May 2006 News Flash
The Magic of Community
- President’s Message from Beth Terry
- May 13 Monthly Meeting
- Our Meeting Sponsor for May
- Living Room Forum in May
- Upcoming NSA-Arizona and NSA Programs
- Speech Development Lab
- Business-Building Bulletin
- Word Trippers
- Website Wisdom
- Worth Repeating
- About This Newsletter
NSA-Arizona President’s Message from Beth Terry
What Do You Make?
In April, you either filed your taxes or an extension. And you went through the arduous task of facing up to what you did or did not make last year.
We are in a challenging profession. Every day, we interview for jobs. And every time we work, we are evaluated. Every day, we are both uplifted and humbled by our clients.
When I received the following email, I thought about you and all my teachers through the years. I usually don’t send things without attribution, so if you know who wrote this, let me know. No matter the source, it is great food for thought.
WHAT TEACHERS MAKE
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, brought up the problem with education. He argued, “What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his or her best option in life was to become a teacher?” He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” To stress his point, he turned to a guest who had a reputation for honesty and frankness and said, “You’re a teacher, Susan. Be honest. What do you make?”
Susan replied, “You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I make a C+ feel like the winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. I make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall in absolute silence.
“I make kids wonder. I make them question. I make them criticize. I make them apologize and mean it. I make them write. I make them read, read, read. I make them show all their work in math and perfect their final drafts in English.
“I make them understand that if you have brains and follow your heart, and if someone ever tries to judge you by what you make, you must pay no attention because they just didn’t learn.”
Susan paused and asked, “You want to know what I make? I MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
What do you make?”
Remember: Teachers make every other profession possible!
Beth Terry
NSA-Arizona President 2005-2006
beth@bethterry.com
NSA-Arizona Monthly Meeting May 13, 2006
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12 noon; networking 8:30 a.m.
Candidate Program: 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Location: NSA Conference Center, 1500 S. Priest Dr., Tempe, AZ
Prepaid registration (by 5 p.m. Wed., May 10): $25/members, $35/guests
At-the-door registration: $35/members, $45/guests
How to Sell Association Presentations Through the Back Door
Ed Rigsbee, CSP, will teach you how to sell to trade and professional associations by going after their soft underbelly—their publication editors. He’ll teach you how to build relationships with editors by offering articles adapted from your books and presentations. Then you’ll learn how to use these relationships to bridge the divide into the meetings department.
Don’t have any articles? Ed will cover how to craft your writing to make your material even more desirable to association editors. Don’t know where to start with associations? He’ll cover how to find the best associations for you to approach. Ed knows what he’s talking about; more than 80% of his speaking business comes from trade and professional associations.
Ed Rigsbee, CSP, is the author of three books on business relationships, one book on soccer, and more than 1,000 published articles. He has been an adjunct professor for both the Universities of California at Santa Barbara and California Lutheran University. As a trainer for Dun & Bradstreet, he delivered seminars across the U.S. during the 1990s.
Ed has been active in NSA since 1988 and was named Member of the Year for the Greater Los Angeles Chapter in 1990. At the 1999 NSA Convention in San Antonio, he founded the Cigar PEG, which has donated $72,500 to the NSA Foundation’s Professional Speaker Benefit Fund and $52,500 to Laura’s Hope.
VOE: Larry Colbert – Using Creativity & Humor to Change Your Attitude
Larry shares how unexpected circumstances can create opportunities—and by not taking ourselves too seriously, how you can open your mind to creative solutions and achieve the success you desire. Larry, who is blind because of retinitis pigmentosa (a hereditary disease of the retina) is the author of Insights from an Out of Sight Guy.
Candidate Program – Do You Hate Selling Yourself?
Self-promotion is a key ingredient in success—probably THE key ingredient—yet many speakers miss their goals by not marketing and selling themselves effectively.
Jeffrie Story, Unleash Your Sales DNA®, will help you understand what’s going on inside of you and how you can conquer this success-stealing dragon. Learn the 12 different scientifically discovered reasons why people sabotage their earnings and what you can do about them, plus three ways you can increase your inner drive.
This program starts promptly at 12:15 p.m. and ends at 1:30 p.m.
SUPPORT OUR MEETING SPONSOR—Rich Hamilton’s RunYourOwnWebsite.com
Years before the Internet, in 1928, Walt Disney painfully learned a secret business strategy. It’s a concept you can use today to use with your website to help you build a profitable speaking business.
Today, Rich is releasing a unique business-building tool—a package that consists of video instruction, special software, and the resources you need to take control of your own website . . . even multiple websites. With his new “Run Own Website Power Package,” you can:
- Start a new website, replace an old website, and create multiple websites.
- Change anything, anytime, from anywhere, instantly.
- Get your website visitors involved.
- Quit paying your web designer.
Rich has a 19-minute demo that shows him setting up a new website in 19 minutes. If he can do it in 19 minutes, you could do your first one in an afternoon and future ones in a couple of hours. It’s all been designed for you, not for the computer dweeb. Before long, you’ll “feel the power” as you confidently Run Your Own Website!
For a special NSA-Arizona offer, go to
http://www.QuickBusinessWebsites.com.
Or call Rich at 602-438-2345.
PS. If you want to know more about the secret Walt Disney learned in 1928, listen to Rich’s five-minute presentation at the meeting.
To register for this meeting and save $10, follow these prepayment procedures.
Prepayment Procedures: To streamline check-in at our monthly meetings, please prepay for your meeting attendance. Members and guests save $10 when they prepay by 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the Saturday meeting. Registration at the door (available as space allows) is $35 for members and $45 for nonmembers. No refunds are given after the early registration deadline.
Note from Executive Director Gwen Henson: We’re happy to keep your credit card on file for meeting payments but it’s not an automatic service. Please specifically ask us to do that.
Three ways to register:
1. Online: go to Register
2. By email: send name, company, and number of attendees to Gwen@nsa-arizona.org
3. By telephone: call (480) 968-7443
2006 Living Room Forums
The Living Room Forums provide a great opportunity to interact with members who share interests in a small group setting. This interactive environment for learning strengthens the “magic” within our NSA community.
Our May Living Room Forum focuses on Humorists. Join us on Wednesday, May 24, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the home of June Cline in Tempe. A light dinner will be provided. Cost: $15 members $20 Guests
Registration and payment required in advance. Sign up online at www.nsa-arizona.org or call Gwen at (480) 968-7443. Directions will be provided with your registration confirmation.
If you’d like to host a Living Room Forum, become a Group Leader, or join the planning committee, see Kitty Wiemelt or Kathy Marcil at the chapter meeting or contact Kitty at (480) 329-6996 or via email at kitty@kittywiemelt.com
Upcoming NSA-Arizona Programs
| Month | Program | Speaker / VOE |
|---|---|---|
| June 10 | Media panel | Panelists / Andy Erlich |
| July | No meeting | National Convention in Orlando! |
| Aug. 19 | Summer Fiesta! | at home of Neil Dempster |
| September 9 | TBA |
Upcoming NSA Programs
May 5-7 Coaching Lab, NSA Headquarters, Tempe, AZ
July 22-25 National Convention, Orlando, Florida
Go to NSA for full details.
The Magic of Coaching Lab: May 5-7, 2006
Join pioneers in the growing field of business coaching as they help us discover how the coach approach can enhance all that we are already doing! Be there for the very first Coaching Lab, May 5-7, 2006 at NSA Headquarters in Tempe, Arizona. We’ll join together to experience The Magic of Coaching: Tools for Accelerating Your Speaking Business! This Lab is sure to be a sell-out! Register now online or call NSA Headquarters at (480) 968-2552 and save $50!
NSA Scholarship Program
NSA has just announced its student scholarship program for the coming year. NSA will also be recognizing two outstanding speech or communication professors. If you know of any student who will be majoring or minoring in speech or related communication fields, or of a deserving professor, send them to this site: http://www.nsaspeaker.org/about/foundation.shtml
New Informal Group to Gather at NSA Convention in Orlando
Members of NSA who are “Aviators” (student pilots, pilots, skydivers, parachutists, astronauts) and “Speaking Eagles” (former pilots, speakers on aviation, speakers to mainly aviation groups, airline or former employees) are invited to e-mail their interest in joining an informal meeting at the NSA 2006 Orlando National Convention, July 22-25, 2006. We are planning to have an interesting speaker, the first deaf instrument rated pilot who has been an NSA member. Please email Howard Putnam at: Howarddp@aol.com if you want to be part of this informal group.
Have You Completed Your NSA Survey Yet? NSA is launching our first of what will be a series of quarterly NSA member surveys. The surveys will cover different subjects and are designed to find out how we can improve and expand the services NSA provides for our members. This survey covers the factors important to you as you are deciding whether or not to attend meetings. Your opinion is important to us, so please click here to take this short, online survey.
NSA-Arizona Speaker Development Lab
Moving from a $750 speaker to a $5,000 speaker is not easy, but this Lab helps those who have that goal move to the next level. The “Lab” is experimenting with one morning meeting and one evening meeting each month. The 2nd Tuesday will be held at NSA headquarters at 8:45 to 11:00; the 4th Tuesday meeting at the Arizona Small Business Association classroom 4130 E. Van Buren Suite 150 at 6:30 p.m. Don Thoren asks, “The ASBA facility is great, but quite costly. Does anyone know of a place we could meet in the evening for approx. $50 per meeting?”
Attending the Lab costs only $75 a year (or you can pay by the meeting). Participants can show 5 to 10 minutes from a CD or video tape and get the same quality feedback and enrichment suggestions. Contact Don Thoren, CPAE, at dthoren@cox.net or Eileen Roth at EileenRoth@aol.com
BUSINESS-BUILDING BULLETIN
This bulletin publicizes events of interest to NSA-Arizona members and announces member accomplishments. Send your information to Barbara McNichol editor@barbaramcnichol.com
Did You Read April’s Professional Speaker? NSA-Arizonans Quoted!
Jean McFarland and Kitty Wiemelt were both quoted on page 16 of the April issue of Professional Speaker in an article by Joe Contrera titled “What Our Members are Reading.” Marcia Reynolds, Steve Tyra, and Ed Scannell were also mentioned. Go back and read it!
Stephanie Angelo’s Company Named As Resource
Human Resource Essential has been added to the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s listing of national workplace resources. (See http://endabuse.org/workplace link ‘Resources Specific to the Workplace’) Stephanie Angelo, principal of Human Resource Essential, specializes in family and workplace violence education, consulting, and prevention.
ASTD Calls for Speakers for its 2006 Fall Conference by May 26
If you’re interested in being considered as a presenter for ASTD’s Fall Conference on October 13, you’re asked to send a proposal form to Speaker Chair, Eva Martony, by May 26, 2006.
The conference is an all-day event at Black Canyon Conference Center in north central Phoenix with 300+ attendees. Sessions will be held on Training, Human Performance Improvement, Human Resource, Organizational Development, and more.
Download the Presentation Proposal form at http://www.astd-vos.org/documents/presentation-proposal-form.doc and e-mail it to speakers@astd-vos.org. Call Eva at 602-438-4120 if you have questions.
Stories & Style Retreat June 22-24 with Marcia Reynolds, CSP
Do your keynote stories need more pizzazz? Would you like to connect with audience members more, inspiring them to take action (and buy your products and services)? CSP and international keynote speaker, Marcia Reynolds will hold a coaching retreat in Phoenix this June 22-24. Registration is limited to 8 people. Call Marcia at 602-954-9030 or email her at Marcia@Covisioning.com more information.
Authors and Speakers Roundtable Every Third Wednesday
Authors and Speakers Roundtable, sponsored by Arizona Small Business Association, meets the third Wednesday of each month. All are welcome between 11:30 am to 1 pm. Bring your own lunch if you choose; drinks are provided. Each month features an author who tells about his or her authorship journey and challenges. Great information! 4130 E. Van Buren, Phoenix 602-265-4563. http://www.asba.com. Monthly meeting is no charge for ASBA members ($125 for annual dues); $20 for guests. This ASBA Roundtable is chaired by Bill Johnson, CSP.
What business-building events of interest to NSA-Arizona members are coming up? What new books and tapes will you launch soon? Send your announcements to Barbara at editor@barbaramcnichol.com
Word Trippers from the Platform
Use the exact word for your writing and your speech, from Barbara McNichol.
Impassible, impassable – “Impassible” means showing no emotion; “impassable” means not being able to pass (e.g., on a road) or not being able to overcome (e.g., an obstacle). “As we waited for the impassable road to be cleared of snow, George remained impassible, refusing to get upset about the long delay.”
Imply, infer – The one who initiates a communication “implies” while the receiver of communication “infers.” “The reader inferred the politician’s actions were immoral. The editorial writer intended to imply that.”
Incredulous, incredible – “Incredulous” means skeptical, disbelieving.” “Incredible” means so implausible as to elicit disbelief; often used simply to express amazement. “They were incredulous after hearing about the incredible tidal wave of destruction.”
Word Trippers are featured in The Door Opener, an ezine that helps you open doors to your dreams through the written word. Subscribe at http://www.barbaramcnichol.com or send an email to editor@barbaramcnichol.com
Website Wisdom
Keep in mind the “little things” from web diva Kendall SummerHawk that can make your website better.
Tip for May: Does your About You page paint a complete picture of you and not limit itself to business facts? Potential clients want to know something about you as a person. Do you watercolor, train companion dogs, or volunteer at a homeless shelter? Whatever your thing, mention it and what you love about it! It will humanize your site.
Worth Repeating
“When we recognize our self-limitations with a clear eye on our potential, we can push ourselves through to success.”
–Larry Colbert, our VOE speaker
About This Newsletter
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