I love working with talented professional designers. They can help you create slides that not only look beautiful, but really help enhance your presentation. However, most of the time, I don’t have the luxury or budget to hire a design team to produce my slides. For many business presentations, slide design becomes a do-it-yourself effort. MORE >>

Have you done your marketing flip flop? Many speakers I run across don’t realize their positioning needs a flip flop. What do I mean by that? Well, they are either positioned as a speaker first, expert second. Or they are making it about them first, and the client second. Let me explain. You’re positioning as a speaker first. link]. MORE >>

So many quotes, so often repeated! My social media streams are filled with verbatim repetitions of other peoples ideas, just passed on ad infinitum. You can do better. Take these three steps the very next time you are tempted to post or speak a well-known quote: 1) Ask yourself "Why this quote now?" Is it the opposite? variation? MORE >>

Facebook @20.88.    Conservative media putting the knock on Mitt Romney.    Oprah saying the wrong thing about eating with one's hands in India.    We love it.    As the title of Eric G. Wilson's book states, "Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck - Why We Can't Look Away." MORE >>

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