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Saturday, December 14, 2002
Check-in: 12:30 pm; Refreshments: 12:30 pm; Program: 1:00 pm sharp!

NOTE--Location for Meeting
Cleveland Park Library, 2nd Floor, Large Meeting Room
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Wash., DC


Elevator Speech Workshop:
Does Your Elevator Speech Go All the Way to the Top Floor?
Speaker: Bob Bailey, ebiz
  • Learn to package your message into 30 seconds.
  • Get results rather than disappointment at networking events.
  • Attract the people that can help you in your business.

Returning by popular request!
Bob Bailey gave a workshop on "7 Steps to Powerful Presentations: Saying More With Fewer Words" at the March 2002 meeting of CPCUG's Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG. 

Picture this: 

  • You are at a networking event. 
  • There's a roundrobin of self-introductions going on. 
  • You are next! What do you say? 
  • Will you be remembered?
  • Will you get the results, contacts, and action you want?
  • Or will your introduction fade into the background, like so many others?
Who should attend:
  • Anyone who attends networking events to build business. 
  • Sales reps who frequently meet new prospects in social situations. 
  • Executives who want to promote their companies and products. 
  • Anyone who dreads standing up and "saying a few words about yourself." 
What you'll learn: 
  • How to set yourself apart from others. 
  • A step-by-step failsafe approach to creating the introduction. 
  • How to get their attention. 
  • How to close your introduction and get action.
How you'll profit:
  • You'll feel more comfortable.
  • You'll be remembered.
  • You'll get results from you Elevator Speech.
Speaker: A former software developer, marketing manager, and sales manager, Bob Bailey has the knowledge and experience to help high-tech business executives reach their goals by delivering polished, focused, powerful presentations. His knowledge of technospeak enables him to help the high-tech speaker translate technical jargon into language that is technically meaningful yet persuasively effective. Bob is outstanding at creating analogies, translating features into benefits, and making it meaningful for the audience. 

Bob was the Presentation Coach for the Storyboard Project (cosponsored by Interboard, the Netpreneur Program, and the George Mason University Technology Resource Alliance). He began presenting and coaching in 1978, after founding Washington Whitewater. He has been active in Toastmasters and in the National Capital Speakers Association (NCSA), and is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA). In 1996 Bob was chosen to present at NCSA's Speakers School. 

Bob Bailey's company ebiz focuses on entrepreneurs, sales executives, and systems engineers of high-tech companies. Through its workshops on the elevator speech and on communicating your core message, and through its consultation services in presentation development and in killer slide creation, ebiz helps clients develop and communicate compelling messages. Bob is also president of NewsRoute.

Bob Bailey may be reached at Bob@ebizMAX.com.


Agenda
12:30 pm
Check-In and Refreshments!
1:00 pm
Welcome & Announcements
1:05 pm
"And You Can Quote Me on That . . . "
Tax Updates & Accounting Tips, Jina Etienne, CPA
1:15 pm
Main presentation: 
Elevator Speech Workshop
Bob Bailey, ebiz
3:00 pm
Closing announcements 
3:05 pm
Informal queries, conversation, networking
Presentation Description | Speaker Information | Meeting Agenda | Location  | Registration

Saturday, December 14, 2002, 1:00 pm
Cleveland Park Library, 2nd Floor, Large Meeting Room
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
(Library open 10:00 am to 5:30 pm)
Meeting room entrance is on Newark St.--at right side of library.
2nd floor meeting room is up one flight, or use main library entrance on Connecticut Avenue and go to 2nd floor via elevator at back--then turn left and go to open door at end of hall.
(map

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. (There are many restaurants suitable for pre- or post-meeting gathering/networking/refreshment in the block north of the library.) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site

Free and open to all


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Increasing Productivity and Having Fun With Your PDA
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