A 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…
DetailsIf you call yourself a publisher of any kind of digital information and you don’t have your attention on Kindle…well…you probably didn’t think that Internet thing was going to hit so big either, did you? Seriously, pay attention to the eReader market. It’s about to go crazy and you don’t want to be left standing…
DetailsLike any other endeavor on this planet, when it comes to consulting, some people do it well, some average, and the rest truly awful. Somewhere along the way, those who fall into the latter two categories missed out or were asleep that day in class. In case this describes you, pay attention! Here are four…
DetailsLike a fisherman, a professional motivational speaker needs to set the hook quick and firm in their audience before losing it to indifference and boredom. If you don’t have a method to engage your audience quickly – newsflash – you won’t be in high demand at all. Further newsflash, you won’t make much money and…
DetailsNo sooner had we published an entry extolling the services of online publisher Clickbank than it was brought to our attention that there is another player in the field. Since 2004, the website E-junkie has been experiencing slow, steady growth as an alternative to Clickbank, offering much the same services for selling online products but…
DetailsIf you’re an author of a non-fiction title, especially what might be categorized as a informational product, why waste your time trying to get the attention of traditional New York publishers? There’s a little website called Clickbank that has paid out over $1 billion in informational sales over the last decade. Clickbank products are all…
DetailsAs a professional public speaker, you’re likely to go through three phases of development. Yes, we’re sorry to be the bearer of the news that it is a process. You didn’t emerge from the womb completely equipped and fully ready to energize and educate an audience. That’s okay. Life is about learning and improving. Here…
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