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January started out on a high note with an information packed day for speakers to grow their businesses.
President, Sylvie Di Giusto kicked off the first meeting of the year at Serendipity Labs, a new co-working space with large rooms and easy networking. As a bonus, Serendipity Labs offered all our members a free one week pass to try out this space.
Jeanne Stafford was the emcee for this sold out event and welcomed the group. She brought up Heather Hansen who introduced the first speaker, Lou Diamond
, a connector and Founder of ThriveLoud. Lou gave a high-content talk about How to Thrive as a Podcast Guest. As a regular podcast host, he revealed the 411 of what it takes to be an in-demand guest from his and other podcasters’ perspectives. Here are highlights from Lou’s practical 10 tips:
To receive Lou’s complete handout, Ten Tips from Lou Diamond to Thrive as a Podcast Guest, email him at info@thriveloud.com.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: President-Elect, JayTownsend announced the first ever mobile-based NSA Auction.
Important dates:
Learn more….https://www.nsaspeaker.org/NsaAuction
Board member, Jill Schiefelbein announced the Speaker Palooza Video Showcase on May 11th for 20 speakers. Learn more…. https://nsanyc.org/event/showcase/
We were proud of our member, Eddie Turner , who flew in from Houston to talk about his new book, 140 Simple Message to Guide Emerging Leaders. Each member received a copy. Thank you, Eddie and congratulations!
Drew Tarvin introduced the upcoming Virtual Summit, VIRTUALLY! Additional information coming soon about the amazing speaker lineup and how to register for this March 23 special learning opportunity.
Guest Speaker Sam Richter -For Every Sales YES There is a KNOW
The featured guest speaker was Sam Richter who shared industry insights, business trends, and practical tips and tricks to completely revolutionize your business. Sam began the meeting by saying “For every sales Yes there is a Know.” His main theme was that to stand-out in a crowded, competitive market, you need information about your prospect before you ever meet. This is not the typical visit to their website. It’s much deeper. Speakers spend too much time talking about themselves and their products and services and prospects don’t care. Prospects and clients are passionate about one thing- themselves. So Sam advised us to let the first words out of your mouth be about them.
His conversation sounds like this: “Before I meet with people I do a little homework. You’re busy and I don’t want to waste your time. And guess what I found? Can you tell me a little bit about that?”
The challenge is how to obtain information that will get the prospect’s attention. No problem according to Sam. He demonstrated how to use Google to get everything you need to know. He demonstrated by asking NSA Past President Ron Karr to come to the front of the room. He then projected intelligence about Ron’s background, where he lives, his mother’s career trajectory, his family’s careers, and more, in specific detail. It was like a background check without paying for it.
Sam then spent the rest of the program showing speakers how they can obtain valuable intelligence about their prospects and clients to gain a competitive edge and earn their business. And it starts with Google. He shared formulas that will narrow a search and reveal information faster and more easily.
Some examples include:
Use the + sign if you want two words in your search. Ex. Events +food.
Use OR (in caps) If you’re looking for more than one item. Ex. Director OR manager
Use the – sign to exclude words from the search. If you’re researching the history of the Vikings, Google will most likely include the football team. To refine the search write out Vikings-football. Sam’s mantra is “A minus sign saves you time”.
You can also combine the formulas. Let’s say you want to find corporate meeting planners or event planners at Ernst and Young but you don’t want to see job openings.
Try “Ernst and Young” + “corporate meeting planners” OR “event planners” – jobs
These search tools can be used for finding word documents, PowerPoint, and Google images. You can also sort by color and usage rights.
To find upcoming leadership conferences for 2019 only, create more of a laser focus by using site:.
Ex. Site: leadership+conference+2019-2018
Sam stated that “Marketing gets you in the maybe file. The person you connect with is important. It’s the accumulation of little things that get you the big things.” So to create rapport and find some common ground, he recommended finding the interests of the prospect. Where do they donate? What are their favorite charities? There are pdf lists of donors.
This was a search he conducted: “deb mallin” + Minneapolis + (donate OR donation) filetype:pdf
While Sam described Google as a “vacuum cleaner that sucks up information;” he startled us when he said that Google only gets to 2.4% of sites. The rest is invisible. Google can’t register for a website with a user name or password. 95% of Facebook is hidden to Google He warned us to stay away from the dark web.
And speaking of social media, Sam showed us some workarounds when you can’t get the information you want. In addition to Google searches he provided other intelligence gatherings from the invisible web:
These techniques are not limited to sales intelligence. Just when our heads were full of data, Sam engaged our hearts. Our eyes started to well up with tears when he told the story of how he used these powerful tools to find his birth mother. This work is truly his passion.
Finally, he made a generous offer of a 50% discount on his Sales Intel Engine Speaker Edition.
Go to www.samrichter.com/speaker and enter the word SPEAKER in the coupon and get better information in less time to grow your business.
To receive his handouts from the meeting visit www.Sam1234.com
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