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We’re going to write this article under the assumption that, as a working public speaker, you plan to be reimbursed for your skills. In short, you don’t plan on speaking for free – you want to get paid. The trouble with operating a business with a total labor force of one – you – is [...]
Is the Virtual Book Tour (VBT) the wave of the future for aspiring speakers, publishers, and writers to sell their books? While it might very well qualify as the direction we’re headed, it’s also the wave of now. Let’s backtrack slightly first: What is a virtual book tour? You probably could guess but we’ll say [...]
Jason Hartman talks with Sue LaPointe, author of: Working Writer Happy Writer: How To Build A Thriving Writing Business From Nothing Business. More at: http://speakingofwealth.com/category/podcast/. The only happy writers out there are the ones who are working! Finding writing clients and projects isn’t a matter of luck – it’s just a matter of being shown [...]
Out of sight, out of mind is the kiss of death in many businesses and speaking for a living is no different. The most dynamic and captivating speaker on the face of the planet will almost certainly still be doomed to obscurity unless he has vibrant marketing toolkit that consists of a smokin’ hot website, [...]
Jason Hartman talks with Bryan Caplovitz of SpeakerMatch located in Austin Texas. As the only service of its kind when it comes to matching speakers and speaking opportunities, SpeakerMatch reaches emerging professional speakers, business leaders, technical gurus, educators, and other subject-matter experts who want to communicate what they know. More at: http://speakingofwealth.com/category/podcast/. The service is [...]
Or get dudes, as the case may be. We didn’t intend our article title to be biased against the ladies, transgendered, homosexual, or space aliens. Let’s not wander too far afield here – the point is that speaking is an almost guaranteed to increase your sex appeal, no matter how homely you might be from [...]
To the public speaker who wants to build his career without using the Internet – good luck. The World Wide Web is here and it’s here to stay. To ignore its presence is tantamount to embracing an unrecognized and slow-growing career, with much time spent watching the phone not ring and sorting through the daily [...]
At least as much as any other industry and perhaps more than most, publishing in the future, like tomorrow, should take a completely different path, thanks to the revolutionary changes wrought by the Internet. We see a day-by-day slippage in the grasp traditional publishing houses in New York formerly enjoyed over the control of printed [...]
While the words might trip lightly from your tongue in an ceaseless flow of fascinating verbiage, chances are that any speaker, consultant, or publisher is going to have to do some writing one day and, when they do, wouldn’t it be nice to avoid some of the writing errors that brand us as amateurs? Here [...]
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Publishers: Beware the Comment Spam Monster
As any blog publisher has already discovered, to his eternal sorrow and damnation, there is an entire sub-human class of species known as the Comment Spam Monster that lurks just beyond the reach of your friendly neighborhood spam filter’s best efforts to kill them off. Kill ten and twenty more show up. Kill twenty and [...]