Get Energized Now
Sep
15
This just in…I just received my personal copy of Entrepreneur Magazines Small Biz Book series book on How to Start a Seminar Production Business. I was fortunate enough to be one of a handful of people interviewed for the book. If you’ve ever wanted to be a professional speaker or travel the world talking, here’s the book for you.
Here’s a snippet
Alternative Careers
This doesn’t mean that only ad agency executives or pocket-protector-bearing efficiency experts need apply. Seminar professionals come from all avenues of life. The ones we interviewed for this book encompassed a variety of alternative careers: clinical psychologist, electrical contractor, recreation professional, physician, and sales and marketing professional.
The tip here is that all these entrepreneurs figured out how to make their backgrounds and their interests work for them in their new careers. They’ve taken the skills and enthusiasm they’ve already acquired and applied them to the seminar business.
Paid To Play
Gail Hahn turned her knowledge of how to have fun into a successful seminar business, Fun*cilitators. “I’ve been a recreation professional for over 20 years,” she says, “getting paid to play and energize people’s lives and help them attain self-actualization through leisure education. From 1986 to 1996, I was the outdoor recreation director in Germany for the Department of Defense. We ran a tennis center, a ropes course, a rental center, and trips throughout Europe and Asia for soldiers and civilians connected with the military.
“Coming back to America in 1996 after blowing out my knee skiing,” the Reston, Virginia, resident explains, “I had several months to think about the business plan and my escape from the federal service. I had been planning and plotting for about two years prior with a mastermind group/success team while in Germany. I built my house with a home office to urge me to get the business going and then started the business in January 1997. I kept my day job for about a year and a half to keep the cash flow going.
“The more I got into it, the more committed I became, and the more I found that there was indeed a market of really stressed-out people who needed to be shown how to practice safe stress and mix effectiveness with fun—to get energized and learn how to become playful professionals in order to balance their lives—especially around the DC area.”
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