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Adding Keynote to Your Video Presentation
In my first experiment creating a motivational video presentation, I decided to start with the basics. I stood in front of a white wall and shot a video of myself. In my first attempt, I stood next to...
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The Minimum Effective Post
I spent the weekend cleaning up old profiles, and working on some new time management material. As I considered the time I spend blogging, I realized how inefficient I have become. My life can easily...
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How To Find Interesting People To Follow On Twitter Using Klout
Klout is a popular online tool that shows you your combined social media score and can help you find influential people to follow. The main interface screen looks like the picture below. It contains...
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Improve Your SEO Ranking With Klout
If you are a writer, speaker, or small business professional you know the importance of building your online presence or “platform.” Getting visitors to come to your website or blog is paramount in...
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Creating Your Brand: Backstory
Every brand has a story. Where you came from and the obstacles you overcame are very important. So is the story of your founders, leaders, and front row personalities. As a customer, we want to know...
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Is Your Writing Holding You Back Online? Five Quick Ways to Improve
This is a guest post by Ali Luke. She is a writer and writing coach, and blogs about writing on her site Aliventures. You can find her on Twitter as @aliventures, where she’s always happy to answer...
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Six Important Things You Should Know About Pinterest
Pinterest is the hottest new social network since Twitter. It combines a visual interface that allows you to sort graphic links onto pin boards, sorted by category. It’s deceptively simple. If you are...
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The Four H Guide To Speech Evaluations
As a long time Toastmaster, I’ve heard hundreds of speeches over the years. Many have been good, a few have been great, and some have literally been a waste of time. What makes the difference between a...
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Speech Evaluation Forms
Here are some speech evaluation forms that go with our speech evaluation series over the past week including… Four H Speech Evaluation Four H Powerpoint Evaluation Fiction Writer’s Speech Evaluation...
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The Gilligan’s Island Approach to Starting a Business, Club, or Non-Profit.
Over the last few years, I’ve been involved with different start-ups, from business, to club, and even a non-profit. In almost all cases, I’ve been in a meeting with others, feeling just a tad lost. As...
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The End of Blogging As We Know It
This blog is now 9 years old. It contains over 900 posts and pages and has had well over a million views since it was started on April 1st, 2005. It’s been a good run. A lot of things have changed...
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Improve Your Presentation Skills With These 7 Tips
We have all been there, the after lunch presentation that takes two hours, has 500 bullet points, and puts the most well intentioned person to sleep. Yet year after year, the standard Powerpoint...
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Speech Evaluation Forms
Here are some speech evaluation forms that go with our speech evaluation series over the past week including… Four H Speech Evaluation Four H Powerpoint Evaluation Fiction Writer’s Speech Evaluation...
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The Gilligan’s Island Approach to Starting a Business, Club, or Non-Profit.
Over the last few years, I’ve been involved with different start-ups, from business, to club, and even a non-profit. In almost all cases, I’ve been in a meeting with others, feeling just a tad lost. As...
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How to Blog in 2014
I’ve been a blogger for almost nine years and in that time I’ve seen a lot of changes. In the early days (circa 2005), I would put a post up and things would go crazy almost immediately. It was truly...
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The End of Blogging As We Know It
This blog is now 9 years old. It contains over 900 posts and pages and has had well over a million views since it was started on April 1st, 2005. It’s been a good run. A lot of things have changed...
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Building a Unique Personal Brand
It was the pictures. They rotated in the sidebar, one after the other. It was just a normal guy in a small town. In one picture he was with his wife, in others, it was his dog, his family or his...
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Who Will Replace Michael Hyatt?
Yesterday was a milestone for longtime blogger, Michael Hyatt. His month long Best Year Ever launch closed down, with over a million dollars in sales. It was an overwhelming success. By tying in with...
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Special Keywords That Will Rocket Your Sales
What if I told you that I had secret keywords that would drive search traffic to your website, Facebook page, or Twitter account. These magic keyword phrases would not only drive traffic, but it would...
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Create a Strategy For Consistent Content Creation
I just returned from the Copyblogger Authority/Rainmaker Conference in Denver Colorado. With two days of presentations from some of the top social media, content marketing and blogging experts, the...
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