Judi Moreo’s “Getting Paid to Speak Workshop” is back and better than ever! Ever wondered how to create a presentation that will “WOW” your audience and don’t know where to start? Drawing on her twenty years as a paid professional speaker, Judi will help you create a game plan to set you on your way.

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The Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, conferred by the National Speakers Association and the International Federation for Professional Speakers, is the speaking profession’s international measure of professional platform skill.

The CSP designation is earned through demonstrating competence in a combination of standards:

Professional platform skills;

Professional business management;

Professional education; and

Professional association.

Judi joins an elite group as less than 8% of the professional speakers in the world hold this designation.

According to Phillip Van Hooser, National Speakers Association President, “This designation is more than an association recognition for accomplishment and mastery. It is the designation of our profession and as such brings credibility to our work and all of the associations that comprise the Global Speakers Federation.”

Well done, Judi!

I am an idea hoarder. I write my ideas on anything made of paper. Napkins, labels, church programs, edges of magazine pages, note pads, journals, cardboard….then I save up all these pieces of paper making file folder after file folder of the subject matter. I now have three file cabinets of ideas, articles, and notes on subjects from Attitude to Writing….I don’t have any XYZ files yet. Only A-W.

Then when I have one of my “genius” ideas of what would make a great book or a great article, I get out one of the files (the one most related to the idea) and start reading all of the notes, which then need to be put into categories and/or outline form. If it is a book, I write what I perceive to be the easiest chapter first. Easy means I have the most notes made and it will take less work to get that one done. Then I do the next easiest one and the next. Before long the book is half finished and all that’s left is the hard part, which doesn’t seem hard now because the book is well on its way.

I like to write my chapters as stand alones, so when the reader picks up my books, they could open to any chapter, read that chapter and feel like they got an entire story from the one chapter. The chapters do build on one another to make a whole…but if the reader never read the whole book, they’d still get valuable information.

In my office where I write, I have paintings that I have done on the wall. I have them hanging there to remind myself that there was a time when I didn’t believe I could paint. So if I get stuck and don’t believe I can write, or don’t believe I can create something new, then I look at my paintings and remind myself that I can do whatever I put my mind to doing.

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Professional speaker and author Judi Moreo will host a “Getting Paid to Speak” workshop in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010. Judi will address many of the questions you might be asking about how to get bookings, develop a business plan, work with speaker bureaus and showcases, and which organizations to join. She will share information on maximizing your expertise, customizing your material, and giving a “great” presentation.

For over twenty years, Judi has enjoyed an exciting and successful career as a paid professional speaker. She has presented keynote speeches, seminars, and workshops in 27 countries on four continents.

Whether you see speaking as a glamorous profession, you believe you have something important to share with the world, or you simply want to promote your book, this is the workshop to attend to find out how to get started.

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One of the sweet side benefits of publishing a great book is occasionally being approached by a publication or another publisher to license material. This is called secondary or subsidiary rights and brings some welcome extra income for the author and publisher. Blue Mountain Arts (the creators of those beautiful greeting cards) approached us to include an extract from Judi Moreo’s book, YOU ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH in their forthcoming title, THE STRENGTH OF WOMEN. Judi’s writing shares the page with another remarkable woman, Hillary Clinton, on page 25. It is a beautiful little book, the perfect gift for a treasured friend who might need some words of encouragement.