January 2019 Newsletter
A Note from Your President
Did you know that there are 2,500,000,000 heartbeats in a lifetime! Are you making them count? How are your 2019 goals, visions and aspirations coming along? Don’t abandon your New Year’s resolutions and objectives! Make this year work for you!
One mark of high achievers is goal-setting. All of the successful people I know that set goals and shoot for them… eventually hit their target! You might already be working on your list of goals – increasing your revenue, launching a new project or just getting better at the speaking business. That’s great! Go for it! Just remember not to neglect the areas you’ll regret the most if you fail to give them attention. You’ve only got 2,500,000,000 heartbeats!
What if 2019 could be your best year ever…and your most balanced year? You can achieve success AND still have quality time and experiences with your family, friends and … remember to take care of your health! You can make 2019 your best year ever!
Make sure your goals encompass everything that’s important to you. Make every 2,500,000,000 heartbeats count! Don’t waste the best moments of your life ignoring the best things in your life!
Live with intentional “Momentum” and you can achieve success both personally and professionally!
Be open to thinking differently and grow towards achievement in 2019!
Take advantage of our NSA North Texas Spring Academy starting in February, 2019! Make the most of our chapter meetings – including our upcoming Special Events with Elizabeth McCormick, Jeffrey Hayzlett and Jim Pancero! Take advantage of our Labs, our NSA NT Podcast Program, volunteer for initiatives, establish masterminds, give your feedback…. Go outside your comfort zone and make things happen!
You are in control of your destiny and your 2019 success will be in direct proportion to what you put into it!
Happy New Year…I wish you the best of success!
Betti Coffey
NSA North Texas Chapter President
June 2018-June 2019
NSA-NT December 8th, 2018 Meeting — Deborah Gardner, CMP
Program
Title: Meeting Industry News: Future Trends, Challenges, & YOU!
LISTEN UP SPEAKERS, AUTHORS, CONSULTANTS, TRAINERS AND COACHES! Economic, technological, political and other factors are changing the way you do business. And, all you want to do is out-smart and out maneuver others to own your space in the speaking business. Well, that’s not going to happen – unless, you attend this never-heard-before jam-packed information session to find out the real facts about those who hire you.
If you’re serious about being successful today, hear the truth straight from the horse’s mouth, someone who lives in the meetings world and directly understands the relationship between you and the decision maker. Explore the internal and external factors that are impacting the economic environment, meeting design, and content delivery. Discover why knowing more about the meetings industry is important to your career and learn how to get involved in the process. Realize how to modernize your business strategies from Deborah’s on-going extensive meeting industry interview process and insightful perspective from those who hire you.
Disclaimer: There’s no fake news here. Realize those who hire you are NOT meeting planners! Gather no techniques, no strategies, just straight answers that’s delivered on steroids, Red Bull, and a double espresso.
Key Takeaways:
- Grasp 7 new ways to better understand your client’s job duties to greatly enhance your relationships.
- Learn about the most up-to-the-minute meeting industry studies, data and developments that will blow your mind.
- Identify the real industry you work in to finally achieve your business goals once and for all!
About the Speaker:
A swimming champion turned author & competitive breakthrough expert, Deborah Gardner, CMP helps companies and organization professionals advance to new levels of success by streamlining their goals for maximum winning results.
With a lifetime of experience, Deborah has a wealth of breakthrough practice being a Marine Brat, an Olympic Trial swimmer, a ground-breaking leader as one of the first female broadcasters with CBS Sports and WHO-Radio, and a 28 – year hospitality sales veteran. Today, Deborah is rising to international prominence with an entertaining, humorous, and lively presentation approach by proving to help hundreds of people worldwide to discover their competitive breakthrough spirit.
Deborah is a Certified Meeting Professional recipient and one of only seven CMP speakers globally, who has received this prestige credential. She is also a “Meetings Mean Business” advocate, the most requested speaker by Meeting Professional International, and was voted as one of the best speakers heard by Meetings & Convention Magazine. Additionally, she is Event Industry Council’s Top 30 Influential Meeting Professionals and one of Smart Meetings Magazine’s Top 50 Smart Women Leaders.
Whether keynoting or consulting, Deborah believes in mastering her craft on the platform by doing television commercial work as an actor, conducting voice-overs and runway modeling. Deborah lives in Arizona with her husband, Jerry and her lover boy, Chief, the dog.
https://www.deborahgardner.com
Day / Time: Saturday, January 12, 2019
- 7:30a – 8:00a Morning Spark Event (optional)
- 8:15a – 8:30a First Time Guests
- 8:00a – 9:00a Breakfast / Registration
- 9:00a – 12:00p Program
- Ed Talk by the Pros
- Featured Speaker
- Speaker Spotlight
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, 1001 W. President George Bush Turnpike, Richardson, Texas 75080
Investment: Includes program and full breakfast.
Members, Candidates and Non-Local NSA Members
- $47 if pre-registered by Thursday before Meeting
- $57 onsite, morning of Meeting
Guests
- $20 Students/Staff
- $37 first time only
- $67 if pre-registered by Thursday before Meeting
- $77 onsite, morning of Meeting
January Special Event with Elizabeth McCormick
Tired of writing and re-writing your speeches? Are you going back to the drawing board Every Single Time a meeting planner calls and asks, “Do You Speak About…..”? Are you getting booked as often as you want?
Elizabeth McCormick, averages 100 events a year. She is asked all the time: HOW do you DO that? Spend 4 hours with her on January 26th and she’ll share the HOW-TO’s that have helped her Rocket her speaking business fast and far.
In part 1 of this high-performance presentation, Elizabeth will deconstruct and dissect her introduction, opening, and one of her signature messages to reveal the speech-writing strategies that keeps her booked without having to constantly rewrite her speech. She’ll answer your questions, provide her personal speech template as well as examples of how to use it.
Elizabeth stormed the Keynote Speaking scene by marketing herself in a precise sequence. In part 2, you’ll learn how she has unlocked the speaker safe of secrets to fee-based keynote bookings resulting in an average of 100 PAID speaking engagements every year since 2013.
Part 1: Amplify Your Speech
Key Takeaways:
- Discover the 3 key elements to creating YOUR most impactful opening.
- Learn how to craft your introduction so that the emcee, meeting planner, or executive begins to seed the audience with YOUR desired outcome before you even reach the stage.
- Develop an increased awareness of the energetic imprint your presentation has on the audience.
- Walk away with a new understanding about speech writing based on Elizabeth’s tried-and-true philosophy of customization. You will also receive the template that has helped her quickly customize her signature speech for hundreds of audiences.
- Leave with a BONUS GIFT to help you Amplify Your Business.
Part 2: Your “Bookability Factor”: UNLOCK Speaker Secrets to Fee-Based Gigs
Key Takeaways:
- Discover the 6 primary speaking essentials you NEED to get paid, including Elizabeth’s best booking tips for each category.
- Learn why these essentials have so much influence over the event planners and decision-makers who get you booked.
- Walk away with Elizabeth’s TOP SECRET “Rocket Your Referrals” program, which is a step-by-step process that will turn today’s audience into tomorrow’s sales team including a template for this as well.
Elizabeth McCormick has been seen on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX News and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. She is an author with more than 19 published books, the Founder and President of Soar 2 Success Publishing and a US Congressional Veteran Commendation recipient. Elizabeth was recently named #5 on the list of “Leadership Experts to Follow” online due to her social media presence. A former US Army Black Hawk Pilot, Elizabeth learned to take complex systems and break them into sequences for optimal results.
Elizabeth applied this skill to her own keynote speaking career which has rocketed since she started speaking, averaging over 100 speaking engagements (yes- paid) booked every year since 2014. Elizabeth has spoken to a variety of corporate audiences including Coca-Cola, Sherwin Williams, Boston Scientific, Rockwell Collins, Intuit, Shell Oil, General Dynamics, Krispy Kreme, Prudential, Raytheon, Mass Mutual, Old National Bank, Charles Schwab, and more.
Elizabeth serves on the Power Women of NSA Leadership Team and was chosen as one of the closing speakers at the Global Speakers Summit 2018 in New Zealand.
Day / Time: Saturday, January 26, 2019 / 1:00p-5:00p
Location:Hilton Garden Inn, 1001 W. President George Bush Turnpike, Richardson, Texas 75080
Investment:
Members, Candidates and Non-Local NSA Members
- $29
Guests
- $49
January Labs
Wednesday, January 16: Lauren Midgley on Productivity/Time Management & Earl Fisher: Pandora’s Box of Online Self-Marketing
Wednesday, January 30: Mark Fenner: Loyalty isn’t Luck – Intentional Plans Create Diehard Fans & Joe Heaps: eSpeakers
Labs are from 6:30p-9:30p at Hilton Garden Inn, 1001 W. President George Bush Turnpike, Richardson, TX 75080
Investment:
- All Access Pass Holders: Free (You must register to attend labs or you will be charged $69/at the door)
- Members: $49.00
- Guests (non-NSA Members): $59.00
- Walk-ins (anyone): $69.00
- First time guests of a chapter meeting: $25.00
Seating is Limited – Only 40 spaces available – Please sign up as early as possible.
Registration at the Door will be accepted ONLY if seating is available.
Save the Date for these Special Events
Saturday, February 18: Jeffrey Hayzlett
More information coming soon!
Saturday, March 2: Advanced Linked-In Workshop with Jim Pancero, CSP, CPAE
FREE FOR MEMBERS! More information coming soon!
It’s Time to Submit Your Application to the Spring 2019 session of The Academy at North Texas!
Want to be a part of the NSA North Texas Chapter Directory?
Are you watching our NEW NSA-NT Podcast “Power Up!”?
You, the Speaker
Dave’s 10 simple speaker rules for 2019
You don’t have to follow these 10 simple speaker rules, but I try to.
- 1. Don’t list the word “Speaker” as your first job title on your business card. So many other words to choose from: Author. Expert. Trainer. Coach. Strategist. Turn-Around Artist. Think I’m kidding? Google search the word “speaker.” Humans do not come up.
- If you’ve been out of the corporate world for many years and work as a solo practitioner, how do you know the feel of the corporate world today? Never underestimate how much your absence weakens you, but also note that you may see things with fresh eyes.
- 70 characters. What does that mean to you? You should know it’s the number of characters in a headline, generally, before Google starts cutting off words. Can you write a great title or headline in 70 characters or less? Always? And that includes spaces!
- Are you jealous of a speaker in your genre who has a much bigger career than you? (Who isn’t?) Replace the word jealous with “admiring” or “respectful.” No need for negative energy.
- Aim for your Certified Speaking Professional designation. If you’re a newby, set up your spread sheet to capture all the relevant information from Day One so a few years from now, it’s almost done. If you’re close to getting it, take the giant step. It’s worth it.
- You can’t make it in this business without speaker buddies. I’m not talking about a mastermind group. I’m talking about someone whom you can call at midnight — and cry.
- Every so often, try this. Open a private browser on your computer or phone so Google doesn’t recognize you as being signed in. Go to the Google search box and type in your name and then leave a space after the last letter. See what auto-populates. Those are the words people are associating with your name when they search for you. Do this in different parts of the nation when you travel because results may differ. If nothing comes up, it means you’re not on the radar yet – and you have more work to do.
- Brag about yourself. There’s no such thing as “shameless self-promotion.” Not if you want to eat.
- Whenever possible replace “I” with “you.”
- Remember that Control-Z is your best friend at the keyboard. Life is great when you get a do-over.
Read Dave’s latest columns every Friday and Sunday in The Morning News and at DallasNews.com/watchdog
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