I’m often asked how I prepare presentations and talks for public speaking. The answer has changed a lot over the past year, but my current process is the one I’m most happy with. First and foremost, I have to know that I have something people want to hear about. There are some topics that are…
Lots of different public speaking programs claim the ability to help you be a successful speaker, to be able to make people love you and adore you. With the exception of Oratium (which is more about presentation architecture than on-stage charisma), I’ve not found any that address the fundamental flaw in most speaking programs. The…
Photo Credit: MarketingProfs Over the last two days, I had the opportunity to attend a training for public speakers with a coaching firm, Oratium, led in part by my friend Tamsen Webster. One of the things I’ve always struggled with as a public speaker is coming up with a winning architecture for my presentations. I…
I was having dinner the other night with one of my coworkers, and we were discussing a talk I had delivered at a recent conference. During the course of the conversation, I related one of the biggest breakthroughs I had as a speaker that totally changed public speaking for me. In the beginning of my…
In the previous post, we talked about how to get at the secrets being shown in conferences in order to reap value for your company’s products or services. Let’s look at the flip side of that coin: suppose you’re presenting and you want to share your successes, but not give away the secret sauce of…
Facebook: Person, Page, and Beyond is a 45 minute intensive webinar that looks at the powerhouse that is Facebook – the third largest country in the world. In this webinar, you’ll learn the 6 key aspects of Facebook – person, page, site, interaction, ads, and analytics, explore what practices make Facebook work well for you,…
I had the privilege of hanging out with Dave Thomas and the Salesforce Radian6 crew to talk about the basics of digital marketing, a distillation of many of the concepts found in my Marketing White Belt book. You can tune into the MP3 recording from the event and the slides below. In a hurry? The…
Ever look on a conference session list and see a presenter listed whose talk you’ve seen before? I certainly have, and depending on who it is, I’ll either go for a “repeat” session or skip them and see someone else. What makes the difference? Whether the presenter is an informer or performer. I’ve talked to…
