RedPropeller Speaker’s Blog

Mark Sanborn is an author, professional speaker, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his book The Fred Factor: How Passion In Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary, which sold over 2 million copies worldwide and became a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA [...]

Brent Adamson, co-author of The Challenger Sale, recently sat down with Jill Konrath, author and speaker, to discuss challenges in today’s buying process and what you can do to close the sale. Here are the takeaways from their discussion. Your #1 competitor is your own prospect. Research shows that prospects aren't even [...]

Red Propeller Speakers Bureau will play host to a special speaker showcase on Monday, November 21, 2016 at the Deer Creek Golf Club in Overland Park, Kansas. Over twenty nationally recognized speakers will present 15 minutes of their best content to an audience of meeting professionals, planners and executives. Speakers [...]

It's no secret associations are struggling with membership. Between the economic downturn and a shift in attitude towards association membership, organizations are struggling to keep their membership up. Ed Rigsbee, CAE, CSP, knows all too well the struggles of selling membership. In his books The ROI of Membership, Ed lays [...]

According to the American Express Meetings and Events 2016 Forecast, meeting planners are expecting their budgets to increase in the coming year. A study of around 450 businesses showed an upwards tick in meeting activity in Europe. Expectations are the U.S. market will follow due in part to improving economies, [...]

Congratulations to Rocky Bleier, winner of the 2015 Rare Life Heroism Award! The award is sponsored by Eagle Rare Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and given in recognition of individuals who exhibit courage, leadership, survival, devotion, character and heroism. Eagle Rare will donate $5,000 to Bleier's charity, Beating the Odds Foundation.

Ron Culberson, Ken Futch, Christine Cashen, Scott Halford and Brad Montgomery were inducted into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame at the National Speaker’s Association’s annual convention in San Diego, CA last month. The National Speakers Association also awarded their CSP designation, which demonstrates competence in platform skills; business management; [...]

Brian Walter, Randy Gage, Mikki Williams, Waldo Waldman and Jeff Salz! This is the highest award there is given by the National Speakers Association for excellence. CONGRATULATIONS also to Scott Friedman for being presented The Cavett Award.  Scott certainly deserves The Cavett.  He has given to the speaking industry more [...]

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Caught in the dog days of summer? Need a cool breeze and a pick-me-up? Here are 13 Big Ideas from Mark Sanborn that can positively shape your lives and businesses. 1. Be quick or be dead - Everything moves faster now, in commerce, entertainment, data, technology, you name it. The [...]

You have a great product. Its world changing. You’re passionate about it, and positive it will make all the difference for your client. You’re delivering a great sales pitch and you’re sure the closing will bring success…but they’re not buying. So where’s the disconnect? According to Bob Pritchard, business expert [...]

Excuse me. Hello? I'm sorry to interrupt, but did you know 28% of your day is taking care of tangents related to interruptions and on average you're only spending about 11 minutes of your day focusing on something before being interrupted? Annoying, right? And worse, it's bad for productivity. Jeff [...]