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2008 NSA Convention Session List
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PLEASE NOTE: NSA members applying for their CSP designation are required to attend or listen to the recordings of the professional competencies session and business ethics session. These required sessions for CSP Applicants at the 2008 Annual Convention were: 122 Understanding the Professional Competencies and Session 057 Really, I Didn't Mean To! Recognizing and Reducing Costly Ethics Risks You Never Knew Existed.
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Conference Set
General Sessions
 August 2, 2008 - Professional Experts Group (PEG) Sessions
 August 3, 2008
 August 3, 2008 - Concurrent Sessions
 August 4, 2008
 August 4, 2008 - Concurrent Sessions
 August 5, 2008
 

Conference Set

COM-DVD  Complete DVD Set Package 
CON  Full Compilation Conference Set 
GS  General Session Audio CD Set 
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General Sessions

001  Saturday Opening General Session: From Barrister to Broadcast News: Challenging Yourself to Speak With Courage and Heart / Shake it Up! What the Beatles Can Teach Us About the Speaking Business   
002  Sunday General Session: What Got You Here Won't Get You There   
003  Sunday Luncheon General Session: Recipes for the Remarkable: Lessons You Can Use to Build Your Business and Leverage Your Life From the Titans of Business, Sports and Entertainment   
004  Monday General Session: The Economy and Elections - What Now?   
005  Monday Luncheon General Session: What Can a Speaker Learn From a Rock Star?   
006  Tuesday Closing General Session: The Art of Leadership / Speaking of Success: A Basic Black Guide to the Circle of Life   
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August 2, 2008 - Professional Experts Group (PEG) Sessions

007  Business Coaching: How to Increase Your Revenue Stream by Adding Coaching to Your Practice   
008  Educators: Help! How Do I Get Through To Them?   
009  Seminar/Workshop Leaders / Facilitators: Building Incredible Credibility   
010  Storytellers: The Nine Questions Your Story Must Answer For Your Client's Bottom Line Concerns   
011  Health & Wellness: Express Yourself With Flair: Increase the Speed With Which You Succeed   
012  How to Create Effective Humor for Speeches, Remarks and Presentations - Even if You Were Born Without the "Comedy Gene"   
013  Writers & Publishers: How to Successfully Publish Your Book   
014  Consultants: A View From the Other Side of the Desk: Former Hearst CEO Tells Consultants What You Need to Know   
015  Diversity: Your Business Worldwide Emerging Global Issues in Diversity   
016  Motivational/Keynote: Why Settle for the Balcony? How to Have a Front-Row Seat in Your Speaking Career!   
017  Sales Experts: Rock Your World by Tremendously Growing your Business   
018  Cavett Institute   
019  Professional Staff Program: World's Best Copywriting Secrets   
021  How to Earn Your CSP   
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August 3, 2008

023  Partner Session: Secrets of Successful Speaker/Partner Pairs: Part I   
024  Live in Concert: Women Who Rock   
025  Staff Session: Selling at Full Fee -- How to Ask For Your Price and Get It   
026  Staff Session: Rock Your Speaker's World!   
027  Exclusively for CSP/CPAEs: YOU The SPEAKER-Reinvent? Replace? Retire?   
121  You Can Always Get What You Want: Rock Your Convention Return on Attendance (ROA) Part II   
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August 3, 2008 - Concurrent Sessions

028  What's So Funny? How NYC's Best Stand-up Comedians Get Their Material   
029  What the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Knows That You Don't: How to Develop a Purposeful Product Philosophy   
030  Selling to the Corporate Market: The Who, What and How of It   
031  All Hits, All the Time With Web 2.0: Turn Your Content Into Top 40 Hits When You Use Web Technology the Right Way   
032  Isn't It Time to Do Something About Your Media Exposure? Use the Media to Get Bookings, Sell More Products and Increase Your Fees   
033  Crafting and Delivering Defining Moments   
034  Rock and Roll Never Forgets...Do You? Change Your Mind With Techniques on How to Shape and Retain Memories   
035  Hot Sizzling Copy That Converts Prospects Into Purchasers: Learn Why Traditional Marketing Methods Don't Work!   
036  Speaking From the Inside Out: Finding Your Speaker Voice   
037  Speak for a Living, Invest for a Life! It's Not the Amount You Earn, But What You Do With it That Determines Your Quality of Life   
038  From Cold Call to Bold Call: How to Win the Keynote Booking War!   
039  Life is Far Too Short: What Are We Waiting For?   
040  Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog -- How a Frog Was Kissed and Became a Prince   
041  Everyday Secrets for Staying Booked Everyday   
042  Live in Concert: The Legends   
043  Is There Value Beyond The Words You Speak?   
044  Building Your Business: You Can Make it Happen!   
045  From Back of Room to Front of Store: Growing Your Business With a Book   
046  How to Make "You" a Brand as Big as Kodak!   
047  Why Should We Book You? A Backstage Tour Into the Minds of the People Who Hire Speakers   
048  Masterminds Rock Businesses: Seven Keys to Make Them Effective and Enduring   
049  Guerrilla Publicity for Speakers   
050  Growing Your Speaking Business Through Corporate Sponsorships   
052  Do You YouTube™? Get LinkedIn® to the New Internet   
053  Managing Your Productivity With Microsoft Outlook®   
054  How to be a Sales Rock Star! Tired of Being the Opening Act? Learn How to Get Booked for Center Stage   
055  From Platform to Print: How to Write and Publish Your Signature Story   
056  So You Think You Need A Virtual Assistant? Tips for Transition and Taking your Business to the Next Level   
057  Really, I Didn't Mean To! Recognizing and Reducing Costly Ethics Risks You Never Knew Existed   
058  Melting Pot or Tossed Salad? How to Rock Your Audience When They Are Diverse But Your Topic is Not   
059  Building Alliance With Meeting Planners: How to Enhance Your Speaking Career With MPI   
060  Public Seminars That Ring Profit! Your Guide to Establish Audience Hospitality   
061  Tools of the Trade: Managing Your Office for Higher Profits   
062  Image Rocks! Harness Your Visibility! Increase Your Profitability!   
063  Lights. Camera. Action! Maximizing Your On-Camera Performances   
064  Global Business Models That Work - an IFFPS Production   
065  Exhibit Like an Expert: Bling Your Booth, Maximize Your Marketing and Turn Your Product Display Into a Powerful Profit Center at Tradeshows, Conventions or After You Speak   
066  Red, White, and YOU! Discover How Selfless Service to a Cause Greater Than Yourself Can Impact Your Business--and Your Life--More Than You Ever Imagined   
067  Gender-Based Presentation and Selling Secrets: Using Male/Female Instinct to Get Buy-In From Your Audiences   
068  Who Moved My Market? What the Latest--and Permanent--Changes to the High-Fee Marketplace Mean to Your Business   
070  The First 30 Seconds: Rock Their World...and Then Some!   
071  TECH TRACK: Are You LinkedIn®? Leverage Social Networking to Double Your Business and Prepare in Half the Time   
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August 4, 2008

072  Exclusively for CSP/CPAEs: Become the Easiest Speaker to Find Online! Learn How to Achieve First Page Search Engine Presence Using the FindAbility Formula™!   
073  Exclusively for CSP/CPAEs: Are You Smarter Than A CEO?   
074  Partner Session: Secrets of Successful Speaker/Partner Pairs: Part II   
075  Staff Session: Information Strategies For Your Business - Using Microsoft Outlook 2007® With Business Contact Manager   
076  Staff Session: How To Make Your Speaker a "Fav Five" With Bureaus   
077  Staff Session: Blogs, Pods, and E-zines, Oh My! Understanding and Using Technology to Market Your Speaker on the Internet   
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August 4, 2008 - Concurrent Sessions

079  What It Really Takes to Make It as a Professional Speaker -- Revisited   
080  Computer, Devices and Networks...Oh My! Going Digital as a Mobile Professional   
081  The Secrets to Getting Published in America   
082  Story Tell, Story Sell: Sales Through Storytelling   
083  Rock Your Speaking Business! Dominate Your Market With Multiple Programs, Presentations, Products and Promotion   
084  Brand Like a Rock Star: Think Mick Jagger, Discover What it Takes to Reach Celebrity Status in Your World   
085  PowerPoint® That Rocks! Five Steps to Creating Persuasive Visuals   
086  You Got Fear? Fehgeddaboutit! Rising Above the Mashugana to a Great Speaking Career!   
087  Live Animation: Creating Characters That Make Your Stories Rock   
088  Your Million Dollar Voice: Why the Voice You Were Born With Isn't the Voice You Were Stuck With!   
089  Small Group Success: How to Present High-Energy Workshops to High-Powered CEOs   
090  Craft Like a Comic, Sell Like a Speaker©   
091  Reinventing a Speaking Career: Repurposing, Refreshing, Retrenching   
092  Live In Concert: The Young Guns   
094  It's Not Who You Know--It's Who Knows YOU! Building Your Speaking Business by Building Your Brand   
095  How to Find Your Power Voice: Secret Strategies to Connect With and Motivate Any Audience   
096  Innovate or Perish: The Traveling Wilburys Did It, So Can You! Ten Tips for Improving Your Business Strategies   
097  The Rock Star Speaker: How to Stand Out, Market and Perform Like a Rock Star   
098  The 4-Hour Workweek: Hitting #1 on New York Times and Creating a Global Phenomenon With Social Media   
099  Humor Lab: Humor Me--It's All About You   
100  How I Got My Podcast to Number One on iTunes Health and How You Can Do The Same   
101  Great Idea! Become the Go-To Resource for Media, Meeting Planners and Audiences   
102  The Art of Being Related: How to Have Meeting Planners Lined Up at Your Door   
103  Rev It Up Reading: Getting Up to Speed With What You Read   
104  How To Say What You Do So People Actually Want You To Keep Talking   
105  Thriving as the Association Speaker of Tomorrow   
106  How I Sold One Book 24 Times in 20 Different Languages and Other Foreign Rights Triumphs: Growing Your International Publishing and Speaking Careers   
107  Rock Your Presentation With Interactivity: How to Use Interactive Activities in Your Presentation to Drive Home Your Message and Make It Stick   
108  TECH TRACK: Traffic to Conversion—Creating Global Brand Equity   
109  Campaign Rhetoric 2008 — What's Working and What We Can Learn About Influencing Audiences   
110  Own the Podium: Sell $250,000 of Products and Services Per Year by Giving Two Free Talks Per Month   
111  Three Top Secrets to Easily Making a Six-Figure Income as a Speaker   
113  Your Keynote is Not a Workshop! 10 Blunders to Avoid on the Platform   
115  How to Build Your Speaking Empire for Higher Profits!   
116  Help Me Hire You: 21 Surefire Strategies From a Speaker-Turned-Planner   
117  Black Belt Negotiating: Overcoming Price Objections   
118  Motivate This! Two Native New Yorkers Show You How to Perfect Your Style   
119  How Should I Market Myself? Six Common-Sense Steps to Help You Make a Living Making a Difference!   
120  TECH TRACK: Create Marketing Gravity on the Web—How to Build a Powerful Internet Presence   
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August 5, 2008

122  Understanding the Professional Competencies   
22  You Can Always Get What You Want: Rock Your Convention Return on Attendance (ROA) Part I   
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