Making Money When You Talk:

 In trying economic times, it is especially important to maximize every opportunity for business development. Turn your presentations into dollars with helpful tips from Steve Hughes of Hit Your Stride, LLC. Register for the Rocky Mountain Legal Marketing Association program on November 11 and learn to:

•Connect better with audiences and build relationships in beauty contests, panel discussions, and practice area seminars

•Discover the simple, controllable things every attorney can do to increase retention of his/her material

•Find out why you should never end a presentation with Q&A

•Employ tactics that will encourage audiences to holster their Blackberries and pay more attention to you

•Learn why handouts of PowerPoint slides are horrible for audiences

•Walk away with clear, actionable ideas you can use right away

Presenter:

Steve Hughes is President of Hit Your Stride, LLC, a communications consultancy that helps clients create and deliver world-class presentations. His seminars have been featured on National Public Radio, and he is the creator of “National Be Kind To Lawyers Day” (celebrated annually on the 2nd Tuesday in April).

Today he works with a host of blue chip legal clients including Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, and Troutman Sanders along with Fortune 500 companies MetLife and Nestle Purina.

Prior to launching Hit Your Stride, Steve worked for 12 years in advertising and PR where he delivered hundreds of presentations with millions of dollars on the line. Most recently he was a managing partner at an award-winning 40-person advertising agency in St. Louis.

Steve holds a BA in French Literature and European History from the University of Kansas and an MBA in Marketing from Washington University, where he was awarded the prestigious Olin Cup.

The program includes lunch and will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2008, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at Maggiano’s Little Italy, 500 16th Street, #150, Denver, Colorado. Cost is $40 (with a $10 discount for LMA members). To register, please visit the “events” section of our web site at www.rockymountainlma.com.

Please note the Chapter's policy on meeting reservation cancellations. Reservations made and not cancelled by noon on the Friday preceding the meeting will be billed for the entire registration fee. To cancel your registration, please contact Kimberly McCoy at 303.299.8030 or kmccoy@shermanhoward.com. Payment may be sent to the attention of Kimberly McCoy, Sherman & Howard LLC, 633 Seventeenth Street, Suite 3000, Denver, CO 80202-3624.