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7 Ways to Use a Blog to Grow Your Speaking Business

May 27, 2017 By Tim Gillette Leave a Comment

How to Use Your Blog to Grow Your Speaking Business

You’re a speaker. If we did a search online about you, what would we find? If we did a search on your message, would your information come up? Pick a conference you’re thinking of attending and do a Google search on the list of speakers that will be presenting. What did you find? Would you […]

Creative Ways Speakers Can Use Social Media to Engage the Audience During a Speech

May 22, 2017 By Cynthia Lay 1 Comment

Tips for using social media during a presentation

You know the feeling, don’t you? Your speech is brilliant… packed full of instantly-usable content… you know without a doubt that you will ROCK your audience today. And then it happens. Just before you’re introduced, you look out over the audience… and realize… at least half of those people are messing around on their freakin’ […]

Social Media Mistake #3 ~ How to NOT Sound Like an Infomercial

February 13, 2017 By Cynthia Lay Leave a Comment

social media mistakes professional speakers make

“But WAIT… there’s MORE!” Unless you’ve been living under a rock — or without a television — you’ve probably seen more than your fair share of late-night infomercials. They used to annoy me until I began studying marketing & consumer behavior in college. This is probably the biggest mistakes, and it takes many forms – […]

Facebook Tip for Speakers #3 ~ Tag Spam!

September 20, 2016 By Cynthia Lay Leave a Comment

What NOT to Do on Facebook!

I’ve noticed an annoying trend on Facebook lately… people “tagging” others in videos and/or photos when they’re not actually IN those videos/photos. Seems strange, I know… but in the social media world, that’s big-time SPAMMING and it’s not a good idea. WHY are they doing it? Well, when a “big-name” person with lots of followers […]

Are Your Speaker Photos from the 1980′s?

June 7, 2016 By Cynthia Lay Leave a Comment

How long has it been since you updated your speaker photos? Are people still seeing a pic of you from 5 years ago? Are you wearing a different hair style nowadays? Or, perhaps you have a bit less on top than you used to, but your photos show you with a full head of hair? […]

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