Speaker Information + Resources
Hello hello! We’re so excited to team up with you to put together something that’s going to be absolutely incredible and help so many people!
The NCP Virtual Business Vitality Summit is a 4-day online event to business owners in the Niagara Region to help them gain valuable insights and practical resources to address growth, labour and community issues within your own organizations.
On this page, you’ll find all kinds of resources meant to make your life as a speaker as easy as humanly possible, and also answer any questions you might have.
If you run into a question I didn’t answer, email me at info@lincolnchamber.ca or message Emilia on Instagram at @lincoln.chamber
As a speaker, you’ll also get free access to the All Access Pass (this is the name of the lifetime-access pass)!
Quick Access Links
How it will work
The summit will run from Monday November 25th through Thursday November 28th.
Presentations will include 15-20 minutes of pre-recorded content and you live in a chatbox for one hour at your scheduled time *optional*
At the end of your presentation, you can spend 3-5 mins offering a freebie that relates to your presentation, in order to help attendees further learn/implement what you talked about (and of course to get them on your email list and in your orbit!). All we ask is that you please don’t make a whole super pitch-y part of your presentation.
While the presentations themselves are pre-recorded, all speakers are encouraged to attend their presentation’s scheduled “chat time” live to interact with attendees in the chatbox for at least one hour that your presentation on the day that your presentation goes live.
If you agreed to participate in any live events during the summit:
I’ll send you specific details for each live event ahead of time. But in general, you’ll just need to show up in the video call at least 15 minutes before the live event.
Leading up to the summit, we’ll have two weeks of promotion. You’ll be provided with email swipe copy, social media swipe copy, and social media graphics to make it all as easy as possible for you!
We’ll even have a suggested posting/sending schedule for you to make promo easy to outsource to a fellow employee or communications staff.
If you have any additional ideas on a promotions, and would like to have an Executive Director from one of the NCP Partnerships, Let us know! Shoot us an email at info@lincolnchamber.ca with your thoughts and we’ll make it work.
What I'll ask of you
So this all sounds great, but what kind of work does it require of you? And what do you get out of it? Let’s chat about it!
My goal is to make this all as easy as humanly possible for you, so we can all have a blast while having a huge impact on our neurodivergent community and growing our businesses at the same time.
Here are the nitty gritty details for each of the things I’ll need from you as a speaker:
1. Basic Information
Explain what kind of information you’ll need to feature them on your website
2. Presentation
Now for the most important part: your presentation!
This is a 15-20ish minute pre-recorded presentation that is meant to be more friendly and casual than perfect and structured. We want our attendees to learn something great, while having fun in the process.
Please structure your content in a way that allows attendees to walk away feeling like they’ve really learned something or had a huge perspective shift, rather than a webinar format where they feel like they’re missing something that they need to buy from you asap.
This year, you have the option between three types of presentations:
Teaching a tactic/strategy/approach that may work for their businesses better that’s different from the usual online business advice (probably something you’re an expert in or teach in your business)
The goal with these is to give them new ideas and fresh takes on things that have always been taught in a certain way.
Can be slides, no slides, or a mixture of both
Perspective-shifting around how they think about their brain and neuroidentity (i.e. I want them to feel empowered by their neurodivergence in a world where we’ve struggled and/or been shamed for how our brains work).
This is more towards the coaching end of things.
Can be slides, no slides, or a mixture of both
PLEASE NOTE: If you don't have capacity to create a whole presentation, you have the option to do it interview-style instead.
If you’d like to go with the interview-style presentation, schedule a time with me to do that here by October 23rd at the latest (the sooner, the better). We’ll work together to come up with questions ahead of our interview.
No matter what format you choose, you are free to use your presentation however you’d like in the future.
Presentations are due by Wednesday, October 30
3. All-Access/Digital Coupon Book Contribution
During the promotion phase, as the summit is running, and for a few days after the summit is complete, we’ll also be promoting the All Access/Digital Coupon Book.
This all-access pass includes:
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Ongoing all-access pass for the replays - 🎥 Replays of the Live Panels
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A bundle of speaker contributed bonuses
This will provide immense value to our attendees, while making the work of promoting and creating a presentation worthwhile.
4. Promotion
Leading up to the summit, we’ll have two weeks of promotion. You’ll be provided with email swipe copy, social media swipe copy, and social media graphics to make it all as easy as possible for you!
We’ll even have a suggested posting/sending schedule for you to make promo easy to outsource to your communications team.
5. Live Participation
If you agreed to participate in any live events during the summit:
We’ll send you specific details for each live event ahead of time. But in general, you’ll just need to show up in the video call at least 15 minutes before the live event.
You will be aware of these live events before they happen, and they are meant for conversations and connection.
Sponsorship Information
We’re offering sponsorship opportunities for the summit!
Since you’re a speaker, you’re already poised to have a huge impact on attendees and grow your network in awesome ways.
These sponsorship packages (particularly the Day and Session levels) offer extra opportunities to engage with and get in front of attendees even more, and also provide bonus opportunities for list growth.
👉 Check out the sponsorship packages here for details
Quick Important Note: As a speaker (regardless of whether you choose to sponsor), you are the most important and impactful element of this event. The summit wouldn’t even exist without you. So I just want to assure you that the presence of sponsors won’t diminish your impact or opportunity as a speaker.
Resource Vault
Current Action Steps
✅ Send in your basic info
✅ Schedule your live chatbox hour
✅ Submit presentation recording (Due: Oct 30)
✅ Submit your All-Access Pass/Digital Coupon Book contribution (Due: Oct 30)
✅ Express interest in participating in Live Panels (optional) (Due: Nov 7)
There’s more info about all of these things below.
Important Dates
✅ Basic information: ASAP, due October 23
✅ Live Action Lab Panel hour scheduled: ASAP
✅ Presentation: due Oct 30
✅ All Access Pass / Digital Coupon Book contribution: due Oct 30
Promotion period starts: Nov 1
Summit dates: Nov 25 – Nov 28, 2024
All Access Pass cart closes: Dec 5
Tell them where to contact you with questions
Something we missed? Email info@lincolnchamber.ca or message Emilia on Instagram (@lincoln.chamber)
Speaker Information + Resources
everything you'll ever need as a speaker for the
Niagara Chamber Partnership Virtual Summit
Hello hello! We’re so excited to team up with you to put together something that’s going to be absolutely incredible and help so many people!
The NCP Virtual Business Vitality Summit is a 4-day online event to business owners in the Niagara Region to help them gain valuable insights and practical resources to address growth, labour and community issues within your own organizations.
On this page, you’ll find all kinds of resources meant to make your life as a speaker as easy as humanly possible, and also answer any questions you might have.
If you run into a question we didn’t answer, email me at info@lincolnchamber.ca or message Emilia on Instagram at @lincoln.chamber
As a speaker, you’ll also get free access to the All Access Digital Coupon Book (this is the name of the lifetime-access pass)!
QUICK ACCESS LISTS
Action Steps:
✅ Send in your basic info
✅ Schedule your Quick Preso Planning Call with me
✅ Schedule your live chatbox hour
✅ Submit presentation recording (Due: May 27)
✅ Submit your All-Access Pass contribution (Due: May 27)
✅ Express interest in participating in Live Panels (optional) (Due: May 27)
✅ Submit your Giveaway Prize (optional) (Due: June 10)
There’s more info about all of these things below.
Key Dates:
✅ Basic information: ASAP, due October 23
✅ Live Action Lab Panel hour scheduled: ASAP
✅ Presentation: due Oct 23
✅ All Access Pass contribution: due Oct 23
Promotion period starts: Oct 17
Summit dates: Nov 4 – Nov 7, 2024
All Access Pass cart closes: Tues July 30
Other Handy Links:
How it'll all work
🎉 THE EVENT
The summit will run from Monday Jul 22nd through Thursday Jul 25th.
Presentations will include 25-35 minutes of pre-recorded content and you live in a chatbox for one hour at your scheduled time.
At the end of your presentation, you can spend 3-5 mins offering a freebie that relates to your presentation, in order to help attendees further learn/implement what you talked about (and of course to get them on your email list and in your orbit!). All I ask is that you please don’t make it a whole super pitch-y part of your presentation.
While the presentations themselves are pre-recorded (to save all of our sanity), all speakers are asked to attend their presentation’s scheduled “chat time” live to interact with attendees in the chatbox for at least one hour that your presentation on the day that your presentation goes live. There is no live video component, so attendance in pjs is recommended 😄
If you agreed to participate in any live events during the summit:
I’ll send you specific details for each live event ahead of time. But in general, you’ll just need to show up in the video call at least 15 minutes before the live event.
💖 COMMUNITY
Along with the live presentations, there will be a free Facebook Group for attendees (and speakers!) to hang out in, make new biz friends in, celebrate all our unique brains, and ask questions.
Both years that I’ve run this summit, the Facebook was hopping with activity! Both in the two weeks leading up to the summit and during the event 
I really genuinely encourage you to engage with attendees in the Facebook Group leading up to the summit. 1) It’s super fun and they’re awesome, but 2) it will get people really hyped about attending your event! They’ll be able to recognize you as a speaker because you’ll have an [Expert] tag in the group.
📣 PROMO
Leading up to the summit, we’ll have two weeks of promotion. You’ll be provided with email swipe copy, social media swipe copy, and social media graphics to make it all as easy as possible for you!
I’ll even have a suggested posting/sending schedule for you to make promo easy to outsource to a VA.
If you have a podcast/video channel, and would like to have me as a guest before the summit as an additional way to promote, I’m totally down! Shoot me an email with details, and schedule that will make sure it goes live before the summit, and we’ll make it happen! Or if you want to go live together on Instagram, or any other fun promo ideas, just hit me up!
💰 MOOLAH
During the promotion phase, as the summit is running, and for a few days after the summit is complete, we’ll also be promoting the Busy Brains Pass (this is our fun branded name for the all-access pass 🤗)
This all-access pass includes:
- Ongoing all-access pass for the replays (plus transcripts and slides)
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Ongoing access to the private podcast feed of all the presentations -
Written article versions of all the presentations - 🎥 Replays of the Live Panels
- A bundle of speaker & affiliate contributed bonuses
This will provide immense value to our attendees, while making the work of promoting and creating a presentation worthwhile by allowing you to bring in affiliate commissions. Yay!
As a speaker, you’ll promote your affiliate link to the free registration page, and anyone you refer who signs up for the free event will be cookied with your affiliate cookie! If they sign up for the Busy Brains Pass at any point after they sign up, you’ll get 40% commission on that sale (50% if you contributed to the Busy Brains Pass).
(more details about this in the Affiliate Details section below)
After the summit, I will be offering my new group coaching program Brain-Friendly Business to attendees who have shown interest.
You will earn a 30% commission on any sales from attendees you’ve referred, which will come to a payout of $540 per sale.
Being a speaker
So this all sounds great, but what kind of work does it require of you? And what do you get out of it? Let’s chat about it!
My goal is to make this all as easy as humanly possible for you, so we can all have a blast while having a huge impact on our neurodivergent community and growing our businesses at the same time.
Here are the nitty gritty details for each of the things I’ll need from you as a speaker:
1️⃣ BASIC INFO
The first thing I’ll need is some very basic information from you so I can finish up our registration page and Speakers page.
If you haven’t already, shoot me an email to give me the thumbs up that you’re in, and then go to this form to send me what I need!
2️⃣ PRESO PLANNING CALL
This year, I’m asking all speakers to schedule a quick call with me at the beginning of the process, so that we can get to know each other (if we don’t already), so that I can answer any questions you have about the summit, but most importantly, so we can do some planning about your presentation.
This will be a chance for us to get on the same page about the vision for the presentation, what it will be about, what will be covered, the angles you’ll take as you present, and how to make it super actionable for attendees.
You can schedule that here >>
3️⃣ SCHEDULE YOUR LIVE CHATBOX HOUR
The next thing I’ll need is for you to schedule your one-hour live chat time! This will also determine what day your presentation goes live.
You can schedule this here >>
⚠ (Slots are first-come first-served, so if you have a tight schedule or live in a different timezone, be sure to grab your spot right away!)
While your presentation will be pre-recorded, you’ll still be required to be in the chat live during your scheduled chat time to answer questions and connect with attendees.
4️⃣ PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS
Now for the most important part: your presentation!
This is a 25-35ish minute pre-recorded presentation that is meant to be more friendly and casual than perfect and structured. We want our attendees to learn something great, while having fun in the process.
Please structure your content in a way that allows attendees to walk away feeling like they’ve really learned something or had a huge perspective shift, rather than a webinar format where they feel like they’re missing something that they need to buy from you asap.
This year, you have the option between three types of presentations:
Teaching a tactic/strategy/approach that may work for their brains better that’s different from the usual online business advice (probably something you’re an expert in or teach in your business)
The goal with these is to give them new ideas and fresh takes on things that have always been taught in a certain way.
Can be slides, no slides, or a mixture of both
Perspective-shifting around how they think about their brain and neuroidentity (i.e. I want them to feel empowered by their neurodivergence in a world where we’ve struggled and/or been shamed for how our brains work).
This is more towards the coaching end of things.
Can be slides, no slides, or a mixture of both
🎉 NEW THIS YEAR!
Talking about something you’ve done in your business differently than “the usual” because it worked better for your brain. This is less of a teaching thing (“here’s how you do it”) and more of a peek behind the scenes (“here’s what I did and why”).
The goal with these is to model what the actual process looks like to make your business work for your brain.
👉 Can be slides, no slides, or a mixture of both
PLEASE NOTE: If you don't have capacity to create a whole presentation, you have the option to do it interview-style instead.
If you’d like to go with the interview-style presentation, schedule a time with me to do that here by May 5th at the latest (the sooner, the better). We’ll work together to come up with questions ahead of our interview.
No matter what format you choose, you are free to use your presentation however you’d like in the future.
Presentations are due by Monday, May 27
5️⃣ BUSY BRAINS PASS CONTRIBUTION
The Busy Brains Pass will be a huge value-add to the presentations we’re running.
To make it even more valuable and to give you an additional way to collect attendee email addresses, I’ll ask each of you to provide one resource to add that will help neurodivergent attendees build their businesses in a way that works for their brains.
This could include things like:
- Templates
- Workbooks
- Self-Led Courses (big or small)
- 1-month memberships
- eBooks
- Toolkits
- Whatever other wild and fun formats you’ve come up with for your offers!
- Note: no 1:1 offers, please.
It’s totally up to you to decide whether you’d like to create something new or to provide something you already have.
While contributing to the Busy Brains Pass bundle isn’t required, it’s highly encouraged that you participate.
Anyone who does contribute a premium resource (aka not something you’re giving away for free somewhere else) will get a 50% affiliate commission on sales, rather than 40%.
It’s also an opportunity to collect hundreds of extra email addresses as attendees claim your offer!
Information for these resources is due on May 27th (the same due date as your presentation). If you didn’t let me know what you’ll be contributing at the beginning of the process, no problem!
Here’s a quick form to make passing the information to me nice and simple.
6️⃣ PROMOTION
The power of an online summit comes from a group of experts coming together for a single cause. The joint promotion that happens because of that is a huge benefit to everyone involved.
Because of that, everyone is encouraged to share on social media and to email their lists during the promotion period, starting on Monday Jul 8th.
You’ll want to share using your speaker affiliate link (which you can set up here) so you can get in on the 50% commission that will come from any Busy Brains Pass sales (40% if you don’t plan on contributing to the Pass).
You’ll find swipe copy and graphics in the Resource Vault below.
Quick Note: Please don’t use your affiliate link before July 8! I’ll be promoting to my audience starting July 3 because that gives me the chance to catch anything that’s broken before you start promoting.
I promise I’m not just saying that!
The first year of the summit, for a butt load of people, the buttons to register were just straight up not working for some reason, and I never figured out why! But I had time to figure out a workaround before speakers started promoting. So this is important!
7️⃣ OTHER LIVE PARTICIPATION
And last comes participation during the week of the event. Since we’ll already have done the work of creating the presentations and extra resources, it’ll actually be pretty chill for the most part!
Unless you’re participating in a Live Panel (details below), all I ask is that you participate in the chatbox during your scheduled live chatbox hour and interact in the Facebook Group throughout the week (and especially on the day your presentation is live) to help attendees stay excited and engaged.
While you are not required to attend the events of other speakers, it’s highly encouraged! We’ll be able to get some great discussions going about the topics being presented.
Optional Fun Bonus Things You Can Do!
These things are not required of you as a speaker BUT they are super fun extra opportunities for you to engage with attendees and get your business in front of them in really fun ways!
I’ve decided I’d really like to do some Live Panels this year! I’ve always wanted to do them, and this is the Year of Doing All The Things for me, so let’s go!
These will be happening at the end of the day after all speaker’s live chatbox hours are finished (I don’t want a live panel to pull engagement away from anyone’s chatbox).
So these will be 5pm-6pm ET / 2pm-3pm PT / 10pm-11pm UK on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the summit week.
These will be live video panel discussions, so you’ll be on camera with a group of other speakers, with attendees live in the chat. I will provide you with the pre-submitted questions ahead of time.
Attendees will be able to pre-submit questions, and will also be able to ask questions in the chat during the panel.
This is totally optional, but it’s a super fun way for you to get in front of and engage with attendees LIVE, and also engage with them in a really intimate way (since they’ll be asking the questions).
Monday July 22
Live Panel Topic #1:
Goal-setting / planning / defining success for yourself
Tuesday July 23
Live Panel Topic #2:
Mindset about selling / rejection sensitivity / failed launches
Wednesday July 24
Live Panel Topic #3:
The unique experiences/struggles of a hybrid business model
(eg a service provider who also has digital products, a coach who also has self-paced courses, etc)
This year, I’d like to do some giveaways! Basically, I’m going to create a summit Bingo card, and attendees can cross off boxes for different engagement activities (eg. buying the Busy Brains Pass, posting in the FB Group, sharing the event to their socials, participating in a live chatbox hour for a presentation, etc)
And each day, I’ll collect the names of people who’ve submitted themselves as having completed BINGO. From that list of BINGOers, I’ll draw a random winner for a prize at the end of the day!
Depending on how many prizes I end up with, I might also come up with other non-Bingo ways to do giveaways.
So that’s where you come in: I need prizes!
If you have an offer that you think would make an awesome giveaway prize for neurodivergent entrepreneurs and would like to contribute it, let me know!
This is totally optional, you don’t have to do this. But it’s an extra opportunity to get your business and offers in front of attendees, as I’ll be talking about the prizes each day in the FB Group to incentivize attendees to complete BINGO.
It could be a digital product/course, your book, or even a 1:1 session!
👉 Here’s the form to submit an offer as a giveaway prize
Deadline to submit is June 10th, limit one prize per speaker
For the first time ever, I’m offering sponsorship opportunities for the summit!
Since you’re a speaker, you’re already poised to have a huge impact on attendees and grow your email list in awesome ways.
These sponsorship packages (particularly the Silver and Gold levels) offer extra opportunities to engage with and get in front of attendees even more, and also provide bonus opportunities for list growth.
👉 Check out the sponsorship packages here for details
Quick Important Note: As a speaker (regardless of whether you choose to sponsor), you are the most important and impactful element of this event. The summit wouldn’t even exist without you. So I just want to assure you that the presence of sponsors won’t diminish your impact or opportunity as a speaker.
And if you’re wondering why I’m offering sponsorships this year: Well 1) why not lol. And 2) it will give me the capital to run ads and do other traffic generating activities so that this year can really make a splash!
Affiliate Details
While summits are great for overall visibility, making new connections, and growing our email lists, a little extra income never hurts either, right?
That’s exactly why I’ve set up a special speaker affiliate program for the Busy Brains Pass where you’ll receive a commission from all sales from traffic you refer to the event. Payouts will be made by Friday, Aug 9th.
The commission structure is as follows:
40% for all speakers
50% for all speakers who contribute to the Busy Brains Pass (more details in the “Busy Brains Pass Contribution” section above)
The pricing structure of the Busy Brains Pass will be:
$100 for 8 hours after initial registration
$150 from Jul 3rd – Jul 21st (price increases at midnight ET)
$200 from Jul 22nd – Jul 29th
To make it as easy as possible for you to generate extra income, the Resource Vault includes things like email swipe copy, social media copy, and social share graphics. However, you’re more than welcome to write your own copy and even run your own Facebook ads.
Just remember to use your affiliate link, which you can create here.
As with all affiliate promotions, be sure to disclose that you’re an affiliate when sharing with your audience.
Resource Vault
Now for those resources I promised to make your life as easy as possible.
In this folder you’ll find the following resources:
📂 Email swipe copy and suggested send dates
📂 Social media swipe copy and suggestion posting dates
📂 Social media graphic swipes
📂 Brand assets and guidelines in case you want to make your own graphics or share on non-social media places
View the resources here
And in case you don’t want to dig through a folder, here are direct links:
🔗 Swipe Graphics & Brand Assets
🔗 Email swipe copy
🔗 Social media swipe copy
Something I missed? Email info@lincolnchamber.ca or message Emilia on Instagram (@lincoln.chamber)