seminars can be a huge income booster for any speaker. Better yet, they are a great way to start or try new material. In one hour, Burgett provides the bedrock basics, then focuses on the right subject, a fetching description and grabber title, and how to find the right market or sponsor. Replace risk with profit while filling in those unbooked days each month.

How does a professional meeting planner think and operate? How do others who plan meetings think and operate? How can you make yourself known positively to them? How can you work in tandem to ensure your program is a great success? How can you share your needs and experience to help the overall program become more successful? In this teleseminar, Uber-planner Joan Eisenstodt will tell you.

You may be wondering "What is a blog and why would I want one?" You aren't alone. Blogging is said to be one of the hottest Internet trends in the past few years. However, leave it to uber-Internet marketing guru Tom Antion to figure out a commercial use for what is essentially an online journal. He'll walk us through the ins and outs of this easy-to-use tool. If you've avoided starting an e-zine because of concern for the time commitment, come learn about blogging.