Virtual tips for the savvy business owner!

Now that you’ve written the perfect speech and polished those presentation skills, it’s time to begin marketing yourself as a public speaker. We’re talking now about moving beyond the obvious presentations you might make to clients or industry peers to a whole new type of exposure for your business.
Here are five things you can do to jump-start your public speaking career:

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In my last post, I shared some great tips for presenting yourself well to an audience. To make your presentation memorable, though, you’ll need to start with a great speech.
There are six key elements that make up a successful speech, so let’s get right to the first one:

Speak About What You Know: If you don’t [...]

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Today we’re going to talk about the basic elements that make a speaker either interesting or excruciating. It all boils down to your “presence” before your audience.
Presence is simply the combination of three main variables, completely within your control. You can give a powerful, interesting presentation on the driest of subjects if you learn to [...]

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Good news, faithful readers! I’ve just finished creating a series of blog posts designed to help you polish your presentation skills. I know, I know…I can hear some of you saying it now, “No way am I getting up and giving a speech! That’s why I work online!”
Here’s a reality check—the entrepreneur who learns to [...]

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Ezines are in every email inbox, aren’t they? Many of us have worked hard to create terrific email newsletters to reach a broader audience for our products. But that doesn’t mean we should completely forget about hard-copy newsletters. Let’s talk about why printed material still has a place in marketing.
Would You Like Paper or Email? [...]

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Admit it—the first time you read an ad promising “millions in passive income” you wanted to bite. The bait dangled by info-marketers, those folks that get rich telling the rest of us how to get rich, is tempting. Who wouldn’t want to “earn money while you sleep”? There’s a big secret, though, behind those “proven [...]

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There’s no doubt about it, ezines are here to stay and everyone’s using them in their online marketing. So how do you, as a business owner, get your ezine noticed in the crowd? Here are ten core components of an attention-grabbing ezine.

Recognizable Brand: Be consistent by using an ezine template with the same logos, font [...]

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Are you wondering what your Virtual Assistant really thinks about your latest website? I’m assuming here that you’ve wised up and hired a VA to keep your business running smoothly. A professional Virtual Assistant will help you set up your shopping cart, schedule an email marketing series and upload blog posts, but will she tell [...]

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If someone from another planet browsed our Internet, he’d be convinced in short order that all Earthlings MAKE MONEY IN THEIR SLEEP and WORK IN THEIR PAJAMAS.  Seriously, if all the overly-hyped business systems on the Internet were laid end-to-end, they’d reach another planet! But what about the money actually earned from buying these products? [...]

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Twitter, the handy little social networking tool, has really caught fire in the online business world. More clients every month are asking, “Should we be Tweeting?” With very few exceptions, the answer is “Yes!” It’s free, it’s fast and it’s state-of-the-art as far as social networking. Which brings me to today’s top tips for using [...]

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