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Great Speaking Vol. 6 Number 01
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GREAT SPEAKING
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The largest speaking ezine in the world
Vol. 6 Number 1 - February 16, 2004
Publisher: Tom Antion tom@Antion.com
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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
*** Events for Speakers, Authors, Coaches, Consultants ***
If you can't make either of these events, get the recording:
See Tom Antion live in St. Louis for his infamous Internet
Marketing "ButtCamp. February 26, (the day before the National
Speakers Assn. Eastern Workshop)
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ButtCamp Tapes or CDs
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March -- Mega Book Marketing University with Mark Victor Hansen
of Chicken Soup for the Soul Fame. Also see a host of other
personal advisors to Mark that will teach you that your book is
just one tiny piece of your empire.
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
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Last Minute Practice by Tom Antion
If you happen to be staying in a hotel in a room next to mine,
it is very likely you would hear parts of my upcoming speech
bellowing through the walls.
Even after the enormous number of presentations I've done I still
practice my stories and various bits of material the night before
my event. I heard Zig Ziglar saying that he does the same thing.
Unless you are speaking every day, it is almost impossible to
stay razor sharp with your delivery. Being a keynote / large
event speaker, I may go 90 - 120 days between times when I tell
certain stories on stage. The last thing I want to do is flub up
a line or bumble through a piece of material because I hadn't
thought about it for a couple months.
Don't get cockey! Practice your material several times right
before you do your speech and you'll have a much greater chance
that each word will come out perfectly.
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2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
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Audio Failure by Tom Antion
Wouldn't you know it? I just got my laptop back from getting
fixed because it was locking up. That problem was fixed
beautifully, but the shop must have done something to mess up the
headphone / audio output jack which I never thought to check.
I set up my seminar and plugged my external speaker / amplifier
into the headphone jack as I had done a hundred times before.
Terrible static came out of my external speakers. I tried
different cables and nothing would fix the static.
The fix I had to use was to put a microphone next to the tiny
speakers of the laptop which were working fine. This little trick
was enough to save the day.
In fact, this is a handy trick in many situations when you think
you are going to be able to hook a tape player or some other
audio device into the main sound system, but can't.
It's also handy if it's just not worth the trouble to hook into
the main sound system to listen to a brief audio clip.
I'll also remind you that I am a big advocate of handheld
microphones. Being able to either hold or lay a microphone close
to a speaker is yet another reason I like them. This trick would
be a real hassle with a clip on microphone.
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3. Humor Technique
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Fake Phone Calls by Tom Antion
This is so much fun.
I keep my cell phone with me when I'm on stage and I either have
someone call me while I'm in the middle of the presentation, or I
just pretend the phone is vibrating and I have to answer the
call.
Since the audience can't hear the person calling, you could fake
the entire conversation if you wanted to.
Just recently I had the organizer call me on stage just as I was
giving a small discount if the audience members wanted to buy my
back-of-the-room package. The organizer was telling me that the
discount I was giving was not good enough.
We started arguing about it on the phone which was making the
audience members laugh.
Note: If you've listened to my 2 hour album on "Selling a Ton at
the Back-of-the-Room"
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that having the audience laughing in the middle of your close is
a very good thing.
I gave in an dropped the price a little more on the package I was
selling.
Immediately the phone rang again, with the organizer telling me
that wasn't good enough. We had another argument and now the
audience was really laughing.
I gave in again and dropped the price to the rock bottom and sold
a ton.
You could pretend your mother or father is calling and nagging
you about something. Or you could make up just about anyone that
will allow you to make your part of the conversation funny to the
audience.
Make good use of your cell phone while you are on stage
and those will be some of the most valuable minutes you ever
used.
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4. Speaker Marketing Tip
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Hover Ads by Tom Antion
I get so sick of the pseudo experts giving out incorrect
information about Internet marketing. I just saw in another
speaking ezine a tip from a guy who obviously doesn't know what
he's taking about.
He told speakers they should not use pop up boxes and that they
were ineffective anyway because of pop up blockers.
This is half baked information which is typical of the pseudo
experts. They tell you either wrong information or just enough
information to make you dangerous to yourself. Even worse they
keep you from maximizing your Internet potential.
My pop up boxes make me a small fortune by using sell down
techniques for digital products and finance options for big
ticket products. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, then
I can assure you that you are leaving lots of your customer's
money in their wallets instead of yours.)
1. When used properly pop up boxes are still very effective and I
have not had one complaint about the ones I use because I don't
use them in an intrusive fashion.
2. New and inexpensive technology is already here to defeat the
pop up blockers.
If you don't believe me . . . turn on all your pop up blockers
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This pop up box immediately doubled my ezine subscription rate
and it's great for all kinds of promotions that will get you a
high response, . . . which means dough in your pocket.
It is called a "Hover Ad" and to the pop up blockers it looks
just like part of your page, but to the visitor it looks like a
pop up box that bounces in and lands on the page.
The company that created it also gives you five other formats for
pop up boxes so you can fit just about any look you want.
Check it out at:
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Shopping cart system that Tom uses. You get a three-hour
orientation with Tom narrating to lead you through the basic set
up and advanced sales strategies.
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for the very serious person who wants to start an Internet
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5. Speaker Humor
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=> There was an absentminded professor who saw a sign on his
door that said, "Back in thirty minutes." So he sat down to
wait.
=> The first thing that strikes an out-of-towner in New York is
the accent. The second is generally a taxi!
=> A man broke a mirror, but he didn't have seven years' bad
luck. He died two days later.
=> A genius put his hand in a lion's mouth to see if he had any
teeth. The lion closed his mouth to see if the man had any
fingers.
=> He's the kind of guy who always hits the nail squarely on the
thumb.
=> An accountant tells his client, "We can get your books to
balance if you'll strike oil on the way home!"
=> I have some accountant. What he doesn't know about taxes
could fill a prison cell.
=> It's a thrill to read Fortune and find out your accountant is
one of the dozen richest men in the country.
=> I know an accountant who gave his clients a great tax break,
he put all their money in his name.
=> I have a CPA who's brilliant, they just named a loophole
after him.
=> Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance.
=> My accountant just went into business with General Motors.
They make the cars, he's making the license plates.
=> You've been here for a long time and are now in pain.
As anybody knows, there's no better painkiller than:
Thank you and good night!
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6. Useful Websites
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http://www.alexa.com Get their tool bar and spy on your
competition's website.
http://toolbar.google.com/ also has a tool bar that allows you to
search quickly from your browser and tells you how important it
feels your page is.
http://www.KickStartSound.com Easily put audio samples of your
speeches on your website and have clients phone in testimonials
which can be put on your site in seconds. Also send audio
postcards with no technical expertise.
http://www.Presentations.com Mostly geared toward selling
projectors and corporate hardware. If you feel you need to use
PowerPoint (I'm against it) then there are lots of articles to
help you do a better job at it.
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