Crash with us on Sunday

Many of our patrons arrive at the conference on Saturday for better airfare and/or more relaxed travel. As a result, one of the most popular parts of the event has been our optional crash course program. Our crash courses are designed to jump-start your conference experience, offering primers on the fundamentals and on topics with which you might not be familiar. These courses carry an extra fee; they are the only part of the curriculum that is not covered by your registration fee.

Here is our tentative lineup of Sunday courses:

Building Your Presentation Business Online: You have a web site and you use social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. But are you getting the volume of leads you want from your online efforts? In this session, we will examine how to leverage some of the key tools, such as your web site, blog, video and others, to better position your services to web visitors. We will also discuss how to measure your results in order to refine your efforts. This will be a practical session with easy-to-implement steps that you can use to increase the number of qualified leads in your business. (Led by Dave Paradi)

PowerPoint Survival Skills: We know because we have asked — most PowerPoint users are undertrained. They learn the program with barely an hour of instruction, declare themselves proficient, and then spend the next untold months and years using that same limited skillset. This two-hour course will jump-start your conference experience by closing that gap and introducing you to or reminding you of several of the essential skills, techniques, and strategies that define core competency and higher understanding. There will be generous Q&A throughout the session. (Led by Rick Altman)

Building a Winning Template: Understanding how to conceptualize, organize, and build the global formats for your slides is one of the most important skills you can own as a PowerPoint user. This comprehensive course equips you with the tools, understanding, and confidence to create effective templates for yourself and for your organization. (Led by Echo Swinford)