What is AAM Speaks!?

AAM Speaks! is a new speakers’ bureau that provides AAM members an opportunity to showcase their expertise.  Now that marketing is an integral part of the CPA firm landscape, the number of professionals involved is ever increasing. Along with this growth comes the need for AAM to provide advanced direction, education and guidance.

AAM Speaks! is a vehicle…a bridge…a resource. It provides AAM an opportunity to put our cream of the crop in front of the professional services and marketing industry. It provides the industry a terminus to find the experts they seek – the definitive base of qualified presenters and diverse topics.

Why Consider Speaking?

  • Do you have an important message to share?
  • Do you know proven techniques that can positively impact the effectiveness of the marketing and/or business development program in a CPA firm?
  • Can you give insight into best practices shaping the industry?
  • Do you want to share proven tools that will enable firms to build and/or strengthen their marketing and business development programs or infrastructure?
  • Do you have ideas to improve the ROI on their marketing and business development programs?

If you answered yes to any of these, come share your vision, skills and proven techniques with hundreds of movers and shakers instrumental in the marketing and business development sectors of CPA firms and professional services companies.

Suggested topic categories might include the following:

  • Business Development
  • Creating a Marketing Culture
  • Tracking & Accountability
  • Planning & Budgeting
  • Industry Trends & Issues
  • Events & Seminars
  • Training & Development
  • Branding
  • Building Infrastructure
  • Business Etiquette
  • Management and Leadership Skills
  • General Marketing & Business

Speaker Qualifications

  • All presenters must be AAM members in good standing.
  • All presenters must complete and submit a speaker application request.
  • Include audio/video tape of past presentations, if available.
  • Include your biography and 300 dpi headshot.
  • Include references and past speaker ratings.
  • At each engagement, speaker agrees to provide a short recognition and awareness of AAM and its purpose.
  • After each engagement, speaker agrees to provide session evaluations to AAM headquarters.
  • Fees and expenses, if applicable, will be the responsibility of the speaker and third party.
AAM Speaks! will act as an initial point of contact between the speaker and third party. All arrangements will be made directly between the two parties; AAM will not act in an administrator capacity.

Submit your application online - click here

Download Speaker Evaluation - click here

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact AAM headquarters:

816.221.1296 or info@accountingmarketing.org



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The Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM) is a national organization and is the only trade association of its kind that provides resources, education, seminars, workshops, support and a global network to the accounting marketing industry. Our membership includes accounting firm marketers from “Big Four” and other national, regional, local and sole proprietor firms. Others include sales and business development professionals, accounting partners, firm administrators, consultants, vendors, trade press, educators and students. Inherent in this mission is a focus on education and professional skills development to enable our members to add value to their firms and act as a compass for the rapidly changing competitive environment.

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