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E-Zine 2/10

Posted on January 31st, 2010.

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Feb 2010 E-Zine

Boy was I blown away when I saw that over 1,200 people downloaded the complimentary preview teleclass mp3 call for the Speakers Summit http://ping.fm/thJw8 Get Booked at Colleges with Brent Scarpo, Jack Barnard and myself last week.  It’s a hot topic and Brent and Jack gave us great content. We learned what topics [...]

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What to Do AFTER You Get Off the Stage

Posted on January 31st, 2010.

3 Simple Secrets for Claiming Your Back-of-the-Room Sales

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Social Networking: 7 Strategies to Finding Your Target Market on Twitter

Posted on January 31st, 2010.

The post today comes from Donna Gunter
Social networking using Twitter seems to be the most popular way to connect today, from celebrity Ashton Kutcher’s challenge to Oprah to reach one million friends first (Ashton won) to a U.S. State Department official contacting the co-founder of Twitter to delay upgrading the Twitter system so as not [...]

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Connect with audiences who want to hear your message

Posted on January 29th, 2010.

 Looking for speaking engagements? 
Speaker Services Directory brings Speakers & Authors together with audiences since 1992.
WHO QUALIFIES?
Speakers for Free: Any business person or professional practitioner who wants to increase their business base.
Speakers for Fee:  We prefer that you have a 3 camera video demo, professional photos, a press kit and a fee schedule and letters [...]

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5 Myths of Internet Marketing for Professionals

Posted on January 27th, 2010.

There’s more marketing hype published on the Internet in one day than P.T. Barnum generated in his lifetime. Like a worm swallowing its tail, the Internet marketing beast feeds mostly on itself. The vast majority of what appears on the Internet about marketing is designed to help you market products and services sold and delivered [...]

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3 New Resources for you-Conference/Webinar Service, VA’s for Speakers

Posted on January 26th, 2010.

1/26/10
This week I have three great resources to share with you.  Do you do teleclasses and webinars?  If so are you tired of getting kicked off the line or you can’t even get on the call or perhaps the recording did not work?  That what was happening to me and I made a decision that [...]

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Copywriting Tips: 13 Steps to Creating the Perfect Sales Letter Template

Posted on January 20th, 2010.

Post by Donna Gunter http://www.getmoreclientsonlineblog.com
 
Once you  have created an information product, you may think you’ve completed all of the hard work.  Unfortunately the most challenging piece of product creation is yet to come — the creation of the sales letter landing page where you talk about and sell your product.
Creating an effective sales [...]

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Workplace Communication Trends for 2010

Posted on January 20th, 2010.

Post by Suzanne Bates,  The Power Speaker Blog
Suzanne Bates is a former television anchor, a writer, speaker, and author of Speak Like a CEO (McGraw Hill 2005).
I’ve been scanning the internet for 2010 workplace predictions and it’s got me thinking about how all these trends are going to change the way we communicate.  It’s my [...]

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The Truth About Internet Marketing Conferences

Posted on January 19th, 2010.

By Terry Dean, http://www.terrydean.org
Terry writes: I’ve been disappointed by most internet marketing conferences I’ve attended…and I’m a speaker at them!
And I could not agree with him more.  I even posted a comment on his blog page.  His comments apply to many conferences.  It is unfortunate that the hard sell ruins it for many of [...]

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*Top Trends of the New High-Fee Speaking Circuit

Posted on January 13th, 2010.

by Vickie Sullivan contributing editor Rain Today
Many professional service firms will hit the speaking circuit hard to get their message out in an increasingly crowded market. Between the economic meltdown, the AIG effect, and the flood of free experts, the meetings industry has changed a lot. To help navigate this new normal, let’s take a [...]

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Testimonials are Great Marketing Tools – Use Them

Posted on January 11th, 2010.

 
An important element of your business is testimonials.  I teach my clients to collect their testimonials from their speaking engagements and add them to their marketing packets, blogs. flyers and websites.
LinkedIn has a recommendation section where you can write testimonials about your colleagues.  The following testimonials came from LinkedIn.
Here is how I will use them:  [...]

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Welcome Video intro for Speaker Services

Posted on January 7th, 2010.

I am working on a redesign of my website.  Often people ask me, so what do you do?  So I created a short welcome video for my new home page that I am going to use.  Here’s a sneak preview.  Do you get what we offer at Speaker Services?
I believe that video is a great [...]

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How My Blog Landed Me a Book Deal

Posted on January 6th, 2010.

Post by Larry Brooks
First, let’s get one thing out of the way. A blog alone, no matter how popular, isn’t enough to score you a book contract. It’s not quite that simple.
In other words, it doesn’t quite work the way it does on television.
“Did you hear that Random House gave me a million dollars for [...]

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Ten Ways to Drive Consumer Action With Online Video

Posted on January 5th, 2010.

 
by Bud Rosenthal
Marketing Profs
There’s no question that online video is fast becoming a favorite of Internet users around the world. In fact, online video views have surpassed core search queries, and YouTube has become a top search engine.
But this shift in consumption [...]

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Jan 2010 E-Zine Speaker Services

Posted on January 4th, 2010.

In this Issue
- Note from Susan Levin
- New & Renewing Speakers & Authors
- Tips & Advice & Resources
Subscribe to e-zine http://www.speakerservices.com/nl

Greetings,
Happy New Year. May 2010 be the best ever for you.
I had a great holiday season, lots of movies and an open open house New Years Day gathering at my home.  The photo is [...]

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