In easy, clear language, Len Wood lays out everything you need to know in order to present successful seminars. Wood, a former city manager, has a strong background in finance, and his book, Profitable Seminars, walks the reader through an analysis of every cost and revenue stream: an area that most books on public speaking gloss over.Who needs this book?

Consultants

Trainers

Educators

Entrepreneurs

Authors

Retirees seeking a new career

Profitable Seminars walks the reader through everything you need to know in order to create, market and present successful seminars. The range of topics is comprehensive; learn how to:

select a seminar subject

create a powerful seminar title

make the most of presentation software such as PowerPoint

determine your seminar price and break-even point

write and design powerful sales material

even how to handle hecklers and equipment failures

Profitable Seminars shares the inside secrets Len Wood has learned while giving seminars to thousands of managers across the country.

Testimonials:

"Seminars are a wonderful way to reach people worldwide...Profitable Seminars is an excellent roadmap to achieve lucrative career goals."—Dottie Walters, Author, Speak and Grow Rich, CEO, Walters International Speakers Bureau

"Profitable Seminars reveals the inside secrets on how to create, market and deliver first-class presentations. It is packed with tips and is fun to read."
—Dan Poynter, Seminar Presenter and Author, The Self-Publishing Manual

Reviews:

Midwest Book Reviews:
"Profitable Seminars: 195 Tips On Designing, Marketing And Delivering The Goods is a no-nonsense, step-by-step, assembly of tips, tricks, and techniques to creating a successful seminar, selecting the best seminar curriculum materials, utilizing feedback, and much more. Written in practical, easy-to-understand language that communicates without chance of misunderstanding, Profitable Seminars is very highly recommended for anyone planning to host a seminar for the first, and has a wealth of useful information and ideas for even the more experienced seminar organizer and presenter."

Cincinnati Post:
"Do you have a question on how to conduct a profitable seminar? It's answered in this book. Everything from making the decision on how to get started to how to change everything based on the audience feedback is covered in short, pithy, easy to-read, and very informative ''mind bytes'' that make the subject very clear.

No matter how you make a living you need to be always on the front line of communication if you expect to be profitable, and this book will give you those tools even if you never step on a stage."

Book Specifications

• Size: 9 x 6 inches
• Binding: Trade Softcover
• Pages: 368
• Price: $29.95
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN: 0-9634374-8-8
• Publisher: Training Shoppe

Price: $29.95