and appearing via SKYPE:

David Perozzi

2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

John Assaraf

Featured Expert in The Secret and bestselling author

JOHN ASSARAF teaches you how to:

Master the Inner Game of Success to Become a Bestselling Author!

What would your life be like if you could accomplish anything – and everything – you want? Would you buy a bigger house? Would you start your own business? Would you take a year off and travel the world? John Assaraf’s life-changing teachings will show you that anything you desire is possible. Do you have bad habits standing in between you and success? You may not even know it, but your habits are funneling away precious resources and keeping you from your aspirations. Join New York Times best-selling author John Assaraf as he shares the experiences of his writing career, from writing fundamentals to publishing pitfalls to marketing tips and more. John is full of great insights and information for  any author, speaker or entrepreneur, regardless of whether you're just in the idea stage or even if you're already a pretty advanced marketer.  During this inspiring session John Assaraf will cover:

• How he “masterminded” the success of his books

• The mindset you need to become a bestselling author

• What most people don't understand about the Law of Attraction and how it helped him get on Oprah, hit the New York Times Best Seller List and more!

• Why knowledge and skill do not create wealth and bestselling books

• How to achieve success with less effort and stress

John Assaraf is a two time New York Times bestselling author of Having it All and The Answer. His passion for “The Inner Game of Success” has landed him as a frequent guest on Larry King Live and major TV and Radio shows worldwide. John is one of the featured experts in the movie “The Secret” which he helped launch into a worldwide phenomenon and was also in the made for TV special “Quest for Success” with the Dali Lama and Richard Branson. In the past 24 years, he grew his real estate company Re/Max of Indiana to 76 offices and 1400 salespeople and he enjoyed a highly successful NASDAQ IPO during the internet heyday with Virtual Tour startup Bamboo.com. Today, his company OneCoach, consults business owners on how to significantly increase revenues and profits by integrating the right mindset with a SmartGrowth process for predictable lead generation and sales.

2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Nancy Duarte

Business Owner, award-winning Author and Renowned Presentation Expert

That Resonates with Me!

How to Persuade Any Audience

If you say "I have an idea for something," what you really mean is "I want to change the world in some way." You might not be able to change the entire world, but what is "the world" anyway? It is simply all of the ideas of all our ancestors. Look around you. Your clothes, language, furniture, house, city, and nation all began as visions in other minds.

Presentations are the currency of business communications and those who master communicating with them rise faster than their peers, reach more customers than their competitors, and turn causes into a groundswell.

Bestselling author and persuasion expert Nancy Duarte, will demonstrate how to apply the methods in her book Resonate: Presenting Visual Stories That Transform Audiences, to build meaningful connections with audiences that compel them to action. Her groundbreaking work details a new way of structuring a presentation and connecting with an audience.

Changing the world starts with transforming an audience and an audience will only change if you resonate with them.

In this session, you will learn:

• Leverage the hidden story structures inherent in great communication 

• Connect with your audience empathetically 

• Create captivating content 

• Craft ideas that get repeated 

• Inspire enthusiasm and support for your vision

Since 1988, Nancy Duarte's firm has created over a quarter of a million presentations. She also was the one who changed the slides Al Gore had originally into the documentary slide show known as An Inconvenient Truth. As one of the largest woman-owned businesses in Silicon Valley, her experience working with global companies and thought leaders has influenced the perception of some of the world's most valuable brands and many of humanity's common causes: Apple, Cisco, Food Network, Facebook, GE, Google, Al Gore, HP, Nokia, TED, Twitter, and World Bank. Fascinated by presentations as the most powerful persuasive medium, she determined to crack the code on why some presentations are riveting and others are unbearable, in Fall 2010 she released Resonate-Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences which identifies hidden story structures inherent in great communication. In 2008 she authored the award-winning book slide:ology-The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations where over 20 years of experience was distilled into visual communication best practices. www.duarte.com

2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Neil Strauss

Bestselling Author of Multiple Titles

Selling Your Book & Creating a Legacy

How to Create the Ultimate Relationship and Build Lifelong Trust with Your Reader

Neil Strauss is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including The Game, Rules of the Game, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You when You’re Dead. He is also the coauthor of Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Mötley Crüe's The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell. He was a columnist and reporter at The New York Times, and has written award-winning cover stories for Rolling Stone.

With nearly 10 million books in print, you’ll walk through Neil’s personal philosophy, publishing process and experience:

• How Neil’s managed to produce 7 NY Times Bestselling books with ZERO PROPOSALS and how proposals actually HURT YOU

• Why advances are overrated and how Neil feels they can SABOTAGE your career

• How to create a compelling book on any topic that readers can’t put down

• How to create a compelling book – without compromise

• Learn Neil’s proofreading secrets. These are things no writer, and make the difference between success and failure

• How to successfully navigate the pitfalls of the editing and publishing process – before, during, and after a book is written

• How to deal with negativity and success, and how to avoid fatal mistakes that can cost you your career

• Neil’s personal list of media “do’s and don’ts”

• How to create a social media strategy that requires little work or time

• Why your reader’s trust and relationship is more important than anything

• How to build, nurture and enjoy the relationship with you reader

• How to land a best-selling book without doing any marketing, promotion, or publicity work yourself.

Whether you’re writing a memoir, autobiography, how-to, personal-development, spirituality, business or fiction book, you won’t be able to put your pen down as you take notes to Bestselling author, Neil Strauss, as he, for the first time, walks you through the entire publishing, writing, and promotional process.

Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game, Rules of the Game, and Emergency. He is also the coauthor of three other New York Times bestsellers--Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Mötley Crüe's The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell--as well as Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. His latest book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, collects the 228 of the best, craziest, and most soul-baring moments from his adventures with musicians, celebrities, and icons while writing cover stories for Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Neil began his writing career at the age of 11, when he wrote his first book and mailed it to a dozen publishing companies. He never received a response. Unfazed by rejection, he kept writing, almost to the point where his life was consumed by it. He became a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a staff writer for The New York Times.  Strauss lives in Los Angeles and can be found at www.neilstrauss.com

2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

David Pedrozzi

Award-Winning Journalist

Tips on How to Get Booked on National TV

Learn the Ins and Outs of How a Producer Thinks!

<<via SKYPE>>

 
Ever dream of seeing yourself on The View, Anderson Cooper or Ellen? Of course you do because a talk show would give you the visibility to launch your business, book, product or cause to the next level of success!

David Perozzi, is a 20- year acclaimed veteran of news programs and television producing and he’s going to share with you insider knowledge on how a producer thinks and makes decisions when booking guests.  He'll tell you how you can be discovered by TV producers, find a place in their Rolodex and get your idea or story on the tube!

During this invaluable session you will learn:

• Assess what producers look for in an expert guest

• What makes an expert stellar and what makes a producer cringe

• Tailor what you are "selling" to current events

• The 1 mistake you must never make

• How to write a pitch letter that will wow the producers

David Perozzi is an award-winning Journalist with 20 years of media experience.  He is one of the first hires who helped to launch the new Anderson Cooper Daytime Talk Show. David has already tape-produced numerous hours for Anderson Cooper and his new daytime talk show. He has reported breaking news stories, social issues, celebrities, health care stories and politics. David built his stellar career as a TV Journalist at ABC News and NBC News. He has produced for Good Morning America anchor Diane Sawyer, Nightline anchor Cynthia McFadden and a host of other ABC correspondents. He also worked extensively with NBC Today Show anchor Al Roker. David is three-time Emmy nominated for his continuous coverage of 911, an organ donor story and a story about a fraudulent church minister. He has won five Cine-Golden Eagle Awards for his coverage on domestic sex trafficking; two reports on the failing foster care system; a story about a woman who’s husband was poisoning her; a teenager held captive by her family as a slave; and his interview with legendary superstar Cher. He has also won numerous other Journalism awards including a Gracie Allen Award and an American Legion Heart of America Award. His celebrity reporting includes exclusive interviews with Madonna, Amy Grant, The Dixie Chicks, Cher, Carly Simon, Tony Bennett, Celine Dion and Russell Crowe. He began his career with ABC News in 1988 as a college graduate who moved to New York City from his hometown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With his hard work-ethic, enthusiasm and endless curiosity, David secured a position as Researcher for all of ABC News programs.  In 2008, David launched a CNBC-TV energy segment, “Powering The Planet,” where he managed a team of people reporting on alternative power and green issues. Today, he is a contributing Producer to NBC News.

Our  2010 Keynote Speakers

| copyright 2009 | contact: events@jessieschwartzburg.com | 760-544-3710 |