S. M. Snow & Associates
providing the most comprehensive and worthwhile seminars and on-site training programs in the industry since 1995
Why Our Seminars & On-Site Training Programs Are In A Class By Themselves
Take a moment to recall the conferences and seminars that you’ve attended in recent years. Have any of these events provided you with COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION and DETAILED STRATEGIES that enabled you to substantially improve your job performance which in turn positively impacted your company’s business results? Do you feel that these events were valuable learning experiences, or would you describe these events as SOCIAL GATHERINGS for the most part?
Below, you'll find some of the many reasons why virtually every conference and seminar (other than our seminars) FAILS TO PROVIDE ATTENDEES WITH A VALUABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE:
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The vast majority of presenters at all of the larger events are either consultants, vendors, or your competitors. Consultants only provide you with "teaser information" in hopes of landing you as a client, vendors almost always present biased information in hopes of selling you their product or service, and your competitors aren't going to provide you with any valuable information for obvious reasons. It's no wonder why attendees receive virtually no valuable information at these events.
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The larger conferences and seminars offer a wide variety of topics which must be covered in a limited amount of time. Because of this, attendees only receive basic information regarding each topic. If you examine the program agenda that's inside their flyers, you'll see that their flyers are devoid of hardy any detailed information. This is because the organizers don't know the agenda specifics because their volunteer presenters either haven't started working on their presentations or they're still putting their presentations together. In addition, these unpaid presenters have no incentive to put a great deal of time or effort into their presentations. In contrast, the seminar agendas that appear in our seminar flyers are extremely detailed and informative because we already have our PowerPoint presentation totally finished before we even print our seminar flyers. We tell you precisely what we are going to cover so you can make an informed decision regarding attending. We spend thousands of hours developing and refining each of our seminars over the years in our never-ending quest to make each of our seminars as comprehensive and worthwhile as possible.
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These larger events that are put on by our competitors also devote a substantial amount of time to sessions and activities that provide attendees with absolutely no information at all. Below, you'll find a brief description of some of these:
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one or more keynote presentations by politicians, celebrities, famous athletes, authors, and others who know absolutely nothing about employer-sponsored health plans
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lengthy periods of time allocated to "networking opportunities"
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lunches that last for 90, or even 120 minutes
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several hours a day that are set aside for attendees to wander through the Exhibitor's Hall where they can buy products and services
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These events also either don't provide attendees with any handouts, or they only provide attendees with copies of PowerPoint slides that contain vague bullet points which are absolutely worthless. In contrast, we give our attendees an extremely informative and clearly written training manual that they will reference for many years to come.
Our seminars examine ONE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TOPIC IN GREAT DEPTH. You'll receive comprehensive and invaluable information at our seminars because we're not a consulting firm that's looking to obtain new clients, we're not a vendor that's trying to sell you a product or service, and we're not one of your tight-lipped competitors. We have no keynote presentations by uniformed presenters, no extended lunches, no 45 or 60 minute breaks for "networking opportunities", and no Exhibitor's Hall where you can walk around for hours wasting your time. We don't offer fun runs, yoga classes, or bingo tournaments either. We devote 100% of our time to providing you with the comprehensive information and detailed strategies that you need to dramatically improve your success.
We strongly believe that a seminar or conference should be a valuable learning experience that will greatly benefit the attendee and his or her company. If a seminar or conference fails in this regard, it’s an absolute waste of the attendee’s valuable time and their (or their company’s) money. Unlike virtually every conference and seminar that group health insurance professionals attend, our comprehensive seminars will provide you with a wide variety of INNOVATIVE AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES that will enable you to dramatically improve your job performance which in turn will substantially improve your company's bottom line.