When I first received the 10(!) cassette collection, my first reaction was, “Oh great, well, let’s hope none of them get eaten by my old tape player!” My second reaction was to search for the tape player. Mere seconds later, it was found and I started my journey. I received the collection just prior to my move to my new apartment, which is presently where my wife and I live. This being so, I had plenty of quality time to listen to the cassettes whilst I toiled away at my room, attempting to sort out some sort of, “trash”, “not trash”, organization.
Read More...Robert Fripp at NSA Professional to Mastery
When the National Speakers Association held a Performance Lab in Las Vegas Dan Thurman gathered an amazing group of individuals to speak. They came from NSA, Cirque, the Movie Industry, and Show Business. Rich Little gave a great speech on “Fame People I Have Known and Been.” My brother Robert Fripp spoke about “The Assumption of Innocence Within a Context of Experience.” Here is the 4th clip from that speech…
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(about Robert Fripp)
From the San Francisco Chronicle—Friday, December 3, 1999 by Jon Carroll
THERE WAS A time in my life, a very rich and lovely time, when I almost lived in New York City, staying down on Gansevoort Street long before it became chic and walking to work at the Village Voice every day. And yet, I paid no rent and got to go back to California a lot. Oh, golden year!
Read More...Fripp Wins the Cavett Award–The “Oscar” of Speaking
At the National Speakers Association’s annual convention in Orlando, Florida in July 1996, Patricia was awarded NSA’s highest honor—the Cavett Award.
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The Seven Essential Strategies for Performing Optimally at Work
What book is on your bedside table? One of my newest to help keep me on track for 2011 is written by one of my professional colleagues at the National Speakers Association of Northern California. The Productivity Expert Dr. Neil Fiore gave me permission to give you a taste of it!
Read More...Keys to Social Media Marketing Success
By Pam Lontos
Social Media Marketing (called SMM) is certainly the newest buzz in the PR and marketing realm. And as with any new publicity tool, people have lots of questions on how to best utilize it.
Read More...The Top 5 Mistakes of Social Media Marketing
By Pam Lontos
As a business owner, you already know the importance of utilizing traditional PR – print, radio and TV exposure – to keep your name circulating in the marketplace. Now, however, there’s a new PR outlet you need to become familiar with. It’s called Social Media Marketing, and when combined with your traditional PR efforts, Social Media Marketing can help you penetrate the marketplace with your message quicker and easier than ever before.
Read More...Building Good Media Relations Can Grow Your Business
By Pam Lontos
As a speaker, you’ve probably heard media exposure can greatly help your business, especially during tough economic times when marketing budgets are low and competition is high. The truth is, learning to leverage the power of the media can help you stand out from the competition without expending your resources. If you are new or inexperienced in dealing with editors or reporters, you might feel intimidated. But there’s absolutely no reason to believe you must have superpowers or be famous in order to approach the media.
Read More...The Dos and Don’ts of Dealing with the Media
By Pam Lontos
As a speaker, you probably know how important publicity is to the success of your business. But the truth is, many speakers, high-level executives and even marketing and public relations managers (and maybe you’re one of them) make crucial mistakes when dealing with the media – and then they end up on reporter’s block call or spam e-mail lists. The good news is, by being aware of the more common dos and don’ts of dealing with reporters and editors, there are many steps you can take to avoid these pitfalls!
Read More...How to Improve Your Press Releases PR Leads
How to Improve Your Press Releases…and any advice you want on publicity and getting your name out…chances are you can learn it from my friend and long time mentor Dan Janal of PR Leads. Recent I interviewed Dan for World Champions Edge. He was talking about what he learned attending BlogWorld. One idea was you do not have to look like a movie star to be on YouTube.
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