It is a proven fact that Seminars
and Training workshops has since become an income generating activity for most Nigerians.
In fact some Nigerians even use this as their major source of income. People
are willing to pay for quality information, provided such information has the
potential to educate them adequately on new and emerging business
opportunities. If you are thinking of
organizing a seminar or a training workshop sooner or later, this article might
be very beneficial to you.
To achieve great success in seminar
organization, you must ensure you have good mastery of whatever topic you
intend to teach or demonstrate.
There are a couple of things
you need to seriously consider when planning a seminar. One of such is your
target audience. Your audience determines the type of information you will sell.
You can decide to target secondary school students, secondary school leavers,
university undergraduates, youth corps members or even working class citizens. Whichever
category of audience you target, you must ensure that what you intend to teach
is very relevant to them.
For example if your target audience
are youth corps members, you might want to educate them on topics like:
How to start recharge card printing
business;
How to start and run a profitable
fish farm venture;
School chalk production, Soap and Candle
making etc.
Youth Corps members will be willing to pay for and attend a seminar
that promises to educate them on the aforementioned topics, this is simply because it meets their needs at that point in time.
MATERIALS NEEDED FOR ORGANIZING A
SUCCESSFUL SEMINAR
The Materials needed for organizing
a successful seminar include:
A good and conducive venue that is
easy to locate. This is very crucial to the success of your seminar. Places you can
use as your seminar venue include primary and secondary school classrooms,
event centers, hotels and even churches.
You will also need a projector if
you really want to carry your audience along. If you don't have a projector,
you might consider renting one. There are people who specialize in renting
projector and projector screens to seminar organizers you might want to
check them out. If you are in dare need of a good and affordable projector, you can send me a mail at donemitex1515@gmail.com
You will also need a public address
system i.e a speaker and microphone, though it all depends on the size of your
audience.
A generating set will also be
needed to power all the gadgets to be used.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR SEMINAR
The best way to make money from
organizing a Seminar is by charging a seminar fee.
You can decide to charge a seminar
fee of say 2000 naira. This fee covers all the expenses made and all the cost
incurred in organizing the seminar. Assuming you have 100 attendees and each of
them were to pay a seminar fee of N2000, that's a whooping N200, 000 straight
to your bank account.
Another way to make money is by
selling your Seminar or training materials to your audience.
You can decide to package all the
information to be taught in a CD or in a printed format and sell to all
attendees. If the information is very helpful, they will be willing to buy.
You can also decide to use the
opportunity to sell your other products and services to the audience and make
good money.
Don’t forget to collect the email
addresses and phone numbers of all the attendees, this is to enable you keep in
touch with them in case you plan another seminar.
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