Learn How to Market Yourself on the computer Next Live Seminar in Chicago Friday, August 25 (see below) Alert Tom if you are getting duplicates ########################################## GREAT SPEAKING Circulation 11,809 Vol. 2 Number 11 - August 16, 2000 Publisher: Tom Antion tom@Antion.com http://www.Antion.com (C) Anchor Publishing 2000 ########################################## No one ever lost credibility by being interesting. ========================================== Please recommend 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. It's a good way to stay in touch with client's too. You don't even have to mail them an article. http://www.antion.com/recommend.html 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 ============================================= 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 *** SPEAKER BUSINESS LEADS *** Will be delivered to full subscribers when available. ********** OUR SPONSOR *********** Upcoming Electronic Marketing Butt Camps "Make more on your seat than you do on your feet" Friday, August 25 Chicago (Sponsored by Connections Unlimited Speakers Bureau) Saturday September 9th Atlanta Saturday, September 16 San Antonio Saturday, September 23 Los Angeles Saturday, September 30 Seattle http://www.antion.com/buttcamp.htm Can't make it? Send a staff member or get the Special Video CD http://www.antion.com/buttcampcd.htm ************************************ ===================================================== 1.and 2 BIRTHDAY CONTEST RESULTS ===================================================== 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 http://www.antion.com/birthday-techniques.htm And the winner of part 1 is: . . . Well we have a tie . . . a three way tie. Each winner will get a Butt Camp CD ($199.00 value) http://www.antion.com/buttcampcd.htm 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. ************ SPONSOR ************ Do you own more than one automatic watch? Our affordable watch winders keep your watch wound and all functions properly set. In one two and four watch models from $99.99, all have a one-year guarantee and 30-day trial. See our full selection online. http://www.jfainc.com/tac.html customerservice@jfainc.com ********************************** *********** SPONSOR ************** PUBLISHER SEEKS SPEAKERS for new audio album, "THE MASTERMINDS OF MOTIVATION" with Dottie Walters. FREE, with small album purchase for high-profit resale. Send name/bio to: Strategic@adsurgeon.com ********************************************* 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 ) *********** SPONSOR *********** FREE 7 Day Electronic Marketing Mini Course mailto:minicourse.GS2@aweber.com ******************************** ===================================================== 3. HUMOR TECHNIQUE ===================================================== 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") ********* 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. Now available for immediate download in pdf format http://www.antion.com/speakershop.htm click on "E Books" For a FREE Chapter visit http://www.antion.com/products/produc~3.htm ********************************************** ===================================================== 4. $$$$$$$ SPEAKER MARKETING TIP $$$$$$$$ ===================================================== 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 all of my electronic marketing techniques: http://www.marketingtips.com/t.cgi/12273/ Want to really take advantage of your E-mail marketing . . . WITHOUT BEING A SPAMMER? GO TO http://www.marketingtips.com/mailloop/t.x/12273 Get your own associate program and have other websites selling tons of your products and services. http://www.marketingtips.com/assoctrac/t.x/12273 Tom's Top Ten Marketing Resources page http://www.antion.com/marketingtools.htm ********* SPONSOR ********* FREE ACT! E-MAIL TIP OF THE WEEK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Learn how to use ACT! to close more sales, grow your business, and make more money. ACTnews.com offers a FREE ACT! E-mail Tip Of The Week and a FREE trial subscription to ACT! in ACTion. Eliminate The ACT! Learning Curve: Take an ACT! tele-classes led by Jeffrey Mayer, author of "ACT! 2000 for Windows for Dummies." Get the hottest ACT! tips & best ACT! classes at http://www.ACTnews.com **************************** ===================================================== 5. SPEAKER HUMOR ===================================================== => 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 http://www.antion.com/humor/speakerhumor/speakerhumor.htm For a really great humor technique ezine mailto:CantuHumor-subscribe@ONElist.com ===================================================== 6. 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