American Accent Specialist Can Improve Your Spoken English

My associate is delivering a program that could be of interest to many in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Improve your Spoken English on Sunday, March 13, 2011 from 2 pm – 3 pm: Rebecca Linquist, American Accent Specialist and founder of English by the Hour presents at Next Step ToastMasters on “Communicating with Clarity & Confidence: What both native and non-native speakers of American English Need to Know.” To register call: 408 833-8945. http://nextsteptm.wufoo.com/forms/improve-your-spoken-english/ $5 is you register/ $7 for walk-ins. Location: the BIltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd., Santa Clara, CA 95054. http://nextsteptm.freetoasthost.com/

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Dianna Booher Ask Strategic Questions

Focus on strategic thinking with questions like these:

“If we were able to off-load some of these routine tasks and could free
your own marketing staff to devote their creative energy on the new
product line, how do you think that could pay off for you in launching
this new product line second quarter?”

“Have you ever thought about automating your back-office processes?”

“In what ways do you see us getting a competitive advantage if we change
to a totally virtual staffing plan?”

Your questions should start the wheels spinning–big time. You just might
uncover hidden possibilities or solve problems you didn’t know existed.

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Public Speaking with Webinars

These days I am delivering more and more Webinars. My guru is Tom Drews the Fripp Associate who is one of the country’s leading experts in Public Speaking using Webinars.
One of Tom’s unique ideas is to use visuals to communicate information before the Webinar starts. An excellent and little utilized technique called “looping” can help prepare your participants for the webinar. “Choose a series of ten slides that automatically ‘loop’ while people are logging in. Provide colleagues with start times, direction for downloading resources, speaker information, upcoming meeting dates and other relevant content. The loop will keep everyone on target and engaged, regardless of when they log in.”

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Rethinking: 10 Strategies for a Challenging Era, Advice from Jim Cathcart

My pal Jim Cathcart is one of my associates in Speakers Roundtable give us great advice for challenging times. Speakers Roundtable is a group of 20 of the best, in-demand professional speakers, executive speech coaches, and trainers: http://www.speakersroundtable.com Rethinking: 10 Strategies for a Challenging Era By Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE

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10 Tips to Make Your Copy Get Results with “Killer Copy Tactics”

David Garfinkel is well-known as the “World’s Greatest Copywriting Coach.” When I asked David if he would give us 10 copywriting tips, here’s what he told me: Write your headline from your prospect’s point of view, not your own. It’s amazing how many business people forget to look at their products and services from the […]

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