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Rave Reviews
"I hired Vickie after attending one of her day-long workshops.
Her phone sessions were intense, but incredibly productive. I had
some doubts about making what seemed like a huge commitment, but
the proof was in the pudding. My first seminar brought in enough
new business to almost cover the entire investment. I’m on
my way, thanks to Vickie!"
Martin D. Gould
Principal
www.focalizenow.com
"These CDs have helped me jumpstart my speaking
career. I booked over $100,000 in my first year (part time) and
have many of these tips to thank for it. Vickie makes a one of a
kind product (and she's a pretty funny voice in your head too!)."
Tim Sanders
Chief Solutions Officer Yahoo!
"From listening to your tapes I expected you to have a profound
understanding of the speaking industry and you exceeded my expectations
at every turn. Your research-based positioning of my background
and message has transformed how jaded decision-makers discuss my
keynotes and workshops. I would recommend you to other speakers
without reservation."
Dr. Steve Bedwell
Professional Speaker
www.SteveBedwell.com
"It is hard to put into words how Vickie tapped into the essence
of what we are about. Her intuition is well-honed, and her insights
and observations exacting. Her marketing approach mirrors our own
style and our strengths. This isn't sales work -- it's fun!"
Hildy Gottlieb
Co-Founder
www.help4nonprofits.com
"When you showed me how your recommendations could make me
$500,000 the first year, I didn't believe you. Well, you were wrong;
it took 18 months. That's good enough for me! Your findings were
radical - and right on. Thanks for your help in growing my business."
Cindy Miller, CEO
BTC Enterprises
"You took what was unique about me and created a concept that
differentiated my work in a way that I hadn't thought of. I tried
your positioning to a group of bureaus the next night and it was
a hit! I got interest from six different bureaus -- I know that
I wouldn't have gotten that response if it weren't for your strategic
direction. That alone has recouped my investment in working with
you. Bottom line: you delivered real-world results."
Mike Hourigan
Hourigan & Associates
www.mikehourigan.com
"Within six months after working with you, we have dramatically
improved our marketing effectiveness and signed contracts with the
two largest speakers bureaus in the country. We couldn't have done
it without your help with our message and our target market. Thanks
for your insights and encouragement!"
Garrison Wynn
Wynn Solutions
www.wynnsolutions.com
"Your work with me has doubled my income. In fact, I've doubled
my revenue from last year already and it's only April! Thanks for
your on-target advice and great newsletter."
Emily Kimball
The Aging Adventurer
Make It Happen!
"Vickie gave me a critical piece of advice about my demo video,
something no one has ever told me. Just 48 hours later, a buyer
from a large association said the exact same thing. This woman is
psychic!"
Debbie Bermont
Source Communications
www.simpleprinciples.com
"You were very thorough in your knowledge of the speaking
industry and of my situation. Your strategies were on target and
effective in moving my speaking to the markets I want to expand
in. Your advice also prevented costly mistakes I would have made
by following the traditional approach. Thanks for your help."
Chris Mercer, CEO
Mercer Capital
www.bizval.com
"After being in the speaking business for ten years, I thought
I heard every trick on how to get more business. Wrong! I was amazed
at the specific to-do's Vickie shared with me. Her processes really
worked for me, and right away! I did an "assignment" while
on an overseas speaking engagement, and when I got home, I had an
e-mail inviting me back, with a confirmed date!"
Richard Hadden, CSP
Co-Author, Contented Cows Give Better Milk
www.contentedcows.com
"It was worth every penny to get your perspective on how I
can talk about my work in a way that goes beyond project stories
to a speech that will really communicate the essence ... I will
never think about speaking the same way again."
Nell Merlino
President, Strategy Communication Action,
Ltd.
CEO, Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence
www.count-me-in.org
(Vickie's note: Count Me In has generated millions
of dollars in order to make small business loans to women across
the country. Her claim to fame with Strategy Communication Action
is creating and producing Take Our Daughters to Work Day.)
"Vickie's advice is right on target. After applying the techniques
I learned in her tapes alone, I obtained a consulting contract in
my target market. In the day I spent with her, I learned how to
reveal my uniqueness, differentiate me from the competition, and
leverage my research and writing projects for profit."
Amy Showalter
The Showalter Group, Inc.
www.showaltergroup.com
"Vickie gave a focus to my scattered business, helping me
to narrow in on what was my unique saleable message. Since working
with her, I've doubled both my fees and bookings. My message sells
itself, without having to send a video or press kit."
Marcia Reynolds
Author of " Being In the Zone"
1999-2000 President, International Coach Federation
www.covisioning.com
"Vickie Sullivan has a real knack for helping people work
smarter, not harder, in reaching the next level of their professional
career. The return on investment is as close as you can come to
a sure thing."
Alan Weiss, Ph.D.
Author, Money Talks: How to Make A Million
As A Speaker
"There are few people who have made significant changes in
my career. Vickie Sullivan is among those few. Unlike so many "coaches"
or "mentors", Vickie goes way beyond mere recommendations
to increase your success. She digs down to the strategic foundations
and builds on those fundamentals to deliver long range solutions
with immediate results. Since working with Vickie, my rates have
soared and every single event at which I have spoken has rated me
top in their evaluations."
Rob Frankel
Author, "The Revenge of Brand X"
www.FrankelBiz.com
"Working with you was amazing. You not only did what you said
you would but far exceeded our expectations. Your ability to quickly,
yet accurately, synthesize our company information into a meaningful
focus was terrific. The work we did on repositioning and refocusing
our organizations has already paid off! We look forward to more
great results as we move forward this year. On behalf of the whole
Thunderbolt Team-thank you."
Grace McGartland
President, Thunderbolt Thinking Inc.
Author of "Thunderbolt Thinking"
www.ThunderboltThinking.com
“The few dollars that I invested in listening to and applying
your savvy strategy … generated over $65,000 in product sales
and seminar fees in just eight months. I cannot thank you enough,
Vickie!”
Marcia Lambert
Custom Care, Bellevue WA
"It has only been one month since I worked with Vickie and
I've already attracted three ideal clients by using her strategies.
Could I have come up with this stuff on my own? I'm not sure --
but if so it would have taken me years to create what she came up
with in one day. Vickie helped shift my business into overdrive!"
Rich Fettke, MCC
Speaker - Author - Success Coach
www.FETTKE.com
"As a full-time Custom Builder and published author, I started
speaking on a part-time basis … from your training, I increased
my speaking engagements to the point where I could almost replace
my income from building within my first year. If there is anyone
out there seriously interested in building his or her organization
to its highest levels of success, I strongly recommend you as guru,
coach and marketing specialist."
Lawrence Salloitte
The Power Institute
Ann Arbor, Michigan
"I appreciated your advice on career positioning as well as
helping me to identify my target audience. Your direction helped
me to not lose sight of the fact that this is indeed a competitive
business as well. Not surprisingly, my fees doubled within six months
of our consulting sessions and yes, the bureaus have also started
to book my services."
Kate Sheridan
Atlanta, GA
"Vickie is the real deal. Her no holds barred, contrarian
ideas work, pure and simple. I'm still shocked at the business I
immediately generated as a result of her positioning and marketing
concepts."
Michael Scott
Empowerment Unlimited Inc.
"I had the skills but not the savvy . . . the background but
not the backbone . . . the intent but not the intensity. One day
with Vickie Sullivan transformed my confusion about the speaking/
consulting business into solid direction. I learned how to leverage
my speaking and consulting into new business opportunity. Just weeks
after our consultation, Vickie helped me close a $13,000 consulting
deal with a prospect that would not get off the fence. Now I expect
multiple speaking and facilitating engagements from this new client
by using Vickie's Springboard Marketing."
David Crowley
Resonate, Inc.
www.Resonating.com
"Wow Vickie!! Within a week of working with you I was delivering
my new message and landed a six-figure consulting deal that’s
ongoing and just getting better. Thanks for so adeptly helping me
to help myself. You are brilliant!"
Peter McGugan
Author of "Beating Burnout:
"When Something Changes Everything"
"Vickie helped me reposition my expertise in a way that set
me apart from my peers and immediately enabled my target audience
to see the value. Result: I generated speaking opportunities in
the new marketplace within 60 days. And all without cold calls!"
Pamela S. Harper, President
Business Advancement Inc.
www.businessadvance.com
"Vickie was well-informed and knew what she was talking about
when she spoke on getting others to sponsor you. She broke it down
so we could identify our own situation and what steps to take. She
also helped me realize that I had sponsors in the past and could
proactively get them again."
JJ Lauderbaugh
Lauderbaugh & Associates, Inc.
www.JJLauderbaugh.com
(Vickie's note: JJ was a participant in my teleseminar
"Getting High Fee Speaking Engagements Through Sponsorships".)
"Your expertise helped us focus our message into small nuggets
of wisdom that differentiated our work from other consultants. We
get great responses from our audiences. More importantly, you broaden
your work and extended your schedule to include what we needed without
"nickel and dime-ing" us. We knew that we could rely on
you for anything. Thanks for being so supportive."
Lizz Pellet and PJ Brouchard
Principals, Emerge, Inc.
Authors of "Get Your Shift Together"
"Vickie's work was very effective in helping me move to the
next level in my speaking career. What was so surprising was how
valuable her work was years later when I was ready to move to an
even higher level. Her work has long-term value for short-term investment."
Barbara Hemphill
Author, Taming the Paper Tiger
www.thepapertiger.com
"Before working with Vickie, I marketed my speaking the same
way everyone else did: hired someone to make phone calls. Vickie
showed me why that strategy would never work for me and gave me
a completely different approach. I ended up booking and making more
money in the six months after consulting with her than I had made
in the previous two years. It was incredible."
Dr. Bill Kerley
Houston Texas, 1997-98 President, Houston
Chapter, NSA
Personal Growth Strategies
www.bkspeaks.com
"After three months of coaching from Vickie, gross sales from
books and products increased by 50%. After six months coaching from
Vickie, gross sales from books and products increased by 200%. My
overall gross sales from consulting YTD are up by 50%. Vickie has
been the firing pin for building my business."
Jane Tait
Workforce, Efficiency Expert
1997-98 President, Heart of Texas Chapter, NSA
"Vickie played an important role in my transition from one-shot
speaking engagements to more long term work in the corporate environment.
Her strategies were effective in getting work with companies such
as Texas Instruments and Raytheon without making tons of cold calls.
Her repositioning of my work has paid off big!"
Judy Buch
NESA '98-'99 President, CSP Candidate
'96 "Ventriloquist of the Year"
www.judybuch.com
"From one audience, the sponsoring bureau and I received six
inquiries immediately following my presentation and another one
early the next morning. Best and quickest responses I've ever gotten.
Have I said thank you yet? ... Of all the investments we've made
in our business, I consider your services among the most practically
valuable. We've begun using your strategies to exceed our already
aggressive revenue goals."
Jim Bearden
NSA HOT Chapter President 1998-99
Bearden Resource Group
www.JimBearden.com
"Since I began working with Vickie 20 months ago, my fees
have tripled. Product sales from July '97 to July '98 were up over
500% from techniques she suggested. Vickie is an expert in lazering
what you do and the benefits of your program and presenting them
in a manner that meeting professionals see the potential. I thought
I was allergic to marketing until Vickie showed me how to do it
"my way" and succeed."
Perry A~
Perry Productions
www.perrya.com
"Vickie helped me to strategize my business plans for the
long-term. We discussed my goals, and Vickie turned on her laser
beam. She (a) asked all the right questions, and (b) came up with
a brilliant series of ideas, many of which have been implemented.
One of her ideas was Negotiation Boot Camp, which has been a big
success. The goals I outlined for Vickie—including a doubling
of income—have been realized. Without her help, I'd probably
still be back where I was. Vickie is one of the few people working
with speakers whom I trust. She's tops in my book."
Ed Brodow
Keynotes & Seminars on Negotiation
Author of Negotiate With Confidence
www.brodow.com
"When I think of Vickie, the phrase "insightfully creative"
comes to mind. She provides a depth of knowledge, combined with
a slight twist that sets her work apart from anyone else. Each time
we talk I am again impressed by Vickie’s ability to hone in
on the issues, then provide a new perspective that works!"
Jeanette Cates
The Technology Tamer
www.techtamers.com
"Vickie was a master at helping me focus very tightly on my
passion and message. Her hub theory is incredibly valuable in determining
the talents, desires and direction one wants to create. Vickie’s
support and energy are stimulating – promoting a desire to
take action. She is a master at her work."
Alexandra Delis-Abrams, PhD
Host – "Your Feelings Friend"
Radio show
Author, ABC Feelings
"Vickie Sullivan was extremely effective in helping me make
the transition from a professional educator to a professional speaker.
I noticed a very different reaction from the audience after working
with Vickie. She's the best!"
Ronald Caloss, Ed.D.
(Former school superintendent of the largest
district in Texas)
Bedford, TX
"By the time we worked with you, we had tried a lot of different
approaches that hadn't worked ... You helped us identify the best
of our best, set new priorities and rekindled our enthusiasm and
confidence. After spending some time with you, a fresh energy swept
through, and our business took off ... we haven't made a single
cold call since! Wow!"
Arden Bercovitz
Einstein Alive!
www.EinsteinAlive.com
"Warner Development has worked with Vickie Sullivan to implement
her Springboard Marketing concepts off and on for about six months.
In that short period of time, her ideas, game plan, and her mind-blowing
business savvy have earned us two international contracts and a
six-figure consulting/training program, while consistently helping
us transform initial entry level programs into long term projects.
Our business has tripled since implementing Sullivan's marketing
approach to growth!"
John Warner
Warner Development
WarnerDev@aol.com
"When I first started in the professional speaking industry,
I had made the same mistake as many people make...your input about
the expectations of meeting planners and the trends in the speaking
industry were crucial for me...you were incredibly helpful to me
in identifying who can help me and, more importantly, how they could
do that."
Pavla Michaela Polcarova
CPR Coaching Services
www.cprcoaching.com
"Thanks to Vickie's direction, we were
able to jump start our business in a really big way. Within three
years, we went from working full time jobs to generating $600,000
on our own. With the big contracts her branding advice helped us
get, we're on our way to our seven figure goals next year. These
results were definitely worth the investment we made in her work."
Suzette Autrey
Practicing Perfection Institute, Inc.
www.PracticingPerfectionInstitute.com
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