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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The powers-that-be at mediabistro.com should grab Andrew Young to teach a course on selling books.  The guy knows something he can teach the rest of us authors about pushing those books in this glut market.  Tags: Book 0160; Amazingly, his THE POLITICIAN is at #174 on Amazon.com.  0160; That's a long time for it to continue to have such a high ranking in sales.
 
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Today, I have a whole team of people (blog experts, virtual assistants, book editors, graphics designers, traffic generators) but NOT ONE OF THEM is my employee. At my very first NSA conference back in the early 90’s, I remember hearing a speaker named Barb Schwartz say “no body ever said bigger was better”. Barb and her husband were burnt out from trying to support all of their employees in their speaking and training business.
 
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
April 2:  International Children’s Book Day During the month of April:   Freedom Shrine Month   Humor Month Mathematics Education Month Cancer Control Month
 

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The first draft of the book is done , and to help get there I read over 50 books on public speaking. Many popular ones, old and new, as well as books by preachers, teachers, salesmen, infomercial stars, and professors. You can throw a dart at a stack of these books and get much the same advice.  What did I learn? 50% or more of the advice is the same . 
I’ve only written three books, including this one, but it seems I have a process now that works for me. Every book far has been different and tricky for its own reasons. It takes about two months to write the book proposal, including a sample chapter.  Leading up to That’s part of the misery and the fun of writing it seems. But the methods of attack I use falls into predictable patterns.
l-o-v-e-d this book. It’s officially in my Top 5 favorite presentation books. You should definitely crack open this book every time you have a high-stakes presentation to give. The book is much deeper than just Job’s delivery style, Gallo has codified it into practical lessons and insights around content construction and corporate theater. Source: Business Week I
Some were made specifically for the book, and others are clips of his own live presentations.  If nothing else, read this book to find out why you should NEVER drive while talking on the cell phone! Additional Information: Brain Rules Website Brain Rules YouTube Page Garr Reynolds' take on Brain Rules, including a 131 slide presentation ...Tags: Tags: Book I recently finished reading "Brain Rules" by Dr. John Medina . 
As I mentioned before, I'm in the beginning stages of writing and designing another book, this one called Presentation Zen Design. This book intends to do its small part to help fix this problem by focusing on concrete graphic design principles and techniques in the context of presentation design, though the concepts and knowledge can be applied to other areas of one's professional life. This book is a deeper exploration of the Design section For many of us, there is a hole in our education when it comes to communicating visually, and knowledge of even the basics of graphic design is missing for most people.
I love the book “ Great Speeches for Better Speaking ” by Michael E. It’s a smart book that’s written in a very accessible style and tone. The book comes with 2 CDs of all the speeches–that’s 110 minutes of speeches. listened to the speeches first and then read the book and it was very powerful. Eidenmuller, Ph.D. He also happens the guy who has lovingly put together American Rhetoric [link] for us all to enjoy—I virtually live on that site.
He wrote the best-selling book Beyond Bullet Points . We We had a great time talking about the industry, trends and his new upcoming book. ...Tags: Tags: Book Reviews Business Design Strategy Beyond Bullet Points Cliff Atkinso I had the pleasure of having Cliff Atkinson come through our workshop recently.
So I’ve talked you out of writing the book (yet) and you’re thinking about a proposal.  0160; We’re talking about a few pages, only, and it’s your chance to sell this book in the strongest possible terms.  0160; And then, how is it like some other book or books that sold millions in the same genre?  0160; Let’s take the essential sections of one in turn and expand on each a bit. Introduction Begin with the most important section – the introduction. 
I really like this book. It’s a book that should be in everyone’s presentation library. ...Tags: Tags: Book Reviews Design book maui nancy presentation Vide So much that I’m reviewing it while on vacation. Advanced Presentations by Design takes a 10-step approach to writing and designing a presentation.
Not many people know that Garr is the one who talked me into writing my book. He sent me the outline to his first PresentationZen book and I covered topics that he didn’t include in his. So how many more books can be created on the topic? Garr’s new book PresentationZen Design is beautiful. Plenty! He carefully studied all the design principles and ensured that he expressed them in a unique way from either of our books.