NSW|ACT Chapter Event & NSAA SGM - Surefire Ways to Guarantee Your Best Year Yet!

Speaker 1: Graeme Cowan and Sonja Firth - How LinkedIn can fast track your speaking career for practically zero cost....

LinkedIn is the number one network for professionals online. Your competitors are on LinkedIn, your clients and potential clients are on LinkedIn. What's your presence like? Are you getting the most out of its features? Did you know that you can use LinkedIn to build your speaking business for close to zero cost?

You'll learn about the secret settings that can save you money and become your number one marketing tool, plus you'll find out how to find prospects, engage with connections and ultimately become an LinkedIn Influencer.

Graeme Cowan and Sonja Firth are the backbone of Business Influencer, having both used LinkedIn in their respective businesses to create a steady stream of new business and opportunities over the last 3 years. For Graeme as a Keynote Speaker, creating regular blue chip client leads, and for Sonja in her outsourcing services company, finding regular growth opportunities and in sharing her knowledge in maximising LinkedIn's value for her own clients.

Speaker 2: Winston Marsh and David Price - Thirteen Surefire Ways to Guarantee Your Best Year Yet!

In this fast paced, practical session veteran speakers and foundation NSAA members, David Price and Winston Marsh, will share simple, easy-to-implement, proven ideas to get your speaking business really humming.

Whether you are new to the business, been speaking for a while or are a seasoned speaker you're bound to take away at least a couple of ideas that will be the pick up tonic your business needs. Guaranteed no rah rah, no theory, no wild impossible ideas, no special skills needed (other than a polished presentation); just great stuff… simple, sensible and successful!

David and Winston have each been speaking professionally for almost 30 years. If they don't speak… they starve! So they must be doing something right.

In this session you will discover:

• How to get a brand-new paid job within two weeks.
• The secrets to making $1000 before bedtime!
• Finding the elusive and invisible business in your own backyard.

Your MC for January is ... Mike Schoettler

Our MC for the January event is Mike Schoettler. Mike is an entertaining pragmatist who blends humour and pathos with his own personal experience. Combining a background of sales and management success, Mike’s creditability extends to both sales and non-sales staff alike.

Educated in the United States of America, Mike’s perspective makes him a unique speaker/trainer with the ability to move an audience to action. Mike has a B.A. in Political Science (California State University at Los Angeles) and a Master of International Management (American Graduate School of International Management).

Mike has demonstrated his “Sales Sense” approach to producing results working in major corporations in both the USA and Australia. After five years as National Sales Manager for Hunter Douglas, he started speaking professionally in 1991. In the years since, Mike has worked with Associations, Corporations and Franchise Organisations of all sizes around the world. In 1995, Mike was elected President of the National Speakers Association of Australia in NSW.

Note that due to our Special General Meeting at 5:45pm (all members have been emailed separately), there will not be a pre-session program. We will start this up again at our February meeting.