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1) About Promenade Speakers Bureau, LLC and Mike Taubleb:
Promenade Speakers Bureau LLC specializes in healthcare, insurance, financial services and women's professional development. We handle other topics like the energy business, sustainability, innovation, leadership, globalization, retail, consumer behavior, customer engagement, sales, motivation, the economy, scenario planning, professional services, science and technology. Our clients love the extra level of research, budget friendliness and strategic thinking behind our recommendations. They also appreciate our easy-to-read speaker proposals, with scannable summaries of credentials, topics and pricing upfront. Within the first 1-2 months of 2012, most of our speaker pages will be updated with one-click speaker video samples.
Benefit from our independence from "exclusive" celebrity speakers and enjoy unbiased suggestions. Run by "Chief Matchmaker" Mike Taubleb, Promenade is a member of the International Association of Speaker Bureaus (IASB). This allows us to book speakers on your behalf from the world's leading "celebrity" bureaus, at no extra cost to you.
Prior to starting Promenade, Mike spent 12 years at several New York advertising and direct marketing agencies. He managed TV, Print, Direct Mail and Telemarketing campaigns for Xerox, AT&T Capital, Atra Zeneca, Novartis and Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals among others. Mike caught the speaker bug, after being asked to find seminar opportunities for the head of his last ad agency employer.
Promenade allows Mike to channel his long-term interests in current events, writing, marketing, science, healthcare and the future. Starting Promenade in 2003 was not auspicious timing for an events business. Luckily, more and more Fortune 500 companies, associations, colleges and government agencies continue to book with us. Over 1,500 subscribe to Promenade's monthly e-newsletter, "Speaker Aficonado". We are excited to work with an ever expanding group of the world's most fascinating thought leaders.
2) Media Coverage & Speaking Experience:
Mike's 90 Minute Video Tutorial "How to Book Speakers Like A Pro" is now sold at: Event Leadership Institute along with mini-courses from a dozen more event experts.
Entrepreneur Magazine Online - December 2011 - Seven Rules For Coping With Sales Rejection by Jane Porter
American Express Open Forum - January 2011 - Make 2011 Your Best Business Year by Katie Morell
NFIB - 6 Things A Small Business Should Do Before December 31
Keen Eyes for Sales: Thriving Entrepreneurs - New York Daily News January 2010 by Mildred Culp
Getting to Know Your Customers for The Business Owner's Voice
Successful Meetings Features Promenade's Wal-Mart Speaker: Michael Bergdahl by Kinley Levack
Promenade has been covered/quoted in Successful Meetings Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine Online, Investors Business Daily and Digitally Speaking a new technology how-to book for Speakers.
Mike has presented at Meeting Professionals International and ASTD NY meetings as well as New York University. The American Society of Journalists and Authors tapped him as a panelist for their April 29, 2011 NYC annual conference: Speaking for Money - ASJA in NYC
3) Interview & Article Topics:
- Event and Speaking Business Trends
- How To Book A Professional Speaker
- Emerging Speakers
- Small Business, Entrepreneurial and Marketing Tips
- New York City Business Success Story
- Future of Healthcare, Insurance and Financial Services (via our thought leaders)
4) Clients, Do You Have Time for This?
- Review dozens of speaker sites and watch their videos, compelling or not.
- Keep a regular eye out for emerging/hot talent in and out of your industry
- Distinguish self-serving speaker promotion from objective value and skills.
- Find a speaker in your city or state
- Field dozens of unscheduled followup calls, emails and mailings from speakers before and months after you've decided on one
- Develop a contract that protects everyone's interests and maximizes the value of your speaker's fee
- Prep the speaker, handle service, billing and 1099 concerns
- Persuade celebrities to speak when money is not enough
- Add diversity to your speaker candidates
- Maintain relations with many speaker bureaus to enlarge your talent universe
- Drop everything to find a speaker on short notice
We do everyday - let us save you time and uncertainty, at no extra cost.
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