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Conquering Conferences: Submission
and Speaking Tips for Industry Events Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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AMSRS National Conference
Co-Chair 2013
MD@ Direction First
Today’s Speakers….
President & CMO,
Decipher
Founder, WIRe
Erica van Lieven
Kristin Luck
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The Trend…
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Where will you be speaking in 2014?
AMSRS – Annual National Conference // 4-5th Sep
QPMR Event in 2014
AMSRS Breakfast Seminar
Client Meeting
AMA – Annual MR & Strategy Summit // Sep
ESOMAR – Annual Congress // Sep
CASRO – Annual Conference // Oct
MRA/Quirks/CEB – Corporate Researchers Conference // Oct
QRCA – Annual Qualitative Research Conference // Oct
IIR – Annual TMRE Conference // Oct
Res & Results – Research & Results 2013 (1) // Oct
ESOMAR – Qualitative MR Conference // Nov
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Enjoying presenting at conferences
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The Parts of Your Submission
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o Title
o Bio
o Abstract (market it!)
o Paper outline/synopsis
– Purpose and contribution to the field
– Background/methodology
– Relevance
– Findings
o Audience takeaways
Where to Submit?
AAPOR – Academic
AMSRS – Call for papers now, or just get involved
CASRO – Modes and methodologies
AMA – Marketing
MRA – Education
CASRO – Education, US? Yes!
MRIA – Education, Canada? Yes!
MRS – UK? Yes!
ESOMAR – Researchers, Europe? Yes!
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The Topic
o Something you are really inquisitive about
o Something you would like to solve once and for all
o Something you are doing now and would like to challenge
o Something you think could be done better
o What do you LOVE!
o A tweet that made you furious
o A LinkedIn discussion you can prove
o A Facebook comment you can refute
o Your research passion project!
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Keep it simple
Have something new or different to say
Link it with the conference theme
Out line the problem and how you are going to solve it
Think about the reviewers…they don’t want to read 50 pages
Give it a fun title
Make it interesting, engage your reviewer
Submitting the Synopsis
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Ultimately you need to convince the committee that you have
something new to say, and that you will say it well!
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Your Photo (the bad)…
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Your Photo (the good)…
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Your Submission
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• Specific
• Actionable
• Take-aways
• Specific
• Actionable
• Take-awaysyou
Needs to be brief
Needs to be interesting
Needs to convince the committee that you have something to say
Needs to convince the committee the presentation will be great!
This years AMSRS committee have simplified the form, see link here: http://www.amsrs.com.au/documents/item/1285
Your synopsis:
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Your Summary
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Your Presentation
o Always prepare your own presentation
o You need to build the story and transitions in your head or it will not flow
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9 seconds to make a first
impression
25 seconds to consolidate this
2 minutes before people switch off
and think about something else
YOU HAVE:
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In other words...
“It doesn’t matter how intelligent,
creative, or hard working
you are if no-one is listening.”
Michelle Bowden http://michellebowden.com.au/
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o Speak to the audience
o Teach the audience
o Lecture at the audience
Speaking Tips
o Relax with the audience
o Interact with the audience
o Tell a story (an interesting one!)
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DO NOT
DO
Don’t be this guy
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The Rejection
Translation: o Please submit to 3 other conferences
o Turn it into a webinar
o Turn it into 2 white papers
o Turn it into 4 blog posts
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“Your proposal was excellent but due to the high volume of submissions, we regret to inform you…”
Annie Pettit, @LoveStats
Melanie Courtright, @MelCourtright
Erica vanlieven @directionfirst.com
If you can, get some help:
Michelle Bowden “How to Present”
Special thanks again to…
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