PowerPoint Tips

JANUARY 8, 2016

More and more, presenters are presenting online, using webinar services. So I thought I’d share my experience and maybe comparing webinar services will help you make a choice. Here’s my story of my experience with comparing webinar services–Google+ Hangouts on Air, GoToWebinar (including GoToMeeting), and Zoom. When you pay for a webinar service and they change the interface, they send you an email about it, with tutorials.

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Joan Detz Speaker Services

JULY 17, 2017

Whether you write on staff or freelance, you want your speechwriting clients to feel like they’re in good hands. Think about the clients you served last week. Write down 3 specific things you did to convey your professionalism. Keep this list of actions on file.

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Presentation Guru

MAY 25, 2017

Luckily, cloud based services have resolved that problem. But these services don’t just allow presentations to be shared online; they also come with their own set of handy features that can help you do so much more than just share your slides.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

[Excerpt from Everything You Wanted to Know about Freelance Writing – [link]. Note : See companion post: Setting your corporate writing rate – [link]. Before you quote on a project, you need to define the scope of the project. To do this, you have to ask the client a number of questions: 1. When does the project start? When is the project due? What am I expected to produce (the deliverable)? Who will I work with as the primary point person?

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

MARCH 17, 2014

Writing services you can offer corporate clients. I have included a brief description of many writing services to help you determine whether they are services you can, or want to, offer. The person who writes the release does not always issue it, but there are opportunities to add value to your writing services if you want to issue releases as well. Most social service organizations apply for funding on an annual basis.

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The Presenter's Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

When you find your voice in the service of helping others, and rise to the occasion, you never know to what other successes it will lead you.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MARCH 5, 2017

The professional services marketplace keeps mutating. That's why those of us who have to develop new business must keep experimenting with strategies and then the tactics within those big plans. That's what I had learned in September 2016. The results have been amazing.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 4, 2017

What's going on in the legal sector also is what keeps the majority of us in other kinds of professional services up at night. Each professional services firm has to establish and keep reviewing its unique pricing approaches.

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Speak Schmeak

JULY 20, 2011

Check out my services page on my site, and anywhere you see a PayPal button, I'm offering 20% off the regular price of that service. It's a win-win: I get my moving expenses covered and you get a great deal on a variety of services! I'm moving. It's pretty momentous.

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Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!

APRIL 29, 2013

Service excellence is shown at its best when things go wrong. Communication Customer Service customer service

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

Freelance Writing - Corporate Freelance Writing - General Marketing Your Services freelance writing marketing marketing writing services sales and marketing selling writing servicesFreelance writers can land new clients five ways: through referrals, from previous clients, through a well optimized website, by email, by mail or in person.

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TJ Walker Interactive

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Skype Training Services with TJ Walker, Media Training Worldwide. Skype Training Services include the following. Fee for service is $XXX (call for info) per hour for all training services. The training I am now doing with clients through skype is really taking off. Below are the specifics. If’ you’d like a free demo, please call me to set on up. TJ 212.764.4955 (If you can think of other applications for Video training through Skype, please let me know).

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MAY 3, 2017

But, for them and for many of us in professional services, that might have been a dumb move. The professional services game is one filled with crisis. Globally, Americans are known for excessive smiling. Here is The Atlantic article on that by Olga Khazan.

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Speak and Deliver

JULY 3, 2015

Speak Outside TM - schedule yourself at local service clubs - Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Optimists and the like. Use it to Speak & Deliver the right messages - messages of communication, service and leadership that define our organization.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 10, 2017

Every successful player in content marketing knows this: There is a clear line between providing enough information and insight to indicate you know your stuff and too much. The latter situation is known as "giving away the store."

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Manner of Speaking

AUGUST 29, 2012

Guest Posts Business Services Conferences Keynote Keynote Speaker Paul Rulkens public speakingPaul Rulkens is a personal and organizational development consultant and professional speaker. He helps improve business results by making people, teams and organizations more successful.

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The Communication Blog

JANUARY 11, 2013

30 Blogs on How to Handle Difficult People | Nanny Service. Here is a great collection of blogs addressing the general area of dealing with difficult people. There seems to be something here for everyone--we all seem to have to deal with difficult people at one time or another. link]. communicating with difficult people difficult people

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Great Public Speaking

APRIL 8, 2013

[link] This video tells you the importance of becoming a celebrity in your niche. Over 450 public and professional speaking videos

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There was a time when those in professional services were socialized to, well, "speak like professionals." Currently, we run if the professional services representatives talk formally. " The tax experts used formal language and formal terms about IRS regulations. Lawyers would do the same the legal system.    We in communications would pontificate about perception, even throwing in some statistics from the latest research. That was then.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

JUNE 4, 2011

To do this, you have to ask the client a number of questions: Everything You Wanted To Know About Freelance Writing Freelance Writing - Corporate business of freelance writing estimating writing services Everything you want to know about freelance writingAlthough the formula I outlined (in the previous chapter) should help you determine your per-hour rate, most clients are interested in the bottom line. What’s this document (media release, brochure, Web page, speech, script.)

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Manner of Speaking

AUGUST 30, 2010

Tags: PowerPoint AudioVisual Business Business Services Communications Education and Training Keynote Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation presentations public speaking Question Question and Answer Question Answering Thank You

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MARCH 9, 2017

That's especially in professional services which have become a buyer's market. Now the successful in professional services do backflips to send a very different message. The 2015 book "Presence" is holding on to a high ranking on Amazon.

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Speaker Launcher

MARCH 21, 2017

One of the things that Joel said was that he did everything in his business from a place of service. Most Recent Post Speaking Business Strategy business strategy selling vs. servicingRecently I interviewed Joel Boggess, a well-known author, speaker and podcaster.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

JULY 11, 2013

Marketing Your Services Recently I was interviewed about the freelance writing business. The information will not be available online, but I have posted here the questions I was asked and my answers to them.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Freelance Writing - General Marketing Your Services My Books Self-Publishing & Print On Demand creating e-books creating e-pubs e-books Kindle books sales of e-booksDo e-book sales cannibalize print sales? Find out what Paul Lima has experienced.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

MARCH 4, 2011

Chapter 25: Corporate Market Services: In writing for the corporate market, the problem is not a dearth of opportunities but a plethora of them in terms of the number of companies out there and the types of written communication they require. However, in this chapter, we will look at the types of writing services you can offer corporate clients.

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Speak Schmeak

JULY 17, 2009

At the first tasting room yesterday we met Mike, a soon-to-be grad student studying management. His background is varied, from studying at the Culinary Institute of America to serving in the Air Force.

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Speak Schmeak

JULY 17, 2009

At the first tasting room yesterday we met Mike, a soon-to-be grad student studying management. His background is varied, from studying at the Culinary Institute of America to serving in the Air Force.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Freelance Writing - General Marketing Your Services My Books Search Engine Optimization Excerpt from "Produce, Price and Promote Your Self-Published Fiction or Non-fiction Book and eBook" on using SEO in your non-fiction book titles.

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Manner of Speaking

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tags: Preparation PowerPoint public speaking Keynote Business Business Services Microsoft PowerPoint Education and Training Public Speaker Communications Banana Checklist Universal Serial Bus Notebooks and Laptops Contact lens

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

Marketing Your Services Search Engine Optimization Search engine optimization SEO writing for the webAbout 70% of my new training and writing gigs come to me through my website. The rest are from referrals or my marketing.) Recently, I wrote a business letter for a client in Russia who is trying to land distribution deal with an American company. Other writers have asked me how a client from Russian [.].

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Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!

MARCH 14, 2011

Customer Service sales manners service smalltalkI was queuing to pay at a shop the other day when my phone rang. I took the call and quickly hung up when I got to the front so that I could pay for my shopping. The shopping assistant was surprised that I had hung up to speak to her. She told me that it was the first time that had happened, and everybody else just carried on speaking on the phone while they paid; as if she did not exist.

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Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!

MARCH 11, 2011

Communication Customer Service business customer service moneyWhy do so many companies make it so difficult to give them money? Here are just 5 ways to make me take my money elsewhere? Don’t have a website. Have a website, but don’t provide contact details. Have a website with contact details, but don’t respond to my queries. Don’t return my phone calls. Break your promises, or make unreasonable promises. I bet you are thinking that your business would never do any of these.

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http://delicious.com/akarrer/prospeaker

MAY 1, 2009

You can also learn more about speaking leads, visit www.CharliJane.com to learn more about her services. Charli Jane Speaker Services P.O.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

MAY 28, 2011

Paul Lima offers consulting services for freelance writers and editors, and other independent practitioner. Work one-on-one by email or phone to discuss the business of freelance writing and editing or starting almost any service-based business. Business Training Freelance Writing - General Marketing Your Services business of freelance writing freelance writing freelance writing consulting services Paul Lima

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The bio and about pages are vital parts of a freelance writer's website. In a concise format you define yourself to an audience of strangers. It's where a large chunk of your traffic will end up. Your bio helps prospective clients determine if your interests and expertise align with their needs. People enjoy reading interesting bios; they'll stop reading, however, if you simply list strings of boring information. Freelance Writing - General self-promotion write about page Write bio

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Manner of Speaking

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

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Speak Schmeak

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Regardless of how you feel about the name, you are invited to book any of my coaching services in October ( see this page ) at a 20% discount! In order to secure the discounted rate, you must book and pay for the service in October.

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Speak Schmeak

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Regardless of how you feel about the name, you are invited to book any of my coaching services in October ( see this page ) at a 20% discount! In order to secure the discounted rate, you must book and pay for the service in October.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Business Writing Freelance Writing - Corporate Marketing Your Services effective communications W5 W5 and writingI’ve been a freelancer for 20+ years. I’ve never liked cold calling. That’s why I like the Web – company sites contain email addresses. I can find and email a prospect and then follow up by phone if required. I consider that follow up call a ‘warm’ call, not a cold call. However, more and [.].

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