Recommended Speaker Resources
These resources are here to help you - the Christian communicator -
so that you can focus on where your message makes the greatest impact -
delivering it to your audience!
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Do you have speaking presentations or interviews recorded that you would like to have transcribed? Have they been sitting on a shelf waiting for you to find the time to do so? Would you like to take this information and then turn it into a book, an article, or other written product?
Thanks for the Speak-Write info. My husband already sent in our free trial. They returned the printed version in just a few hours. Amazing!! We have been looking for this kind of service for many months. My husband and I are both very excited about taking several teachings we have done and getting them ready for print. Also, this is an excellent tool to help improve/edit our
teaching notes.Thanks again for the transcribing tip. It has given us a new spark of hope about writing what we have been saying for years.
~B. L., Dallas, TX
SpeakWrite is just what you need. Here's who it works:
1. Upload your recorded file (or call in and dictate over the telephone to SpeakWrite
2. Your work will be transcribed
3. Receive your typed document via email within about 3 hoursReady to get started?
to sign up for your account.
When you see the info below:
enter promo code as CSS.
You're now ready to send your files to be transcribed and sent back to you so that you can then turn this written text into books, articles, or other written products.
Online Event Registration - Eventbrite
Eventbrite helps businesses and organizations of
all sizes manage, promote and sell-out their events.
Eventbrite is FREE to use!
Pay only when charging for tickets -- 2.5% of ticket price for paid events.
For more information, or to start your event registration with Eventbrite, CLICK HERE.
Online Media / Blog Tours for Authors
An Online Media / Blog Tour is an opportunity for blog owners to host special guests on their blog, web site, online blog radio, etc.. This hosting can be carried out in various ways from posting personalized Q&A, to allowing the guest to write a journal entry for the appointed day. Some special guests are asked to respond to reader comments, and others appear in live chat rooms associated with the particular blog. An organized Online Media /Blog Tour also allows readers to travel from one blog to another with the special guest. When combined with the release of a new book or product, an Online Media /Blog Tour can introduce an author to countless readers around the world.
For more information about how an Online Media / Blog Tour can help promote your book, please click here.
Private Speaker Coaching
"I really enjoyed and appreciated our first phone call today. You're right, no one has ever challenged me to focus. I have so been wanting someone to tell me how to put all I have to offer together. I learned more in one hour with you today than I ever have. I can honestly say, I can hardly wait for our next phone call." ~ LDP
One-to-one coaching sessions designed to help you reach your potential. Are you ready for the next step? Are you ready to move beyond the ranks of the many to a place only a few are willing to put in the investment and effort to find?
Here are just a few of the areas we will discuss during our sessions together, areas that can move you quickly to where you want to be:
- Passion and Purpose Put Power in Your Presentations (ministry and business)
- Is Your Web Site Working for You…or Against You?
- How to Get a Buzz and Keep It Going: Using Publicity to Your Advantage
- Don't Shoot Yourself in the Foot with your Head Shot! What is a Professional Head shot? How to Get the Most from Your Publicity Photos
- You Can’t Do It Alone: It Takes a Village to Run a Speaking Business
- Working with the Media: A Golden Opportunity
- Relationship Matters: Making the Most of Working with a Speaking Agency
- Where Do You Go From Here? Up is a Good Direction!
- Any other areas specific to you and your ministry
Don't keep waiting for your career to just happen. It's time to take the next step in your career. For more information, click here.
Allison Bottke (author of the God Allows U-Turns series, A Stitch in Time and One Little Secret ) has traveled around the country for years teaching at writer’s conferences. Now YOU can take advantage of her valuable teaching from your home in a series of Teleseminars with Moderator Randy Ingermanson.
Don’t miss YOUR opportunity to take advantage of years of expertise in the field of marketing, development and promotions, as Allison shares with YOU the secrets to her publishing success.
AVAILABLE ON MP3 DOWNLOADS!
"Clean Up Your Act!" teleseminar with Organizational Expert Allison Bottke and Moderator Randy Ingermanson
If you want to be a professional speaker or writer, you need to start acting like a pro -- the sooner the better. Randy Ingermanson interviewed strategic planning expert Allison Bottke in a series of five teleseminars. Allison helped me with the strategic planning for my own writing business, and she can help you with yours. We had the entire series professionally recorded so you can now listen to each one just as if you were on the phone with us live!Teleseminar #1: "Take Control Of Your Space!"
Teleseminar #2: "Do Your Legal Stuff First!"
Teleseminar #3: "What's Your Mission/Vision?"
Teleseminar #4: "Develop A Strategic Plan For Your Career!"
Teleseminar #5: "Branding for Writers"For more information, or to purchase, CLICK HERE
(Available through Ingermanson Communications/AdvancedFictionWriting.com)(PLEASE NOTE: This teleseminar series is a requirement for all communicators seeking representation with Christian Speaker Services.)
Publicity Coaching
Whether your book has been published by a major publishing house, a smaller publisher, or if you’re self-published, you need to know how to promote your book! Paula Friedrichsen's Six Pronged Publicity Plan coaching session is a crash course on book promotion and will provide you with valuable information and practical steps to get your message out there.
The Six Pronged Publicity Plan is a fast paced, one-on-one, phone coaching session tailored to meet your individual publicity needs. It includes Word document examples, and a follow-up evaluation of your newly created press materials. You'll be learning:
- How to create an interesting hook
- What a pitch package looks like (Word doc samples will be sent before or during the call)
- Who to pitch to (you'll receive specific examples of media to contact)
The coaching session also includes the who, what, when, where, and how of pitching the following media:
- TV shows
- Radio shows
- Print Magazines
- Online Magazines & Book Reviews
- Online / Blog Tours
- Newspaper Article
Paula Friedrichsen became skilled at book publicity the old fashioned way... by doing it! Although she published her first book with a major publishing house, like all authors she eventually had to become responsible for the marketing of her own book when her publicist went on to her next set of books. And in the process of publicizing her book Paula discovered an amazing thing: She was great at publicity! In just over three months Paula's efforts garnered:
- television appearances
-dozens of radio interviews
- numerous articles with major online magazines (her most popular article was viewed over 3500 times in one month alone!)
- print magazine articles
- newspaper articles (totaling a readership of over 42,000 on Valentines day 2008!)
- o nline book reviewsAll of this publicity was acquired by using what Paula refers to as “The Six Pronged Publicity Plan.”
"Promoting Your Writing by Public Speaking"
Teleseminar SeriesMary Byers is a member of the National Speakers Association and has been speaking for almost twenty years. She's also got a couple of books in print, and she promotes her books when she speaks. Now YOU can take advantage of her valuable teaching from your home in a series of Teleseminars with Moderator Randy Ingermanson.
Don’t miss YOUR opportunity to take advantage of years of expertise in the field of speaking, as Mary shares with YOU the secrets to her success.
AVAILABLE ON MP3 DOWNLOADS OR ON CD!
"Promoting Your Writing by Public Speaking" teleseminar with Mary Byers, National Speakers Association member, and Moderator Randy Ingermanson
If you want to be a professional speaker or writer, you need to start acting like a pro -- the sooner the better. Randy Ingermanson interviewed speaker and author Mary Byers in a series of four teleseminars.Teleseminar #1: "Developing Topics and Identifying Your Market"
Teleseminar #2: "Setting Fees"
Teleseminar #3: "Preparing for the Engagement"
Teleseminar #4: "Growing Your Speaking (and Writing) Business"For more information, or to purchase, CLICK HERE
(Available through Ingermanson Communications/AdvancedFictionWriting.com)(PLEASE NOTE: This teleseminar series is a requirement for all communicators seeking representation with Christian Speaker Services.)
Christian Owned & Operated - Web Site Hosting - EMWD
Web hosting and domain name registration are some of the services we offer. Our affordable hosting makes EMWD the best place to host your small business or personal web site. Our reliable servers and easy to use control panel are also ideal for first-time webmasters. We are your company for web design, domain names, email addresses, mailing lists, and powerful web hosting services.
We have been in the web hosting business since 1998. Our commitment to customer satisfaction and server reliability has remained the bedrock of our business through the years.
"I have used the EMWD hosting services for my personal and business web sites. I also have many clients who use EMWD hosting for their sites. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Brian Carpenter, the owner, for the past 10 years. However, the main reason I have stayed and strongly recommend EMWD to my clients is...EMWD does not host any web site that is pornographic in nature or links to pornographic material on another web site." ~ Karen Power
For more information and pricing, please visit EMWD Hosting Services.
Building Your Speaking Platform
Building Your Speaking Platform is a practical, real-world workshop delivered by industry expert, Karen Power, at the Glorieta Writers Conference to a group of speakers and writers...just like you.
In this 32-minute session, we'll explore areas that will help you build and strengthen your speaking platform. You'll learn:
- the importance of prayer as the foundation of your speaking ministry and business
- how to put find your passion and put power in your message and ministry
- where to find places of preparation
- why it's important to have a plan for your business and how it will benefit to you achieve your goals
- where to find places to promote your speaking in your community and beyond
You will be able to move beyond where you are today to a place of having a strong and solid speaking platform.For more information, or to purchase, CLICK HERE
(PLEASE NOTE: This session is a requirement for all communicators seeking representation with Christian Speaker Services.)
Writing Critiques - Vonda Skelton
Vonda Skelton loves helping new writers! But after years of teaching at writer's conferences and doing critiques, she's found that most writers make the same mistake she did: They send out their work way too early, long before it's ready for submission. As a traditionally-published author of four books (including both fiction and non-fiction), gobs of magazine articles, scripts, and children's books, Vonda can spot those problems and help you increase your chances of publication.
Here's how it works:
She has three levels of writing critiques, depending on your readiness. Some writers want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth when it comes to a critique. Others are only beginning the process and could be easily discouraged or overwhelmed with too much instruction and correction. So, Vonda lets you tell her what you want!
For more information on available packages, prices and guideline submissions, please contact Vonda Skelton by clicking here.
Professional Audio & Video Recording Facilities
Harbor House Studios
Harbor House Studios is a full-service audio/video recording facility, located in the Dallas/Ft .Worth Metroplex. We boast 2,000 square feet of space, and access to a 450 seat auditorium, professionally designed and tuned for your live recordings.
Harbor House Studios represents virtually all the talent and technical resources needed to create both entertaining and effective visual content. Whether it’s a weekly television program, business to business marketing for corporate and industrial, commercial advertising, web design or video for Internet, Harbor House can take you from strategy and concept to final product and distribution.
The video production area of Harbor House Studios features a Macintosh dual 2.5 G5 Final Cut Pro HD non-linear editing system teamed with the graphics, layering, and compositing tools needed for high-end finishing.
Why use a professional studio vs. a home studio?
There is a sonic difference! If what you are going for is the project studio sound, then perhaps all you'll need a studio for, is for the second set of ears or the second room to do the final mastering and mixing. It's always good to have another opinion or another sonic space in which to listen to your material. It's important that even if you are happy with the project studio sound, that you bring it to an acoustically balanced room to do that final tweaking.
Christian owned and operated, Harbor House Studios is listed as a Class of 2002 Recording Studio by Mix Magazine.
Harbor House Studios is a full-service audio/visual facility with architecture and acoustical design by Russ Berger Design Group. Featuring a Digidesign Pro Tools HD3 Accel System, and Genelec 1031 monitors and 1092A subwoofer, Harbor House Studios can record from the adjacent 450-seat auditorium, as well as the studio and iso booths. There's a healthy array of outboard gear from Avalon, Focusrite, API and Furman.
Our staff is committed to providing you the finest recording experience possible and our 24-bit ProTools system will allow you to maximize your creativity in our state-of the-art digital recording suites. We focus on two things: to create and maintain a positive and productive atmosphere for our clients, and to make the creative atmosphere of equal importance to our “world class” facility, technical expertise, and your final product.
For more information, contact Hyman Stansky at www.harborhousestudios.com.
Women in Christian Media
Women in Christian Media™ is a professional organization dedicated to connecting women working in Christian media in purpose and vision. We provide a framework for networking, opportunities for spiritual encouragement, professional enrichment and work toward advancing Christian media –and the women in it.
Our National Conferences are gaining wide attention as an annual event that gathers media legends as keynote speakers and women working in Christian Communications to to present a unique program for women in the industry. God is now opening more doors in addition to our National events. He is giving us WCM™ Connections in major cities across the country. Dallas being the first; Nashville, San Diego and Chicago for starters! At last, women are connecting and it’s not in the natural but in a super natural way!
Our members are comprised of dedicated Christian women who are called of God to minister in many capacities in Christian Media. They are an effective body that impacts the industry on a daily basis. Our members appreciate the benefits of being part of an historic movement that is impacting the nation.
It is our desire to connect women in purpose and vision. Membership to Women in Christian Media™ is open to all women actively working in Christian media. Christian media is not limited to radio and television- it includes all forms of mass communication: Internet, publishing and support agencies – (those who qualify for membership). If you are working in a church media department, an agency, or a ministry – if you are the host of a program, or the producer, if you write books or publish them - you’re invited to join!
Women in Christian Media is dedicated to providing you with resources, networking, education, publications and access to some of the most dynamic, wonderful women you will ever meet!
Credit Card Processing
If you have a need to process credit card transactions for live event sales, look no further - Credit Card Processing is owned and operated by Mark Wooten. His company processes $3-4 million in transactions per month for over 300 clients.
If you've tried to figure you way around the confusing world of credit card processing, you know that talking to the large banks or credit card processing companies leaves you with more questions than answers.
For more information, contact Mark today! Phone: 817/235-7584 or email mhwooten@sbcglobal.net.
CSS Ask The Experts Series
- The Power of Working with Speaking Agencies
- The Power of Writers' Conferences: How to Work a Conference Once You're There
- The Power of Life Coaching
- More to come!
Take the mystery out of the speaking and writing industry.
Ask the Experts...click here
(PLEASE NOTE: This series is a requirement for all communicators seeking representation with Christian Speaker Services.)
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