How VALUABLE is Your Speaking Topic? – Public-Speaking
How VALUABLE is Your Speaking Topic?
What information can be used immediately by the audience and what is to follow?Can you tell the audience in 30 seconds or less what you do and also give them three things that they can use immediately? The chances are that you probably cannot. If you do not have a practiced and enthusiastic response to how valuable your topic is, then you are likely not going to win over the audience. Not only do you need to think it is valuable but the audience also has to buy into it. You will need to do some market research even if it is only asking questions to your intended audience.You need to know ahead of time that what you are speaking on is of value to them and that they will be able to walk away from you speech and feel that they got value. So what is the best way to find out how valuable your topic is at this point in time? There are three easy steps that you can take to make sure you are addressing your audience. First you must choose a topic with which you feel comfortable (it may be several). Second, pass the topic titles by friends and local businesses to see if they are interested in the topics and which ones they would put on the top of the list. You should also make sure that they tell you which ones they would be interested in attending. Lastly, put out an email to your circle of influence and have them rate your topics and give suggestions. Once you have completed these steps, you are on the road to presenting something the audience will like.If you do your impromptu research before spending money on advertising the event, you will get a better idea of what the market will bear. If you ignore the market survey and go on your own, you risk having few attendees and wasting your own time and effort. The audience needs to have something tangible for their effort in listening to what you have to say.Bette Daoust, Ph.D. has been networking with others since leaving high school years ago. Realizing that no one really cared about what she did in life unless she had someone to tell and excite. She decided to find the best ways to get people's attention, be creative in how she presented herself and products, getting people to know who she was, and being visible all the time. Her friends and colleagues have often dubbed her the "Networking Queen". Blueprint for Networking Success: 150 ways to promote yourself is the first in this series. Blueprint for Branding Yourself: Another 150 ways to promote yourself is planned for release in 2005. For more information visit http://www.BlueprintBooks.com
Writers Block – Find an Article Topic in Minutes Anytime Anywhere with These 7 Tips Guaranteed! – Writing-Articles
Writers Block - Find an Article Topic in Minutes Anytime Anywhere with These 7 Tips Guaranteed!
One question I get asked all the time is how to you get Ideas for your Articles? How can you churn out 5 Articles in a Day? Use these 7 Tips and You too will be able to Churn out Article Topics in Minutes Anytime Anywhere Guaranteed!As you go through your daily routine Article Ideas present themselves all the time you just need to pay more attention to what you do and How You Do It.As an Example Today I was looking over my Web Site Counter to see which keywords Web Surfers were using to Find my Web Page. Basically I look over the referred by logged and click on the link to see where the Surfers came from. If it happened to be a Search engine I look at the Search Term and My Position in the Search engine.A light bulb went off in my head Wow I could write an Article about that. I jotted down in my blog to write an Article on How I find Article Topics. Like many of you I operate an Online Home based business. I use my DVD-RW to backup my critical Home Based Business Files. That's an Article just waiting to be written.Here are 7 Ideas that will enable you to find a Limitless Number of Article Titles1 - ProceduresAny of Your Daily, Weekly, Monthly Procedures are Ideas for Possible Articles. Like the Procedures I used to Back Up my Computer or Look over my Web Site Logs2 - Write a ReviewDid you read an Interesting Book, Use a Good Piece of software find a great Web Site then Write an Article.3 - New Product Write an Article about a new or Recent Product or Development in your Industry or company.4 - Overlooked or Little Used Product In your Profession are there any overlooked or little used products. Write an Article About it.5 - Recent AccomplishmentHave you or someone you know received any awards. Have you or someone you know done anything Special Lately.6- How To GuideYou can write a How To Article on Virtually Any topic. Need some ideas, go to a book store or online Bookstore and look at the Titles of all the Dummy Books.7 - News StoriesNewspapers, TV News,Radio News, Magazines ,Technical and Trade Journals are all sources of articlesOver the Last Few Days some stories in the news have been about surging Gas Prices, A Computer Virus and Tropical Storms in Florida. Now that you have 3 Stories do a quick Brain Storm and Write Down possible Article Headlines for Each Story. Don't worry if you can write the Article Just Jot down the Headlines, Some will become Articles.High Gas Prices 10 Ways to Save Money on Gas Every Thing You wanted to Know About Alternative Fuels Tips for Car Poolers - How to Save Money and Make New friends 5 Simple ways to Fix-Up Your Car and Save Gas Dollars Hybrid Vehicles are they Cost Effective Solar Power and Your Home Gas Bill 7 Energy Conservation Tips for the Home Owner
Computer Virus Will that Free Virus Software really Work 3 Free Spyware Programs Reviewed Which is Best for You 3 Virus Programs Reviewed Which is Best for You Can Spam Blockers Reduce Your Risk of an E_mail Virus Which Browser Offers the Best Virus Protection Choose Your Browser Carefully or Get a Virus Viral Marketing The Good Kind of Virus 7 Ways to Protect your Computer from Spyware and Ad Ware A USB Disk Drive Cheap Back Up Insurance Why I run 2 Virus Checkers and SpyWare Fix your Registry
Hurricanes and Tropical Storms Do you have enough Flood Insurance 10 Things you should do before that Hurricane Comes Road Tips if you are Caught in a Hurricane Damaged by a Hurricane, 10 Questions you should ask your Contractor Hurricane Damage Don't Fix that Roof Until You Read This Federal Disaster Relief Low Cost Loans to Fix Your Home Will Your Homeowners Policy Cover the Next Natural Disaster
Wow 26 Possible Articles from only 3 News Stories. How many Newspaper Stories are their in any Given Day.Still having problems writing Articles One of the Easiest Types of Articles to write is 7 Tips or 10 Tips Type articles. You know something like 7 Tips to find an Article TopicAbout The Author:
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Article Marketing: Know your Topic – Writing-Articles
Article Marketing: Know your Topic
Everyone knows an expert is just a drip under pressure. I want to share a little story, rather innocent on the part of one person that made a difference in the life of a rather well known preacher.A dear friend of mine spent her years working for the Lord, and this took her places she might never have gone. For most of her children's early adult lives, long enough to put them through college, she spent her years cooking at a small private college, in order to obtain reduced college tuition for her children. She was an excellent cook, personable and talented, loved by all who knew her.It was not unusual that the pastor of the church would join the students for meals, since he was also the Dean of the College. He was usually asked to pray over the meal. This pastor was long winded. He had a tendency to drone on and on, his tone changing slightly, often dropping just below the point where he could be heard by my friend who was nearly tone deaf. However, the constant drip from the faucet in the kitchen could be heard miles away, and she was quite tuned into its incessant communications.On one particularly grueling and hot Kansas day, they sat down to board, and he began to pray. Words of praise thundered forth eventually droning to lower toned requests for blessings, pleasures, and health for his parishioners, until the cook could no longer hear him pray. She thought he was finished.As she looked up from her bowed position to join the rest of the congregation of students, administration, faculty, and guests she saw her associate wasn't sitting beside her and assumed he was still in the kitchen. She called out loudly, amid the silence (knowing the chatter of table talk would soon override her option to do so), "Would somebody please turn that drip off?"Too late, she realized the pastor had still been praying, when he rather loudly proclaimed, "In the name of Jesus, Amen."His sermons after that, as well as his prayers, became more concise and deliberate. He became an EXPERT.The choice is yours. You can continue to drone into tedium, or you can grow and become a better person with more knowledge and focus your interests into a recognizable skill and be known as an "expert".Crisp copy writing packs a punch, with a story that touches your audience, marketing becomes a cinch. Jan Verhoeff has 22 years experience in marketing and packs a punch that will make your website ZING with sales. Visit her site at eBiz Brand Performance.