Below is my upcoming speaking schedule for various and exciting events. To reserve your spot, contact the individuals below. Hope to see you there.

1. Million Dollar Consulting® College – Newport, RI, Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Alan Weiss, PhD
P: 401-884-2778
Alan@SummitConsulting.com

2. Society for Advancement for Consulting – New York, NY, Tuesday, April, 6, 2010
Alan Weiss, PhD
P: 401-884-2778
Alan@SummitConsulting.com

3. Greater Los Angeles NSA Chapter – Saturday, April 17, 2010
Lori Akina
Executive Director
P: 866-416-7252
lori@tjmanagement.com

4. NSA KY Chapter, Louisville, KY - Monday, April 19, 2010
Diane Crutcher
P: 502-426-7033
Dianecruthcer@aol.com

5. New England Chapter, Natick, MA - Saturday, May 15, 2010
Donna Powell
donna.f.powell@comcast.net

6. The Odd Couple® Marketing & Strategy Seminar, Las Vegas, NV - Saturday/Sunday, June 12 – 13, 2010
Alan Weiss, PhD
P: 401-884-2778
Alan@SummitConsulting.com

After last year successful appearance and speaking on the topic of: “How to take your web site to the next level,” I was invited to present again to the Pittsburgh Consulting Community. So on Thursday 1/7/2010, at 4:40PM EST, I will be speaking on “Social Media And All That Online Jazz.”  Hope to see you there.

Click here or on image below to register.

In the past 10 weeks I have been traveling for almost seven weeks for both business and pleasure. It was truly an amazing time and I would like to share some of my experiences with you in my next upcoming posts.

Back in October, I traveled to San Diego to attend and speak at Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting College Grad School. A terrific group of 15 consultants attended the grad school for two and a half days to discuss business challenges, best practices, case studies and participated in various role plays and examined growth ideas.

Here are several take-aways:

1. Look at the world from our clients’ perspective.


2. What can we learn from other companies success that we can apply to our success or that of our clients.


3. Rather than looking at doom and gloom look at opportunities.


4. If you don’t reinvent your business you die.


5. Promote yourself so you are mentioned in the media in print, TV, Internet and radio.


6. Mention your clients’ success often in conversations.


7. Buying high-end goods is an emotionally fulfilling act. People need that emotional fulfillment.


8. Growth comes from top line growth not from cutting expenses.


9. Business model is the structure of how you run your business and how you market and deliver your products and services.

Below are two testimonials from my speech which I recorder with my HD Flip Video camera. First one is from Lisa Nirell, founder of Energize Growth:

And the other from Sara LaForest, co-founder of Kubica LaForest Consulting:

And finally, the fabulous setting outside my window. And remember not to get caught in the web.

I spoke for the National Speaker Association Convention in New York City which was absolutely an amazing event. Thousands of great speakers attending many workshops and listening to great speakers such as Marshall Goldsmith and Steve Forbes.

My presentation “Advanced Internet Presence” focused on:

1. Hot to create instant credibility on the web


2. How to leverage the web to deliver value


3. How to attract customers with Internet marketing gravity


4. Blogs, bogs and fogs

Click here to download the PDF copy of my presentation.

I am speaking at the NSA convention in New York on Monday, August 4, 2008 at 4PM. My speech will focus on how to leverage your web site and the Internet to help your speaking career and also when does it make sense to create blogs and online forums to increase the community around you and strengthen your brand.

By attending this session you will learn how to:

1. Create instant credibility on the Web


2. Attract customers by creating Internet marketing gravity


3. Leverage the Web to deliver value to your clients

I hope to see you there.

Chad

I was the guest speaker at Alan Weiss and Patricia Fripp marketing for speakers, consultants & coaches seminar- The Odd Couple, held in San Francisco on March 8, 2008. I spoke about “Leveraging your web site and the Internet to dramatically grow your business” to a terrific group of entrepreneurs. View some of the testimonials I recorded with my Flip Video and you are also welcome to view and download my presentation below:

Testimonial from Terry Schmidt of www.ManagementPro.com:

Testimonial from Lisa Broesch of www.inblissconsulting.com:

Testimonial from Don Yaeger of www.donyaeger.com

Testimonial from Sara LaForest of LaForest Consulting:

Slides show presentation:

(to view the slides presentation in full screen mode, click on the “view” link above and then click on “full screen” on the bottom right)

Click here to download slides presentation. (pdf 23.22MB)

Click here to download article handout. (pdf 561kb)

Note: Video testimonials were taken with my Flip Video camera

I have just returned from Rhode Island where I deliver my speech (for the fifth time) to Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting™ College. Alan Weiss, PhD. who conducts the college, attracts the best and smartest of the consulting minds in the world, and I just love returning and presenting to this group.
In this presentation I focused on how to leverage your web site to establish credibility and and the importance of an effective home page and how to create one.

I just returned from my speaking trip to NYC where I presented to the Society of Advancement of Consulting® and the topic was “Blogs, bogs and fogs.” How to enhance perceived expertise, generate publicity effectively and passive income opportunities. Here are two critical sections of my presentation:

Components of a successful site:

1. “In your face” effective, clear design and navigation with a strong value proposition and tag line.


2. Provide value and be useful. Use articles, white papers, products …


3. “Don’t make me think”


4. Passive income products and services


5. Secured shopping


6. Easy way to contact you


7. Strong calls to action on each page


8. Focus calls to action on each page


9. Focus on clients’ results & successes


10. Incentives and registration to your newsletter


11. Ability to search your own site


12. Highway billboard home page concept with bug blocks and above the fold


13. And your email signature of course

Calls to action:

1. Contact us (call / email / fax)


2. Sign up today


3. Join our mailing list


4. Purchase product / service


5. Learn more


6. Take survey


7. Join our online forum


8. Download article / white paper / MP3


9. Request consultation / brochure


10. Refer site / article to a friend


11. Click here


12. Learn more


13. Explore further

Click here for the recap from the SAC® site.

I have just returned from Rhode Island where I deliver my speech to Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting™ College. This college attracts the brightest of minds in the consulting world and it is always my great pleasure to speak in front of this elite group. The topic I focused on was “Leveraging the Internet to Dramatically Grow Your Business” and my goal was to have each attendee walk out with at least three pragmatic ideas to implement in their web strategy.

Among many serious mistakes I see with most web site, the most problematic one from my perspective and the one I consult my clients to avoid is the problem of too much text on the home page. Web visitors do not like to read to much on the home page. The briefly scan the page and look for interesting and valuable things that grab their attention.

“How to Leverage the Internet to Dramatically Grow Your Business” is the topic I will be presenting and speaking about during The Odd Couple Seminar in Las Vegas on 11/18/2006. Alan Weiss and Patricia Fripp will be presenting how to market yourself as a speaker . Click on the image below to view the video postcard from Patricia Fripp. Hope to see you there.