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Want to Know the Secret of Powerful Presentations?

by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE | Dec 2, 2022 | Blog, Effective Business Communication Skills, Patricia Fripp Articles, Public Speaking Skills, Speech coaching

Emotional Connection To win over your audience, you must connect emotionally. With well-chosen words, you can open your presentation and establish an immediate emotional bond. s a presentation skills coach, when I work with a group, I’ll invite individuals to come to...

Are You Overlooking One of the Best Ways to Find Stories?

by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE | Nov 10, 2022 | Blog, Effective Business Communication Skills, Professional Career Development, Professional Speaking, Public Speaking Skills

Had any good conversations recently? In this message, we’re going to clarify what you may believe are two conflicting ideas. The point of retelling stories you heard, and the idea of only telling stories from your own experience. If you are retelling stories you heard...

How You Can Avoid Losing Sales: 8 Steps to Outstanding Sales Structure

by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE | Oct 13, 2022 | Blog, Business Sales Presentations, Communication and Marketing, Leadership & Team Building, Patricia Fripp Articles, Sales Presentations

Are you losing sales you feel you deserve to win? Are you confident that everyone on your sales team can deliver your company story well? Are you making the fatal flaw that many sales managers make? You may like many of my clients before I work with them. You have...

Would You Like to Know Two Words that Devalue Your Products and Services?

by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE | Oct 6, 2022 | Blog, Business Sales Presentations, Communication and Marketing, Public Speaking Skills

Watch Your Use of “Basically” and “Simply” Many of my clients offer complex solutions to solve their customers’ problems, streamline their businesses, and protect their valuable assets. I am hired to help their technology experts simplify the complexity of their...

Why Do Middle Aged Executives Do This? It Makes Me Want to Scream!

by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE | Sep 30, 2022 | Blog, Effective Business Communication Skills, Executive Leadership, Motivation, Public Speaking Skills, Speech Coach

Yes, it makes me want to scream! Because “super” is not really super. It appears that a huge amount of the population has come to believe that everything even slightly pleasant, wonderful, important, revolutionary, impressive, or valuable is now super. How...

What Do Most Sales Professional Not Know That Loses Sales? Don’t Make This Mistake

by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE | Sep 23, 2022 | Blog, Business Sales Presentations, Effective Business Communication Skills, Sales Presentations

Rehearsal Is the Work in Sales Presentations Oscar winner Sir Michael Caine said, “Rehearsal is the work; performance is the relaxation.” That applies equally to delivering a sales presentation. During a presentation skills training at one of my client companies, a...

Want to Know the Secret of Powerful Presentations?

Are You Overlooking One of the Best Ways to Find Stories?

How You Can Avoid Losing Sales: 8 Steps to Outstanding Sales Structure

Would You Like to Know Two Words that Devalue Your Products and Services?

Why Do Middle Aged Executives Do This? It Makes Me Want to Scream!

What Do Most Sales Professional Not Know That Loses Sales? Don’t Make This Mistake

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