Attention Professional Speakers, Consultants, and Business Professionals!
Accelerate Your Career to the Next Level... and Have a Blast Doing It!
Join Alan Weiss, Ford Saeks and Sam Horn for three days of strategy/tactic implementation and accelerated networking in beautiful Key West, Florida
This event was amazing last year and will be even better this year. If you are a professional speaker, consultant, or business professional and you can afford the trip, it will be worth every penny you invested!
Mark Your Calendar: December 1-3, 2010
If you missed the Key West event put on by the Cigar PEG in December 2009, no worries. Ed will be hosting a repeat performance in Key West in December 2010—but with a different twist. The event will no longer be held by the Cigar PEG Charity, but will now be a commercial venture of Rigsbee Enterprises, Inc.
You’ll learn from three incredible speakers, mentors, and content experts and have access to them for three days—something of priceless value. If you are up to it, the instructors at this advanced event will rock your world with new ideas, how those ideas will work for you, and how to implement for success. This event is designed for professionals that want to make things happen. If that's you, and you can afford to be part of this, then sign up now!
If you believe that now is the time to push your business to the next level or you are considering repositioning your business; this is the singular 2010 event for you. Ed Rigsbee is bringing together three brilliant content experts that together will both empower you and give you the tools necessary for your career and business acceleration. What a great opportunity to review your 2010 performance and plan for an accelerated 2011.
This Advanced Mastermind event is designed to assist professional speakers, consultants, solo practitioners, and small business owners to accelerate their careers and businesses. Key West is the ideal setting for this unique mastermind event because of the casual atmosphere enabling intimate learning and networking.
Enjoy morning educational sessions and afternoon casual mastermind networking, along with group lunches Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Continental breakfast in the event room will help to facilitate networking as will the amazing group dinner on Wednesday evening. Want to bring your spouse or significant other? You should because registration for them is half-price!
This advanced school is like no other event you've attended: awesome education in a relaxed atmosphere where you can actually digest and implement what you have learned. Are you up to it? And what's also unique is that you'll have access to the instructors during your chill time.
For your competitive advantage, what you really need is a tweak to set your career on an improved trajectory. The intimate networking with upper-level speakers and consultants make that possible at this powerful event. Be sure to join us December 1-3, 2010 because you just might discover your next million dollar idea from an instructor or participant at the Key West Advanced Speaker - Consultant Mastermind Event.
Reasons Why You'll Want to be in Key West December 1-3, 2010
When you attend the December Advanced Speaker Event in Key West you'll:
- Experience an intimate learning environment, surrounded by competent resource experts, that is very well suited for helping you to develop your 2011 business plan and implementation strategy.
- Gain insight for your business strategy and strategy implementation with guidance from Alan Weiss, the consultant’s consultant. Several speakers have, at the Cigar PEG auctions, spent $10,000+ dollars for a day with Alan. All have been pleased with their return on investment. You can access Alan for just the cost of registration—less than a fourth of what others have paid.
- Learn powerful marketing and business growth strategies and get your questions answered by Ford Saeks. A number of speakers have, at the Cigar PEG auctions, paid $10,000+ dollars to secure Ford’s Internet marketing expertise and services. Every one that has taken advantage of their purchase has received a substantial return on their investment. You can access Ford for a fraction of what others have paid.
- Build long-term collegial relationships with other high-level speakers for later access and mentoring.
- Discover how to create a one-of-a-kind marketing message that makes your business stand out while spending time with Sam Horn. At the recent Cigar PEG, three upper-level speakers paid $11,000 each to spend a half-day with Sam. You can spend several days with her at the Key West Westin for less than one-fourth of what others paid in Orlando.
- Have access to three of America's top "speaker business" consultants. Gain casual access, share meals, and lounge in the sun with Alan Weiss, Ford Saeks, and Sam Horn. This is your opportunity to tap their collective wells of knowledge.
- Get the upper edge on your competition by participating in hot seats!
Individual Registration: $2,500
Individual plus Spouse: $3,750
There will be no refunds. However, transfers will be allowed.
Three Days. Three Powerful Speakers. Millions of Dollars Worth of New Ideas You Can Easily Implement for Success.
For three days you have an opportunity to hang with and learn from the faculty—Alan Weiss, Ford Saeks & Sam Horn. You won't find another place in the country where these kinds of high powered people get together, not just in front of the room, but throughout the room. Invest in yourself and in the future of your business and get your butt to Key West for an amazing event you’ll never forget.
This is the place to get away and learn. For early registrants, there will be "hot seat" opportunities available to snatch up. These hot seats are truly for those that can accept honest feedback and are looking to get the upper edge on their competition. Each speaker will include three "hot seats" during their half-day presentations. These are amazing, possibly once in a life time, opportunities for you to accelerate your career and business.
Alan Weiss—How to Raise Your Fees, Sell More Assignments and Deliver Results
Ed welcomes Alan Weiss back to Key West for a repeat (extended) performance. Alan will help you to kick off your incredibly valuable journey of discovery. He is legendary in the consulting and professional speaking industries for his ability to help solo practitioners to raise their fees, sell more assignments, and deliver results.
During Alan's presentation, you'll learn about his new approaches to Thought Leadership from his October 2010 conference at The Breakers, with thought guru, Marshall Goldsmith as his guest. You will also not only walk away with the best ideas from Alan Weiss' Million Dollar Club, which convenes November 2010 in Bora Bora, but you also get Alan Weiss' two newest books, Million Dollar Speaking and Million Dollar Coaching.
Watch Alan Weiss talk about Key West 2010
About Alan Weiss
Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc. has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, and over 500 other leading organizations.
He is an inductee into the Professional Speaking Hall of Fame® and the concurrent recipient of the National Speakers Association Council of Peers Award of Excellence, representing the top 1% of professional speakers in the world. His prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 40 books, including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting (from McGraw-Hill). His newest are Million Dollar Speaking (McGraw-Hill) and Million Dollar Coaching.
He is interviewed and quoted frequently in the media. His career has taken him to 55 countries and 49 states. Success Magazine has cited him in an editorial devoted to his work as “a worldwide expert in executive education.” The New York Post calls him “one of the most highly regarded independent consultants in America.”
Ford Saeks—Web 2.0 and Beyond: Using the Internet and Social Media to Create a Profitable Information Marketing Empire
Ford Saeks, known for his Internet marketing genius, will also be returning for the 2010 Key West Event. He’ll share with you unique strategies you can use to leverage the Internet, monetize your social media marketing efforts, and create a profitable information marketing empire from new products, speaking, training and consulting deals. If you’re a professional speaker, author or consultant and you want to learn what it takes, you need to make it to this event. This will be the last time he’s presenting his insider information in a form like this.
In Key West, last December, Ford explained to me how my Internet strategy was three years old (I had lost first page ranking on my most important search terms) and therefore obsolete. I made the changes he suggested at my web site and within two weeks I was back on top in organic Google searches!
– Ed Rigsbee
Watch Ford Saeks talk about Key West 2010
About Ford Saeks
Ford is the publisher and mastermind behind Randy Gage’s and several other CSP’s, CPAE’s internet marketing efforts, websites and events—and hosts of other well known professional speakers.
Ford not only talks about Information & Internet Marketing solutions, he lives them daily. Starting with his first corporate site in 1993—to today having over 300 sites bringing in millions of sales each year—he has the experience and expertise to make you rich!
Starting from the idea stage through to fruition, Ford’s unique skills in information marketing make him a highly sought resource for those looking for the real deal in this business. He has helped thousands of people dramatically improve their Internet investment in the three critical areas of website Design, eCommerce and Internet Marketing. He’s made many of the mistakes so you don’t have to… You’ll learn, grow and profit from his experiences and those of his many clients.
Sam Horn—Pop! Your Business, Brand, Speaking and Consulting Career
Sam Horn will help you to create a one-of-a-kind marketing message that helps your ideas and offerings break out instead of blend in is precisely how to brand your innovation. Here's the description...
There are thousands of speakers, topic experts and management consultants across the country.
What are you doing to stand out? In tough times and in a crowded marketplace, no one can afford to stick to what and how you know. That's a prescription for blending in. and blending in is for Cuisinarts, not for consultants.
In Sam's rollicking, hands-on "Intellectual Disneyland" session you’ll brainstorm/strategize YOUR USP (Unique Strategic Positioning) so you become one-of-a-kind (vs. one-of-many).
You'll workshop your area of expertise and create content, marketing approaches and an innovative platform delivery that help you become THE go-to resource on your topic.
A sampling of the ideas you'll be covering in your time with Sam include how to:
- Crystallize an Umbrella Brand® so all your business activities have multiple pay-offs.
- Corner a niche with a NURD® (New Word) you can trademark and turn into a financial empire.
- Create "have 'em at hello" sound-bites that compel media and meeting planners to contact you.
- Describe what you do in a clear, compelling elevator story intro so people say, "Tell me more."
- Differentiate yourself from competitors so you don’t look and sound like everyone else.
- Develop memorable phrases that audience members repeat making them your free word-of-mouth advertisers.
- Riff off headlines for an evergreen supply of current, relevant content as a topical topic expert.
- Build an impressive body of work that positions you as a leader in your field and commands the respect of decision-makers and your target clients.
Face it. If you get just ONE more speaking engagement as a result of this program, your registration fee and entire trip costs will be paid for. And you'll get a LOT MORE than that—you'll get a breakout positioning that scales your influence and income and takes your business to a whole new level that results in more clients for years to come. See you in Key West this December.
Watch Sam Horn talk about Key West 2010
About Sam Horn
After experiencing Sam's interactive, original approach, you'll understand why her clients call her brilliant and she is widely known as The Intrigue Expert. She receives rave reviews from international organizations including Intel, HP,Cisco, NASA, KPMG and Young Presidents Organization.
As a leader in helping entrepreneurs design and deliver winning pitches and proposals that close deals, land contracts and raise funds, Sam was asked to be a judge at USA Today's Perfect Pitch conference. Her books POP! and Tongue Fu! have been featured in BusinessWeek, Washington Post, Readers Digest, Investors Business Daily and on NPR and MSNBC and she's thanked in the acknowledgements of hundreds of books by grateful authors who say, "I couldn't have done it without you."
Sam has catapulted the careers and scaled the influence, income and impact of many nationally-known speakers, entrepreneurs and subject experts.
Your Event Host, Ed Rigsbee
As an internationally recognized expert on strategic alliance, relationship, and association ROI, Ed knows how to assemble the best. Ed has been fumbling, bumbling, and stumbling his way through the organizational mazes of for-profits and non-profits for over four decades. For the last two decades, Ed has been an observer, researcher, and teacher; helping organizations of all sizes to build successful internal and external collaborative relationships. Ed travels internationally to deliver keynote presentations and workshops on profitable alliance relationships. Ed has authored four books and over 1,500 articles, helping organizations to take full advantage of their potential.
Ed serves as the executive director of the Cigar PEG, a 501 (c)( 3) public non-profit charity that he founded in 1999. This charity is the number one contributor to both the National Speakers Association Foundation and the Laura's Hope project. Ed has been a professional member of the National Speakers Association since 1988 and received his Certified Speaking Professional accreditation in 2000. Ed holds membership at ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership and at the Association for Strategic Alliance Professionals.
Listen to What Last Year's Attendees Have to Say
The past couple years I’ve attended Ed Rigsbee’s event and it wasn’t just good because there were good speakers, it was good because of the impact it had on the business... It will give you some practical application and it puts you in a more private, intimate environment where you can network with people. My encouragement is: Show up, shut up, and learn something.
– Mike Staver
CEO, The Staver Group
This is an absolute must event for anyone in the speaking business who wants to get better. You will not only meet people that are very successful, you will meet people who’ve made it... Every one of you is one idea away from $1 million and at this event you’ll get many ideas. If you want to succeed in your speaking business, go to this event.
– Joachim de Posada
International Speaker and Author
I recently attended the Ed Rigsbee's Advanced Speaker Forum in Key West, FL. I can’t tell you what a tremendous experience this was. The quality of the speakers and the quality of the high level networking is something that’s beyond any ROI I could imagine. Join us for the next one. It will be one of the best investments you’ll make in your speaking career.
– Myra Corrello, PhD
CEO, Find Your Spice™ Seminars LLC
This past December I had the wonderful opportunity of attending Ed Rigsbee’s Advanced Speaker retreat in Key West. It was phenomenal. We had a small group of maybe less than 18 folks and it was very well received by all attendees. We had some great speakers, learned quite a bit, and I was able to apply some things immediately. I highly recommend that if you have the opportunity, make time to attend the Key West retreat with Ed Rigsbee.
– Dr. Paul Jacobson M.D.
View more photos from last year's event.
About the Venue
With a setting like the Westin Key West, located just off Mallory Square to one side and Duval Street to the other side, there is no better location in Key West for an intimate accelerated learning environment.
Mallory Square has sunset festivities and is walking distance to several magnificent restaurants. The Sunset Celebration is a nightly arts festival at Mallory Square Dock. The participants of this Key West attraction consist of arts and crafts exhibitors, street performers, food carts, psychics and of course the thousands of tourists from around the world who visit this Key West art show. Each night around two hours before sunset masses of people, both locals and tourists alike, flock to the water's edge to experience a multicultural happening and to watch the sun sink into the Gulf of Mexico.
Register Now for Ed Rigsbee's Key West 2010 Advanced Speaker-Consultant Mastermind Event!
Make sure you are in Key West December 1-3 networking with other speakers and consultants, learning how to accelerate your business, and having fun in the sun! There will be no refunds. Each instructor is offering three "Hot Seats" that will be awarded, one per registrant, on a first come first served basis.
Special Bonus! All attendees will receive six months of personalized telephone follow up implementation mentoring from Ed Rigsbee. Read Waldo Waldman's story of how mentoring with Ed Rigsbee helped him achieve that needed tweak for career trajectory.
Individual Registration: $2,500
Individual plus Spouse: $3,750
Want to attend but cash flow is currently a challenge? No problem, call Ed @ 805-498-5720 to set up your customized payment plan.
As stated above, there will be no refunds. However, transfers will be allowed.