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Finding the Right Speaker *

 
The Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau will work with you to find just the right speaker for your group.  If you need assistance contact us by email: hesterw@abilene.com
 
Use the following outline to find the best speaker for your group.
 
  • Determine the needs of your audience
  • Establish your date, time, and budget
  • Match the needs of your conference with the speaker
  • Locate your resources
  • Review your options
  • Select your speaker
  • Get it in writing!
  • Work with your speaker
  • Set the stage
  • Evaluate the results
Top 10 Most-Requested Speaker Topics
 

  1.  Change

  2.  Customer Service

  3.  Global Opportunities

  4.  Future Strategies

  5.  Quality (Total Quality Management, etc.)

  6.  New Technologies

  7.  Productivity/Performance

  8.  Diversity

  9.  Legal Issues

10.  Health/Fitness
 
* Excerpts taken from “Ten Steps to Finding the Right Speaker”, Barbara Nivala, Executive vice-president, National Speakers Association; American Society of Association Executives Association Management, August 1996. For more information look up the National Association of Speakers at www.nsaspeaker.org