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To any potential speakers younger than 40, don’t get paranoid if you tell a group of friends your new career goal is to become a motivational speaker and you’re met with a round of snickers and guffaws. It’s not the idea per se that seems so ludicrous but maybe a good chance they watched the [...]
We recently mentioned that mega-best selling author, Seth Godin, will no longer publish his books the traditional way through a New York publisher. What we didn’t mention is the critical idea behind his ability to go his own way, free of the constraints of the old way of doing things was because he built himself [...]
The inefficiency of print media is mind-boggling. It’s costly, slow to distribute, and has quite frankly, lost its appeal. The days of grabbing the daily paper from the driveway are now over. Why walk outside early in the morning when you can easily get the same information from your PC, iPad, Kindle[...]
Jason talks with Dan Sullivan, co-founder of The Strategic Coach®. As an international organization offering practical thinking tools and support, Dan Sullivan has structured his company to help individuals create the personal and professional future they want. Visit: http://speakingofwealth.com/category/podcast/. Dan’s strong belief in the power of the entrepreneur is evident in all areas of Strategic [...]
Your publisher career just got easier, thanks to Seth Godin. Godin, New York Times bestselling author 12 times over (Purple Cow, Tribes, All Marketers Are Liars) dropped a bomb on the traditional publishing industry a few days ago when he announced on his blog that his just released book Linchpin is the last he will [...]
Jason Hartman talks with self-publishing guru Dan Poynter who spent eight years researching a labor of love. Realizing no publisher would be interested in a technical treatise on the parachute, he went directly to a printer and “self-published.†The orders poured in and he suddenly found he was a publisher himself. More at: http://www.speakingofwealth.com/category/podcast or [...]
Are effective communication skills set to die off in the near future? Depends on whom you listen to. Recent studies have concluded “no except when they say “yes.†How’s that for clearly articulating a position. At issue is the question of whether electronic methods of human interaction like e-mail, texting, and social media are causing our [...]
Jason talks with Anne Bruce who is author of 14 books including Speak for a Living: The Insider’s Guide to Building a Profitable Speaking Career, Perfect Phrases for Employee Development Plans, Be Your Own Mentor, Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems, Discover True North: A Program to Ignite Your Passion and Activate Your Potential, [...]
Recent years have brought an entire new paradigm to the creation of a professional public speaker. We’ll call it How to Become a Public Speaker 2.0. Back in the old days, say pre-2005, a budding speaker fought and scratched for his first gig, mailed promo kits, and hoped for decent word-of-mouth. Oh, and better be [...]
At one point or another, most of us have sat through more than our share of speeches, some of which exhibit exhilarating presentation techniques and others…quite the opposite. When it’s your turn to get up there and wow the audience, let’s see how much you learned from the bad ones you sat through. And if [...]
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