I was reading Chuck Reeves newsletter on selling beyound the next new things and he gave examples of the "computer in your shirt pocket?" and the newest news that computer screens are obsolute
Did you know that computer screens are obsolete? Check this out: LINK
Your customers and your competitors are not interested in the next new thing - or even the thing after that. They are interested in what those things will do for them right now. Understand your customer's need or their want and show them how your current or future offerings will address those better than anyone else's.
A neighbor went to buy a $500 Blu-Ray Player so he could watch his DVDs with the best audio and video. Instead, he bought a $49 wireless device that immediately brings any movie available at Netflix to his home theater. No moving parts, no trips to the video store and all the features of Blu-Ray.
It's obsolete.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
How to become a good speaker.
Create every opportunity to speak. Ask to lead meetings, join a good Toastmasters group, teach at Sunday School or youth fellowship or synagogue, speak at your kids schools. Ask to introduce speakers at your local clubs and association meetings. Introducing speakers is hard to do well so it hones your abilities and it also can be a good political move your associated with the powerful and talented people you introduce. The best way to feel comfortable speaking and be a great speaker is to practice in front of audiences. Being a speaker is like being an athlete. A star athletes does not just show up for the big event. He practices and workouts every day. He figures out his weaknesses and tries things to stretch and improve.
Create every opportunity to speak. Ask to lead meetings, join a good Toastmasters group, teach at Sunday School or youth fellowship or synagogue, speak at your kids schools. Ask to introduce speakers at your local clubs and association meetings. Introducing speakers is hard to do well so it hones your abilities and it also can be a good political move your associated with the powerful and talented people you introduce. The best way to feel comfortable speaking and be a great speaker is to practice in front of audiences. Being a speaker is like being an athlete. A star athletes does not just show up for the big event. He practices and workouts every day. He figures out his weaknesses and tries things to stretch and improve.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
The Last Slides in Your PowerPoint presentation
Have you ever attended a power point presentation and unplanned slides or the presenters desk top accidentally shown on the screen at the beginning and end of the presentation? I know it happens. Here are tips to keep your desk top from ruining your credibility as a speaker.
Make sure the desktop on the laptop you will be using in your presentation in clean and orderly and doesn't have questionable icons or folders labeled with anything weird or before your presentation move everything on your desktop into one folder and hide it. Check what will be your open PowerPoint window if you press the “next” button one too many times. To be safe, when every you create a power point presentation make sure you add a few extra blank slides at the end of your presentation. My recommendation is if you choose to do a Power Point presentation that the first five minutes and the last five minutes of the presentation should be slide free so that you can build a relationship with the audience at the beginning and cement that relationship at the end of your speech.
But if you are going to be projecting contents of your laptop onto a big ole screen for everyone in your audience to see make sure what they see makes you look your best.
Have you ever attended a power point presentation and unplanned slides or the presenters desk top accidentally shown on the screen at the beginning and end of the presentation? I know it happens. Here are tips to keep your desk top from ruining your credibility as a speaker.
Make sure the desktop on the laptop you will be using in your presentation in clean and orderly and doesn't have questionable icons or folders labeled with anything weird or before your presentation move everything on your desktop into one folder and hide it. Check what will be your open PowerPoint window if you press the “next” button one too many times. To be safe, when every you create a power point presentation make sure you add a few extra blank slides at the end of your presentation. My recommendation is if you choose to do a Power Point presentation that the first five minutes and the last five minutes of the presentation should be slide free so that you can build a relationship with the audience at the beginning and cement that relationship at the end of your speech.
But if you are going to be projecting contents of your laptop onto a big ole screen for everyone in your audience to see make sure what they see makes you look your best.
Speaker Tips for Dry Mouth
I just read Speakers Tips Dry Mouth compiled by — Nancy Camp I contributed some of the suggestions and have another blog post with other tips for preventing or dealing with dry mouth.
Found in SpeakerNetNews.com
Here are several proven tips and techniques performers swear by:
• Don’t drink coffee or dairy before a speaking engagement. Coffee is a diuretic and dries out your mouth, larynx and throat. Dairy consumption will increase the amount of mucus in your mouth, throat and nasal cavity.
• Hydrate beginning several hours before your speak by drinking lots of water. Better to come into a speaking engagement well-lubricated than trying to make up for it on the spot.
• Drink a tea called Throat Coat (Yogi Teas which I get at Trader Joe’s but which are widely available.) Surprisingly tasty, it’s made from slippery elm which is a traditional remedy for sore throat.
• Use Biotene brand mouthwash. Available over the counter, it’s non-alcohol-based and formulated to help with dry mouth.
• Entertainer’s Secret and other artificial saliva spray products will help. Might need to order these via specialty drugstore or online.
• For some folks, it helps to take a decongestant (I know, it seems counterintuitive, but it works.) Just make sure it’s the non-drowsy kind. Simple Claritin is very effective with no side effects.
• Finally, ALWAYS warm up your vocal cords before you step up to the lectern. Go off by yourself and vocalize, read a chapter aloud from a book, sing, yodel, or even whistle a while. Use it or lose it. "
I just read Speakers Tips Dry Mouth compiled by — Nancy Camp I contributed some of the suggestions and have another blog post with other tips for preventing or dealing with dry mouth.
Found in SpeakerNetNews.com
Here are several proven tips and techniques performers swear by:
• Don’t drink coffee or dairy before a speaking engagement. Coffee is a diuretic and dries out your mouth, larynx and throat. Dairy consumption will increase the amount of mucus in your mouth, throat and nasal cavity.
• Hydrate beginning several hours before your speak by drinking lots of water. Better to come into a speaking engagement well-lubricated than trying to make up for it on the spot.
• Drink a tea called Throat Coat (Yogi Teas which I get at Trader Joe’s but which are widely available.) Surprisingly tasty, it’s made from slippery elm which is a traditional remedy for sore throat.
• Use Biotene brand mouthwash. Available over the counter, it’s non-alcohol-based and formulated to help with dry mouth.
• Entertainer’s Secret and other artificial saliva spray products will help. Might need to order these via specialty drugstore or online.
• For some folks, it helps to take a decongestant (I know, it seems counterintuitive, but it works.) Just make sure it’s the non-drowsy kind. Simple Claritin is very effective with no side effects.
• Finally, ALWAYS warm up your vocal cords before you step up to the lectern. Go off by yourself and vocalize, read a chapter aloud from a book, sing, yodel, or even whistle a while. Use it or lose it. "
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