New Service: Event Consulting

• Do you have a great idea for a workshop that will serve others and grow your business?
• Are you a skilled speaker with great life experience, but don’t know how to use it?
• Do you give seminars on topics that seem boring and can’t draw a crowd?
• Are you a business in Chicagoland that wants to use workshops as marketing, but don’t know where to start?

There are solutions to all of these problems!  Sometimes, all you need is an outside perspective with the right experience in your niche market.

Having specifically served the local educational event market since 2007, Matthew Cook, owner of One Stop Seminars in Lake Villa, IL, has a unique insight into what makes an educational event a success, and what makes one a failure.  He has worked to help promote and advance local educational events in many different ways.  He has connected speakers with speaking engagements, and has worked to plan and arrange events.  Perhaps most importantly, Matthew has made solid connections with all the best local professionals and businesses serving the educational event market.

Specifically, One Stop Seminars consulting can assist you with the following:

• Titling your event to be attractive and successful
• Creating or reviewing event marketing materials
• Finding and the perfect venue
• Partnering you with the perfect speaker(s)
• Targeting your advertising to capture the right audience
• Directing you to other great local service providers that can help
• Maximizing your e-marketing efforts, including social media
• Minimizing your event costs, including venue, marketing, etc.
• Using “Power Partners” to drive your event success
• Finding sponsors and advertisers to share your cost burden
• Keeping you on schedule and on task for event success; accountability

But don’t take our word for it – contact Matthew today for a FREE one-hour consultation on your event idea!

Matthew is passionate about low-cost, low-time commitment educational opportunities.  The benefits of this type of education are many – both for the individuals in the local community and for the business, schools, non-profits, and other organizations that offer them.

One Stop Seminars owns and operates edvents.com, your one stop shop for local educational events.  The website edvents.com offers a unique advertising opportunity to providers of seminars, workshops, or other educational events in Chicagoland.  One Stop Seminars is also the LOCAL source for LOCAL speakers in Chicagoland.  Serving local speakers and local host groups or venues alike, One Stop Seminars is able to give everyone exactly what they need at a very low cost.

One Stop Seminars Has the Perfect Speaker for Your Next Event!

Lake Villa, IL — October 8, 2009 — One Stop Seminars announces a new speakers bureau serving speakers and groups in the northern suburbs of Chicago.  The key word is LOCAL: finding local experts for local events means connecting potential long-term resources at rates that are much more budget friendly than with traditional speakers bureaus.

Because of the unique business model for this speakers bureau, One Stop Seminars can provide a speaker for any group at any budget level.

“What I love most about this speakers bureau is that we can provide guaranteed high quality speakers to libraries and large corporations alike,” says Matthew Cook, President of One Stop Seminars. “It fits perfectly into my passion for promoting local educational events.”

Most of One Stop Seminars speakers have signed on to a “No Advertising Guarantee,” which guarantees there will be no sales pitch in their presentation.

“When an organization works with One Stop Seminars to find speakers, we offload the painful parts of the process, by screening potential speakers against their specific desires,” says Matthew.  “Then we guarantee quality content without a sales pitch – and we do it all for free.  It’s really a no-brainer.”

There are no fees for a group or organization to use the speakers bureau to find a speaker.  All final scheduling and speaking fee negotiations take place between the host group and the speaker themselves.

One Stop Seminars also offers a speaker search service.  They will take requests for specific types of speakers (demographics, topics, locations, fees, etc) and go out and find local speakers that fit the bill.  A fee may be charged to the host group for this service.

About One Stop Seminars
Founded in 2004, One Stop Seminars was started by local entrepreneur Matthew Cook, who has a passion for promoting live, local education in the form educational events (or “edvents”). Over the past 5 years, One Stop Seminars has expanded from just a simple website that listed local educational events, to a company that now serves people and organizations involved in all aspects of local edvents.  The company plans to expand its service areas to cover more of Chicago’s suburbs in the near future.

Media Contact:
Matthew Cook
708-287-2037
www.edvents.com

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Need a Speaker? (pdf)

The No-Ad Guarantee (pdf)

Want to Speak to More Local Groups? (pdf)

Local Speaker’s Bureau

At One Stop Seminars, we spend most of our time working with two groups of people in the northern suburbs of Chicago:

1) Speakers and presenters of educational events

2) Providers of educational events such as libaries, park districts, chambers of commerce, and more

Naturally, a lot of people in group #1 would like to give their presentations or workshops to the organizations in group #2.  Likewise, a lot of organizations in group #2 are looking for new and exciting people from group #1 to present to their patrons.

I am proud to announce the One Stop Seminars Speaker’s Bureau, serving speakers and venues alike!

If you are a speaker or presenter with a great class, workshop, or presentation, and you’d like to offer it to through more outlets in the northern suburbs of Chicago, One Stop Seminars can help.

We have a simple, non-exclusive agreement.  We will promote you and your offerings to the local outlets that match your criteria, many of whom we already have working relationships with, and in return you will simply pay us a percentage of any fees you collect from relationships we establish for you.

Contact us today to learn more or sign up!

Guaranteed ROI? In Advertising??

That’s right folks – you now have a local advertising opportunity with a GUARANTEED return on investment!!

Just sign up with One Stop Seminars, and only pay if/when we register people for your event!  You only pay a percentage of the registration fees collected or a flat fee per registration, per our agreement.

After signing up with One Stop Seminars, you need to do nothing!  Just sit back, run your organization or business, and be prepared to deal with all of your new customers.

If One Stop Seminars doesn’t deliver, you pay nothing!

This is a true ZERO-RISK opportunity, but it won’t last forever.  Contact One Stop Seminars today to sign up before this unbelievable opportunity passes you by…

Keeping Up w/ One Stop Seminars

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1. Visit OneStopSeminars.com daily
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Four Keys to Better Seminars

I’m not going to waste your time with the basics.  You already do the most important things, like being prepared, treating your students right, and offering quality training.  The four suggestions that follow are things you may not have considered, or may have been unsure about..  And if you are already doing these things, congrats on being ahead of the curve!

1. Partner With Other Local Businesses

Why Do YOU Offer Seminars?

Businesses and organizations offer seminars, workshops, classes, or other educational events for a wide variety of reasons.

• To market your products or services
• To generate revenue through registration fees
• To serve the community

While almost every seminar provider would probably claim a combination of these, there is usually ONE driver.

A NEW Advertising Channel

It is rare for a new advertising channel to open up in a local market.

If you are already advertising here in Lake County, you have done your homework and you have chosen to advertise in the channels that give you maximum exposure for your dollar.

So why should you consider advertising with One Stop Seminars?

1) Reach a New, Targeted Audience

5 Keys to Marketing with Seminars

Whether you are a business or a non-profit, a government agency or a charity, seminars can be one of your most cost-effective marketing tools.

1. Teach What You Know

Share your expertise and you’ll become known as an expert!  It sounds simple because it is.  If you own or manage an organization, you are an expert.  You’ve got a unique perspective, and by sharing it honestly you can build relationships that last with your customers or clients.

Online Local Business Marketing: BE FOUND!

A recent Pew survey found that 74% of Americans now use the Internet. According to the study, the top 5 things people do online are:

1. Send or read e-mail (91%)
2. Use a search engine to find information (89%)
3. Search for a map or driving directions (86%)
4. Look for info on a hobby or interest (83%)
5. Look for information about a service or product they are thinking of buying. (81%)

Where do you think “Look at advertising” or “Click on banner ads” falls on the list?