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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.

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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

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What did you learn at the March Meeting?

4:38 pm in Newsletters & Announcements by Arthur Hartwig

What will you do as a result?

Saturday, June 12 – Pop! Your Pitch, Title and Tagline

1:23 pm in Past Events by Arthur Hartwig

Sam Horn, author of POP! Create the Perfect Pitch, Title and Tagline for Anything

“When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”  – George Washington Carver

There are thousands of professional organizers, clutter consultants, and get-your-act-together speakers across the country. What are you doing to stand out?

Sam Horn

Would you like to learn how to be one of a kind instead of one of many? Write attention-grabbing copy for your brochure, blog, book, columns, or website – so you don’t look and sound like everyone else? Develop a “Jerry Maguire” elevator speech that has people at hello? Craft a brand for your business that helps you break out instead of blend in? Motivate people to listen when you talk? Favorably impress decision-makers so they approve your requests?  Use humor to win buy-in to your point of view?
If so, plan on joining Sam Horn, 17-time Emcee of the world-renowned Maui Writers Conference and author of POP! Stand Out in Any Crowd (Perigee) as she shares her fun and fascinating techniques for getting interest in what you have to offer.  This half-day, hands-on workshop is being offered by the Northwest Chapter of NSA, and will include Hot Seats – so bring a specific question related to your project in case you’re one of the lucky participants chosen for a 60-second, on-the-spot coaching session with Sam.

Sam, a communication and creativity consultant for more than 20 years, has studied the “art and science of intrigue” and knows what it takes to capture busy people’s attention.   Her work has been praised by Seth Godin, Stephen Covey, Jeffrey Gitomer, Susan Jeffers, Tony Robbins and Ken Blanchard who said her POP! Process is a “lively guide to getting heard, getting remembered, getting results.”

Whether your goal is to create a business name or URL that differentiates you from the competition, create compelling copy for your promotional material hat builds buzz and generates word of mouse marketing, convince a decision-maker to contract for your services, or craft a memorable ad or slogan that stays in people’s mind and motivates them to try and/or buy your product — you’ll learn how to produce Purposeful, Original, Pithy messages that win buy-in for what you have to say and sell.

After this rollicking, “Intellectual Disneyland” program, you’ll understand why thousands of people call Sam brilliant, why she was twice selected as the top-rated speaker at the International Platform Association, why she received raves from such clients as Boeing, NASA, National Governors Association, Hewlett-Packard, and Fortune 500 Forum, and why 4-time Pulitzer nominee Fawn Germer says, “You don’t have to be a creative genius to use Sam’s techniques, but using her techniques can make you a creative genius.”

Saturday, June 12, 2010 at the Coast Hotel in Bellevue, Washington

8:00am – 12:00pm Morning Session

Afternoon session 1:00-3:30pm

Early Bird Pricing – effective until Friday May 28th, after that add $10:

$30 – Members, afternoon session together $45
$45 – Affiliates, afternoon session together $60
$40 – First Time Guests, afternoon session together $55
$75 – Returning Guests, afternoon session together $90

Day of Meeting Pricing:

$50 – Members, afternoon session together $65
$65 – Affiliates, afternoon session together $80
$50 – First Time Guests, afternoon session together $75
$95 – Returning Guests, afternoon session together $110

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

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  • 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.

Saturday, March 13, 2010 – Powerpoint Presentations

5:03 pm in Past Events by Arthur Hartwig

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. You will learn 7 ways to use PowerPoint to engage and build trust with your audience and 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!

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.

For the last ten years Ashcraft has constantly worked on building better PowerPoint’s and now works with clients like JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Cushman and Wakefield, and the Mechanical Contractors of Western Washington.

Ashcraft has been a highly-rated faculty member at the Graduate School of Banking, Colorado and Southwestern Graduate School of Banking and currently teaches at Graduate school of banking LSU. He received his BA from Washington State University and is a graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School where he later served as an associate director.

Meeting Details:

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

 

Day of Event Pricing:

Members – $50

Affiliates – $65

First Time Guest – $50

Returning Guest – $95

Comments from the meeting

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.

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

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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.

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Jolene Jang, President of NSA Northwest

The Meeting Maximizer

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Friday, December 4, 5-9pm, Chapter Holiday Party

9:48 pm in Past Events by Arthur Hartwig

This is for the paid NSA Members and affiliates and their guests.

Enjoy the good company of your fellow NSA Community as we toast the holidays, partake of some tasty nibbles and join in good fellowship.  Please bring appetizers for 20 others and $5 per party. You can bring a guest if you wish.

Bring your new hotel travel size toiletries to donate to the holiday gifts for the Union Gospel Mission.

We will be celebrating in Deanna Turner’s new house in Magnolia. After you register online, you will get directions.

registerTo join us, please register