Need a speaker to step in and share knowledge that will help your group succeed? Looking for an "expert" resource to quote in your next article?

BMA- St. Louis has a group of qualified, experienced speakers who cover the full spectrum of business-to-business topics with knowledge and authority.

If you're interested in having one of our members speak to your group, please look over the topics and available speakers listed below and contact Dave Lampe at 314 740-9873, david.lampe@swbglobal.net to discuss your needs.

If you are a BMA member who would like to be added to the Speakers Bureau, contact Dave Lampe at 314 740-9873, david.lampe@swbglobal.net and share your areas of expertise. If you have a talk already prepared, with a title, please share this information as well.

Available Speakers

Jim Obermeyer, Owner
Reveal-- Trade Show Marketing

Jim has over 20 years experience in the trade show industry, including 12 years as a corporate trade show manager with two Fortune 100 companies.

• Top Ten Tips for Improving Tradeshow Success (Training tips for booth staff on etiquette and how to qualify and sell on the show floor)
  
  
• The Tradeshow as an Experience: Beyond Just Being There (Designed to move the experienced tradeshow manager from ‘typical' to‘experimental' exhibiting, creating a sensory show floor experience.)
  
  
• Outsourcing: Corporate Friend or Foe? (Tips for tradeshow attendees on how to outsource to move up the corporate ladder.)
  
  
• Selecting an Exhibit Builder: Finding the Right Fit (A step-by-step guide through the process of finding, evaluating and selecting a tradeshow marketing firm.)
  
  
• Tradeshow Marketing: Results in Three Big Steps (Tips on creating a successful program that generates results.)
  
  
• Top Ten Tips for Improving Trade Show Selling Success (Designed for exhibit house salespeople to help generate leads, qualify prospects
  and build relationships that lead to industry success.)

Carin Shulusky, President
Marketing Alliance

Carin has more than 25 years of marketing experience on the client and agency sides at companies including General Electric, Plastics Division; Monsanto; and Distinctions Unlimited.

• Goals and Strategies Map Out Success (Tips on setting goals and objectives for greater business success.)

Michel Neray
Entrepeneur, Public Speaker

Michel Neray has over 25 years of experience as a communications professional. As an author, award-winning advertising copywriter, VP sales and marketing of a public company and internet entrepreneur, he has developed a unique approach to sales and marketing communications that anyone can use in everyday conversation.

Michel has co-authored two books. His chapter, ‘Everything Starts With a Conversation,’ was selected as the lead in Sales Gurus Speak Out. His work has appeared in dozens of publications and he has spoken at many conferences. His newsletter has been called ‘short, sweet and incredible useful.’

For more information, go to www.EssentialMessage.com.

Chris Coleman, Principal
Green Banana Project

Chris Coleman is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of the National Speakers Association. She is a speaker, author and marketer who has branded and promoted more than 200 companies nationwide. After founding and running an Atlanta advertising agency for 16 years, she joined the executive team that turned a dot-com bomb into the fastest-growing Internet security service in the world.

Today she is a principal in the Green Banana Project, where she teaches people how to turn marketing doublespeak into crisp, clear sales messages. Chris has been featured in publications as wide-ranging as Investor’s Business Daily and Cosmopolitan. She is the author of two books and a sought-after speaker whose views about marketing and leadership are candid and lively. Her next book, Guess What They Say Behind Your Back, will be published in 2006. Chris is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of the National Speakers Association.