Blaze Conference Tour Resources

Dare 2 Share’s amazing Marketing Team has been hard at work developing new, cool resources to promote the Blaze conferences! You will find everything from posters, flashbanners, a letter to parents, logos…it’s all found at this link:

http://www.dare2share.org/conferences/resources/

Have fun using these resources to promote the conference in your city and with your teens!

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Don’t forget to throw out your guesses as to the two cities we might be considering for the 2010-11 conference tour!

My Sales Team at Dare 2 Share – August Review

I love my Sales Team (all 6 of them, 7 of them starting 9/21) and everything that they have accomplished recently.  They have been successful over the past few months in a very trying economic time and our Blaze conference tour is looking incredible right now!  I love the effort they have put into our success and the results they have been able to generate.  We typically take one of our 15-minute team check-ins at the beginning of a new month to acknowledge the hard work, celebrate what we accomplished for that previous month, and I award 2 “traveling” trophies to celebrate the Ministry Advocate that has earned the Registration Sales trophy and our Curriculum Sales trophy.  These trophies are “traveling” as they change hands at the end of each month if another Ministry Advocate was able to de-throne the previous month’s winner.  This is one of my favorite meetings of the month.

All of that being said, I had a team member approach me a few weeks ago and mentioned to me that I was doing a great job celebrating the top performers, as I should, but I was missing an opportunity I used to take advantage of in celebrating everyone on the team that hit their Call Activities as well as their Sales Numbers.  Example: last month 6 of 7 Ministry Advocates hit their Sales Numbers for the month but only the top performer was rewarded with our trophy for Registration Sales. 

Then this morning I was reading Sales Caffeine by Jeffrey Gitomer and his article was on rewarding those who have earned it.  It hit my right between the eyes that by rewarding my two top performers (sometimes the same person) I was doing a good thing, but by not acknowledging the individual team members that also did their job and hit their numbers, I wasn’t doing a great thing.  He also mentioned blogging about it so here I am typing away!

All of that being said, I am still going to reward my top performers for their successes each month, but I also want to encourage and reward anyone on my Sales Team that go the job done and hit their numbers as well.  Trust me, they will still be fighting for the trophies – they are sales people and they are passionate about what we represent!

August Sales Awards

Registration Sales Trophy – Joni Scudder, Ministry Advocate to Chicago
Curriculum Sales Trophy – John Musil, Ministry Advocate to Columbus

100+% to Sales Forecast – Joni Scudder, Ministry Advocate to Chicago; John Musil, Ministry Advocate to Columbus; Jamie Stanley, Ministry Advocate to Phoenix; Adam Cedillo, Ministry Advocate to Seattle; Chuck Acker, Ministry Advocate to St. Louis.

Exceeding Call Stats – Brian Conn, Ministry Advocate to Denver; Joni Scudder, Ministry Advocate to Chicago

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Congratulations Team on a great August!  I look forward to celebrating our efforts and success in September!

 

Dare 2 Share’s Blaze conference schedule

Before we kick-off the conference tour in Denver on November 6-7, we have several Youth Leader trainings and lunches scheduled for September and October.  Here is the FIRESTARTER Youth Leader Training line-up:

	City:	Date:	Time:	Location:
	Columbus, OH	09-15-2009	11:00-1:30	Dave & Buster’s
	Lincoln, NE	09-29-2009	11:00-1:00	The Lodge at Wilderness Ridge
	Kansas City, KS	09-30-2009	11:00-1:00	Dave & Buster’s
	Phoenix, AZ	10-06-2009	11:00-1:00	Dave & Buster’s
	Seattle, WA	10-13-2009	11:00-1:00	Marriot Redmond Hotel
	Portland, OR	10-14-2009	11:00-1:00	Bullwinkle’s
	Addison, IL	10-20-2009	11:00-1:30	Dave & Buster’s
	St. Louis, MO	10-27-2009	11:00-1:00	Dave & Buster’s
	Springfield, MO	11-17-2009	11:00-1:00	Incredible Pizza

CLICK HERE to RSVP to attend the Youth Leader training closest to you!

In addition to these great trainings we are offering this fall, make sure to get your teens out to our Blaze conference tour this year!

Denver, CO	November 6-7, 2009
Columbus, OH	February 5-6, 2010
Lincoln, NE	February 26-27, 2010
Phoenix, AZ	March 5-6, 2010
Seattle, WA	March 12-13, 2010
Chicago, IL	March 19-20, 2010
St. Louis, MO	March 26-27, 2010

CLICK HERE to learn more about this year’s conference tour and to get your FREE promotional DVD!

Top 10 reasons I hate working at Dare 2 Share

So you know things are bad when your boss is the one that asks you to post the top 10 reasons you hate working.  I hope everyone enjoys the humor in this.  Thanks for the idea Debb!

1. Every time you ask for a raise you get reminded that your treasures are in Heaven.  If they paid more now we’d get less in Heaven…I’m beginning to think Heaven is going to be good enough as it is.
2. You are guaranteed to spend the majority of your day in meetings.
3. When you complain about too many meetings, you are invited to a meeting to discuss ways to reduce the numbers of meetings you are in.
4. After so many meetings you can’t find time to get the work done that was discussed in all of those meetings.  The solution, have more meetings to discuss how you can get more done with less time to do things.
5. What do I care?  Greg’s already fired me 7 times in 2009 anyway!
6. #1 Favorite quote from superiors, “We realize that we are asking you to do twice as much as we told you we needed you to do when you were hired… No, we can’t hire additional staff to help you with that… No, there aren’t additional resources to get those things done…Yes, you have to get it all done in the same amount of time…I’m sorry,  I don’t understand what the problem is.”
7. #2 Favorite quote from superiors, “Where are you going this evening?  I didn’t know you’d already worked 16 hours today?”
8. Did I mention that I probably get asked into another meeting for posting this blog.  I anticipate being fired for the 8th time in 2009.
9. Time stood still when I was in grade school waiting for the final bell to ring.  At Dare 2 Share, the clock actually moves backwards.
10. All of your great ideas are credited to Zane.   Why do you deserve the credit anyway?  No one’s ever heard 8,000 teens scream for you when you walked into an arena.  I’m sorry, what was your name again anyway?