NEW DEPARTMENT: Tech Tip From Mike Rounds FREE Wake em Up BOOK: (see below) ########################################## GREAT SPEAKING Circulation 7889 Vol. 1 Number 18 - September 24, 1999 Publisher: Tom Antion tomAntion@aol.com http://www.Antion.com (C) Anchor Publishing 1999 ########################################## No one ever lost credibility by being interesting. ========================================== Please feel free to forward this E-Zine to anyone you know that is interested in being a better presenter, or who may want to make money speaking and training. If you are receiving this issue as a forward, and would like to get your own free subscription, please visit http://www.antion.com/ezinesubscribe.htm PRIVACY STATEMENT: We will not distribute your address to anyone. Period. ============================================= IN THIS ISSUE ============================================= 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 7. Tech Tip From Mike Rounds *** SPEAKER BUSINESS LEADS *** Will be delivered to full subscribers when available. ********** OUR SPONSOR *********** KICK SERIES TELESEMINAR TAPES NOW AVAILABLE 1. "How to Create a Speaker Website That Kicks" (2 hr. tape) 2. "How to Create & Distribute a KickButt Electronic Magazine" 3. "Product Development & Cool, Kickin, Speaker Marketing Techniques" 4. "Kick Start Your Media Marketing: How to Get Speaking Clients to Call You" http://www.antion.com/telesemtapes.htm ************************************ ===================================================== 1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip ===================================================== NOW I LAY ME DOWN . . . . TO TALK by Tom Antion If you want to create some extra impact, don*t be afraid to present in some odd postures. My friend Ron Culbertson starts his talk while standing on a table. Another friend of mine Barbara Sanfilippo climbs a ladder while on stage. Zig Zigler kneels. I do a signature story while sitting on a chair and I have sprawled myself across a table to make a point. I have seen speakers doing handstands, backflips, riding a bicycle and standing on their head. Of course, I wouldn*t do the whole talk standing on my head, but who knows . . . I might look better that way. hahahaha ************ SPONSOR ************ TIRED OF COLD CALLING AND BEGGING FOR BUSINESS? 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You can multiply yourself and your income many times by providing these services in addition to your live performances. Take a look at the letter I got in response to the last TelePrompTer article: "Thanks for your comments about TelePrompTers. I agree with you completely. There is, however, another problem that you forgot to mention: what happens when the system breaks or, as happened during Bill Clinton*s State of the Union address a few years ago, someone puts in the wrong speech? I worked as a television news reporter and producer before becoming a speaker and media coach. Too many people--even in major markets--develop "prompter stare." They focus on the individual words instead of the underlying thoughts, which are sometimes lost. Equally disconcerting, they often allow the prompter operator to control the pace and timing of their presentation. " Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D. Munsterberg 14 4051 Basel Switzerland To improve on videoconferencing and TelePrompTer skills, find out who in your area gives TV & videoconferencing training. You can call the closest actors guild or union (AFTRA or SAG) for referrals. *********** SPONSOR *********** The Speaker Shop Open for "sneak peak" business before the grand opening. http://www.antion.com/speakershop.htm (anyone placing an order before the grand opening will get a FREE 1/2 hour of speaker consulting . . . a $125.00 value) ******************************** ===================================================== 3. HUMOR TECHNIQUE ===================================================== IMPROVISE YOUR FLIPCHART by Tom Antion Oops! I broke my own rules and did not follow a checklist on my last presentation. It was two minutes until start time and I realized there was no flipchart in the room. Oh oh!. Better think fast. I was not using an overhead projector either, so I could not simply write on a blank transparency. Now one & 1/2 minutes left . . . . I thought, "Never let em see you sweat." So, I went into the hall way to sweat. I saw a flipchart in use by the AirForce folks who were in the next room. I borrowed one piece of flipchart paper and went back into my room. Now one minute left. I put the paper on the floor still not knowing what I would do with it. So I hit the stage and begin the program. 30 minutes in it was the moment of truth. I had a spare marker in my prop box. Ok so far. I had masking tape too. . . . but the way the room was set there was no place to put the piece of paper that would allow both sides of the room to see it. I guess it was time to have some fun. I asked for three volunteers to BE my flipchart. I qualified the request to include one person with a black shirt (in case the marker leaked through the paper). This got a good laugh. I had the person with the black shirt turn their back to the audience. The other two helpers held the flipchart paper against blackshirt*s back. We had a blast! The three volunteers were laughing. The audience was laughing. Ad-libs were flying. The blackshirt person was getting tickled with the point of the marker. And I still got the point across that I had planned all along. OK I'll admit I messed up by not checking for the flipchart. However, if you are willing and able to stay flexible in the face of the inevitable challenges you will face as a fun presenter, adversity can turn positive very quickly. ********* GREAT SPEAKER REFERENCE ******* BE THE HIT OF YOUR NEXT PRESENTATION! "Wake em Up! How to Use Humor and Other Professional Techniques to Create Alarmingly Good Business Presentations" "Toms program and materials will cut five years off a speakers learning curve." -- Cavett Robert, Founder National Speakers Assn. 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The conventional wisdom is that if two sites are relatively equal, the one with the most INCOMING links will get a higher search engine ranking. If so many people have bothered to link to it, then it must be a very valuable site. You can control this by asking people to link to your site. You will find though that most people won*t unless you give them something in return . . . . like a link to their site. To encourage you to get started with your linktrade strategy, and to further help our "kickin" websites, I have a deal for you. If you trade a permanent link with my site, and agree to keep it there for one year, not only will I link back to your site, but I will send you, free of charge, a copy of "Wake em Up Business Presentations" (a $24.95 value). If you are one of the savvy speakers who have already linked to my site, nothing is stopping us from linking again from different pages of our sites (Email me for special instructions). PLUS I'm not a bad guy to link to because I'm already getting 10,000 + people per month to my site, so unless you are getting more than that, you are getting an extra bonus. For instructions mailto:linktrade@antion.com NOTE: I have made a small fortune in the past year all electronically. I learned how to do most of it from the following website: http://www.marketingtips.com/t.cgi/12273/ Want to really take advantage of your E-mail marketing . . . WITHOUT BEING A SPAMMER? I use this program to manage most of my outgoing Email and the features it has save me hours and hours keeping my valuable Email lists ready to go. GO TO http://www.marketingtips.com/mailloop/t.x/12273 ********* SPONSOR ********* INTERNATIONAL SEARCH FOR SUCCESS, MOTIVATION & PERSONAL GROWTH EXPERTS to participate in unusual, "no-punches-pulled" audio anthology, "Million-Dollar Secrets of Success from Today's Motivational Master-Minds(tm)." The product is designed to shake people up and drive them to start making positive changes in their lives NOW. If chosen, you will be featured with up to 15 other top-notch speakers. Album will include your name, photo, bio, voice and teachings in a product of national bookstore-chain quality. For participation information, send your bio via email to: Drew@AdSurgeon.com with "PROJECT-M" in the subject line. **************************** ===================================================== 5. SPEAKER HUMOR ===================================================== => He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. . . .Abe Lincoln => The minute a man is convinced he is interesting . . .he isn't. . . .Stephen Leacock. => That man's silence is wonderful to listen to . . .Thomas Hardy => Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ROAST HUMOR ( ?=You fill in the name or appropriate words.) => Will Rogers said, "I never met a man I didn*t like." Will Rogers was dead many years before our next speaker was born. => ? does the work of two men . . . Laurel and Hardy. => Some people believe that ? is the greatest ? that has ever worked in this company . . . Of course, some people believe in the Easter Bunny. => We love ? like a pigeon loves a statue. => Nobody knows exactly who ? reports to. She says she has an "unlisted" boss. => ? told me that he likes working for ? so much that he is going to name his first ulcer after him. => ? is one of the most highly "suspected" people in the whole company. => ? spent her entire business career clawing her way to the bottom. => ? left his previous employer because of sickness. His boss got sick of him. => They call it "take home pay" because that is the only place you can go with it. => ?*s department is like a snowstorm . . . No two flakes are alike. => You can*t help but like ?. If you don*t she fires you. => Is ? insecure. No, but the people who work for him are. => ? believes in reincarnation. You ought to see the people in her department come alive at 5:00. => At the start of her staff meeting ? told us, "say all your ideas and suggestions now . . . before my Valium wears off." => In a company of workaholics, he*s been on the wagon for years. Lot's more FREE speaker humor at http://www.antion.com/humor/speakerhumor/speakerhumor.htm ===================================================== 6. USEFUL WEBSITES ===================================================== http://travel.state.gov/crisis_abroad.html Reader & Health and Safety Expert Dr. Allan Braslow recommends keeping this URL handy when United States citizen colleagues and relatives travel abroad. You might want to give it to your contacts at home when you travel abroad. With all the natural disasters occurring around the world and potential for terrorist acts, it never hurts to give the people at home some tools to work with in case you cannot communicate with them. http://www.oneview.com Access your favorite bookmarks from any computer anywhere with this handy free site. http://isyndicate.com/ FREE content like news, sports and weather and more for your website. ===================================================== 7. TECH TIP FROM MIKE ROUNDS ===================================================== Can*t get to AOL because you are not at YOUR computer? You can now log on through the web at http://www.aol.com . This is great when you are in a hotel or in a country where your AOL account will not work. http://www.RoundsMiller.com ****** EARN BIG REFERRAL COMMISSIONS ****** You can earn a 10 - 25 percent commission for referring Tom for speaking engagements and bulk product sales. 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