You are browsing the archive for Newsletters & Announcements.

What did you learn at the NSA Meeting?

9:57 am in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

NSA Board Candidate Video

11:17 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

Hear from you the NSA nominating chair, Dan Diamond, while he introduces the candidates.

March Annoucement 2010

3:11 am in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

NSA Northwest is the premier resource resource for creating audience impact

In this email: Announcements, Reminders, Links to Videos and Pictures and the Upcoming Meetings.

Another fantastic meeting!

Dave Ashcraft gave us powerful ideas on how to use the PowerPoint tool. If you are a professional member or an NSA affiliate, the notes from the meeting are posted on our internal Ning site.
Look for an invitation in your email.

NSA Northwest -March 2010 NSA Northwest -March 2010NSA Northwest -March 2010NSA Northwest -March 2010NSA Northwest -March 2010NSA Northwest -March 2010NSA Northwest -March 2010NSA Northwest -March 2010

If you attended post and view your comments here.

Reminders, Meetings and Announcements

Professional Members – Get more traffic by updating your national profile. Watch this video on how to change your profile.  

 Get involved online. Here are a few comments from the January Meeting Planning meeting.

  • May 8, 2010 – Saturday – Closing the Deal – Doug Hoselton – Sandler Group DougH_Headshot_250
  • Are you getting calls, but not not closing the business? Are you getting price objections? Would you like to know how to turn them into green? In this session, Doug will help us: Assess your selling style.
    • ? Learn the three factors dictating your success or failure in sales.
    • ? Discuss hidden barriers in selling, and how to overcome them.
    • ? Learn the questions to uncover your prospect’s personal hot buttons.
  • June 12, 2010 – Saturday - POP! Your Pitch, Title and Tagline – Sam Horn – Full Day
  • We will be collaborating and inviting NSA Oregon, Vancouver CAPS, Toastmasters, ASTD, IMC and many other acronynms. If you are part of one of these groups please email us to be the liaison .
  • July 2010 – Summer Party
  • September 11, 2010 – Saturday
  • November 13, 2010 – Saturday
  • December 3, 2010 – Friday, Holiday Party

If you missed out on any meetings, you can see pictures from our events.

Have you been to the website lately? We update it weekly with videos, pictures, links, and pages. To get the value from membership, make sure to peruse our new website often. We have many ways you can get involved.

Jolene Jang, The Meeting Maximizer

President of NSA Northwest

.

 

 

.

 

 

 

What did you learn at the March Meeting?

4:38 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

What will you do as a result?

March Reminder

1:09 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

NSA Northwest is the premier resource resource for creating audience impact

In this email: Announcements, Reminders, Links to Videos and Pictures and the upcoming meetings.

Our very own Dan Diamond went to help in Haiti. Please take peek of the video footage an articles from our favorite doctor.

Get on stage!

Do you have a Show & Tell to share with your fellow NSA Community? Email your idea to us.

Did you attend the Winter Conference? Share with us an idea you found helpful.

Make your PowerPoint Presentations Pop!

It takes years creativity and skill to make a presentation come alive! But a lack of PowerPoint creativity and skill can derail your presentation in seconds.

You will take away techniques and skills that you can immediately apply to improve the effectiveness of your PowerPoint’s including the following:

  • 7 ways to use PowerPoint to engage and build trust with your audience
  • 7 PowerPoint Pitfalls to avoid.

This is not a PowerPoint 101 class and will be totally different than what you expect. If you have to use PowerPoint and want to improve your presentations, this class will provide you instant value!

Dave Ashcraft

David Ashcraft’s expertise is taking normally tortuous financial subject matter and converting the content to be educational, engaging, and entertaining. He learned early on that a bad PowerPoint can persecute an audience and kill a presenter’s message. While working at Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU) as a Financial Educator and teaching audiences about money he had to incorporate both presentation and PowerPoint skills to motivate audiences to take action. At BECU he created the Stock and Roll Game, Savertooth’s Amazing Saving Adventure, Better Budgeting, and other interactive financial educational programs.

Meeting Details: Saturday March 13, 2010 8:00am – 12:00pm at the Coast Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.

Professional Members – Get more traffic by updating your national profile. Watch this video on how to change your profile.

  • Get involved online. Here are a few comments about the last meeting.

“I have been involved with the National Speakers Association for quite some time, but in the last 8 years I haven’t had  chance to come out to these meetings. But I recently made a goal to get back involved with NSA Northwest. This meeting I went today was fantastic. Meeting the 4 meeting planners and having them pull back the curtain and have them share what they see and experience on the other side of the phone line was absolutely fantastic.“

Patrick Snow, Creating Your Own Destiny

If you missed the last event, below are the featured meeting planners.

Behind the scenes of meeting bookings

NSANorthwest_Jan2010 (159) NSANorthwest_Jan2010 (131)

  • Shelly Tolo – Expert- Tolo Events – Non-Profit Events
  • Melissa Jurcan – Expert – International Society of Special Events – Associations and Corporate
  • Julie Manheim – Expert- Milliman, Inc, Director of Meetings – Corporate Events

Click here for biographies on our experts

Successful meetings begin in partnership between a skilled meeting planner and an outstanding speaker. The National Speakers Association invites both planners and speakers to a special session on the MEETING/EVENT MERGER…ideas on how to be and how to select the very best speakers for every kind of special meeting event. This format will be a discussion format style, different from our standard meeting.

Book now!

If you missed out on any meetings, you can see pictures from the events.

Have you been to the website lately? We update it weekly with videos, pictures, links, and pages. To get the value from membership, make sure to peruse our new website often. We have many ways you can get involved.

Jolene Jang,The Meeting Maximizer

President of NSA Northwest


February Annoucement -2010

12:58 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

 

NSA Northwest is the premier resource resource for creating audience impact

In this email: Announcements, Reminders, Links to Videos and Pictures and the Upcoming Meetings.

Make your PowerPoint Presentations Pop!

It takes years creativity and skill to make a presentation come alive! But a lack of PowerPoint creativity and skill can derail your presentation in seconds.

You will take away techniques and skills that you can immediately apply to improve the effectiveness of your PowerPoint’s including the following:

  • 7 ways to use PowerPoint to engage and build trust with your audience
  • 7 PowerPoint Pitfalls to avoid.

This is not a PowerPoint 101 class and will be totally different than what you expect. If you have to use PowerPoint and want to improve your presentations, this class will provide you instant value!

Dave Ashcraft 

David Ashcraft’s expertise is taking normally tortuous financial subject matter and converting the content to be educational, engaging, and entertaining. He learned early on that a bad PowerPoint can persecute an audience and kill a presenter’s message. While working at Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU) as a Financial Educator and teaching audiences about money he had to incorporate both presentation and PowerPoint skills to motivate audiences to take action. At BECU he created the Stock and Roll Game, Savertooth’s Amazing Saving Adventure, Better Budgeting, and other interactive financial educational programs.

Meeting Details:

Saturday March 13, 2010 8:00am – 12:00pm at the Coast Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.

Early Bird Pricing – Effective until February 20th, 2010

Members – $30Affiliates – $45

First Time Guest – $40

Returning Guest – $75

Regular Event Pricing:

Members – $40

Affiliates – $55

First Time Guest – $50

Returning Guest – $85

Day of Event Pricing:

Members – $50

Affiliates – $65

First Time Guest – $50

Returning Guest – $95

Reminders and Announcements

Professional Members – Get more traffic by updating your national profile. Watch this video on how to change your profile.  

17 speaking experts will be auctioned off.

Get involved online. Here are a few comments about the last meeting.

“I have been involved with the National Speakers Association for quite some time, but in the last 8 years I haven’t had  chance to come out to these meetings. But I recently made a goal to get back involved with NSA Northwest. This meeting I went today was fantastic. Meeting the 4 meeting planners and having them pull back the curtain and have them share what they see and experience on the other side of the phone line was absolutely fantastic.“

Patrick Snow, Creating Your Own Destiny

If you missed the last meeting, the featured meeting planners

Behind the scenes of meeting bookings

NSANorthwest_Jan2010 (159)
 NSANorthwest_Jan2010 (131)

  • Shelly Tolo – Expert- Tolo Events – Non-Profit Events
  • Melissa Jurcan – Expert – International Society of Special Events -
    Associations and Corporate
  • Julie Manheim – Expert- Milliman, Inc, Director of Meetings – Corporate Events

Click here for biographies on our experts

Successful meetings begin in partnership between a skilled meeting planner and an outstanding speaker. The National Speakers Association invites both planners and speakers to a special session on the MEETING/EVENT MERGER…ideas on how to be and how to select the very best speakers for every kind of special meeting event.

This format will be a discussion format style, different from our standard meeting. 

Book now!

If you missed out on any meetings, you can see pictures from the events.

Have you been to the website lately? We update it weekly with videos, pictures, links, and pages. To get the value from membership, make sure to peruse our new website often. We have many ways you can get involved.

Jolene Jang,The Meeting Maximizer

President of NSA Northwest

 

 

What did you learn at the January Meeting with our Meeting Planners?

5:28 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

Tell us about your experience from this meeting.

Post your comments here.

2010 NSA Foundation Online Auction

12:31 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

February 13-27, 2010

17 speaking experts will be auctioned off!

Gerard Braud · Lenora Billings-Harris, CSP · Marjorie Brody, PCC, CMC, CSP, CPAE · Joe Calloway, CSP, CPAE · Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE · Robin Creasman · Ron Culberson, MSW, CSP · Joachim de Posada · Pegine Echevarria, MSW · Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE · Randy Gage · Keith Harrell · Willie Jolley, CSP, CPAE · Scott McKain, CSP, CPAE · Vic Osteen · Steve Rizzo, PhB, CPAE · Joe Sugarman

Get in on the bidding action! Some of NSA’s best-known speaking masterminds will put their knowledge and expertise on the auction block at the 2010 NSA Foundation Online Silent Auction.

If you want to revise your business strategy, ramp up your marketing efforts, create new revenue-generating products, or infuse humor into your presentations, this is your chance to win one-on-one coaching time with your favorite expert.

BIDDING OPENS FEBRUARY 13, 2010
AND CLOSES FEBRUARY 27, 2010

All proceeds go to the Professional Speakers Benefit Fund to provide assistance to NSA members facing a health crisis or natural disaster emergency.

Go to www.NSAFoundation.org for more details.

Save the Date 2010 Calendar

2:51 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

NSA Northwest is the premier resource resource for creating audience impact

Save the date

  • January 8, 2010 – Friday, Behind the scenes of convention bookings, Columbia Tower Club - Register by Dec 28th to save money.
  • March 13, 2010 – Saturday – Effective us of Multi-Media in presentations
  • May 8, 2010 – Saturday – Product Marketing
  • June 12, 2010 – Saturday
  • July 2010 – Summer Party
  • September 11, 2010 – Saturday
  • November 11, 2010 – Saturday
  • December 3, 2010 – Friday, Holiday Party

If you missed out on any meetings, you can see pictures from the events.

Have you been to the website lately? We update it weekly with videos, pictures, links, notes and a total of 92 pages. To get the value from membership, make sure to peruse our new website often. We have many ways you can get involved. In this email is our calendar ’til January 2010.

If you missed October’s Storytelling meeting, here are a few pictures. In celebration of Halloween and Story Theater, we go into character. We have over 1000 NSA Northwest pictures posted from 2008 and 2009. They are high resolution for you to use, compliments of Vinh Chung, Media In Motion.

NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (99)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (33)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (35)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (43)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (44)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (68)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (93)

NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (58)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (37)

If you missed our exclusive meeting with Darren LaCroix, World Toastmaster Champion, here are a few pics from our event at the Seattle Library.

NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (19)NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (20)NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (29)NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (13)

NSA Northwest gives lots of perks, speaking of perks…Professional members received complimentary headshots from Vinh Chung, Media in Motion.
Here are some of the movie star mugshots.

NSANorthwestSept2009 (537)NSANorthwestSept2009 (97) NSANorthwestSept2009 (145)NSANorthwestSept2009 (180)NSANorthwestSept2009 (129) NSANorthwestSept2009 (117) NSANorthwestSept2009 (190)

Jolene Jang, President of NSA Northwest

The Meeting Maximizer

.

.

November Announcement

3:56 am in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

NSA Northwest is the premier resource resource for creating audience impact

Sign up now to get a discount for the Saturday, November 14th meeting.

Have you been to the website lately? We update it weekly with videos, pictures, links, notes and a total of 83 pages. To get the value from membership, make sure to peruse our new website often. We have many ways you can get involved. In this email is our calendar ’til January 2010.

If you missed October’s Storytelling meeting, here are a few pictures. In celebration of Halloween and Story Theater, we go into character. We have over 1000 NSA Northwest pictures posted from 2008 and 2009. They are high resolution for you to use, compliments of Vinh Chung, Media In Motion.

NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (99)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (33)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (35)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (43)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (44)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (68)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (93)

NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (58)NSANorthwest_DougStevensonOct (37)

If you missed our exclusive meeting with Darren LaCroix, World Toastmaster Champion, here are a few pics from our event at the Seattle Library.

NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (19)NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (20)NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (29)NSANorthwestDarrenLacroix (13)

NSA Northwest gives lots of perks, speaking of perks…Professional members received complimentary headshots from Vinh Chung, Media in Motion.

Here are some of the movie star mugshots.

NSANorthwestSept2009 (537)NSANorthwestSept2009 (97) NSANorthwestSept2009 (145)NSANorthwestSept2009 (180)NSANorthwestSept2009 (129) NSANorthwestSept2009 (117) NSANorthwestSept2009 (190)

Saturday, November 14, 2009,  8am-4pm

The Business of the Professional Speaker Business:Champagne Style and Impact on a Beer Budget w/Dr. Jeff Magee, PDM, CSP, CMC

Jeffrey Magee. You do not want to miss this. If you thought our meetings were packed with intense information now,  attend and be blown away with all his applicable formulas.

Do you want to be on the stage?

For our NSA Community, you always have an opportunity to be front and center. Do you have a Show and Tell, Buddy Boast or Shades of Green? Did you commit to make progress in your business during “Now Time?” Get active and be rewarded.

Friday, December 4, 2009, 5pm-10pm

Holiday Party

Friday, January 8, 2010, 2-5pm

Meeting Planner Focus

Columbia Tower Club in Seattle

.

ning

How can you learn more about our NSA Community- fast?

Get your profile on our internal NSA Northwest Ning Network. Tell us who you are? What’s your background, specialty, and product line? What do you need? What can you share? Post questions to learn about vendors, ideas, and products. Any NSA Community member can invite you? Search your email “ning” and should have at least 3 invitations over the last year. See video to sign up.

  • See who’s going events
  • See NSA pictures and slideshows
  • Post referrals to your colleagues
  • Communicate openly to people who understand you
NSA Northwest WebsiteNSALogo175

Update your knowledge of NSA Perks

NSA Northwest allows you to get highly involved if you want to get the most from your membership. If you want this value, then explore our website and online resources.

.