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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Joe Pulizzi and I are writing a follow up to our groundbreaking first book, Get Content Get Customers , which is considered by industry pundits to be the content marketing bible.
Our new book, to be released this summer, is gathering the most successful/results-driven content marketing case studies on the planet. We’ll provide a wealth of how-to’s, practical Yes, we are at it again. We would like you and your clients join us on this next leg of the content marketing crusade by sharing with us with your successful content marketing case studies for
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
If your best prospect agreed to give you just 3 minutes to persuade them you were their best choice, what would you say? Tell them what about your product, service or idea drives people to do business with you. mean how you watch brides walk into the ballroom and see them choke back tears (don’t ruin the make-up [humor is fine]) when they see their dream wedding come to life. Oh, and they’re also asking 5 of your competitors all who pretty much offer what you do (think Gala, MacIntosh, Fiji apples). You can create a Powerpoint if you want, or anything
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Monday, March 15, 2010
0160; Remember, there’s still a long way to go. 0160; If you go to a publisher directly, it will think “Amateur!” 0160; You can do it yourself, but it’s usually better to go with an agent, because you don’t do it very often, and you don’t know all the angles. 0160; The web is a great place to start. So you’ve written that proposal, and it’s killer. 0160; And unfortunately, we’re at one of the hard parts of the journey.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Timely though, since I'm about to speak to a major Association's Management Team on finding "The Melody In Noise," and have found most do not know the Twitter basics - I want to point them here. (If If you know the basics, go to this post on the Why and How of Twitter. )
Twitter do but you don’t have to…, you could spend a half hour a day Exploding - the word for Twitter, and Social Media for that matter.
There's a lot of misunderstanding about Twitter, and particularly about getting started, so this post is JUST about that - and will be
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Monday, April 7, 2008
How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « A Brief History of Mine | Main | Resolution Assistance » December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. Thus, I’ve worked to limit control
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Friday, May 1, 2009
chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of How to Start Speaking at Events December 8, 2008 · Comments One day, I wasn’t a speaker at conferences, and then I was. Some day, I hope to be a really well-paid speaker. And then a little while later, I was a paid speaker. And now, I’m a decently paid speaker.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A key message is the number one thing you want your audience to remember or do as a result of your presentation. Then all previous thoughts, notes and parts of the presentation were easy to classify in terms of how relevant they were, and which step they fell into (if any).”
If you’re preparing a presentation on a topic you know well, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to decide on your key message quickly. Some experts call it “the big idea”, the core of your presentation or the proposition .
Start planning your presentation by deciding on your
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
But everyone else in your organization stubbornly sticks to the bullet-point slides. How can you persuade them to change their minds?
The absolute first thing to do, is to be a good role model. There’s an obvious irony to the fact that when people are surveyed about presentations , their No 1 “hate” You’ve read Presentation Zen and Slideology and you’re convinced about the benefits of using visually-engaging PowerPoint slides when you present. When you present, demonstrate the effectiveness of presenting with visual
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Monday, June 8, 2009
How do you begin a speech? 0160; The problem with that is, for the majority of us who aren't professional comedians, it's hard to deliver jokes successfully. It's even harder to deliver a joke when you're beginning a speech, because that's when you're most nervous. Begin instead with something that 0160; There are still human beings who wander this earth recommending starting with a joke -- and even attempting it themselves. 0160; As any professional will tell you, most jokes fall flat.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
38 mins ago « Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 30, 2008 Silicon Valley Sightings: San Jose Mercury News » 67 How to Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide Categories: Conference Posted on January 30th, 2008 Yesterday, I moderated another panel, ( here’s a review ) and I’m told by the conference organizers it went well. Expo between the very outgoing Robert Scoble, Chris Pirillo and Thomas Hawk. Sadly, the value of most panels are
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
It seemed like a good idea when I turned 30, but I’m guessing I’m going to have to look for a new [...]
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