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  • Your Business Bio Length

     Obviously your introduction bio should vary according to what group you are addressing. An introduction in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission would be different than the bio introduction used for a speaker about to give a high school commencement address, even though it is the same speaker presenting. But another consideration is how long your bio should be for a particular audience.More

  • 10 Tips for a Successful Entrepreneurial Pitch

     One of the hardest presentations to make is the entrepreneurial pitch. You have a great idea for a business and you want someone to give you money to make it happen. The problem is that venture capitalists, angel investors, and even rich uncles are heavily predisposed against you.More

  • Marketing Your Ideas To Businesses

     Whether you work for a Fortune 100 Corporation or you are a one-person consulting person working from home, you have three main ways of marketing yourself or your company whenever you speak.1. Credentials/position/title2. Topic/subject matter/process3.More

  • The Big Word Trap

     Many speakers can’t resist the temptation to use big words while giving a speech. Sometimes it is a conscious effort to appear to be smart, sometimes it is an unconscious impulse because that’s what a speaker thinks he or she is supposed to do in a so-called “formal” speech.Either way, it’s a bad idea.More

  • What Are Most PowerPoint Slides Good For?

     Believe it or not, the answer is not NOTHING! Even though that is what most people who know me would expect me to say.I actually think that there is a role for the typical text-filled, bullet point laden PowerPoint slide, only it isn’t to be used on the PowerPoint projection screen.More

  • Making Lemon-Aid Out of a Lemon PowerPoint Presentation

     What do you do if your boss gives you a thoroughly lousy PowerPoint presentation to deliver and it has 50 bullet points on each slide, complicated graphs, and long sentences everywhere?Don’t panic! In this case, your PowerPoint slides are not going to help your presentation.More

  • Video - The New Default Medium

     For hundreds of years, text writing has been the default medium of choice for most people. It was the simplest, easiest, and most widely used medium for communication.When television became widespread in the 1950’s, TV soon became the most powerful medium for communication even though it was an expensive and time-consuming medium available exclusively to elites when it came to creation.More

  • I Hate My Voice!

     At least once a week one of my trainees tells me “I hate my voice.” This is usually followed by a solemn declaration that somehow all recording voices distort his or her voice in an unflattering matter.What’s going on here?More

  • Learn The Easy Way-From Other People's Mistakes

     We’ve all been subjected to awful speakers—some are boring, others are sanctimonious, a few are tedious. The one thing all of these rotten speakers have in common is this: listening to them is pure torture and all you can think about is how you will never get the last thirty minutes of your life back.Most of us tune out quickly once we are subjected to a lousy speaker.More

  • Grinding It Out - 2 Days In The Life of Senator Charles Schumer

     There are some political leaders who have the gift of gab; they sparkle on camera, whether they are giving a speech or being interviewed. Think Regan, Clinton or Blair.U.More