Marketing & Training Services for Speakers & Authors

The Game, Speakers' Bootcamp

facilitated by Jack Barnard with Susan Levin

No date planned for 2010

Investment: $2,500
Easy payment plan (register at bottom of the page)

Listen to Jan 09 preview Q & A Bootcamp teleclass or download the mp3

We're looking for a small group (25 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.

We are going to gather a gaggle of speakers who want to not just be financially successful, they also want to create a truly meaningful impact, they're willing to shake us up if it's necessary, they know that winning the Game sometimes means stoking and stroking, poking and provoking the audience out of their comfort zones.

You can count on this: there has never been a speakers training like this one.

"You gotta have a ticket to get in the Game, but once you're there, whadya gonna do?"

In this highly interactive Speakers’ Bootcamp you will learn how to:

- Tap into your authenticity, innate creativity and surf the present moment
- Master the message, master the media
- Command-Brand your message with a phrase that pays
- Streamline your ideas into a well-organized presentation with a proven template systematic work plan
- Select irresistible topics and titles that grab attention
- Produce presentations that captivate and attract attention and motivate action and get results
- Create a clear focus and deliver ideas effectively with confidence that inspire any audience to accept and remember your message and take action
- Hook the audience with engaging openings and memorable closings
- Discover the magical power of humor to connect with the audience
- Choose techniques for audience involvement and interactive exercises-the key to retention
- Deliver compelling stories that sell you ideas and products
- Master the business of speaking and create a powerful marketing strategy
- Design a print and electronic presentation package that attracts meeting planners to hire you
- Craft one-sheets, introductions, pre-program questionnaires, fee schedules, contract agreements, video demos
- Identify low cost marketing ideas and sources for speaking engagements to get your message into the hands of the buyers
- Build an entire product line of information products around your expertise

and

A Template that teaches you to how to design and organize your presentations

Here's the BIG BENEFIT: you will learn everything
you need to win the Game of Speaking

Graduates of the Bootcamp

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

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

Bootcamp was indeed an experience. It met my expectations and more. I left with an incredible brand and identified a plan and process for developing speeches and seminars.
- Betty LaMarr, Executive Coach

What our attendees are saying:

What happened to me in Jack’s Speakers Bootcamp
I went not knowing quite why
I flubbed a lot of exercises
And had the time of my life EJoycebc

Each day opened something new inside
Although I couldn’t tell you what

Then the day after it ended
I see who I am, what I’m doing and saying
who wants to hear it and what we all get from it!

I’m selling
a way to open your heart—to the secrets it holds
so you can fully express all your pain and your passion.
Start living each day like it’s the last one you have.

I call it Speaking From Your Heart
And we all can do it!

THANK YOU Jack Barnard and fellow beings

- Eileen Joyce, Coach

megansbc

The Bootcamp was hugely important for me and I appreciate your generosity and your genius in collaborating and coaching.

I feel so happy to have met you. I realize I've been asking for someone like you but didn't know it. Someone that could help me see the the deeper vision of myself and what I want to put out in the world.
- Megan Sillito, Coach

lorendabc

Susan Levin and Jack Barnard are brilliant, not only did I learn how to put an effective presentation together and I got a dynamite brand!
- Lorenda Phillips, Coach

KarlBC

I wanted to just say again - thank you, thank you. What a gift the past 5 days have been. Drove to San Diego with Mike - and we talked non-stop about our experiences - what a glow.

We have been in many Life Spring and human potential workshops - and we agreed, this was truly one of the most influential experiences either of us have had. I will be processing this for quite some time. Thank you, thank you.
- Karl LaRowe

I know I will have a life long business and personal relationship with Speaker Services, Susan Levin and Jack Barnard.
- Laurie Santos

The Bootcamp kicked my ass and I liked it!
-John Vosler

Doug McKee

mikecbc

I was moved to a level that I never thought I would reach.

-Mike Cylkowski

ruthbc

Susan! I just wanted to thank you again for the Bootcamp. It was a great experience and I’m so glad to know you and Jack. You are definitely on my list of “the best of 2009!” and I have no doubt you’ll have a place on the 2010 list too!!!
- Ruth Hensley, The Life Design Coach

Thank you Jack, and fellow booties for helping me dump outdated thoughts, feelings and behaviors and claiming the resourced communicator within!
- Doreen Van Leeuwen, LMFT

The Bootcamp is truly a transformational experience. Jack’s generosity with his skills, knowledge and talents helps everyone make gigantic strides in their speaking abilities.
- Raul Martinez, Mortgage Planner

We arrived seeking skills, tools and techniques, but Jack delivered a powerful bonus. He helped us connect our hearts to our material and to our audiences. Now we can truly soar!
- Reverend Margaret Shepherd, VisionBuilders Institute

Jack is the Wizard of Oz for speakers. Every person had a profound transformation and walked away with marketable branding and a solid speech foundation. Thank you Jack, for your heart and soul. We’ll take part of you with us out into the world.
- Barbara Niven, Actress, Writer, Director, Speaker

Jack takes us to our growing edge and pushes us beyond it.
- Rik Isensee, Author, Therapist

I asked God to bring people into my life that can help me reach others struggling with addictions. I truly believe Jack has moved me to the front of line.
- Darryl Hagar, Merchant Marine Officer, Author

In 5 days jack unraveled and untangled 20 years of insecurities. He took me on a journey into authenticity which (to my surprise) revealed an inner strength that I didn’t know was available.
- Angie Milhous, Speaker, Change Your B.S.

I've been through oodles and oodles of workshops and seminars and not one of them even comes close to what I took away from last weeks bootcamp. I actually have a solid foundation to work from. It's been fun telling everyone about this great experience I just came through. I'm looking forward to participating in more services you and Jack provide.
- Marlin Keesler, Author, Our Life on the Run
See Marlin's Video

More from Marlin Update
I addressed 2 different area Rotary Clubs yesterday and I have to tell you that for the 1st time I walked away from a speech knowing I nailed it right. The feedback from the audience was terrific. I had their undivided attention the entire time. Their questions told me that they were listening intently and understood my message. I picked up leads for other venues including one at a college for a fee. I must give Jack full credit for teaching me how to engage an audience. I now know how to do this.

The 2nd group was an evening club in which I brought my wife to watch. She knew something good had just happened. It was fun discussing the success of it on our way home. I told her that the connection she just witnessed between me and the audience was invisible and that these newly acquired speaking skills were a direct result of the training I received at the boot camp.

The depth and practicality of this 5-day Bootcamp was as impactful as Jack’s passion and personal genius for his topic. Thank you for setting me up as a speaker and helping me create our brand.
- Otto Siegel, Genius Coach, Author

The Bootcamp has everything I need to be a great speaker and goes into depth. I am ready to go and know what to do for the next year. Susan and Jack also bring an entire network of services and people to support me as a speaker.

- Guru Meher Khalsa, Consultant, Speaker

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

This bootcamp was about so much more than speaking and marketing. It was about trust. Trusting your knowledge; trusting your passion; trusting yourself and trusting your internal drive to obtain your own personal level of success – whatever that definition might be!
- Loren Ackerman, High Powered Publishing, Teacher, Speaker

The Bootcamp was awesome. I came in new with no knowledge of the business of speaking. I now have a brand for my business and a template that I can apply immediatedly and use for the future of my business growth.
- Larry Davidson, Hypnotherapist

The experience of camaraderie, brainstorming and community was exhilarating! I have been searching for my brand for several years and now I have it. Jack Barnard is a master trainer. I recommend him highly.
- Loree Taylor Jordan, Author, Speaker
See Loree's Video

The Bootcamp has jump started me into the speaking world. I now have the confidence to take my speaking to the next level. If anyone can get you to the next level, Jack can do it rest assured!
- Vivian Paulsen, Nouveau Riche University

I have learned so much- the information the style, techniques, humor and getting out of my comfort zone. The training was more then I expected and thanks to Susan and Jack for helping me to get to the next level so quickly.
- Julie Thong, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur
See Julie's Video

Over the years I have been challenged to bridge the space between the etheric and the material world through language. I've been speaking another language, one many do not understand yet it represents the world I live in. With Jack's expertise I am beginning to move forward into a new way of speaking about my work and best of all I clarified a brand that truly represents the work I do.

Thank you for the valuable information you have provided and presented. I know as I move forward I will continue to use the tools provided in the
course and look forward to furthering my understanding .

I recommend the Bootcamp for anyone looking to move to the next level in the speaking arena regardless of whether beginners or not.
- Sandra Saiontz, Speaker, Sacred Song

Can I say, I think I love you!!! What an amazing 5 days we booties spent with you. I am still in awe at the entire experience. You have given me so much that I can't describe it in words. I have gotten more out of this than I had anticipated. Not only did you give me the techniques to work through any speaking engagement, you and the rest of the booties have lifted my spirit and given me permission to be myself. For that, I am truly grateful!!! This is only the beginning. You will be seeing more of me soon.
- Keav Ung, Financial Planner

All I can say is Thanks!!!!!!!!
1. great Location for a camp
2. great people at this bootcamp
3. great Snacks & Beverage offered and very thoughtful
4. great information and well presented
5. great interaction
6. GREAT TEACHER!

I would recommend this to all my fellow speakers, authors and anyone who want to expand their horizons
- Charlie Scola aka PartyCharlie™, Celebrity Party Planner and Caterer, Author of
Party Planning Secrets the Ultimate Guide to a Fun and Successful Party

I started tthe Bootcamp as an absolute beginner and walked out five days later with a solid plan to move forward. Jack is a velvet fist in an iron glove. And I loved every minute of it. (Okay, I didn't love EVERY minute of it, but I loved enough minutes that in retrospect it feels like I loved every minute of it...)

I had a consultation with a new client today and I went in with the template - problem/solution/action - clear in my thought. This stuff's not just for speaking, it's for business interaction as well. I was able to use the p/s/a to structure my conversation and I found it easy to stay on track. Keeping the end in mind I knew what questions to ask and many creative solutions came to me.
- Lisa Ehrenberg, Lisa Ehrenberg Designs

The Facilitators:

Jack Barnard
In the speaking and presentation culture, Jack Barnard is a maverick and an iconoclast. He has over thirty years experience in the presentation training business; he has a deep, eclectic background as a writer, playwright, performer, speaker; he has facilitated over 350 events throughout the world in his signature technique — SourceWork — a playful method of dynamic expression…and he thinks that the speakers' arena holds the highest potential for impact on our planet.

He also thinks that most speeches & presentations don't scratch the surface of that potential.

Susan Levin is an international marketing consultant and founder of Speaker Services. She offers advice and marketing strategies guaranteed to dramatically increase your income and success in speaking.

She has helped thousands of business professionals grow their businesses through speaker.

Message from Jack Barnard about the GAME

There are two parts to the speaking universe, what we will call: a) The Ticket & b) The Game.

If you don't have a Ticket, you can't get in the Game, so you don't get a chance to be with an audience and do your magic. (And you definitely have no chance of winning the Game!)

• THE TICKET… This is anything and everything that it takes to get you the speaker in front of your eager audience.

Which includes:
√ Branding…
If we the people don't know what is truly different and profound about you, we're not going to show up. (And even if we do, we're not primed.) You better expertly seduce us with your uniqueness in your promotional material before we get together or, well, we're pretty busy and a lot of people are vying for our attention.

Good branding is a shortcut for your various audiences. It helps them see not just what is unique about you and your message, it provides a consistent and vital window into the heart of your matter. Good branding — fire-branding — is not just what you call what you do, but the compelling conversation that follows and the convincing dialogue that follows the compelling conversation.

√ Promotional Material…
To get a great Ticket, at a minimum, you need riveting one-sheets, and eventually a masterful presentation package — all designed in such a way to knock us off our cans. (And of course, a professional video demo, but that's a subject for further study.)

The meeting planners and others who can book you know what excites them. Do you?

√ Juicy, Goosey, Seducee Language (call it Media Training if you're more comfortable with that)…
Every speaker — EVERY SPEAKER — needs to be sound-bit. Every speaker needs to tweak the way they verbalize content. Every speaker needs to know how to excite us in a sentence, in 5 sentences, in a minute, in an hour. Speakers need to retrain themselves so that they way they communicate is intriguing: elicits feeling, paints a picture. Bottom line: Be juicy!

Here's why media training:
1) Eventually — or if you're lucky, sooner — you want to be interviewed by all kinds of media — print, radio, TV, et al. You and deserve it, and it's the way to get your message out there.

2) More importantly, we-the-people have been trained in sound-bite language. That's what we get in our commercials, our news programs, our interview segments. We like to be talked to this way and we get antsy when we're not.

√ Marketing Strategy
Believe it, you can have absolutely everything else together — you're well-branded, you have great material, advanced presentation skills, etc. — if you don't have a well thought out, focused marketing strategy, you're dead in the water. It's like all the self-published authors who ended up with garagefuls of unsold books. What a waste. It's so important that Susan has made speaker marketing her singular specialty for over a decade.

√ Speech Structure
An ecstatic audience experience should be structured in the way the audience best absorbs it. Instead, we speakers often give too much information and not nearly enough engagement.

Peak Speakers need to involve us. Peak Speakers don't just teach us, they touch us. You need to organize your material so that it:
1) Enrolls us in the problem/challenge/dilemma before you go on to your great solution. (After all, you are a problem solver.)
2) Gives us just a few points to ponder. Think in threes. Think: simple, but profound.
3) Makes your point, then demonstrates with a story (every great speaker is a great storyteller) that makes it about us.
4) Engages us. (Get us to say or do something about your material. Involve us!)

• THE GAME…You've got your Ticket, there you are in front of an audience. The audience is primed, they've read your promo material, they've seen you networking or being interviewed, they like the way you talk about your stuff, they're hooked on your fire-branding, they bought into your marketing strategy. The Game is on, what does the audience want?

They want a grand slam, a slam-dunk, a hat trick, and a game-breaker. They want to be led, they want to be surprised, and they want to be inspired to their greatness. They want a life-changing experience.

To do that, you have to know how to create an authentic, energizing, over-the-wall-of-their-comfort-zones relationship. You have to connect and go deep. They want to be set free!

√ Connection.
A profound, authentic energy exchange. Communion. Rapport. We want connection, not perfection. Connection depends on taking all the attention off you and giving it to the audience. Connection depends on letting an audience in.

You can't fake it. Audiences know it, even if they can't explain it. You can bring us the best, beautifully branded, bonsai material and if you're in your head with it, if it's not encoded, if message and messenger aren't on the same page, thanks for your time, we may give you high ratings, but we get to go back to our lives, our old habits, our out-dated beliefs.

√ The Deepest Truth.
Of course, you first have to know it yourself. If you want to get to us, you better be willing to rock the boat now and then. You can't play it safe. You can't always be PC and bring us the deep, profound truth that can set us free. Too many speakers are more interested in getting 5's on their audience ratings than they are in making an audience uncomfortable now and then. Let's be clear here: getting all 5's doesn't mean you won the Game — it usually means you didn't.

You win the Game if your audience takes the experience with them and it won't go away.

FORM

In THE GAME:
1) You will learn: how to get a Triple E (Entertainment, Education, and Engagement) Ticket and how to absolutely win the Game.

2) You will work: From 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, with breaks and working meals, 5 days straight. The Game will be incredibly interactive, so if you prefer to sit back and "learn about speaking" don't enroll. Everyday the Players will roll up their sleeves, learning principles, practicing, trying them our, working in teams, in pods, one in front of the others, practicing, presenting, practicing, presenting, learning, practicing, presenting…

Here's how it will happen. We will dive into each area of The Game, but the thrust of our approach will depend on the participants. Let's say that you have pretty good promotional materials but are weak in branding. You will be appropriately teamed so that you can focus more on the weaknesses of your game. The group will be small enough that — as we move through the different themes — we'll be able to customize.

This is a wake up, an intensive, training. We will dive deep into each module.

On two of our five evenings together, guest speakers will present their signature speech material to us, not just for entertainment's sake, but so that we can absorb, critique and learn from their efforts.

On one of the evenings, there will be a speakers' surprise.

On the other two evenings, we'll be playing the Game.

Do you want to play the Game?

Your Investment $2,500
Lmtd to 25 attendees

Payment Plan Options:

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Refunds and Cancellations
All requests for refunds must be made in writing. A refund check, minus a $50 processing fee, will be issued for all cancellation requests postmarked on or before 21 days of the event . No refunds will be made for requests 20 days before the event.

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