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Great Speaking Vol. 1 Number 16
"Dear Tom: Recently, I've purchased training books/videos/cassettes
and/or attended presentations by other coaches that were less than they
represented. It makes one cautious about purchasing yet another training
series. Your videos and training approach are worth every penny and then some!"
Jennifer Petersen
Leadership Skills, Inc., protocol@etiquette42day.com
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GREAT SPEAKING
Circulation 7659
Vol. 1 Number 16 - August 26, 1999
Publisher: Tom Antion tomAntion@aol.com
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(C) Anchor Publishing 1999
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No one ever lost credibility by
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
(Beginners should read this too)
3. Humor Technique Series
4. Speaker Marketing Tip
5. Speaker Humor
6. Websites for Speakers
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
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VULNERABILITY by Tom Antion
I learned a great tip, at the recent National Speakers Association convention
while standing around talking shop in the hotel lobby. John Meluso, <pluslife@juno.com>
spent some time with me and noted that I was not showing any vulnerability at all near the
beginning of my program. I would roll along and then tell a signature story at the END
of my talk that bared all. John, pointed out to me that being the hard charging kind of
speaker that I am, that I probably have been alienating many of the more sensitive audience
members. It is likely that my style ran over them right from the start and caused them to retreat
for cover, thus making them very distant from me emotionally. Because of his astute observation,
I will change the order of some of my material to better connect with more subdued audience
members.
An old boy coal miner friend of mine once told me, "The schoolhouse door is always
open." John, I want to thank you for reminding me that we all can get better.
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2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
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PRACTICE ALOUND AND WITH AN AUDIENCE
by Jim Tunney, EdD, CSP, CPAE
Practice, practice, practice. The reason you have heard it over and over and over
is because it is true. Saying your speech aloud into a tape recorder and then listening
critically one time is worth ten silent read-throughs. In the same way, one stand-up
practice in a mock setting with friends and family members as an audience is worth
ten read-alouds. Preparation is more than fact-finding and effective writing. Gaining
the more subtle skills . . .voice control and modulation, paper and equipment handling,
posture and presentation, humor and timing, ease and confidence . . . requires preparation.
Preparation includes practice, "real" practice. heed the coach*S maxim: Practice doesn*t
make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
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Association, an educator and best known for his work as an NFL
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3. HUMOR TECHNIQUE
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ODD BODY ANGLES by Tom Antion
Do you remember Steve Martin with his "Walk like an Egyptian" routine?
The main reason it was funny was because of the strange body angles. These angles
may have been fine for Egyptian dancers, but hilarious for stand up comics.
I do a routine where I do several sick looking Tai Chi moves. The audience can*t
help but laugh. Charlie Chaplain used the duck footed stance with his arms at his
sides, but hands turned up. He also waddled along.
Although, I am not an advocate of using a mirror in presentation skills training,
this is one time you can experiment in creating funny looking poses by thinking "odd
body angles." You*ll guarantee more laughs with this technique.
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Email YOUR WAY TO RICHES . . . WITHOUT BEING A SPAMMER
by Tom Antion
You can make lots of money while sitting at home with the proper use of Email.
I earned my personal record last month of approximately $24, 500.00 in about 10 days . . .
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and travelling, but I also love credit card orders piling up and sending my roommate to
the post office with carloads of product orders.
I use a combination of website and Email to reach each of my target markets. One target
market is, of course, people who need to hire a speaker. They find my website because it
is promoted properly using the techniques I teach in my "dummies" website marketing
consultation. You are my other target market. Either you subscribed to this Ezine, or registered
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5. SPEAKER HUMOR
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Important questions that speakers should be able to answer:
=> When it rains, why don*t sheep shrink?
=> If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell her she has the
right to remain silent?
=> Why is the word abbreviation so long?
=> If a book about failures doesn*t sell, is it a success?
=> Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
=> What do you do when you discover an endangered animal that
eats only endangered plants?
=> Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
=> Is it possible to be totally partial?
=> What*s another word for thesaurus?
=> When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
=> Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?
=> Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream?
=> Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
=> How do you know when it*s time to tune your bagpipes?
=> Is it true that cannibals don*t eat clowns because they taste
funny?
=> When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
=> Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?
=> Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?
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