John Dillon & Vivian Nesbitt - hosts and moderators

Each session will be focused by our excellent moderators John Dillon and Vivian Nesbitt, who have years of experience interviewing and drawing information out of guests as hosts of the nationally syndicated Art of the Song Creativity Radio. After an initial 5-10 minute interview, each speaker will present a focused, keynote presentation that gives you more information that you really need. At the end, Vivian and John will pose the questions you want asked and answered. This makes for a perfect hour with each presenter—not something you get at the average conference. [visit John and Viv’s website]

Suzanne Falter-Barns - Your Platform: Getting Known

• Suzanne is an expert at helping anyone get on with their creative dreams. Her web site, howmuchjoy.com, and the book that inspired it, How Much Joy Can You Stand? (Ballantine Wellspring; 2000) were born of Suzanne’s own creative meltdowns.
• She is a veteran creative stalwart who has weathered more than a thousand rejections. Suzanne received her first rejections at age eleven with a novel, “The Chick From Fresno”; from there, she moved straight into a failed career as a cabaret singer. She did better with fiction, though her first published novel,”Doin’ The Box Step” (Random House), sold fewer than 3000 copies, mostly to close friends of her mother’s. A second and third novel failed to find a publisher, which resulted in a hardened case of writer’s block and some very depressing temp jobs. This forced Suzanne to take stock and get a grip, and the result was a book of inspiration she wrote mainly for herself. This subsequently became her first self-help book.
• Suzanne has also written for The New York Times, More, New Woman, Prevention, Parents, Cosmo Girl, and New Age Journal. And since old dreams never really die, she still appears from time to time as a cabaret singer.
• Suzanne is an expert at helping people: find energy after or before work to pursue their dream; determine how, when and if to leave their job; set up an office that’s truly conducive to creating; keep a more creative computer; find the money to pursue their dream work; create a truly effective support network; balance dream work with home, family and relationships; set up a schedule they can stick to. [visit Suzanne’s website]

Leesa Barnes - Your Social Networks: Using the New Media

• Hi, my name is Leesa Barnes. I’m an award winning blogger, social media expert and author of Podcasting for Profit. After being known as a podcasting expert for a few years, I recently combined my successes in social media, online marketing and active living to create a unique approach to marketing online. It’s called Marketing Fit, a system I created to help entrepreneurs and small business owners get active using social media in 3 simple steps.
• I’ve worked in the technology sector since 1994 before anyone in my circle even knew what email was. I consider myself to be an early adopter and I’ll be the first to try any new technology gadget. My accomplishments demonstrate that social media and technology aren’t fads for me. I’ve used social media to help me and my clients achieve many goals. [visit Leesa’s website]

Shama Hyder - Your Web Presence: How to Make the Web Work for You

• Shama Hyder is an online marketing expert. She is the founder of Click to Client, a full service online marketing firm that serves clients around the world. Shama teaches clients how to leverage the internet to establish themselves as industry experts, acquire more clients, create valuable services, and ultimately increase profit through her one- on- one consulting work, and through her company’s several online marketing services.
• She holds a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, and prides herself in being a constant learner. Her website, http://www.ClicktoClient.com, has turned into a high-traffic destination for people looking for advice on how to market their businesses successfully. Her clients have garnered national media attention, and companies often look to Shama to guide them when it comes to the vast world of social media marketing. She has been named one of the 10 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media. [visit Shama’s website]

Adam Kleinberg - Your Marketing Plan: How To Sell What You Produce

• Adam is the CEO of Traction Corporation
• Stir (never shake) a spoonful of charisma, a jigger of positive energy and a mind as sharp as a freshly zested lemon and you get close to the cocktail that is Adam. Fearless and practical, he’s a big ideas person with a penchant for detail. Never one to stray from the action, strategy and creative both benefit from a daily dose of Adam. His career in advertising and interactive design has included stints as a senior creative at Think New Ideas, Tribal DDB, Doremus Advertising and MRM Partners. He has helped a long list of clients achieve their marketing, communications and sales goals, including Virgin Mobile, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Adobe and SAP. [visit Adam’s website]

Beverly Down - Your Business: How to be an Artist/Entrepreneur

• Beverly Down yearns to see more people tapping into their creative potential and living creatively fulfilled lives. She is a certified creativity coach and the CEO & President of The Creativity Coaching Association. The CCA is an international network of creativity coaches dedicated to helping people put feet on their dreams in order to live the creative lives they desire.

• Topics discussed during this presentation: a creative business mindset and how to get it; how to create structure and discipline in your business while keeping creative ideas flowing; how to make the business of art more fun; how the day-to-day running of your business can be the “ultimate joy” in your creative expression; and how artists/entrepreneurs are taking the lead in helping to turn around today’s economy.

• Bev is excited about her newest CCA initiative – presenting workshops worldwide in collaboration with other creative leaders. Her presentation is entitled, “Inspiring Creativity: 10 Keys To Unlock & Unleash Your Creative Potential.” [visit the CCA website]

Eric Maisel - Your Creative Career: An Overview

• Eric is an internationally-known creativity coach who, through his books, workshops, and personal coaching, has helped thousands of creative individuals jumpstart their careers and better handle the challenges of the creative life.
• Eric’s books include Fearless Creating, Creativity for Life, Coaching the Artist Within, The Van Gogh Blues, Creative Recovery and two dozen more.
• He has worked one-on-one with artists in every discipline on mapping out and implementing effective strategies for career enhancement. He shares those strategies in his monthly column for Art Calendar Magazine, in his podcast The Joy of Living Creatively on the Personal Life Media Network, and in his core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association.

[visit Eric’s website]

Bonus Gifts!

As a bonus for signing up, you’ll receive a “hot off the press” Art of the Song Creative Wisdom audio download. This is a 50 minute sampling of gems of wisdom gathered from 5 years of Art of the Song interviews. Featuring Arlo Guthrie, Jesse Winchester, Eliza Gilkyson, Kathy Mattea, Lynne Twist, Jonatha Brooke, Robert Mirabal and more, this wisdom collection is sure to inspire you whether you’re feeling blocked or not!

You’ll also receive an mp3 download of John Dillon’s song, Fast Movin’ Train featuring guest vocals by Peter Rowan. The song is from John’s award-winning CD Callin’ Me Home.

The third gift you will receive is a compilation of 20 tips from the presenters at last year’s Writers TeleSummit.

To repeat… here are the highlights:

• Forget something you heard at a session? Not to worry!—all the workshops are recorded and available to you as downloadable mp3s.
• Can’t make one or more of the workshops? No problem either! Listen to them later. You get all 6 sessions to keep and listen to at your convenience.
• Have a question of a speaker? We’ll open up the lines for questions near the end of each session
• No travel costs!
• Show up in your pajamas!
• No hotel costs!

Affiliate Program: Make money by signing up your friends!

Another bonus is sort of amazing. Join us as an Affiliate and you will receive a 30% commission on every registration referral you generate. That’s $29 per registration. Let your friends and associates know about Your Creative Career TeleSummit and if four of them register, you will pay nothing to attend! And for each additional sign up, you will make money.

[Make Money as an Affiliate!]

Upon submitting your sign up form you will receive an email with your Affiliate Link, log in and password. You may start using the Affiliate Link right away in emails and newsletters. Once you receive the email with your code, log in and password, you can use the Affiliate Members Button in the navigation bar on the right of this page to visit the Affiliate Resource Center at anytime to track your earnings!

Note: You can become an affiliate whether or not you want to attend TeleSummit. Our affiliate program is available to anyone who wants to let folks know about Your Creative Career TeleSummit. So join now!

This is the Time!

A few more words from Eric:

I’ve worked as a creativity coach for almost twenty-five years and I know what it takes to maintain a creative career. It isn’t easy—and it’s made harder by the isolation factor and by the lack of really useful resources available to you. When you attend Your Creative Career TeleSummit you’ll hear the friendly voices of 6 industry professionals who know firsthand the hardships, joys, and realities of the creative life. They have information at their fingertips that will make a difference. I hope you’ll leap at this exceptional experience! See you at Your Creative Career TeleSummit.

Absolutely No Risk!

We appreciate the trust it takes to order anything on the Internet. So, if for any reason, after attending the live event or listening to the recorded version you are unsatisfied, we will cheerfully refund your money. Just let us know by the end of April 2009 and we’ll take care of your request right away.