NSA North Florida September Chapter Meeting

National Speakers Association North Florida September Meeting

SAVE THE DATE

SEPTEMBER 18^th

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM

THE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Downtown Jacksonville, Florida

Speaker Ron Jurado

Details soon!!!

NSA North Florida Board Meeting

NSA-NORTH FLORIDA BOARD MEETING

Friday, September 4th

11 AM-12:30 PM

Don Shula's Restaurant (642-0063)

10605 Deerwood Park Boulevard

RSVP: zelda@bouncebackguru.com

Confirmed already: Mary, Steve, and Josette.

Regrets from Pegine (in Dallas that day) and Linda (in Lake City)

Thanks so much for your commitment to our NSA-North Florida Chapter! We are going to have a wonderful year! I have always thought that leadership has to be both fun and efficient to be truly productive. My promise to you is that we will plan an outstanding year for our chapter, get to know each other really well, grow our membership, create a strong sense of family, and have a great time in the process!

On September 4th, we will host our first board meeting of our new 2009-2010 year. While this first meeting will be face-to-face, we will plan to have some of our board meetings via conference callS if that is more convenient for the group. Please plan to join us as your ideas will help shape our chapter for the months and years to come. Out of respect for your time, we will start the meeting promptly and end on/or before 12:30.

Here are some of the agenda items we will be discussing:

Meeting Agenda:

2009 BOARD

• President: Mary McCormack, 904- 233-7973 (cell) mary@keyspeaker.com
• Immediate Past President: Jarik Conrad, Ph.D. 904-613-1475 jconrad@conradconsultinggroup.com
• Vice President, Membership: Steve Waterhouse, CSP 904-269-2299 steve@waterhousegroup.com
• Vice President, Programs: Pegine Echevarria 904-280-8806 pegine@pegine.com
• Secretary: Zelda Greenberg 904 262 7357 zelda@bouncebackguru.com
• Treasurer: Josette Mandela 904-270-0495 josette@e-yourownboss.com
• Member At Large: Linda Harvey, 904-573-2232 linda@lindaharvey.net
• Proposed Member At Large (invited, but not yet confirmed): Richard Hadden, CSP 904.720.0870 Richard@contendedcows.com

BOARD REPORTS:

Note: I want to make serving on the board easy and FUN! Except for the Secretary Minutes and Treasurer Report, board members can give verbal reports that will be included in the Secretary's Minutes and provided to all board members.

• President Report: (Mary)
• Visioning strategy for chapter development, quality educational programming, and networking)
• Professional development encouragement for non-NSA speakers (ultimate goal: become professional members of NSA)
• Dates of board meetings and/or conference calls
• Chapter elections at September 4th meeting
• Chapter meeting agendas
• Speaker appreciation gifts
• Contact with 2009 NSA Chapter Liaison: Leslie Stambaugh Leslie@LeslieStambaugh.com
• Immediate Past President Report: (Jarik)
• Current status of our chapter membership and annual dues for NSA
• Best practice ideas from other chapters
• Vice President-Membership Report: (Steve)
• Status of current membership
• Outreach to new members
• Chapter Membership Goal for 2009-2010 and ways the Board can help
• Vice President-Programs Report: (Mary for Pegine, excused)
• Amazing 2009-2010 meeting speakers planned by Pegine
• Chapter meeting dates (including discussion of the number of meetings per chapter year)
• Secretary Report: (Zelda)
• Minutes from last meeting
• Assessment of communication venues to share information and encourage networking among the board and general members
• Treasurer Report: (Josette)
• Current status of chapter finances
• Budget (anticipated expenses for this year)
• Cost of NSA affiliation dues
• Members At-Large Board Reports (Richard if able to attend; Linda excused)
• Ideas for chapter enhancement and growth
• 2009 NSA Phoenix Conference Report: (Steve and other conference attendees)

If you have additional agenda items that we need to discuss under your responsibilities or for good of the chapter in general, please email them to me at mary@keyspeaker.com so I can include them on the final board agenda for September 4th. It is going to be a great year for NSA-NF! Thanks so much for your support for our chapter!

Warmest regards,

Mary McCormack, CAVS

President, NSA-NF

(904) 697-3517 Downtown Office

(904) 838-3744 Blackberry

(904) 858-3165 Fax

(904) 262-9874 Home and Fax

(904) 233-7973 Cell

mary@keyspeaker.com

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

NSA Website: http://www.nsaspeaker.org/

NSA-NF Website: http://nsanorthflorida.blogspot.com/

Next chapter meeting:

• September 18, 2009 at the Jacksonville University Club.
• Chapter Meeting RSVP: zelda@bouncebackguru.com

Mission of NSA-NF:

NSA North Florida is an association of and for professional speakers. Our mission is to provide a forum for professional networking and learning.

NSA North Florida - Meeting June 5

How to Get Your Sales Up in a Down Market

The Reality

If you are like most companies today, sales are getting tougher and tougher to come by. As the economy slides, the need for new strategies is more pressing than ever.

You Will Learn

• What to do to get business now.
• Why your sales strategies are failing and how to fix them quickly.
• Who is buying now and what they need to hear from you.
• How we get fooled into chasing bad leads and how to avoid them.
• New no-cost marketing approaches that bring in business.
• The secret the major companies use to survive, and even thrive, in tough times

The Program

This program will give company leaders step-by-step strategies and tactics that are proven to work in down markets.

Your Consultant and Speaker Steve Waterhouse is a consultant and author who helps organizations around the world improve their sales and leadership development.In his unique career, he has been an engineer on the Patriot Missile System and directed a 300% turnaround of Vortech Corporation in just 24 months.

His consulting, lecturing and training have directly helped 10’s of thousands of people in 38 states, 10 countries and 4 continents. His clients include AT&T, Boston Scientific, EDS, United Airlines and Monsanto.

Mr. Waterhouse has a BSEE from Syracuse University and holds the CSP, the highest earned award from the National Speakers Association.He is the author of “The Team Selling Solution: Creating and Managing Teams That Win the Complex Sale”, (McGraw-Hill).

Location: Jacksonville University Club

Time: 8:00 - 12 Breakfast is included!

RSVP: 904-262-7357 (leave message and number attending)

Important: NSA 2009 Convention Information

What does YOUR convention look like?

Posted on February 26, 2009 by spiritofnsa

Pretend for just a moment that you are on the convention team for 2009 in Phoenix. What do you need the most right now to succeed in your speaking business?

- See and experience top-of-the-line main stage talent?
- Exposure to ideas on speaking, marketing, and business across the board? (I call that sponge mode.)
- Gather with a group you have created around public seminars, storytelling or direct mail marketing?
- Connect with one or more PEGs (Professional Expert Groups) for targeted networking?
- Find the people who can help you refine and implement on something that is new to you?
- Schedule one-on-one time with colleagues to develop strategic partnerships or help you redefine your strategic positioning?
- Implement ideas while you are still at convention?
- Interact with others to flesh out the ideas you get and take them a step further?
- Swim in the pool and go for early morning walks?

Guess what…whatever your answer, that is just what we are doing in July at convention.

How can that be?

Because we have planned a convention for the DIY crowd…Design it Yourself!

- We are inviting you to leave a session if you can tell in the first few minutes that it is not just what you need. Have your second and third choice picked and know where they are to make a quick switch.
- We are labeling sessions as to topic (speaking, marketing, business and other) and as to level in that topic (basic, intermediate or advanced). And we are inviting presenters in intermediate and advanced sessions to politely refer basic questioners to another source.
- We are replacing the end-of-day content-heavy concurrent sessions on Monday and Tuesday with implementation, networking and processing time. This year, more than ever before, you can go home with things already done and collaborations created.

Being on the convention planning committee, as you now are, requires some work. Give some thought to just what you need now. Then look at what is on offer and plan to attend what you just can’t miss (stay tuned this will be announced soon!). Next, fill in the blanks with what will help you the most.

At the Orlando conference, I had three 45 minute sessions with people I respect who are knowledgeable about what I do and about my niche. While often I have been the giver in these one-on-ones, this time I was the receiver. It is a benefit of NSA that you can do either or both.

Join us in convention in Phoenix, July 18-21. Give. Receive. Design-it-yourself!

www.NSAConvention.org

Linda Keith
Vice Co-Chair
Your 2009 Convention Teammate

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February 6 Meeting Announcement

NSA North Florida Presents:

"If you only knew what goes on behind the scenes"

· How do full time speakers build their speaking business
· How do they manage the financial side of the business
· How do they file their materials
· How do they manage transportation issues, contracting, pricing, and negotiations
· What were their biggest blunders and what they learned
· Answers to your questions
· Resources they used to help their business grow


Richard Hadden and Pegine will share the good, bad and details of how they run their speaking business. Bring your questions. Bring your laughter.

Ever wonder how speakers manage behind the scenes. How they grew their business? Richard and Pegine get asked and often we can't spend the time we want to share what we have learned. THIS IS IT.
In these challenging times basics are critical. Learn from these two seasoned professionals.

Richard Hadden is a Certified Speaking Professional with a focus on Creating a Great Place to Work. He is co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line and Contented Cows MOOve Faster: How Good Leaders Get People to Put More OOMPH! Into Their Work

Pegine (Peg-een) is one of 58 inductees into the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame (getmotivation.com). Pegine´s fellow members include such luminaries as Dale Carnegie, Zig Ziglar and Tony Robbins. She is the first Latina and one of eight women. SHRM´s (Society of Human Resource Management) named her one of 100 Global Thought Leaders on Diversity. She motivates and empowers leaders in a diverse world with gusto and laughter.

There is time to network and connect with everyone attending. SPACE IS LIMITED!!!

Feb 6th 8am to 12 pm RSVP a must. info@pegine.com

LOCATION:
Sawmill Lakes Community Center
225 N. Mill View Way
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Meeting cost $40.00 make checks to NSA NF

Dates for 2009 Meetings

Mark your calendars now. More details soon.

Friday, February 6 8:00 -12:00

Location TBD

Saturday, April 4, 2009 (Joint Meeting with Central and South Florida)

Tech 21 To You: How To Use 21st Century Technology to Dramatically Grow Your Bottom Line

Location TBD (Central Florida region)

Friday, June 5, 2009

8:30 – 12:00

Location TBD

Friday, September 18, 2009

8:30 – 12:00

Location TBD

Friday, December 4, 2009

1:00 - 5:00 Meeting; 5:00 Holiday Party

Location TBD

Photos from our December 2008 Meeting

Valerie Norvel and her team presented for three hours on:

How to Become a Multi-Millionaire Through Licensed Training Programs

President Jarik Conrad addresses NSA North Florida

Join us for a meeting in 2009. All speakers are welcome.