April 12—Karyn Ruth White, Craft Like a Comic, Sell Like A Speaker
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NSA-Arizona Program April 12, 2008
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12 noon; networking 8:30 a.m.
Business Building Session: 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Location: NSA Conference Center, 1500 S. Priest Dr., Tempe, AZ
Early Registration (by 5 p.m. Wed. April 9): $30/members, $45/guests
Late Registration: $40/members, $55/guests
No refunds after 5 p.m. April 9, 2008.
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Karyn Ruth White
“Craft Like a Comic, Sell Like A Speaker”
Aren’t you fully engaged when you listen to great comedy? Would you like to have the same affect on your audiences? Karyn Ruth White, Keynote Presenter, Comedian, and co-author (with fellow NSA Member Jay Arthur) of Your Seventh Sense, How to Think Like A Comedian has performed for the past 20 years as both a professional comedian and a professional speaker. She has some unique insights on how to overlap the two crafts. In this session she will dissect excerpts from her hilarious keynote program Laughing In The Face Of Stress© to demonstrate how you can:
- Anchor Your Point With Humor
- Never Be A Hack!
- Speak Conversational Comedy
- Master the Art of Planned Spontaneity
- Tighten Your Talk with Humor
Karyn Ruth White is a motivational humorist, author and comedian. She holds an undergrad degree in Communications, and after 20 years as a comedian and professional speaker, she is proud to announce that she has been awarded a Honorary Masters Degree in Humor from the University of “Been There Done That.” With all that schoolin’, it’s a breeze for her to help people think better thoughts, gain a sense of personal control over stress and use humor as a powerful life skill.
She is the co-author of Your 7th Sense; How to Think Like a Comedian© a book helping the average Joe model techniques used by professional comedy performers to help create perspective and laughter from everyday experience. Her national keynote program Laughing in the Face of Stress© has been repeatedly televised in Colorado over the past five years. A women who recently ordered Karyn Ruth’s hilarious CD “Kiss My Botox©” sent this email: “I bought your CD, listened to it on the way to work, you owe me a new pair of underwear.” Doris in Iowa. Stop by for a virtual visit and a real laugh at http://www.karynruthwhite.com
Voice of Experience: VOE Dave Barnhart
Why Your Business Should Have a Blog
Program Description:
- Have you heard of blogs and wonder what they are all about?
- Are you wondering if a blog could help your business?
- Do you want to be known as an authority in your field?
- Do you want to leverage the most cost-effective means for boosting your business’ image, exposure, and revenue?
Blogging has evolved into a cutting-edge marketing tool that is immediate, personal, and engaging. Blogging can boost your image, exposure, reputation, and revenue. Best of all blogging is within the financial reach of everyone.
Done well, a small company can achieve results that large firms with millions of dollars to spend on marketing would be hard-pressed to achieve. In this seminar you will learn:
- What a blog is
- How they work
- Why they are so effective
- How to get started
Dave Barnhart is a Blog Strategy Consultant, founder of Business Blogging Pros, and a passionate blogger His company is dedicated to the belief that small businesses can have a large impact without correspondingly large marketing and PR budgets.
In 2005 Dave - an avid gourmet chef - started a food and cooking blog, The Fumbling Foodie, as a laboratory for leveraging the power of the blogosphere for marketing and PR. The Fumbling Foodie has been quoted on the CBS News website, and many Fumbling Foodie posts rank in the top 10 for Google searches returning over a million hits.
Dave frequently speaks to groups of business owners and entrepreneurs about blogging and he was recently a guest on Pat McMahon’s show on KAZ TV. Dave helps companies get their blogs started and develop good blogging strategies. He also enjoys acting as your personal blogging coach, helping you effectively connect with your customers and employees, and turn clients into enthusiastic fans.
Business Building Session
formerly known as Candidate Program
The Business Building Session starts promptly at 12:15 and ends at 1:30 p.m.
“E-Marketing Excellence: How to build deeper business relationships through email marketing”
Speaker: Ron Cates
This Business Building Session starts promptly at 12:15 p.m. and ends at 1:30. All morning attendees are welcome.
Online marketing whiz Ron Cates highlights how to ensure your company’s email newsletter rises above the flood of inbox messages.
Email has emerged as one of the best retention and referral tools available. However, Spam is causing consumers to demand that commercial emailers use more professional standards.
In this presentation, Ron shows how to find and keep quality subscribers with their permission, get more emails opened and read, and entice readers to take action. He also shows how to track email responses to build deeper relationships with clients and customers, while complying with regulations and consumer preferences.
An award-winning business leader, Ron has developed solutions for marketing professionals, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations to strengthen customer and donor relationships. As a presenter, his topics include developing email marketing strategies, designing effective email communications, and maintaining powerful relationships with stakeholders.
Come hear this outstanding program!
To register for this meeting, please follow prepayment procedures.
Prepayment Procedures: To streamline check-in at monthly meetings, the board requires that you prepay for your meeting attendance.
- Register: To register online Members & Candidates Click Here
- To register online Nonmembers Click Here
- or by email, send name, company and number of attendees to Gwen@nsa-arizona.org
- or call (480) 968-7443.
NSA-Arizona Future Programs Lineup
Please note these future meeting dates!
2008 Programs
- May 10, 30th Anniversary Special Presidents Event
- June 14, TBA / VOE Robin Craig and Norma Ory, “Do you know your FIQ™ (First Impression Quotient)?”
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