Recent years have brought an entire new paradigm to the creation of a professional public speaker. We’ll call it How to Become a Public Speaker 2.0. Back in the old days, say pre-2005, a budding speaker fought and scratched for his first gig, mailed promo kits, and hoped for decent word-of-mouth. Oh, and better be…
DetailsAt one point or another, most of us have sat through more than our share of speeches, some of which exhibit exhilarating presentation techniques and others…quite the opposite. When it’s your turn to get up there and wow the audience, let’s see how much you learned from the bad ones you sat through. And if…
DetailsBefore you get all excited about how to become a consultant, let’s define what we mean by the word. A consultant is a person with a particular set of skills, expertise, and/or knowledge that other people and businesses pay for the benefit of learning. If you have no specific skills or knowledge, it’ll be hard…
DetailsIt comes down to this. Would you rather glean your consulting education from between the dry pages of a textbook or absorb it through vibrant interviews with leading speakers and consultants, Twitter posts, and daily blog updates? No matter what stage you presently occupy in your consulting career, Jason Hartman’s Speaking of Wealth Show and…
DetailsOverheard on Main Street in Any Town, America: “I’ve got this great idea for a book.†Whether cold, hard truth based on personal experience or completely fabricated fiction, there’s something down deep in the well of the human spirit yearning to become a writer. We don’t know what or why but it’s there. We know…
DetailsTrick headline. The first thing to realize about your job security with your consultant career is that you have none – even if you think you do. Once you get to the point where your brain is all right with that, you can move forward without fear. Well, maybe a little bit of fear. The…
DetailsA recent blog on this website illuminated the dangers of not using humor in your professional speaking presentation, but hitting a funny bone now and then is not the only way to become a better speaker. Here are some other critical areas to pay attention to. 1. Overuse of PowerPoint: PowerPoint is a great tool.…
DetailsWe might be going out on a limb here but we can’t think of a single good reason to present a speech without humor. It’s a basic law of effective speaking. We’re not saying you need to stand up there for an hour and keep the one-liners and jokes flowing like Jerry Seinfeld – you…
DetailsAccording to Alan Weiss, Ph.D., and long time professional speaker, a public speaking career career is harder now than it has ever been over the past ten years. The reasons are plentiful: Enron, WorldCom, 9/11, a declining stock market, and soaring foreclosures. These factors and others cause some people to throw in the towel but…
DetailsIs Twitter an online marketing tool you should pay attention to? To sum up the answer in a single word – probably. What is Twitter? Oh my, you have been under a rock for a while, haven’t you? Twitter is only one of the three most massively popular social media applications on the planet. If…
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