Saturday, Sept 11th Main Meeting

Be a Quote Master and Expert Interviewer, Gerard Braud

Morning Session 8:00am-12:00pm

Be a Quote Master

We all want to be quoted by the media. The secret is to have a great quote. Gerard Braud can literally brag that he has created a one-in-a-million front page quote… and he can teach you the secret as well.

Neil Armstrong had “One small step for man,” John Kennedy had, “Ask not what your country can do for you,” and Martin Luther King had, “I have a dream.” What do you have?  Learn the secret to creating your own ever lasting quotes for your speeches, articles and media interviews.

Afternoon Session  1:00pm-3:30pm

How to Conduct a Great Interview

As speakers bridge into social media, podcasting and video blogs, you need to learn to be a great interviewer. Bad questions lead to bad answers, which leads to content nobody wants.

Gerard Braud teaches you the art of formulating great questions that evoke great answers.

Gerard Braud (Jared Bro) has just wrapped up his year as the 2009-2010 host of NSA’s Voices of Experience. Gerard has appeared on television more than 5,000 times as a journalist, with reports seen around the world on CBS, NBC, CNN and BBC. As a spokesman, he’s been quoted by more than 500 media outlets around the world. He also boast of having a bonafide 1-in-a-million quote. This media expert is also the author of the new book, Don’t Talk to the Media: 29 Secrets You Need to Know Before You Open Your Mouth to a Reporter

Learn more about Gerard

	SHOW & TELL Professional NSA members, do you have a tip, resource or “how to” your colleagues could use right now. They get 3 minutes to show and tell us something valuable. If you want to get involved email participate@nsanorthwest.org.
	BUDDY BOASTS Have you seen a colleague perform? We are here to help each other grow our businesses. NSA Northwest encourages our community of professional members, vendors and affiliates to invite each other to their programs. You have the opportunity to give testimony of why your NSA Buddy was brilliant and the impact he/she had and why you would most certainly refer him/her. You have 1.5 minutes to present your “Buddy Boast.” If you want to get involved email participate@nsanorthwest.org
	NOW TIME! Meetings are fun and great, but if you don’t make a commitment, you may not further your business. This is the time to be accountable. Tell us what you want to implement by the next meeting. People will witness your proclamation for implementation. Share what you will work on. Others might want to partner with you. If you want to get involved email participate@nsanorthwest.org
	SHADES OF GREEN We are big influencers. What do you choose to do regarding greening your meetings and your business practices. Are you reducing your handouts and providing them online, or recycling your materials for your presentations or are you donating carbon credits? Share with us. If you want to get involved email participate@nsanorthwest.org

Calendar

• November 13, 2010  Saturday – Coast Bellevue
• December 3rd, 2010 Friday – Holiday Party – In house
• January 7, 2011 Friday – Meeting Planning Focus – Columbia Tower Club
• February 18-20, 2011 – NSA  National Winter Conference in Atlanta Georgia
• March 12, 2011 – Saturday – Bellevue Westin
• April 1-3, 2011 – NSA National CSP/CPAE Summit in Dallas Texas
• May 14, 2011 – Saturday-  Bellevue Westin
• July 30-August 2, 2011 – NSA National Convention in Anaheim California
• July TBA, 2011
• September 10, 2011 – Saturday
• November 12, 2011 – Saturday
• December 7, 2011 – Tuesday

Meet your new Board Members

NOW Time! COMMITMENTS!

Let’s hear your report from your commitments.

Brian: Submit article to Cody’s mag
Cody: Link up with Hootsuite
Brett; Facebook fan page
Lewis: Commit to be an Affiliate! Yea!
Brent: Commit to be an Affiliate
Max: Complete remodel to enhance Depth Perceptions
Isabella: Lunch with a Pro-David
Rosanne: Kill deathly animation in PP’S
Jan: Learn to love being a fan
Jeffry: Launching new website
Bill: Redo Powerpoints
Marilyn:Re-do presentation for principles
Valerie: Create youTube Channel
Patrick: Lunch with a Pro
Otto: Resurrect blog, Oho Report
Elisa: Time with Max
Jill: Collaborate with Brett for a fan page
Jolene: SpeakerHowTos.com to get going, framework by May 8th
Patt: Commit to a drink at the Zig-Zag Cafe

Please note our new phone number 206-395-6672 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              206-395-6672      end_of_the_skype_highlighting (NSAA)

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.

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

Have you been to the website lately? We update it rather often 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

NSA Northwest is the premier resource resource for creating audience impact

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Hot Seats

For professional Members only

Did you wish that you had an opportunity for the hot seat when Ford Saeks came to Seattle?  Do you want to take advantage of the innovative ideas, unique perspectives and creativity that comes from group synergy?  Are you in need of a novel twist or a fresh change in your branding? Do you need clarity in your messaging?

Join NSA members for the first ever in-house, HOT seat event.  Space and time are limited to twelve so not everyone will get a hot seat, but everyone will be contributing their brilliant ideas.

Saturday, Sept 11th Main Meeting

Be a Quote Master and Expert Interviewer, Gerard Braud

Morning Session 8:00am-12:00pm

Be a Quote Master

We all want to be quoted by the media. The secret is to have a great quote. Gerard Braud can literally brag that he has created a one-in-a-million front page quote… and he can teach you the secret as well.

Neil Armstrong had “One small step for man,” John Kennedy had, “Ask not what your country can do for you,” and Martin Luther King had, “I have a dream.” What do you have?  Learn the secret to creating your own ever lasting quotes for your speeches, articles and media interviews.

Afternoon Session  1:00pm-3:30pm

How to Conduct a Great Interview

As speakers bridge into social media, podcasting and video blogs, you need to learn to be a great interviewer. Bad questions lead to bad answers, which leads to content nobody wants.

Gerard Braud teaches you the art of formulating great questions that evoke great answers.

Gerard Braud (Jared Bro) has just wrapped up his year as the 2009-2010 host of NSA’s Voices of Experience. Gerard has appeared on television more than 5,000 times as a journalist, with reports seen around the world on CBS, NBC, CNN and BBC. As a spokesman, he’s been quoted by more than 500 media outlets around the world. He also boast of having a bonafide 1-in-a-million quote. This media expert is also the author of the new book, Don’t Talk to the Media: 29 Secrets You Need to Know Before You Open Your Mouth to a Reporter

Learn more about Gerard

Early Bird Incentives

Be one of the first 20 to sign up and be in a drawing for one of the following:

• 1 minute to talk on stage about your business during the meeting
• Buy one, get one free main meeting certificate

Sign up before August 21st to get the early bird rate.

Calendar

• November 13, 2010  Saturday – Coast Bellevue
• December 3rd, 2010 Friday – Holiday Party – In house
• January 7, 2011 Friday – Meeting Planning Focus – Columbia Tower Club
• February 18-20, 2011 – NSA  National Winter Conference in Atlanta Georgia
• March 12, 2011 – Saturday – Bellevue Westin
• April 1-3, 2011 – NSA National CSP/CPAE Summit in Dallas Texas
• May 14, 2011 – Saturday-  Bellevue Westin
• July 30-August 2, 2011 – NSA National Convention in Anaheim California
• July TBA, 2011
• September 10, 2011 – Saturday
• November 12, 2011 – Saturday
• December 2, 2011 – Friday

Meet your new Board Members

NOW Time! COMMITMENTS!

Let’s hear your report from your commitments.

Brian: Submit article to Cody’s mag

Cody: Link up with Hootsuite

Brett; Facebook fan page

Lewis: Commit to be an Affiliate! Yea!

Brent: Commit to be an Affiliate

Max: Complete remodel to enhance Depth Perceptions

Isabella: Lunch with a Pro-David

Rosanne: Kill deathly animation in PP’S

Jan: Learn to love being a fan

Jeffry: Launching new website

Bill: Redo Powerpoints

Marilyn:Re-do presentation for principles

Valerie: Create youTube Channel

Patrick: Lunch with a Pro

Otto: Resurrect blog, Oho Report

Elisa: Time with Max

Jill: Collaborate with Brett for a fan page

Jolene: SpeakerHowTos.com to get going, framework by May 8th

Patt: Commit to a drink at the Zig-Zag Cafe

Learn tips from the National Convention

Please note our new phone number 206-395-6672 (NSA2)

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.

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

Have you been to the website lately? We update it rather often 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

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.

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
• 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.
  • Ÿ Learn the three factors dictating your success or failure in sales.
  • Ÿ Discuss hidden barriers in selling, and how to overcome them.
  • Ÿ 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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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!

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

• 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!

• March 13, 2010 – Saturday – Make your PowerPoints Pop!
• May 8, 2010 – Saturday – Sam Horn
• 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, 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

Post your comments here.

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.