You're Invited

If you want to attract right-fit clients with books and speeches, a few seats are available at our upcoming private Marketing With a Book and Speech Summit in Irvine. This is mainly designed for agency owners, professionals, speakers, coaches, and consultants. Your host, Henry DeVries, is a best-selling author who educates people that the book is the starting line, not the finish line. He wants to help you understand the secrets in the preparation, publication, and promotion of a book that gets you more credibility, more impact, more influence, and more new right-fit clients.

There is no cost to attend this private event. There will be no selling of services.

No cost. No selling. No kidding.

Bonus Networking Event. All summit attendees are invited to be our guests at the Annual Roman Gabriel Legends and Leaders Celebration from 5 to 8 pm, January 16, 2025 at Executive Next Practices Institute at the Beall Applied Innovation Center on the campus of the University of California at Irvine (the same location as the summit).  NFL alumni and other sports and entertainment celebrities will gather with business and education leaders. NFL alumni slated to attend include: Super Bowl and Hall of Fame coach Dick Vermeil, Vince Ferragamo, Mike Lansford, Fred Dryer, Ron Brown, Leroy Irvin, Rosey Grier, Paul McDonald, and Bruce Allen. The night will include a special tribute to the late Roman Gabriel Jr. presented by his son, Roman Gabriel III, who is the CEO of the Sold Out Youth Foundation charity, which is committed to solving our country’s current youth drug, alcohol and mental health crisis.

What Will Be Covered

• Top 14 ways to generate leads for agency owners and consultants
• What fee range to charge for your speeches
• How to persuade with a story that attracts clients
• How to avoid a $500,000 pricing mistake
• The difference between traditional publishing, indie publishing, and self publishing
• Eight great meta formats that best-selling business books follow
• Why a book is the number one marketing tool and speaking is the number one marketing strategy
• The biggest book, speech, and website mistakes that consultants and coaches make
• How big your book should be and how much it should cost

Henry can answer questions regarding:

• What are low-cost tools for guaranteed national publicity?
• How to sell a traditional publisher like McGraw-Hill
• Do you really need an agent?
• How much information should I give away in books and speeches?
• What makes a great client-attracting title?
• How to work with an independent publisher for more profits and control
• How to launch a LinkedIn newsletter
• How to land a column with Inc.com, Forbes.com or CBS MoneyWatch

Your Hosts

Henry DeVries, MBA, is a business development columnist and the CEO of Indie Books International, an Oceanside, California company he cofounded in 2014 to work with small to midsized agency owners and marketing consultants who want to attract high-paying clients by marketing with a book and speech. In his writing and speaking he shares in humorous ways many pragmatic strategies that can double sales and achieve marketing returns of 400 percent to 2,000 percent.

Previously he served as assistant dean of continuing education for UC San Diego. Prior to that he helped double revenues as president of an award-winning Ad Age 500 advertising agency and was a vice president that doubled awareness for a $5 billion insurance company. Since 2010, he has ghostwritten, coauthored, and published more than 300 business books, including his McGraw-Hill bestseller How to Close a Deal like Warren Buffett.

In 1999 he founded the New Client Marketing Institute to study how agencies and consultants attract right-fit clients. He is the author of seventeenth books that share his research findings. He earned his bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego and his MBA from San Diego State University and has completed two certificate programs at the Harvard Business School.

Summit Attendees Rave

“For most consultants completing a book is on the top of their ‘Goals and Things To-Do’ List, (how many years has it been on yours?) and Henry can help you get it done in record time.”

Dean Minuto, Vistage speaker and author of The One Page Sales Coach

“Powerful, sage advice. I loved every minute of my time listening and learning from Henry.”

Brigadier General Jeff Foley, US Army (retired), coauthor of the McGraw-Hill bestseller Rules and Tools for Leaders

“I do not know where else I could have learned so much in such a short time.”

Alok Kalia, MD, Bluebonnet Health, Vistage speaker and author of Don’t Take Dieting Advice from a Skinny Person

“Henry helped us publish our book, showed us marketing techniques and how to leverage a book. Our clients constantly mention how this one item has differentiated us from our competition.”

Brad Remillard, Impact Hiring Solutions, Vistage speaker and co-author of You’re Not the Person I Hired