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Great Speaking Vol. 2 Number 11
Learn How to Market Yourself on the computer
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GREAT SPEAKING
Circulation 11,809
Vol. 2 Number 11 - August 16, 2000
Publisher: Tom Antion tom@Antion.com
http://www.Antion.com
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No one ever lost credibility by
being interesting.
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Please recommend this E-Zine to anyone you
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IN THIS ISSUE
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Sections 1. and 2. replaced with results of
Birthday Contest
3. Humor Technique Series
4. Speaker Marketing Tip
5. Speaker Humor
6. Websites for Speakers
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1.and 2 BIRTHDAY CONTEST RESULTS
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Part I of the Birthday contest asked, "What do you do when
you find out that someone in your audience is having a birthday?"
(complete techniques and all entries are posted at
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And the winner of part 1 is: . . . Well we have a tie . . .
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In no particular order:
All three winnners were prepared in advance which is why
they won.
=> Justin Shortal from Victoria Australia for working up a
"This is Your Life" presentation
=> Bill Wilson from Hendersonville, TN because he was
prepared and also because he supplied lots of useful links
you can find at the link above.
=> Brian Walter from Redmond, WA for always having a cheat
sheet ready and for his idea on simply making the years
longer so you are, in effect, younger.
Runners Up:
=> Bill Naylor gets the prize for speed because at lunch
break he adds a slide to his PowerPoint presentation
with customized Birthday wishes.
=> Scott Friedman for his very creative Top 10 List which
includes sending yourself a singing telegram.
=> Gary Michael from Denver, CO for having the guts to
have a prone group massage and for writing the book
(I'm not making this up) "Get in Bed with Your Audience
and Satisfy Them Every Time"
=> Cassandra Cockrill from Toastmasters District 57 for
a very interesting mixer she does by having everyone line
up by birthdate.
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Part 2 of the Birthday Contest asked, "What do you do when you
find out that the 'organization is having a birthday?"
We have a part 2 winner here:
Ann Leach contacts the organization's public relations director
and secures archived slides of the organization to use during
a highly orchestrated presentation involving many leaders
in the organization.
Runners up are:
=> Mike Miller from Charleston, SC keeps an 8.5 x 11 Customizable
Birthday Card ready along with an Elvis Sings Happy Birthday tape.
=> John Jay Daly from Washington, D.C. has three reference books
one of which is "Witty Words" by Eileen Mason.
=> Glen Knight from Boise, ID who does a funny thing
with Hershey's Kisses
=> Susan Rathman from Southern California for
promising NOT to sing to the group.
=> Suze Baez also from Southern Cal for singing Happy
Birthday like Marilyn Monroe.
(Winners should email me with their mailing address to
claim their prizes . . . tom@antion.com )
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3. HUMOR TECHNIQUE
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Costumes
No, you don't have to go on-stage in a gorilla suit,
although you could if you wanted to. A costume can be
anything from a flashy tie, to a feathered hat, to
a full blown shiny Marca Polina outfit (the feminine
Marco Polo) complete with an illuminated magic wand,
that my friend Sally Walton wears when she talks about
the magic art of "Communicating Across Cultures."
Costumes add a flare and excitement to your
presentations and certainly help to make them more memorable.
If you don't like to wear costumes, get the audience
members to wear them. Better yet, get the "big shots"
to wear them and you will probably be the hit of the
meeting. I was doing a customer service talk for a pizza
franchise and I had one of the senior managers march
into the meeting wearing a filthy, doctor's lab coat
with ketchup all over it (fake blood). I had another
senior manager come in with a crisp, new lab coat. I
asked a simple question, Which manager would you like
operating on you? Of course, all the junior managers
yelled out that they wouldn't let either one of
these people operate on them. Everyone was laughing and
joking around, but the point was made. They must
keep their employees looking clean and neat because
nice customers won't want to be served by grungy
food service workers.
Costume characters can be hired to hand out fliers at
your event, entertain, and generally create an air
of fun and excitement. The local heart association has a
"blood drop" costume they use when they are soliciting
funds. There are literally hundreds of costumes
available through costume shops or via mail order.
Just make sure, as always, the theme of the costume
matches the theme of your presentation or event.
(From "Wake 'em Up Business Presentations")
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4. $$$$$$$ SPEAKER MARKETING TIP $$$$$$$$
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Video Genius
What I have to discuss with you in today's speaker marketing
tip is too important and too intricate to put in this
Ezine's format so I'll have a website page for you to
visit (see below)to read all the good stuff.
I don't vouch for too many people because my standards
are pretty high. I especially don't call people a genius
as part of my "hype-things-up" nature. In fact, there
are only three people I know that have true genius.
1.) is my oldest brother who is an electro-mechanical
genius, 2.) is Joel Roberts who is a media hook genius
and 3.) the person that this article is about. . . .
His name is Gary Smith and he just produced my new demo
video that landed me a $100,000.00+ contract the first
time it was seen.
Gary is an retired Emmy-Nominated Hollywood editor who worked
for years on major motion pictures, most notably "The Winds
of War." I can't begin to tell you the techniques that he
knows that can make your demo video irresistible . . . I'll
let him do that in an article I have posted written by him.
I can tell you that he took footage that has been sitting on
my shelf and brought it to life. I have had five other demo
videos and this one is better than all of them put together.
It's so inexpensive that I'm having him create a separate one
for each of my topics which will help agents and meeting planners
make decisions on me much quicker.
If you are going to do a demo video, which is important for
almost every professional speaker, you may as well do it right.
Visit http://www.antion.com/great-video.htm to find out exactly
how Gary does it.
P.S. He's an abstract "Hollywood" type, so if you ever talk
to him on the phone . . . don't worry if you don't understand
a word he says hahahahaha, but when you see the video . . . WOW!
NOTE: The site below is where I learned virtually
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5. SPEAKER HUMOR
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=> Don't try to make children grow up like you . . .
They may do it.
=> The guest is always right . . .even if we have to
throw him out -- Charles Ritz
=> A luxury resort is a place with tropical plants outside
and outstretched palms inside.
=> Truth is something you stumble into when you think
you are going someplace else. -- Jerry Garcia
=> A sales job is easy. I just keep reminding myself that
these are not really people -- they are only customers.
=> I am a deeply superficial person. -- Andy Warhol
=> If you can't get people to listen to you any other way
tell them it's confidential.
=> What's the difference between horse racing and politics?
In horse racing the whole horse wins.
=> A politician is a person who spends half the time running
for office and the other half running for cover.
=> Blessed are the young for they will inherit the national
debt. -- Herbert Hoover
=> An expert is person who can take something you already know
and make it sound confusing.
=> The word expert is derived from "ex" a has been,
and "spurt" a drip under pressure.
=> Expert: someone who knows more and more about less and less.
=> A consultant is a person who takes your watch to tell you
what time it is.
=> If the right side of the brain controls the left side of
the body, then only left handed people are in their right minds.
=> Television has brought murder back into the
home where it belongs.
=> You grow up the day you have your first real laugh . . .
at yourself. -- Ethel Barrymore
=> A curved line is the loveliest distance between two points.
-- Mae West
=> It was so cold I almost got married. -- Shelley Winters
=> There is never enough time . . . unless you're serving it.
-- Malcolm Forbes
Much more FREE speaker humor at
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6. USEFUL WEBSITES
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http://www.marrytom.com Well this isn't that useful for
most of you but for me . . . who knows hahahaha
Reader John Williams suggests http://www.interstate4u.com/
Everything you wanted to
know about every interstate exit in the USA
http://www.easyspeech.com/ Great software for speakers.
Handles, scheduling, speech ideas and much more.
http://www.laptoptravel.com/ All kinds of info for those
who must take their laptop on the road.
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