As a sales presentation skills trainer I am always impressed with my clients who take the comma seriously. Enjoy our latest contribution by Grammer Granny and editor Eleanor Dugan.
Read More...Presentation Skills Tip: The Less, the Proud, the Marines?
Here is another article with a presentation skills tip by author and editor Eleanor Dugan my Grammar Granny. Hope this will help you sound more intelligent.
Read More...Making Your Keynote Speech a Hit: Add Hollywood
Five Memorable Moments
If you want a hit movie, it’s not the advertising; it’s five moments. Your five moments and my five moments might be different. That’s when you walk out of the movie with your friends and you relive the high points. And then you go to work the next day and you say “You’ve got to see this movie…and there’s this scene with…and you’ll know that…and when you think of the hair gel…and you’ve got to see this scene in the restaurant… trust me…you’ve got to go and see this movie.”
It is the advertising and the promotion that gets us to the opening weekend. Hollywood knows even if the movie isn’t good the opening weekend can get their money back. It is the word of mouth that makes a movie a blockbuster success.
Improve Your Public Speaking by Collaboration
Improve Your Public Speaking: Have You Considered Collaborating?
Frippicism: It is difficult to be creative in isolation.
Hollywood Ideas for Presentation Skills
In Hollywood you have directors, producers, and cinematographers; casting directors, actors, stand-in, and stuntmen; composers, musicians, and musical directors; set designers, art directors, carpenters, and construction coordinators; sound mixers, lighting technicians, and camera operators; production designers, costume designers, and script supervisors; makeup artists, hairstylists, and prop masters; teleplay writers, production assistants, and boom operators; gaffers, key grips, best boy grips, dolly grips, and editors. Dozens of caterers because apparently an army marches on their stomach and so does Hollywood.
Read More...Every sales presentation is a missed or captured opportunity
Every sales conversation and presentation is a missed or captured opportunity. Which will your next one be?
Read More...How to improve your presentation skills: Notes from PR thoughtleader
There is nothing better than speaking and coaching professionals who pay for the seminar themselves, fly to another city to attend, and are in the room an hour early to network and get the seat of their choice! One of my good friends, associates, and collaborators and I have been learning from each other for years. It was exciting to see what Dan Janal had to say in this review notes to his community of loyal devotees! In case you are not familiar with Dan he is famous for getting his clients terrific results from PR.
Read More...Robert Fripp The House Where Music Lives.
My brother Robert Fripp is as brilliant a thinker, writer, speaker as he is a musician. When I read his on-line diary (that he insists is not a blog) I always think. The photos that he adds to personalize his life is wonderful Enjoy…
Read More...Words have power! Grammar Granny Dugan and Rex Harrison say “The French Don’t Care”
The French Don’t Care
“The French don’t care what you do, actually,” says Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, “as long as you pronounce it properly.”*
Public Speaking: Are Your Characters Captivating?
The late comedy impresario John Cantu knew that speakers mustn’t be the heroes of all their stories. Together, we analyzed one of his speeches and found sixty-two different people! Learn from great books, plays, and films. Fill your speech with exciting characters, real and imaginary.
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