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Welcoming Speech for Guest by the Host
Speeches are not something everyone is good at. They can be tough and a little nerve wracking. Probably the only thing worse than being the host and having to introduce the guest or keynote speaker would be being the keynote speaker. When you look at things in that sort of light, everything doesn't look so bad. But still a welcoming speech is often in order and here are some tips on making a good one.
Lesson #4: Giving Back Can Bring Your Game Forward
“Recently, I’ve been looking at all these athlete endorsements. It’s really cool that these guys are making all this money, but is that really going to make a difference?” asked van Stolk.

Ten Rules for Being a Good Conference Panelist
Having moderated many conference panels, and participated on many more of same -- and suffered through even more as an audience member -- I've decided to share some words of advice, even if it's mostly intended to give me something to point panelists to the next time I'm a moderator.

Keep It Short, Quick, Crisp and Clean
I’ve often said that business is a relay race. All team members must be fast, focused, and able to coordinate with each other. Each member has to know how to run with and pass the baton. No runner can lag behind or the entire team will suffer.
Quote of the Day
"If I had said 'yes' to all the projects I turned down and 'no' to all the ones I took, it would have worked out about the same."—David Picker, movie studio exec, quoted in William Goldman's classic Adventures in the Screen Trade (cited by Caltech physics professor and author Leonard Mlodinow in The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives)
Another Career Option Bites the Dust
I guess I can never be a Supreme Court justice.

Crucial Questions to Superior Sales
When your customers aren’t sure which of your products or services they should buy, consider this handy tool that not only helps create clarity, but also positions you as a trusted advisor. I’m referring to a time-test sales tool known as SWOT. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. When I do customer service and sales seminars and speeches for groups, I often hear this is one of the most useful tools people learn. Here’s how to ask SWOT questions...
Surviving Public Speaking - Top 10 Tips
All entrepreneurs have to do it, so there is no sense running or hiding from public speaking. Embrace your opportunity to share your company vision to others, even if it is in front of a large group and the hot spotlight is on you! I hope these tips, which I use myself, will help you be more comfortable with public speaking and making speeches in general.

The Rule of 75%
Do you know the rule of 75% when it comes to public speaking and presentations? I do, but I had forgotten it briefly. It came back to bite me one weekend last year, so I would like to take this opportunity to share it with you, so you can avoid making the same mistake I did in your upcoming seminars, workshops, meetings, speeches, public speaking and presentations.

Tips on taking your thought leadership campaign to market: Five – write and speak
This is the fifth in a series of six articles on how to take your thought leadership campaign to market.
Focus on educating your customers
When customers are not buying, it’s very easy to take it personally, think the whole world’s against you and get very demotivated with the whole thing. And then of course, that makes the situation even worse – because customers can sense a mile off if you’re not happy and even though you desperately want more customers, they don’t want to work with you.
How to Improve Your Presentation Skills
This article outlines how to continuously improve your presentation skills, using a four-step learning cycle to incorporate new skills each time you make a presentation. By using the ideas in this article, you'll feel in control of your performance and your progress as a presenter. It will be great for your reputation as you'll impress others with your willingness to accept constructive criticism and your determination to succeed.
How to Analyze a Competitor’s Website
Competitors' websites, if analyzed properly, can give you all sorts of information that you can use to increase the traffic and the popularity of your site. Here is an article on how to analyze a competitor's website. Start off by identifying the major players. A good place to do this is Yahoo’s directory. It is good to view the major players in similar fields to your own so that you have a better view of your web site as perceived by others.
A, Einstein Says to You
Einstein was a Nobel winning scientist and his name is a synonym for "genius". Here are about 17 brilliant comments he made that can improve your life.
A Duck Walks into a Bar
How to Get Attention with Your Introduction

Building a Consulting Practice: How To Avoid The Cash Flow Roller Coaster Ride
Building a consulting practice can be like riding a cash flow roller coaster: sometimes you have plenty, sometimes nothing. In this article, we’ll discuss the critical element of growing your visibility for your ideal client base through marketing tactics, so you’re not riding those wild ups and downs.

How Many Bananas Do You Have?
What my bread machine taught me about creating books, articles, speeches, methodologies and other forms of your intellectual property.
How To Get Your Calls Returned By Becoming an Industry Expert
The key to getting your calls returned is to be viewed as an industry expert. This article discusses the specific strategies you can use to become well known and respected in your field.
Consistency
Be consistent in your messages.
How You Can Get Your Blog Featured in CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Other Major Media Outlets
About six months ago I was looking at the web stats of one of our clients. His visits went from an average of 30 a day to 150. When I checked who was sending him so much traffic I was very surprised. It was CNN! I went to CNN’s website and I discovered that they have a widget at the end of some of their articles where they show related blog posts. My client’s post was there. I started doing some research on the subject and I learned how you can get your blog featured on CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, Fox News, Reuters, the Washington Post, and CBS.
Education Based Marketing & Writing Are Natural Partners to Increase Sales
Education based marketing is all about educating your customer first and allowing him or her to pull you into the sales process. This is a 180 degree different approach than sales based marketing where the focus is on the sale and you. Read how you can leverage this new, but actually old approach through the strategy of writing to realize your goal to increase sales.
What Do People Hear In Your Marketing?
At a business mixer when someone asks you, “What do you do?”, tell them and then immediately ask them a question. “What did you hear?” And listen to their response.
How To Write A Brilliant Speech In Under 5 Minutes
The boss’s phone rings. You happen to be passing and you pick it up. “Is Gary there?” “No, he’s not around” “Well, it’s Andrea here, the HR Director and Gary is due to present his department’s roles and responsibilities to the new Graduates in 30 minutes. Can you hunt him down? Otherwise, I need someone else to stand in for him. Ring me back in 5 minutes and tell me what’s going on” The phone goes dead. You don’t know where Gary is. Panic and fear set in.
Improving Your Management Communications Skills - What's It Worth?
A manager needs to have good communication skills. It is one of the major elements of communication. One of the most vital skills in any manager or supervisor's portfolio of skills. But why? What are the benefits of being a good communicator? Read on for more...
You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard
Bert Decker has written one of the best and most easily understood we've read in a long time. It's a complete book on speaking that will help you in business but also in your personal life.
Obama and Friends On Stage - Implications for the Sales Force
There is a lot of buzz surrounding those who took to the podium this week at the Democratic National Convention - and Barach Obama hasn't had his turn yet. Once again, I will not make a political statement in this article - just a sales opinion.
CANADA IS A COUNTRY OF MEDIOCRITY
Having been closely watching the American presidential race with a great deal of interest, and have to say being fascinated even enthralled by a number of the speeches, I recalled having read an article in the newspaper last year quoting a study or report that concluded Canada was a “country of mediocrity.” It stated that we are not particularly innovative, creative or willing to step up and take risks to move our society forward and become more of a leader in the world. Just what is really being talked about here?
The Job Alternative
This article addresses various ways to earn a living other than a 9-5 job.

Looking In All the 'Right' Places
What do you need to strengthen your leadership? Are you looking in all the expected places? What aren't you thinking of?
WHEN IT COMES TO MARKETING SERVICES: WE DON'T DO MARKETING
By Mike Schultz and John Doerr As we speak with leaders of professional services firms and ask them, "What do you currently do for marketing?" a certain percentage of them reply, "We don't do marketing." What we find, however, is maybe they do more than they think.

How do you Innovate Yourself?
This article applies the process and concept of innovation to our own selves and personal development.
WOW Them With Your Speech
Entrepreneurs are called upon almost daily to deliver informative, as well as enthusiastic speeches. Learn how even the shyest of entrepreneurs can motivate the troops.
Speaking Personally - 3 Questions & Answers
3 Questions to ask yourself when preparing to give any kind of talk or presentaion.
UTILIZING YOUR MEDIA to Land More Business
If you use it correctly, media begets media.
Golden Tennis Shoes
If there’s one thing I’ve learned traveling along this life’s highways and byways, is that in all things it is best to completely be yourself. Take a stand for yourself, choose your likes and dislikes, and stand proudly in them. When you are clearly you, other people will see it and know you for who you are. This simplifies life immeasurably....
What Every Manager Can Learn From Barack Obama
First of all, let me start out by saying that this article is NOT in any way an endorsement for Barack Obama. It is merely my observation and opinion, nothing more. In my opinion, one of the most important qualities of a good manager is the ability to organize.
Making Change Stick
How to drive sustainable change.
Here is A Quick Way For New Managers To Be Successful By Sharing Information
We can share many different things with others, such as material things, money and time, but one of the easiest and most useful things we can share are thoughts and ideas. New managers have a tendency to hold onto knowledge and information thinking it will make them look good or indispensable. It will not - sharing the knowledge or information will make you look great!
Three Strategies for Coaches, Consultants, and Business Advisors to Reach Top Decision Makers
As the title suggests, this article helps business advisors reach top decision makers.
A Prescription From The PR Doctor For a Healthy and Effective Media Kit
Media kits are an essential part of any public relations program and it is essential that certain items are included in your media kit. The PR Doctor has developed a prescription for a healthy and effective media kit. The top ten (10) prescribed items for a healthy and effective media kit include:

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You Have To Write
Sorry about that, but most of the top prospecting techniques require writing. Seminars, speeches, printed and electronic newsletters, magazine articles, websites, etc. all need you to do some writing.

Your speeches and presentations should impress and persuade
Too many speeches and presentations are dull, depending on endless powerpoint and not enthusing the audience. But with relative ease you can ensure the audience is catching every point.

7 tips for better speaking
7 simple steps can add real power to your speeches and presentations.
How to Get a Standing Ovation
When I started public speaking in about 1986, I was deathly afraid of public speaking--for one thing, working for the division run by Steve Jobs was hugely intimidating: How could you possibly compete with Steve? It's taken me twenty years to get comfortable at it. I hope that many of you are are called upon to give speeches--it's the closest thing to being a professional athlete that many of us will achieve. The purpose of this blog entry is to help you give great speeches.
WOW Them With Your Speech
Entrepreneurs are called upon almost daily to deliver informative, as well as enthusiastic speeches. Learn how even the shyest of entrepreneurs can motivate the troops.
How Many Bananas Do You Have?
What my bread machine taught me about creating books, articles, speeches, methodologies and other forms of your intellectual property.
Presentation Skill: The How-To's of the Effective Welcome Speech
Welcome speeches are often-overlooked but still a good opportunity for executives to display their abilities. As with any other public speaking opportunity, delivering an effective welcome speech requires some planning and a few key rules.
Home-based Business: Resource Speaker
Motivating many people with your motivational speeches is an inspiring home-based business. There are several who earn as high as $6,000 per seminar, and their task is to inspire hope in people through the resolution that is often the subject of the speech.
Statism Of The Union II
As far as the observation that both have (or had) the ability to make great speeches, I'll concede that Presidents Reagan and Obama are similar. But the similarities end there. In terms of real substance, Barack Obama definitely ain't Ronald Reagan....
How To Give Great Speeches
Most people have a fear of public speaking. I know I did. Now you can learn how to deal with it which will enable you to give great speeches.
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