John L. Beath
2009 OWAA Conference
2009 OWAA Conference Agenda
“Words – Pictures – Money”
82nd Annual OWAA Conference
Grand Rapids, Michigan
June 13-16, 2009
Click here for a print-friendly PDF of the 2009 Agenda
All conference sessions, meals and hospitality suites take place at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel unless otherwise noted.
Further details about spouse/partner/guest activities will be added as they become available.
Saturday, June 13
Atrium Room
This free, four-hour workshop will feature some of OWAA’s most prolific and best-known communicators giving presentations about their specialties from “Writing for Magazines” to “Outdoor Television” and everything in between. Please join Pat Wray and fellow OWAA members for this popular staple of the OWAA conference.
Speakers: Jack Ballard, John Beath, Dave Carlson, Tom Carney, Lisa Densmore, Tony Dolle, Tom Huggler, Jim Junttila, Bruce Matthews, Howard Meyerson and Kevin Rhoades.
Moderator: Pat Wray.
Emerald A Room
Learn why every outdoor communicator MUST get connected on the Internet with their own web page and how you can profit from other social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.
John L. Beath, owner of Pacific Lure Communications, will share his secrets of how to get a website built and hosted inexpensively and how to make your site “sticky” to attract and keep visitors that you can turn into paying customers. Beath currently owns/operates 14 websites with 10 online stores, including www.webuildyourwebsite.net. If you have ever wondered how to profit from your name, ideas, columns, photos, books, art or broadcasts, this seminar will open many new avenues that lead to profits and opportunities. In the past seven years Beath has generated more than a million dollars from his and his client’s websites.
Speaker: John Beath
Source: http://www.owaa.org/Conf_Pages/2009/agenda.html
June 13-16, 2009
Click here for a print-friendly PDF of the 2009 Agenda
All conference sessions, meals and hospitality suites take place at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel unless otherwise noted.
Further details about spouse/partner/guest activities will be added as they become available.
Saturday, June 13
Becoming an Outdoors Communicator
8 a.m. – NoonAtrium Room
This free, four-hour workshop will feature some of OWAA’s most prolific and best-known communicators giving presentations about their specialties from “Writing for Magazines” to “Outdoor Television” and everything in between. Please join Pat Wray and fellow OWAA members for this popular staple of the OWAA conference.
Speakers: Jack Ballard, John Beath, Dave Carlson, Tom Carney, Lisa Densmore, Tony Dolle, Tom Huggler, Jim Junttila, Bruce Matthews, Howard Meyerson and Kevin Rhoades.
Moderator: Pat Wray.
Getting Connected & Gettting Paid
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.Emerald A Room
Learn why every outdoor communicator MUST get connected on the Internet with their own web page and how you can profit from other social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.
John L. Beath, owner of Pacific Lure Communications, will share his secrets of how to get a website built and hosted inexpensively and how to make your site “sticky” to attract and keep visitors that you can turn into paying customers. Beath currently owns/operates 14 websites with 10 online stores, including www.webuildyourwebsite.net. If you have ever wondered how to profit from your name, ideas, columns, photos, books, art or broadcasts, this seminar will open many new avenues that lead to profits and opportunities. In the past seven years Beath has generated more than a million dollars from his and his client’s websites.
Speaker: John Beath
Source: http://www.owaa.org/Conf_Pages/2009/agenda.html
Halibut Tips & Tricks
All along the Pacific Coast, from Oregon to the extreme reaches of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, the Continental Shelf pulses with halibut like blood in a vein. This main artery of the Pacific Ocean provides opportunity for halibut to gorge themselves on easy meals. It also provides sport for anglers who want to test strength and wits against these bottom denizens.Hooking one of these flat-fighters can be as easy as locating a shelf or bank or as tough as looking for the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The most sure-fire way to score and score "butt" good is to follow the "main artery" north to British Columbia or Alaska, where the heart of halibut fishing brings anglers from around the world.
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