Learn Ebook production, website and EZINE marketing that really works, how to do TeleSeminars, How to Media Market Electronically and much, much more at a Buttcamp near you (see below) SECRET unadvertised special for Readers only. It's not on the website See if you can find it. ########################################## GREAT SPEAKING Circulation 10,254 Vol. 2 Number 7 - April 27, 2000 Publisher: Tom Antion tomAntion@aol.com http://www.Antion.com (C) Anchor Publishing 1999 ########################################## 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 ============================================= 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 with Mike Rounds *** SPEAKER BUSINESS LEADS *** Will be delivered to full subscribers when available. ********** OUR SPONSOR *********** Having trouble Marketing? Learn the Easy way at Tom's Electronic Marketing BUTT CAMP "Make more on your seat than you do on your feet" April 29, Phoenix May 21, Tampa May 27, St. Louis June ??, New York June 24, Denver (Details and location coming soon) Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Boston being planned now http://www.antion.com/buttcamp.htm ************************************ ===================================================== 1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip ===================================================== BE CAREFUL by Tom Antion I was doing an event for 3200 people in California and it was a really big deal. I had a two stage managers with a headset counting down 30 seconds till show time, a personal assistant and complete video crew for tape and image projection. Everything was hustle and bustle and rush, rush, rush. I had another bunch of assistant who, on cue, were going to distribute plastic glow stars so the whole room would be lit with the stars for the grande finale where I had blacked out the room. The entire production went off without a hitch. People had a great time. Afterwards I was busy shining my halo . . . .until the production company head came up to me and said, "We have a problem." . . . . I did not have a clue what he meant. He told me the assistants were throwing the stars into the crowd and one of them hit an attendee in the eye and scratched his cornea. . . .Talk about your heart sinking. No one knew if he was going to be OK or not. He was on his way to the hospital. . . . It was six week before he found out if the damage was permanent or not. Luckily he ended up with a badly scratched cornea and he is perfectly alright now. I had let all the hoopla get in the way of my normal briefing of my assistants and it almost cost someone their eyesight . . . 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Value priced rentals also available applicable to future purchase. mailto:BJCSP@AOL.com ********************************************* ===================================================== 2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article ===================================================== HAVE PASSION FOR YOUR TOPIC by Terry Paulson, Ph.D., CSP, CPAE "Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and do not keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audiences' biggest turn on is the speakers' obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!" Tom Peters There is a certain zest that shines through a presenter's face when he speaks of something he has authentic passion for. That speaker can be excited and whisper and it still get through. Don't just speak on any subject; speak on ones you live! What do you believe in enough that no on e can stop you from finding a place to share it? When you have the right speech, you will feel like saying, "Get over here now! you don't want to miss this!" In such a talk, your hours of speaking feels like minutes. Great speakers don't just love to speak; they love to make a difference for people. Finish this sentence: "I love this job, I get to . . . " If you ever struggle to find the motivation and the enthusiasm to start your speech, take a moment to go back to your success history as a speaker to review images you have retained that affirm what your presentations have meant to past audiences. Relive that image before you take tho the platform. Feed your own enthusiasm for your message as you get ready to make a difference again. If you have no enthusiasm for your message, why should anyone else? Find the passion in your purpose or find another topic to speak on. (Reprinted with permission from "50 Tips for Speaking Like a Pro") *********EXOTIC THAILAND********** CIMPA "Connected International Meeting Professionals Association" START BUILDING YOUR INTERNATIONAL RESUME Join Tom Antion, Keynote Speaker at the 9th International Technology, Meetings and Incentives Conference to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on October 26-29, 2000. "Great Speakers Make Great Meetings: Speaker Showcase" will be held on October 26. There will be pre and post-conference trips to China, Philippines and Vietnam. We have arranged highly discounted airfares on Thai International Airways for this event Dont miss this chance to build your global network. For details: http://www.meetingprofessionals.org or Contact Andrea Sigler, PhD mailto:cimpa@cimpa.org (type "Bangkok Conference" under subject) Tel 703 978 6287 Fax 703 978 5524 ******************************** ===================================================== 3. HUMOR TECHNIQUE ===================================================== AUDIENCE GAGS by Tom Antion Audience gags are offbeat jokes that occur unexpectedly during a presentation. Dr. Joel Goodman, from the Humor Project, does one where a telephone rings during his presentation. He answers the phone that was hidden in the lectern and pretends to talk to his mother. The same joke would be called a running gag if the phone rang at several other times during the program. The next several issues will be about gags. Ten Wanted Men I staged a gag at a seminar one time that was loads of fun and took less than one minute to complete. Before the program, I picked out about 10 fun-loving audience members to help me. I gave them secret instructions that were to be carried out on a certain cue during the program. To start the gag, I had my assistant interrupt the seminar to give me an important note. The note read (I used a serious expression): It appears that someone is in attendance today with another man's wife. There is a large and irate man on his way here right now. If you want out, there is a backstage door you can use to escape quickly. At this point, 10 men jumped up out of their seats and ran keystone cop style out the door. Once they realized what was happening, several women jumped up and ran out too. It was great fun and the gag sure woke up everyone who had a heavy lunch. (From "Wake 'em Up Business Presentations") ********* GREAT SPEAKER REFERENCE ******* BE THE HIT OF YOUR NEXT PRESENTATION! NOW AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD FROM http://www.antion.com/speakershop.htm click on "EBooks" "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. For a FREE Chapter visit http://www.antion.com/products/produc~3.htm ********************************************** ===================================================== 4. $$$$$$$ SPEAKER MARKETING TIP $$$$$$$$ ===================================================== INSTANT VIDEOS by Tom Antion I ran across two really awesome training tools and I put them into use immediately for fun and profit. I'm taking about moving screen capture devices. One is called Lotus Screen Cam which I'll save for another day and the other is called Camtasia http://www.techsmith.com I decided I was going to create a few videos (I'm talking computer screen videos here) of the types of things I do on my website and with this Ezine and with the search engines etc. I downloaded the free 30 day trial version of Camtasia and started making videos of what was appearing on my computer screen. I was also doing narration into a microphone and the entire thing was being recorded. This only took me a few minutes to get going. I recorded about 30 seconds and then decided to see how large the file was because I heard that file sizes can get out of hand with audio and video. I had used up 5 MEGABYTES IN 30 SECONDS This was way too much to be reasonable so I called up Techsmith and spoke to a very competent gentlemen in tech support named Mark Brembeck. Mark showed me a few tweaks to the system and we got the file sizes down to a very reasonable 1 Megabyte per minute. You do have to jump thru a few small hoops and download their compression technology, but that was no big deal. You have to download and install the player for Lotus Screen Cam (their competitor) too. So what does this have to do with marketing? You can easily make CDs and videos that lead someone on a narrated tour of your website. You can make salable products and you can get your training message across much easier than trying to tell people where to click. You can actually show them in the form of a video. In addition, they include a "producer" that lets you edit shorter movies into longer ones and edit out mistakes too. I really liked the cursor effects. A big round colored ball follows the cursor around so you can easily see it on the screen. It flashes when you click. The cursor is supposed to be translucent, but it does make the text beneath hard to see, so I kept the ball a little off to the side of where I was pointing. Again. . . no big deal. All in all, when you get the program tweaked and learn a little about Windows Media Player you can have a handy tool at your disposal that will help you train, promote and develop new products. About $150.00 retail and downloadable from their site. 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? 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That's the price you pay for letting the relatives stay over. => Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. => Always yield to temptation, because it may not pass your way again. => Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. => Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. => Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. => Funny, I don't remember being absentminded. => My wild oats have turned to prunes and All Bran. => Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause kids. => The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom. => If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees. => When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone decide to play chess? => It's not hard to meet expenses -- they're everywhere! => The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. Much more FREE speaker humor at http://www.antion.com/humor/speakerhumor/speakerhumor.htm ===================================================== 6. USEFUL WEBSITES ===================================================== Reader John Williams suggest this site. How he knows or cares about it I do not know since he lives in Australia :) http://www.interstate4u.com All you ever wanted to know about every Interstate exit in the USA If you like Magic, check out John's site or just email him to say hello. He's a great guy from Down Under. The best is at http://www.aladdin.com.au Email magic@aladdin.com.au Need a legal form or contract? Find them at the sites below and Hey! I'm not giving legal advice. Use them at your own risk. http://www.lectlaw.com/formb.htm http://www.uslegalforms.com/corporate.htm http://www.ilrg.com/forms http://www.quickforms.com http://www.contractcentral.com ===================================================== 7. 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