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Host of The Christine Clifford Celebrity Golf Tournament, a benefit for breast cancer research, Christine's inaugural event raised over $100,000, making it the most successful first-year event in the history of the American Cancer Society. Her contribution has been over $1,000,000 and she has received the Council of Excellence Award for income development from the American Cancer Society.

What Christine Clifford Talks About:

You, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself
Christine was the top salesperson in the multi-billion dollar retail services industry for eight years, and in 1994 signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Proctor & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight. Yet Christine believes that it's not the product, service or cause that people buy from you or your company: It's YOU. And selling yourself is an art.

Selling the Invisible: The Four Keys to Selling Your Services
What are the four keys to marketing and selling your services? Price and what is it you are saying about the quality of service? Brand, and what are you doing to promote yours? Packaging and can you afford not to take a complete visual inventory of yourself, your company, and your marketing materials? And relationships: how do you create extraordinary client relationships? Christine explores these with colorful, humorous real-life examples and years of expertise.

Spinning Ideas Into Action
Christine believes you can rise to the top of your industry in two years or less following her ten steps to success. Whether you are in management, sales, marketing or self-employed, Christine's philosophies and strategies for becoming your industry's leader are proven theories that have propelled her and the companies she's worked with to the top of their field. Ideas, action, and results!

Become Your Industry Leader: The True Positioning of the Totem Pole
Ever heard the expression he started at the bottom of the totem pole? Did you know that according to Indian legend, the character at the bottom represents the strength and leadership of the pole? Christine believes that you can rise to the top of your industry regardless of where you start in two years or less following her ten steps to success. Whether you are in management, sales, marketing or self-employed, Christine's secrets will inspire and motivate you to get going today!

Laughter: Prescription for a Cure!
Presentation includes Christine’s cartoons, the classic story about her flying wig at a major golf tournament (as featured in Chicken Soup for the Golfer’s Soul) and a six-minute NBC special featuring Christine’s story – an hour of hope, laughter and positive thinking.

Am I Out of Sick Days Yet?
Illness, especially chronic disease, wrecks havoc on employees and the people left back in the office trying to “fill in the gaps”. Christine helps corporations and their employees learn to deal with changes in the office, ways to offer support, and methods to deal with the challenges that occur when a valued employee becomes ill. No down time here!

About Christine Clifford - Sales and Marketing Speaker:

Christine Clifford inspires when she shares her life and career experience. She is a passioned speaker on how to market and sell products and services, and cancer survivorship.

Before her bout with breast cancer, Christine Clifford had definitely cracked the glass ceiling. By 40, she was Senior Executive Vice President for The SPAR Group, an international marketing firm in New York. Once the top salesperson in the multi-billion retail services industry, Christine’s accounts included Kmart, Toys 'R' Us, Wal-Mart, AT&T, Mattel Toys, and Revlon. Taking her company from a million dollar per year loss to over $54 million in sales, Christine signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Procter & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in December of '94, Christine went on to write five award-winning, humorous portrayals of her story in books entitled Not Now…I'm Having A No Hair Day! , Our Family Has Cancer, Too!, Inspiring Breakthrough Secrets to Live Your Dreams, Cancer Has Its Privileges: Stories of Hope & Laughter, and Your Guardian Angel’s Gift.

YOU, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself was released March, 2007 by Warner Books. It has been named a Notable Book of 2007 by the American Booksellers Association. She also appears in Masters of Sales (August, 2007).

In 1994, Christine faced a life-changing experience and began her own company, The Cancer Club, the world's largest producer of humorous and helpful products for people with cancer.

Featured in Better Homes & Gardens, MORE, Self, American Health, Golf Digest, as well as The Singapore Women's Weekly and the Hindu in India, CNN Live called her "one of the world's leading authorities on the use of therapeutic humor". She has also appeared on Lifetime Television Network's New Attitudes show, and the Leeza Show.

Host of The Christine Clifford Celebrity Golf Tournament, a benefit for breast cancer research, Christine's inaugural event raised over $100,000, making it the most successful first-year event in the history of the American Cancer Society. Her contribution has been over $1,000,000 and she has received the Council of Excellence Award for income development from the American Cancer Society.

What Christine Clifford Talks About:

You, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself
Christine was the top salesperson in the multi-billion dollar retail services industry for eight years, and in 1994 signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Proctor & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight. Yet Christine believes that it's not the product, service or cause that people buy from you or your company: It's YOU. And selling yourself is an art.

Selling the Invisible: The Four Keys to Selling Your Services
What are the four keys to marketing and selling your services? Price and what is it you are saying about the quality of service? Brand, and what are you doing to promote yours? Packaging and can you afford not to take a complete visual inventory of yourself, your company, and your marketing materials? And relationships: how do you create extraordinary client relationships? Christine explores these with colorful, humorous real-life examples and years of expertise.

Spinning Ideas Into Action
Christine believes you can rise to the top of your industry in two years or less following her ten steps to success. Whether you are in management, sales, marketing or self-employed, Christine's philosophies and strategies for becoming your industry's leader are proven theories that have propelled her and the companies she's worked with to the top of their field. Ideas, action, and results!

Become Your Industry Leader: The True Positioning of the Totem Pole
Ever heard the expression he started at the bottom of the totem pole? Did you know that according to Indian legend, the character at the bottom represents the strength and leadership of the pole? Christine believes that you can rise to the top of your industry regardless of where you start in two years or less following her ten steps to success. Whether you are in management, sales, marketing or self-employed, Christine's secrets will inspire and motivate you to get going today!

Laughter: Prescription for a Cure!
Presentation includes Christine’s cartoons, the classic story about her flying wig at a major golf tournament (as featured in Chicken Soup for the Golfer’s Soul) and a six-minute NBC special featuring Christine’s story – an hour of hope, laughter and positive thinking.

Am I Out of Sick Days Yet?
Illness, especially chronic disease, wrecks havoc on employees and the people left back in the office trying to “fill in the gaps”. Christine helps corporations and their employees learn to deal with changes in the office, ways to offer support, and methods to deal with the challenges that occur when a valued employee becomes ill. No down time here!