Welcome to HA'S 4 Biz: Humor Accelerator Summit for Business
Welcome to Humor Accelerator Summit For Business.
The platform is Zoom.
The structure is great speakers sharing great knowledge in an interactive virtual environment.
The goal is to create high energy and engagement.
We're here to learn, make connections, and have fun. There will be great talks, engaging networking, and many laughs. (Can you imagine how much fun the networking breakouts will be in an event about humor in business?)
Your Talk
The speaker slots are 15 minutes. The concept is to have a quick, fun cadence. In your talk, you should focus on one key thing that people can learn.
If your talk is interactive, meaning you engage with the audience, bring someone up for a demonstration, or otherwise get people involved, you can stretch to 20 minutes, and we'll just shorten the speed networking or Q&A block after your talk.
While you can do a regular presentation with slides and all, I do encourage you to engage with the audience as well. They are there in the Zoom room. Make them feel like you're there with them.
Interview or Presentation
You can do presentation style or Michael Whitehouse can interview you. Or both. You can present for a bit and be interviewed for a bit. We will also do Q&A if there's time.
Open Interaction
The talks will be 15 minutes, and at the last 15 minutes of each hour there will be a Q&A break. That means that people may stick around to ask questions or they may dash off during that time.
Offers and Gifts
You are welcome and encouraged to offer a gift or goodie to the audience during your talk. You can also share that link so it goes onto our gift list.
You are welcome and encouraged to offer something of greater value for our VIPs.
These are two different things. One for everyone who shows up free, and one for the people who paid for the $47 upgrade. You can do both, or just one. Up to you! It's experimental!
To be clear, down below, you'll see a “Gift” and “VIP Gift." The “Gift” is available to everyone who registered. The “VIP Gift” is available to the VIPs.
Recordings
All presentations will be recorded. They will be available to all VIPs and all speakers. Additionally, some videos may be shared out to attendees or others on my list for various reasons including promoting that speaker's affiliate link or program.
Your Time Commitment
As a speaker, we ask you to join us for at least two hours of the event so that you will get to meet (and connect with) some of the other speakers. You need to be on at least half an hour before your scheduled speaking time so we know you're here.
Of course, you are welcome and encouraged to stay longer.
There's something funny about this summit.
We often think of business as something that is very serious: something you don't joke about.
But the most memorable marketing campaigns are the funny ones. The best salespeople make you laugh. You can tell a good team because they laugh in meetings.
This is a serious summit to learn seriously powerful ways to use humor in marketing, sales, team management, and all aspects of business to make more money by making sure everyone is having fun.
This is the third summit in a series after The Great Experiment Summit and The Abundance Minded Entrepreneur Summit. Since this is being planned concurrently The Abundance Minded Entrepreneur Summit (May 23-24), it is possible that some details may change based on what we learn in May.
We are looking for fun, smart, engaging speakers who give a great short talk from the waist up.
Purpose of Humor Accelerator Summit for Business
The purpose of this event is to provide tools and strategies to employ humor in all aspects of our business to increase the top line, the bottom line, the middle line, and to curve that line under our nose upwards.
The Audience
As an event, the content/audience focus is entrepreneurs, business owners, and business leaders in various industries.
Your Speaker Experience
We're very flexible in the approach to this event making it a playground for speakers. This event is
not optimized for opt-ins or sales or any particular agenda. The focus is on creating a great experience for the community who joins us. It just so happens that creating a great experience tends to lead to more opt ins and sales, but that comes second.
If there's something you want to do, then I'll probably say “sure, why not?” Just don't be pitchy. Pitching okay. Infomercial, less so. :)
Do You Have to be Funny?
The theme of the event is humor, so your topic must be humor related. This does not mean you need to be funny. If you are a humorless scientist who has studied the science of humor and can teach us powerful humor tips that's cool. You don't have to be a comedian to teach about humor… but it helps.
Event Style
The event will be a live, Zoom-based event running a full day. (The event is 7/11 11-7 in New York, or 11/7 7-11 in Seychelles)
We're aiming for engagement. We want an event where people feel they are part of something, not where they feel like they are watching a YouTube video.
This means that we'll have interactive activities. It means we encourage interactive presentations. We encourage it so much that interactive presentations get an extra 5 minutes!
It also means that we encourage speakers to be there for as much of the event as possible because you'll be making some connections while you're there, and as a speaker, you are expected to be there for at least 2 hours, including at least the speaker slot before yours.
Schedule Structure
Speaking slots will be 15 minutes, or if it is interactive, you get 20 minutes. Interactive can be anything from bringing someone on stage to taking questions.
Each hour will be formatted as follows:
0-15 Speaker
15-30 Speed Networking
30-45 Speaker
45-60 Q&A for previous two speakers/break
Recordings
All presentations will be recorded. They will be available to all VIPs and all speakers. Additionally, some videos may be shared out to attendees or others on my list for various reasons including promoting that speaker's affiliate link or program.
Promotion
Speakers are expected to promote at least three times, and a minimum of 5 opt-ins are expected from each speaker. Swipe copy will be provided, or you can write your own copy. If you write really good copy, I'll share it with the other speakers and credit you.
If you bring in at least 10 opt ins, I will promote your affiliate offer to my entire list.
The top three promoters (by total opt-ins) will be promoted to the entire list of attendees and my own entire mailing list, whatever you would like to share (within reason), no affiliate necessary.