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Live Webinar Presentation Proposals are Sought by SMEI

SMEI’s best in class events are quickly becoming the most trusted source for up-to date coverage on professional issues, the latest technology, and how-to training for today’s marketing managers, sales managers, sales professionals and small business owners responsible for sales and marketing activities.   You are invited to share your expertise and experience by submitting a session proposal on line, using the form below. 

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO POTENTIAL PRESENTERS:  All presentations must be vendor neutral and cannot be deemed as an advertorial or promotion of the presenters products or services. Presenting for SMEI is a great opportunity to become regarded as a trusted advisor.  We also request that presenters make their PowerPoint Decks available to share via SMEI’s slideshare account, and for our webinars, we request that presenters permit SMEI to record the event to publish on our website for members to access following the event.  This type of public sharing will create many new connections and and raise awareness of the presenter’s products and services in a very professional manner.

Sample Topics

Here are some sample topics. Please feel free to suggest additional topics:

  1. Using LinkedIn for Business
  2. Gaining Access to Decision Makers
  3. Moving From Cost to Value Decisions
  4. Accelerating the Buying Decision
  5. Lead Generation
  6. Sales and Marketing Alignment
  7. Defining What Drives Sales Success
  8. Sales Performance Optimization
  9. Sales Coaching
  10. Enhancing the Buyer Experience with Automation
  11. Hiring Top Performers
  12. Guerilla Marketing
  13. Social Media ROI
  14. Customer Retention
  15. Social Selling
  16. Enhancing Marketing Through Design
  17. Scrum training, can we combine Scrum with sales?
  18. Brand yourselves and body language
  19. Business development, best practices, what do we understand?
  20. Collaboration between sales and marketing department, how does this really work?
  21. Guerrilla Marketing
  22. Storytelling
  23. Personal Branding

HOW ARE SPEAKERS CHOSEN?

Proposals are reviewed by a content team and are evaluated based on six criteria (SMEI affiliates and/or chapters may have additional criteria and steps in the selection process):

  1. Relevance to today’s sales and marketing professional
  2. Well-defined topic focus
  3. Practical application of material
  4. Timeliness of topic 
  5. Overall program quality
  6. Previous presentation experience

BENEFITS OF PRESENTING FOR SMEI 

As a member of the SMEI  speaking faculty, you will gain increased visibility through:

  1. Inclusion of your name, title, company and bio on pre-event promotions reaching over 60,000 sales and marketing professionals.  This is done through: The SMEI web site, electronic press releases, email marketing to opt-in subscribers, social media channels and other publicity through our affiliates and partners.
  2. Inclusion of your company logo and contact information on approved visual presentation materials.
  3. Opportunity for published byline articles on the SMEI Blog

Presentation Technical Information

  • SMEI utilizes online presentation software such as GoToWebinar or Zoom.
  • The presenter shares their screen and pushes their slide deck during the presentation.
  • Presentations are scheduled for 1 hour in duration, a portion of which is allocated for audience interaction (Q&A)
  • The presenter is encouraged to share their webcam

Audience

  • Webinars are marketed through email and social media channels to an audience of over 100,000
  • Demographics include sales, sales management and marketing management from a broad range of company sizes
  • Global audience
  • Live sessions typically have 50+ attendees with over 1,000 views on post-live recorded sessions

Presentation proposal FORM

PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED AS A PRESENTER FOR UPCOMING SMEI WEBINARS.  PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A CONTRACT. THE INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT WILL ALSO BE USED TO COMPILE A DIRECTORY OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS AS A RESOURCE FOR SMEI WEBINARS. REQUIRED INFO = *

 

Give us a snappy title in 15 words or less. For example: "How to create communicate on a video call."
A brief overview of your presentation in 300 words or less.
List three learning objectives or outcomes for the audience in 300 words or less.
Give us a short bio and be sure to include your experience as a subject matter expert on your topic.
Recordings are placed as on-demand videos in our member library for access after the live event. They are not available to the public.
Click or drag a file to this area to upload.
Please upload a publicity head shot photo of yourself.