This jam-packed and highly practical program is designed to help professional speakers develop their distinctive brand, focus on their uniqueness to successfully reach their target markets, and position themselves to truly be "heard above the noise” in the marketplace.

• Create a clearly focused vision statement based upon the desired outcomes for your speaking practice

• Develop your distinctive brand (what sets you apart in the marketplace in everything you do, say, and communicate in any form)

• Craft a positioning statement centered on your distinctive brand and your target market(s)

• Maximize your ability to reach your target market(s) via creative branding, the incredible power of media, and strategic networking.

Examples of powerful branding, unique positioning, and creative marketing approaches, successfully utilized by fellow speakers and other professionals will be shared throughout Dick Bruso's presentation.

Where: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK (May 2008 Location Info)

Cost: FREE! to prepaid members and prepaid preferred guests; $20 for non-prepaid professional members, and $50 for guests.

RSVP: Shari Alexander, VP of Membership, Shari@presentingmatters.com

Please note that you must RSVP by Monday, May 5 !
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Fast Track Program
(1:00 pm after each monthly meeting)

Dick Bruso will be joining us after lunch to present this month's Fast Track Program...

This is your opportunity to begin the process of creating your very own distinctive brand with internationally acclaimed branding expert, Dick Bruso. Founder of Heard Above The Noise,® Dick has worked with hundreds of professional speakers in creating powerful and profitable brands.

During this hands-on session, Dick will help you and your colleagues develop brands that will truly set you apart in the marketplace. You'll learn the secret of how to apply the “umbrella approach” to branding that will cover all your services from speaking to consulting to product development.

Ten experts in fields ranging from nursing, interior design, car washes, juggling with brain damage, to government contracts began the NSA-OK Fast Track program in January 2008. Facilitated by chapter president, Dick Alexander, these emerging (as well as seasoned) speakers engaged in a discussion about specific topics, markets, program & book titles to help define their potential speaking businesses.

If you would like to join this small group to help your speaking business be even more successful, contact Kyle Eastham at (405) 201-1350 or Kyle@BlackBeltSpeaker.com . We're looking for any emerging speakers who want to look seriously at the speaking business and we're looking for NSA professional members to offer your own advice (and learn a thing or two) in this informal setting. There is no cost to Professional members or Preferred Guests.

Don't worry if you missed the January meeting. We'll meet again at 1 pm in February after the regular chapter meeting!

NSA-OKLAHOMA MONTHLY MEETING
NSA-Oklahoma meets regularly on the second Saturday of the month.

(There may be conflicts that require changes in our regularly scheduled meeting dates. Therefore, please check the calendar of events regularly.)

Regular Meeting times are 8:30 am to Noon. The full day workshops are normally from 8:30 am to Noon and 1 pm to 4:00 pm. Registration and networking begin at 8:30 am.

Our meetings rotate between Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

The Oklahoma City meeting location:
The Reed Center (next to the Sheraton Midwest City Hotel)
5750 Will Rogers Road, Midwest City, Oklahoma
The Reed Center Information

The Tulsa meeting location:
Doubletree Hotel Warren Place
6110 South Yale Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Doubletree Hotel Directions

Meeting Costs:

$0 for Prepaid Professional Members
$20 for Non-Prepaid Professional Members
$0 for Prepaid Preferred Guest
$50 for Guests
$75 for Guests (full day workshop)