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Great Speaking Vol. 6 Number 03
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Vol. 6 Number 3 - June 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
*** I'll Bet Your Website Doesn't Make Much Money ***
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
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More Hiding Places for Your Notes by Paul O. Radde Ph.D.
1. I sometimes place a chair, back to audience, next to my prop
or projection table. I may take off my coat and place it over the
chair, but I also use the chair back to tape up notes, or even
put them in the seat.
2. I have also placed a flip chart-sized piece of paper in the
back of the room so that when I look out over the audience I can
look at my outline. If I am on a stage with a curtain, I may have
the same sized cheat sheet on both sides of the stage, between
stage frame and the curtain, or just behind the curtain. That
way, which ever way I am facing or pacing, I have it in front of
me.
3. Finally, with adequate preparation, I simply reduce the entire
presentation down to 2-3 points and put it on a 3x5 card, which
is easily placed almost anywhere within view.
4. The biggest problem I have faced in making notes to myself is
writing too small to read it, or putting an excessive number of
notes on one page. Mindjet.com has a 30 day trial of its
Mindmanager [mindmapping] program which provides excellent
graphic organization of notes for a speech.
Paul Can be reached at http://www.thrival.com
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2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
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This section will be back next issue. I needed the space for the
humor contest below.
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3. Humor Technique
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Humor Contest Winner
Dr. David W. Kirby, of Orange NSW Australia is the winner of the
"Make 'em Laugh" audio album (an $89.95 value)
David won the "Party Store" contest from the last issue of "Great
Speaking" for the most creative dramatic turnaround of a stuffy
audience using party store supplies.
Here's his story. You can see other "Honorable Mention" ideas at:
http://www.antion.com/partystore.htm
Many years ago, (in my more active days), I used to expect a lot
of audience participation.
However over here in Australia many of the "participants" in an
audience would pretty much come only to hear you and hardly if
ever get involved.
I wanted a cheap and humorous way to get audience participation
and have them remember the message I was teaching.
In essence the message of my talk was that if you persist with
your way of doing things and feel sorry for yourself you will
only attract at best - sympathy from others and a reprimand from
others, but never make the transition to "superman".
Well I went to a costume shop/party store and bought/rented some
props . . . Sheriff and Marshall badges and hats and popguns
priest robes and bibles, inflatable superman chest and muscles
So during the seminar I introduced the ideas of:
=> How we often continue on blindly doing what we have always
done and never change.
=> Well meaning people who only crticise you and shoot you down
despite everything you do.
=> Other people who listen to your problems and sympathise with
you.
=> How the jump to superman status is not all that hard
To illustrate these points during the seminar I divided the
audience up into groups:
the sheriffs
- with their badges hats and popguns - who were
there to keep a check on other audience members who deviated from
the protocols I was teaching or who gave dumb answers and who
would come round and arrest or reprimand audience members for
their wimpy uninspiring attitudes to life
the priests
- who would come round and counsel and pray for
people who could not make it to the next level in their life
development
the supermen
- the people who were committed to changing their
lives no matter what the odds.
Anyway the conference turned into a freakin' mayhem - (all in
good fun though.)
If any one gave a negative answer we had all the sheriffs and
marshalls leaping out of their seats - some pretending to ride
horses - run over to the poor audience member who was feeling
sorry for themselves -- and start shooting them - pulling them
out of their seats and dragging them off to "jail"
Then the priests would leap out of their chairs and come to the
poor chap who believed his life was a mess - read him his last
rights - and assured him with stuff like "the meek would inherit
the earth"
And then if everything was going well - the people with the
inflatable supermen suits would pull a cord and suddenly develop
instant chests and muscles and run around the room acting
invincible.
One guy beat up a few marshalls and a priest and his whole body
language screamed "you cant stop me now!" . Another chap dived
off the stage to prove he could fly.
Another chaps muscles failed to inflate so some priest ran over
to him to give sympathy and assure him that he should keep on
trying.
People were bounding over chairs, screaming and howling with
laughter and what was really interesting is how many people
really got into the parts and came up with all the behaviour
associated with our reactions to poor performance and success in
life.
The conference was a huge success - and all because of a few
party costumes and props.
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4. Speaker Marketing Tip
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Customized, Automatic Responses by Tom Antion
Here's your dumb question of the day. If you got a promotional
email that was generic, would you read it as carefully as you
would an email that was totally customized to your wants?
You can now send customized emails automatically while you are
doing something else.
Here's how it works.
When someone wants information about your company, you have them
fill out a form. The result of each question on the form is then
sent to a company called DataBack.com
This company keeps a pre-written message that you created on file
for every possible answer given in the form. When the form is
completed, DataBack company sends the person that filled out the
form a customized email which paragraph-by-paragraph exactly
addresses that person's interests.
I.e., their email is totally customized just for them.
Example:
Form Question 1: What kind of meetings do you do?
Form Answer 1: National Association Meetings
Automatic Response Paragraph 1: I have extensive experience doing
National Association meetings. You might want to check out what
some of my other association clients say about me.
Form Question 2: Where is your meeting?
Form Answer 2: Denver
Automatic Response Paragraph 2: I noticed that your event is in
Denver. We have a special no travel expense deal for Denver. I'll
explain it to you when we talk.
etc., etc., etc.
Do you see the power of this technique? DataBack company is
creating a paragraph-by-paragraph customized response to the
person making an inquiry about your service.
The person reading the email will only be exposed to exactly what
he/she is interested in which will most likely increase your
response from them and since it's automated you won't have to be
there to make this all happen.
Oh, and one more tip. Tell DataBack company to delay your
automated response one day which will make the email seem like
you wrote it yourself. If the person filling out the form gets
the email back from you immediately, it will be obvious that you
really didn't send it yourself.
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*** Make Changes to Your Own Website ***
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5. Speaker Humor
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=> A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.
=> A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your
mother.
=> To save money for the company he cut all the electricity.
They were soon in the black.
=> Why is it that when the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time?
=> If you can't learn to do it well, you should learn to enjoy
doing it badly.
=> Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will
disappear.
=> When you need to knock on wood is when you realize that the
world is composed of plastic, naugahyde and aluminum.
=> The probability of someone watching you is proportional to
the stupidity of your action.
=> The shortest distance between two points is under
construction.
=> HAM AND EGGS - A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime
commitment for a pig.
=> Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the
richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
=> We're not happy till you're not happy.
=> It sure makes for a long day when you get to work on-time.
=> Work fascinates me. I can look at it for hours!
=> Divorce has become so common that my wife and I are staying
married just to be different.
=> I've started an exercise program. I do 20 sit-ups each
morning.That may not sound like a lot, but you can only hit that
snooze button so many times.
=> My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my
life. I think he was right. I've only been jogging once and feel
ten years older already.
=> If you receive something that says "Send this to all your
friends", please consider me not your friend.
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6. Useful Websites
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http://partysupplieshut.com/ Party Supplies
http://www.shindigz.com/ Party Supplies
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/5a47/ Really cool laser
pointer
http://vistaprint.com
http://www.shifthappens.com/nsadinner.html Gourmet food dinner at
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