Is the Virtual Book Tour (VBT) the wave of the future for aspiring speakers, publishers, and writers to sell their books? While it might very well qualify as the direction we’re headed, it’s also the wave of now. Let’s backtrack slightly first: What is a virtual book tour? You probably could guess but we’ll say…
DetailsOut of sight, out of mind is the kiss of death in many businesses and speaking for a living is no different. The most dynamic and captivating speaker on the face of the planet will almost certainly still be doomed to obscurity unless he has vibrant marketing toolkit that consists of a smokin’ hot website,…
DetailsAs any blog publisher has already discovered, to his eternal sorrow and damnation, there is an entire sub-human class of species known as the Comment Spam Monster that lurks just beyond the reach of your friendly neighborhood spam filter’s best efforts to kill them off. Kill ten and twenty more show up. Kill twenty and…
DetailsOr get dudes, as the case may be. We didn’t intend our article title to be biased against the ladies, transgendered, homosexual, or space aliens. Let’s not wander too far afield here – the point is that speaking is an almost guaranteed to increase your sex appeal, no matter how homely you might be from…
DetailsTo the public speaker who wants to build his career without using the Internet – good luck. The World Wide Web is here and it”s here to stay. To ignore its presence is tantamount to embracing an unrecognized and slow-growing career, with much time spent watching the phone not ring and sorting through the daily…
DetailsAt least as much as any other industry and perhaps more than most, publishing in the future, like tomorrow, should take a completely different path, thanks to the revolutionary changes wrought by the Internet. We see a day-by-day slippage in the grasp traditional publishing houses in New York formerly enjoyed over the control of printed…
DetailsWhile the words might trip lightly from your tongue in an ceaseless flow of fascinating verbiage, chances are that any speaker, consultant, or publisher is going to have to do some writing one day and, when they do, wouldn't it be nice to avoid some of the writing errors that brand us as amateurs? Here…
DetailsWhile developing the fine art and skill of negotiation is a necessary skill for success in life in general, as a consultant there’s a good chance your negotiation training skills could be the difference maker in your career. After all, what is negotiation except the ability to for two parties to find mutually agreeable terms…
DetailsThe most difficult part about a writing career is the necessity of actually applying your rear end to a chair, putting your fingers on the keyboard, and doing the deed of creating sentences from scratch working with a mere 26 letters. While it sounds ever so cool and nifty to claim you’re a writer, unless…
DetailsPublic speaking is consistently rated as one of the most stress-inducing activities on the planet, if one is to believe various sources. At Speaking of Wealth, we’d like to think that the process of preparing and delivering remarks to a group of people doesn’t have to be stressful, even though there is no denying it…
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