Process for Speaking at Vitamin Cottage - Individual

Thank you for considering Vitamin Cottage as a speaking opportunity. It has been our mission over the years to create a public service for our customers that would be truly educational and empowering to each individual in their search for the best of nutrition and health. With this vision in mind we have formatted the following guideline for potential speakers. We have outlined our basic interests in topics, the facilities we have to offer and the information we will need from you in order to begin the process.

We are always most interested in topics that are specific, current, and of vital interest to the average person’s health and well being. General topics that encompass too broad a subject such as: herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, etc. do not draw an audience in our experience, so the more detailed and specific your topic is---the more likely it will be to work for all of us. It is essential to keep in mind that the lectures are meant to be educational, not promoting a company, business, method of treatment, or specific products. We ask that you avoid extreme blanket statements about any supplement groups, focusing more on the importance of finding a quality product. Please avoid negative comments about any product line, company, or person---such comments have no part in our standards for high quality, educational seminars. As our goal is strictly educational, we do no charge for the event or pay our speakers. You are welcome, however, to place your business cards on our entry table.

Once we have reviewed your materials, we will do our best to get back to you within two weeks regarding our decision. When the seminar has been approved and we have set a date, we will support you by making 5,000 flyers to distribute to our Denver area stores, as well as press releases to the local newspapers and radio/tv stations. Space permitting, some of our speakers are given a write-up in our Health Hotline, a newspaper insert that reaches 600,00 people. If you are a published author we will sell your book at the seminar and in our stores, and we will also audio record the seminars held in our Denver location and send you a tape.

We offer lectures in our Fort Collins store as well, on a much smaller scale, and we are excited to announce that we now have event centers in both of our New Mexico locations---Albuquerque and Santa Fe. If you are interested in speaking at one of these locations the process is exactly the same, as is the follow up advertising with flyers and press releases.

The Event Center in Denver is equipped with seating for 270, (although the average attendance is around 150), sound equipment, slide projector and an overhead projector. Our event centers in New Mexico offer the same equipment and each seat 150 people. Fort Collins has no sound system and usually has space for between 30 and 60 people. The talk begins at 7 p.m.---we prefer that you speak for an hour, followed by a Q & A session, which generally brings the evening to a close around 9 p.m.

If you are still interested in speaking at Vitamin Cottage and in accordance with these guidelines, we ask that you please submit the following to the lecture coordinator so that we can move forward with the process of review:

A brief biography of your education including the school where you trained, and the experience that qualifies you to speak.

A detailed outline of topics on which you would like to speak.

For published authors---the name of your book(s) and two copies of it for our review.

If we accept your talk we will need a 3 x 5 color photograph---it is OK to email this to us but the quality is much better if you send us a regular photograph.

Before confirming the date and details of your seminar, we need a signed copy of this sheet or a statement sent via email saying that you have read it and are in agreement with it.

For any further questions regarding seminars please contact: Charity Isely, 303-986-4600 ext 118, the fax number is 303-986-1891.

Please send me information by email: charity@vitamincottage.com, or at:

Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers

12612 W. Alameda Pkwy

Lakewood, CO 80228.

Thanks again for considering Vitamin Cottage, and I am excited to hear from you.

Acknowledged and Signed: __________________________________ Date ___________

----- Original Message -----

From: "Charity Isely" <charity@vitamincottage.com>

To: <kent@CompWellness.biz>

Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:18 PM

Subject: Process for Speaking at Vitamin Cottage - Individual

> <<individual speakers process.doc>>
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> Hi Kent,
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> It was nice meeting you today. Here is the information regarding the
> process for speaking here at Vitamin Cottage. I will also send you the
> rental hall rates, but I am not sure if we rent out the hall for private
> lectures that are health related---I would have to check with my
> superiors---they may consider it to be conflicting with the lecture series
> we already have established. Thank you for your interest, and I will look
> forward to hearing from you.
>
> Have a great day.
>
> Charity
>