Mar 21, 2018 | Communicator Academy, Platform, Pursuing Your Dreams, Speaker Tips
You have a message that is right in the crosshairs of what you are most passionate about and meets the felt needs of your audience. And, joy of joys, you have an event planner that wants YOU for their next speaking engagement. Woot-woot, let the celebrations begin!...
Mar 19, 2018 | Platform, Podcast, Speaker Tips
Kathi and Michele talk about how to create speaking topics and how hard it can be to come up with the descriptions of your speaking topics. As Kathi says, “It’s not supposed to be easy or everybody would be doing it.” There are three key tips that...
Mar 15, 2018 | Audience, Platform, Social Media
People are longing for connection. We live in the most connected time in history, but we have more lonely people than ever before. Sometimes, social media loses the social part, and it becomes just another avenue for marketing. And people sense insincerity and will...
Mar 7, 2018 | Events, Speaker Tips
In order to get ready for a workshop I was teaching, I asked speaker friends to share creative ideas for adding value to our events. I got great feedback from them, but something was missing. Suddenly I realized I hadn’t tapped into an important group for the...
Feb 28, 2018 | Blogging, Marketing, Website
By Laura Christianson In my first article in this series on websites, we took a big picture view, looking at five ways to ramp up your website’s “curb appeal” or attractiveness factor. Today, we’re focusing on the Home page, where visitors usually land first. A Home...
