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> Speakers
SpeakersPlan now on attending the joint 2010 conference with SAPA in rockin' Nashville, Tennessee at the Hilton Hotel Downtown.
We offer valuable seminars, open forums, a vendor showcase, Awards banquet, design contests, luxurious settings, and plenty of entertainment. Typical seminar topics include: sales, motivation, classified ad program development, ad layout & design, and how to compete with broadcast media.
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Landy Chase
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Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Landy Chase, MBA, CSP is a nationally prominent sales expert who specializes in increasing the effectiveness of business owners, sales executives and managers in sales and marketing skills. Since founding his company in 1993, he has given nearly two thousand paid presentations to corporate and association clients in over sixty different industries.
As a speaker with a client re-hire rate in excess of ninety percent, Landy Chase s professional qualifications rank among the top sales trainers nationally and include repeat national President s Club awards as a sales professional, formal experience as a National Sales Trainer for a two-billion-dollar service provider, and management experience directing the efforts of sales forces in both small business and major account sales.
Chase is a graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and holds an MBA from Xavier University. In July 2001 he was awarded the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association, the highest earned level of excellence in the industry and a distinction representing the top seven percent of all members of the speaking profession.
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Mike Blinder
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Mike Blinder started fresh out of college as a disc jockey, growing as an industry respected Program Director for various radio stations across the US. At this time Mike made quite a name for himself in front of the microphone being seen regularly on Public Television, as well as a host for a syndicated weekly radio interview program.
Mike later went behind the cameras and microphones to enter the advertising sales side of the business, rising rapidly to senior manager positions at TV and radio stations across the US.
It was in the early 90s that he began to work for media companies managing online sales initiatives. It was his great success in creating multimedia sales strategies that created a demand for Mike s services to consult others world wide on their offerings. Newspaper groups, radio and TV stations, even SAP software and CitiBank, have hired Mike in the past to assist them in planning effective sales strategies of their multimedia offerings.
Today over 250 media companies world-wide are clients of Mike s company: The Blinder Group, a Florida based firm that assists in maximizing sales for their clients, through effective sales training/revenue generation programs. Hearst, Media General, CanWest, Quebecor, Media News Group, Scripps, The New York Times, Regional News Group, Hindu Times, Northcliffe Newspapers and Axel Springer are just a few of the companies that avail themselves of Mike and his team of Street Fighting multimedia specialists, who are experts at training traditional sales people on how to embrace new concepts in selling media.
One of Mike s mottos is train in the car as well as the classroom, which means that Mike s company has made thousands of sales calls on small, medium and large advertisers in a 4-legged sales call setting with traditional ad reps, closing millions of dollars of new business for client media companies, all over the world!
Mike currently resides in Tampa Bay, Florida, with his wife Robin and their daughter Haven. He is an avid boater with a home overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. |
Tim Bingaman
Tim Bingaman is President & CEO of Circulation Verification Council (CVC), past recipient of SAPA s & IFPA s most prestigious awards for contribution to the free paper industry, well known speaker, and general friend to our industry.
His sessions will help you understand your audit, how your information is published on the SRDS website and in their books, the relationship with PaperChain, and help you see the numbers inside the numbers. He ll also have a printout of your publication information for you to check and modify if necessary.
The dedicated professionals at CVC audit our member publications and have unique insights that help translate those numbers into sales. Tim will help you learn how to read and translate other audits as well. Tim believes the more you understand the value of your audit, the better you ll be able to share that value with your media buyers. |
Kevin Slimp
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Kevin Slimp
If you are interested in the Graphic side of the free paper business (and honestly - who isn t?) you ll want to attend Kevin Slimp s sessions.
Most people best remember Kevin Slimp for his work leading up to the development of the PDF Remote Printing Method in the early and mid 1990s. In 1997, Kevin accepted the position of director of the Institute of Newspaper Technology, a continuing education program for newspaper publishers, designers and technical gurus located on campus at the University of Tennessee.
Since 1994, Kevin has spoken at hundreds of newspaper conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada. In addition to his work in North America, Kevin has been asked to direct a program in Eastern Europe this summer in commemoration of the rise of free press twenty years ago.
In 2006, Kevin founded BrainCast, an online training program for newspaper staffs. His syndicated column is carried by more than 60 industry publications in the U.S., Canada, Asia and Australia. He serves as Adjunct Professor in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee. |
Leroy Maughan
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LeRoy Maughan is a sought-after facilitator for the Global Speed of Trust Practice at FranklinCovey. A professional mentor and keynote speaker, his expertise is identifying, connecting and facilitating the convergence of the people, places and things of commerce in order to deliberately ful ll the purpose, intent and the desired results of those organizations employing his services. LeRoy believes that true success is a collaborative experience achieved when the entities and energies of commerce are allowed to ow in the direction of clearly de ned purpose and interchanged with the intent of mutual bene t. He believes that individual preparation, practice and willing participation are keys to being trustworthy which enhance personal performance and increase the probability of interdependent collaboration. This is a pattern for deliberately creating and sustaining desired results.
LeRoy s professional experiences are both broad and deep, helping him create an engaging and interactive mentoring style which fosters creative thinking, lively dialogue, and practical, skill-practice activities aligned with purpose, intent and results. His coaching talents have helped individuals, teams, organizations, associations and communities improve their performance and achieve their de-sired results. His client experience includes work with multinational organizations, Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, entrepreneurial startups, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and nancial institutions including: 3 M Corporation; Accen-ture, USA and Australia; Alcan Cable; Boeing; Eli Lilly; Ford Motor Company; General Motors; Hewlett Packard; Merck Pharmaceutical; Motorola; U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force; Northrop Grumman; Novartis Pharmaceutical; Texaco; TRANE, and United Auto Workers.
In addition to working with the Global Speed Of Trust Practice and FranklinCovey, LeRoy is dedicated to expanding individual and organizational wellbeing, prosperity and meaning throughout the world with WEALworks Enterprises, L.L.C., a professional development business he owns. He also achieved success as an information technology entrepreneur before joining the Covey Leadership Company in 1993 as a senior-level consultant, facilitator, trainer, and speaker. LeRoy continues to work to inspire thousands of leaders, managers and their colleagues to greater professional effectiveness and more meaningful personal contribution. He and his wife Teri reside in Lindon, Utah, close to two married children and eight amazing grandchildren.
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