Hello,

In just a few days we will be at the second annual MediaSpeak Symposium www.speakerservices.com/mediaspeak. Our excellent faculty will be showing our attendees how to get and use PR, how to create a hook or angle that will land them an interview on radio, TV and print media. The caveat of the Symposium is the Pitch Fest where our attendees can try out their two minute pitch to over 25 media folks, get feedback and maybe even get booked! This is a once a year event and it is not taped-there is still room if you can fit it into your schedule.

Are you interested in knowing how to build a visionary business, bring your soul to work, become a visionary leader, connect business and spirit, implement spirit-driven strategies? The theme of my next conference is Visionary Business: Creating Business from the Inside Out www.speakerservices.com/visionarybiz is slated for Feb 1-3. "The key questions for today's managers and leaders," writes Jack Hawley, "are no longer issues of task and structure, but questions of spirit." Not only do we all yearn for spiritually rooted qualities at work, those very qualities-integrity, character, love inspiration, faith, reverence-are key factors in an enterprise's success. James Autry writes "Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual as well as financial growth. If it doesn't then we are wasting too much of our lives on it."

Would you like to see what goes on behind the scenes in creating a 3 camera video demo? Please be my guest for the Video Demo Showcase on Sunday, November 5 in Marina del Rey, CA. We will be shooting between 17-20 folks and I still have room if you want to be shot! Perhaps you might take a look at some streaming video samples http://speakerservices.com/videoprod.html. E-mail me for the directions to the showcase susan@speakerservices.com.

By popular demand we are offering The Game, A Speakers' Bootcamp, March 9-13 facilitated by presentation, branding and media coach extraordinaire Jack Barnard. We're looking for a small group (20 maximum) of very special Peak Speakers. Experience isn't an issue. If you've been speaking for a while, great, you know what the challenges are. You've been in the Game enough to know what it's like.

Maybe you're just starting out. Great! THIS IS THE PLACE TO DO IT! The speaking industry can be very frustrating. It is critical that you step out in the right direction from the very beginning. In this highly interactive Speakers' Bootcamp you will learn how to: - Tap into your authenticity, innate creativity and spirit - Position yourself as a credible expert and get to the next level - Fire-Brand your message with a phrase that pays - Streamline your ideas into a well-organized presentation with a proven template systematic work plan and more read on http://www.speakerservices.com/services/la.html#camp.

Past attendees are saying:

Speakers' Bootcamp was the most intense and productive experience I've had in years. The benefits are far reaching. Jack Barnard is truly a wizard of communication. He is caring and attentive to everyone's needs. The Bootcamp was a major turning point in my life.
- Cairo Rocha, Acupuncturist, Author

I was hoping for a how to from the Bootcamp and what I got as a GPS for direction-an activating system which will lead me down the path.
- Marie Pletka, Psychotherapist

Speakers' Bootcamp far exceeded my expectations. I received the information and structure I needed to prepare and present myself as a dynamic speaker. Jack's warmth and humor and the energy of the group provided me with a safe space to expand my creativity and shine. Learning has never been as much fun.
- Lynda Malerstein, Hypnotherapist

By the way if you are interested in getting listed in our online directory since '94 please e mail a request for the speakers guidelines - susan@speakerservices.com and ask me about an easy payment plan for any of our events.

Enjoy the tips and book excerpts this month contributed by the faculty of the Visionary Business Conference. TGIM (Thank God It's Monday) by Rev Margaret Shepherd writes about Vision Building and Jack Barnard shares an easy to use structure for organizing your presentation while Chellie Campbell offers an excerpt from her new book From Zero to Zilionaire, Send Out Ships to Bring Home the Zillions.

Regards,
Susan Levin
Speaker Services

New & Renewing Speakers & Authors October '06
See all speakers: http://speakerservices.com

J.J. Flizanes, Author
Celebrity personal fitness trainer reveals how to manage your time, effort and waistline and make your fitness plan fit your life.
Fitness, Health, Wellness, Work/Life Balance
http://www.speakerservices.com/speakers/detail/250

Eileen Hupp
Marketing expert provides proven strategies and tactics for achieving sustainable gains in sales, profitability and customer loyalty.
Business Building, Customer Service, Sales
http://www.speakerservices.com/speakers/detail/253

Keith Ivey
America's "Amped-Up Attitude" Coach shows you how to Jump Start Tomorrow with an "Amped-Up Attitude", how to master the art of self-promotion, and how to make the woman in your life happy all (well, almost all) of the time.
Personal Development, Professional Development, Relationships
http://www.speakerservices.com/speakers/detail/178

Lisa Marie Platske
President of Upside Thinking shows how your company or organization can have it all - profits, performance and praise - maximize each employee's development, and motivate everyone to strive for excellence.
Change Management, Leadership, Motivational, Performance Management
http://www.speakerservices.com/speakers/detail/177

Morris Shamouni
Import-export magnate teaches how to buy and sell internationally without investing a dime of your own money.
Asset Protection, Entrepreneurship, Import/Export
http://www.speakerservices.com/speakers/detail/251

Kira Wagner, Author
Inspiring life coach believes "You can have it all," and shows how to find the motivation to overcome any obstacle and achieve any dream.
Business Solutions, Personal Development, Self Improvement
http://www.speakerservices.com/speakers/detail/252

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Tips & Advice

BookExpo America: Needs Speakers & Authors

BookExpo America is looking for authors to appear at the author events during next year's BEA, which will be held May 31 to June 3 in New York City. The programming includes the opening night keynote, book & author breakfasts, Saturday luncheon, Sunday night fundraiser, African American Booksellers Conference, educational panels, and various forums. The best possibilities for new or unknown authors is on the educational panels and forums. Before submitting potential talks, be sure to review the kind of talks they've featured in the past (http://www.bookexpoamerica.com).

Email Roger Bilheimer at Bilheim@aol.com for more information. The deadline for proposals is December 15th.

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Send Out Ships to Bring Home the Zillions
From Zero to Zillionaire, Chellie Campbell, chellie@chellie.com www.chellie.com

You can't just wish for money-you have to do something to make money. The merchants in London in the nineteenth century built grand, tall-masted sailing ships. They would hire a crew and provision the ships for the long sea voyage. Once the ship had sailed, the merchant could do nothing more but wait and hope for that future day when the 4ship would return, sailing into London harbor laden with treasure. On that day, the young messenger boys would shout the news, "Your ship has come in!" And that's where the expression "waiting for my ship to come in," comes from. But you can't wait for your ship to come in if you haven't sent any out! Are you a merchant, crew or passenger?

Send Out Ships to Bring Home the Zillions

You can't just wish for money-you have to do something to make money. Thinking positive is great, but chanting, "Ohmmmm, I'm-making-lots-of-money-ohmmmm..." isn't going to put money in your bank account. Setting goals is great, but it's getting goals that counts. And gets you money to count. At the Church of Religious Science, they say "Treat-and move your feet". Or pray, but row to shore. Instead of telling people to take action steps to achieve their goals, I say to "send out ships."

Lloyds of London is a 1936 film starring Tyrone Power and Freddie Bartholomew and is the story of the merchants in London in the nineteenth century, who built grand, tall-masted sailing ships. They would spend many months, sometimes years, building them. Then, whenever a ship was finally finished, the merchants would hire a crew, and provision the ships for the long sea voyage. It was an exciting day when the ship would weigh anchor, hoist her sails, and sail out of London harbor, on her way to trade for precious cargo - gold, jewels, silks, and spices - in the East Indies and other foreign ports. The trip would take many months, often years.

There were no communications lines open in those days: No ship-to-shore radio, no telegraph, no internet, no cell phones. Once the ship had sailed, the merchant could do nothing more but wait and hope for that future day when the ship would return, sailing into London harbor laden with treasure. On that day, the young messenger boys like Freddie Bartholomew played in the film would run from the docks to the merchant's offices, shouting the news, "Your ship has come in!" And that's where the expression "waiting for my ship to come in," comes from.

But you can't wait for your ship to come in if you haven't sent any out! If you haven't built ships, hired crews and launched them, waiting for your ship is going to be a very long wait. And you will probably starve to death at the dock while you're waiting. Then you'll be moaning, "Why does this always happen to me? Everyone else's ships come in but mine. Why don't I ever have any ships come in? That's the story of my life."

Sound familiar? Do you know anyone who talks like that? If you expect your fortune to come sailing in on the next tide, you had better get busy and send out some ships. Build ships! Hire crews! Chart the route! Lift the sails! Go sailing!

Are You a Merchant, Crew, or Passenger?

If you work for yourself, are an independent contractor, or own a small business, you are the merchant who builds the ships. If you are employed working in someone else's business or are the stay-at-home spouse who contributes support to the worker in the family, you are their crew. If you aren't working or paying your way in some fashion, you are a passenger - perhaps even a stowaway. Pirates are those who steal other people's ships. You need to honestly determine which of these you are, and which are the people around you. If you figure out who's who in your relationships-at home and at work - you will avoid a lot of frustration, hurt, anger, and poverty.

Every Merchant Needs a Crew

Several years ago, I was helping a young couple figure out their financial goals. One of them was clearly a merchant. Sally was very successful in her own business, and was making most of the family income. Todd, her husband had a business also, but he didn't get work very often. He said what he really wanted was to be an artist-but he wasn't doing much to make that happen, either. Sally wanted to help her husband become more successful so that they could move up the food chain. She was frustrated that he wasn't enthusiastic about working.

As I talked with them, it soon became apparent that their goals were very different. Her husband really didn't care about having more money, bigger houses, or better stuff. He was happy just the way things were. And if things didn't go well and they didn't have as much money, he'd happily adjust to a lower standard of living. That was fine with him. His goal was freedom and not having to work.

After listening to them both talk about their goals and desires, I turned to Sally and said, "I see the problem. You are treating him as though he were a merchant. But he's not a merchant. He is unwilling to send out any ships to make either of his goals happen. He doesn't want to work at this business he has, or even at the one he says he wishes he had. He's not crew, either, because he's not helping you with yours. He's a passenger."

Sally was depressed about that at first. She had to give up her dream that Todd would catch fire and enjoy working in a business. He wasn't a merchant like she was, and didn't want to be one. All her efforts to cajole, bribe, threaten, inspire or otherwise motivate him to merchant status were doomed to failure.

After recovering from her disappointment, instead of trying to get him to be what he wasn't, she took a good look at what he was. Together they looked for a crew position that would suit him. What he was really good at, and loved doing, was renovating houses. So they bought a fixer house and he happily worked on improvements that increased the value of the property. He found the work he enjoyed so that it didn't feel like work. He also started helping her more often with her work. Although he didn't have the makings of a merchant, he became a tremendously supportive hard-working crew member: First Mate!

Chellie Campbell will be speaking at the Visionary Business Conference www.speakerservices.com/visionarybiz on The Wealthy Spirit: Creating a Life While Creating a Living.