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Antion
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RESERVE YOUR PLACE TODAY!
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Graham Foster
Your Master of Ceremonies
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Introducing the originator of MoneyMath©, the innovative approach that has made Graham Foster the international expert on corporate profitability. With 40 years of business experience, including being CEO of a $1.5 billion retail company, a $1 billion chain store group, and a $300 million chemicals company, he and his profit-improving ideas have helped change bottom lines at more than 200 corporations on four continents, including BMW, Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte, and Exxon. He has also authored 10 e-books. What he knows, he shares—so get ready for four fast-paced days with “America’s Profit Genius”!
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THURSDAY, September 18, 2003
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1:00-1:30 PM
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Welcome from Dottie Walters
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1:30-4:00 PM
Jeff Herman Insider Tips for Getting Your Book Published
—a Literary Agent’s Secrets
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Looking for a publisher? This is the man to see! A top New York literary agent, he’s here to tell you who needs an agent, why, and how to get one! You’ll learn exactly what it takes to develop marketable ideas, stand out in a crowded market, write a proposal any agent will snap up as well as the one thing that will get a publisher on your side regardless of your manuscript. Since 1987 Jeff has sold more than 450 titles, making him one of the most dynamic and innovative agents in the business. His own list of titles says it all: He is the author of Writer’s Guide to Book Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents: Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over! and co-author of Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 Proposals That Sold and Why! and You Can Make it Big Writing Books—all considered to be among the best tools available to writers.
www.jeffherman.com
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4:00-5:00 PM
HOT SEATS
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Light Meal and Mixer Sponsored by The Strategic Millionaire
Have fun and network!
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FRIDAY, September 19, 2003
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7:00-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
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8:00-9:30 AM
Kathi Dunn Creating the Look that Sells You and Your Products
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Kathi Dunn's national, award-winning graphic design firm specializes in book cover design and promotional materials for speakers, authors and consultants. Kathi's book cover designs consistently help self-publishers open doors and land contracts with such
publishing giants as Prentice Hall, Random House, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster. Her high-impact speaker's kit designs get the bookings with top-ranking speakers bureaus and meeting planners. Clients include Entrepreneur Magazine, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, John Edward, Ken Blanchard, Dottie Walters and a host of other fast-track authors and speakers.
www.dunn-design.com
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9:30-9:45 AM Break
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9:45-11:45 AM
Dan Poynter Electronic "Book" Writing and Publishing
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Discover the secrets to electronic writing, Web-based downloadable books, e-book readers, compact discs, printing on demand, faster print jobs, instant galleys and faster, cheaper, more effective e-promotion. Dan brings them all together in the new electronic
writing/publishing model. Manage your information assets and multipurpose your core content: Sell what you know. Dan will bring the props. Hold an e-book reader, see POD samples and get the handout containing examples and resources. Embrace the new technology, get in on Web sales, and sell your books and reports—automatically. Dan is the author of 78 books, including The Self-Publishing Manual.
www.parapublishing.com
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11:45-1:00 PM Networking Lunch
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1-2:30 PM
Joel Christopher "How To TRIPLE Your Opt-in List, DOUBLE Your
Online Profits, and Become a Best-Selling Author in Only 99 Days or Less"
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As a former physical therapist, Joel Christopher did NOT have any writing,
marketing or technical background when he started marketing online as a
'newbie' just three-and-a-half years ago. Since then, he built and grew his opt-in
email list to more than 153,000 loyal readers. At one time, he TRIPLED his list
to 30,903 subscribers in only 99 days which earned him the title "The
MasterListBuilder" and prompted him to create the best-selling audioebook "How To
Become A MasterListBuilder And TRIPLE Your List in 99 Days Or Less". His own e-mail
list helped him take his first book "Mining Online Gold With An Offline
Shovel: How To Build A Massive Online Mailing List By Mastering Offline Promotions"
to the top of the Amazon best-seller list just 13 hours after it was first
published! You'll learn from Joel's live step-by-step plan how to become a
best-selling author! http://www.MasterListBuilder.com
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2:30-2:45 PM Break
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2:45-4:00 PM
Barton Goldsmith Pull the
Real Trigger on Your Speaking
and Publishing Career
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It is about who you know! Now learn exactly how to surround yourself with a dream team of top business leaders and high-paying associations
—the people who are ready and willing to help you publish, sell your products and give you your best speaker bookings in the process. A highly sought-after international speaker and business consultant, Dr. Goldsmith writes for more than 80 publications, including the Los Angeles Business Journal. He is the best-selling author of The Millionaire Toolkit, collaborated with best-selling author Louise L. Hay on A Garden of Thoughts, was a major contributor to The Making of a Millionaire and Brothers Together, and is the author/producer of the audio books Passionate Leadership, Manager to Mentor and Effective Business Communication.
www.bartongoldsmith.com
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4:00-5:00 PM
HOT SEATS
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Light Meal and Mixer
Sponsored by
Pacific Seminars
Have fun and network!
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SATURDAY, September 20, 2003
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8:00-9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
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9:00 AM-12:00 PM Tom Antion
A Three-Pronged Attack to a 7-Figure Income
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Tom Antion is the publisher of the largest Internet publication in the world on professional public speaking, with more than 150,000 subscribers in 80-plus countries. He is the author of Click: The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Speakers and the Wake 'em Up Video Professional Speaking
System. He was the chief spokesperson for CBS-owned Switchboard.com, one of the most heavily visited Web sites in the world, in their small business outreach program "Mainstreets Online." Tom is also a veteran of more than 2,100 paid presentations to more than 87 industries worldwide. He warns that you better wear your seatbelt as he takes you through his profitable, action-packed ride through cyberspace.
www.antion.com
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12:00-1:00 PM Networking Lunch
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1:00-2:30 PM
Tami De Palma Get Mega-Millions in Free Publicity in 4 Simple Steps
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This is it ... the media insider's easy way to launch big publicity for your book. Learn the secrets that will triple your publicity—whether you know the PR basics or have never before written a media release. All this from the founder and co-partner of MarketAbility, whose single goal is to show you how to get highly targeted “Maximum Exposure” for your books through every media outlet available—for little or no cost! Tami is the pro, getting high visibility placements for her clients with the heavy hitters—Live with Regis, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Woman’s World and more. For excelling in media relations, her high-energy team recently received Infocom's Bulldog Award in Washington
DC.
www.marketability.com
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2:30-2:45 PM Break
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2:45-4:00 PM
Bart Baggett Internet Book Publishing Secrets
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Internet Book Publishing Secrets: It's all here-how to create a completely
automated, cash-in -your-sleep, internet sales machine for authors and
publishers. Based on everything he's learned by doing it for himself-and doing it
BIG-Bart reveals how he turned a bookstore failure into a $12,000 per-month cash
machine, how to get 1,000 other Web sites to promote your book online, three
easy steps to selling your e-book for 97% profit margins, and the four costly
mistakes most author websites make and how to avoid them. You'll get the inside
story on free publicity, cost-free marketing, and digital how-to's for even the
most technically impaired.
www.internetbookpublishingsecrets.com
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4:00-5:00 PM
HOT SEATS
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Open Evening
Have fun and network!
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SUNDAY, September 21, 2003
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8:00-9:30 AM
Randy Davis
How to Find
the Marketing Dollars for Your Most Explosive Growth
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You have more money than you think! And, Randy Davis is the one to help you find it. Discover your own hidden pockets of ready cash for publishing your next book, marketing your hottest ideas, turning your home office into a mega-profit center, and more! Randy Davis annually trains more than 7,000 CPAs, attorneys, investment advisors and bankers—the very industry professionals who are giving you advice. Now go right to the source! A lightning rod for simple but commonly overlooked ideas that work magic in your financial life, he has helped more than 5,000 clients on four continents make life-changing leaps in their lifestyles and careers.
www.thestrategicmillionaire.com
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9:30-11:00 AM
Elsom Eldridge, Jr
Turbocharge Your Consulting Business Now!
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Get qualified clients to call you ... instead of the other way around.
Make sure prospects recognize you as the expert in your field before they call ... instead of constantly having to “sell” yourself. Confidently do business on your terms ... and get paid top dollar! The consultant’s consultant, Elsom Eldridge gives you a complete arsenal of insights, advice, tools and shortcuts you need to quickly become known as “The Obvious Expert.” He has built leading sales organizations, is president of Mastermind Publishing and Consulting Group, best-selling author of The Consulting Encyclopedia with Howard Shenson and Maximum Success in the Consulting Business with Dan Kennedy, and a speaker at more than 10,000 seminars, boot camps and conventions.
www.obviousexpert.com
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11:00-11:15 AM Break
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11:15-12:30 AM
Dottie Walters
Corporate Sponsorship—
Three Ways to
Get Paid Big Profits
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In this exciting presentation, learn how to find corporate sponsors who will pay you to get in front of your audience.
The result? Double and triple your fees every time you speak, become a high-paid national spokesperson, get corporate fees for your youth and education presentations, get paid to give away their products
— and yours, and more! Dottie Walters, internationally celebrated speaker, best-selling author and speaking career consultant, is the creator and host of this Magnificent Marketing Symposium. She is president of Walters International Speakers Bureau, a founding member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), and founder of the International Association of Speakers Bureaus (IASB). She has been interviewed on CNN, ABC, Good Morning America and thousands of other TV and radio programs, newspapers and magazines worldwide. She has authored and produced thousands of speaker products including the globally popular book Speak & Grow Rich, published by Prentice Hall.
www.walters-intl.com
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12:30-2:30 PM Gala Brunch & Closing Program
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Schedule may be subject to change.
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