{"id":176,"date":"2014-05-28T16:35:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/?p=176"},"modified":"2014-06-16T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:50:38","slug":"close-em-clothe-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/close-em-clothe-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Close &#8216;Em &#038; Clothe &#8216;Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"785\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VgmLUJVXlwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Toastmasters clubs, this workshop answers the fundamental two-part question of:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;How do we help Guests become Members, and<br \/>\nhow do we help Members want to stay Members?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having been rather <a href=\"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/receiving-the-2014-sponsor-5-or-more-toastmasters-award\/\" title=\"successful with sponsorship\">successful with sponsorship<\/a> in Toastmasters,  I was asked to share how I did it.  I developed this 30-minute workshop and accepted the invitation to present this seminar at 10:15am, on Saturday, May 24, 2014, in the <em>Lighthouse B<\/em> room, at the District 45 Toastmasters Spring Conference, on May 23-25, 2014, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in South Portland, Maine. <\/p>\n<p>Because I wanted to be more pro-active in engaging the audience members&#8217; brains, I intentionally chose to develop memory tools &#8211; even choosing to not use PowerPoint. This seminar uses enjoyable memory tools such as an illustrative story, a memorable catch-phrase title, and fun finger games, as well as couple of my trademark terms, <em>Permission Fishin&#8217; <\/em>\u2122 and <em>Quitter Predictors<\/em> \u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Ulitimately, this workshop provides an easy-to-remember way to systematically solve the sponsorship and retention question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Toastmasters clubs, this workshop answers the fundamental two-part question of: &#8220;How do we help Guests become Members, and how do we help Members want to stay Members?&#8221; Having been rather successful with sponsorship in Toastmasters, I was asked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,14,7,17,16,19,22,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}