When you are first starting out – you will have to speak for FREE. It’s your way of practicing, getting rid of the fears, and deciding what works and what doesn’t work in your speech. So, how can you get value from of Free speech. I suggest you always ask for all of these: A high quality/professional audio tape of the speech – because you’re going to use it to get more bookings. A high quality/professional videotape of your speech – because it’s marketing material and – if

Okay the reason you need to host a teleseminar is NOT to make money. It’s NOT to create products (although you may very well do it.) It’s NOT to get your prospects to login and listen (they probably won’t – so don’t get your feelings hurt.) The reason you create a teleseminar is to get credibility with VIPs! These are very important people either in your field, or people you admire, or people who have a lot of influence and just their name connected with yours will enhanc

Can you count the social media outlets that you can use today to stay connected and get your message out? NO! Every day – it seems—there’s another one. Well, I was at a meeting and the speaker talked about two that would lead the pack for many years to come in the business world – which you’re in as a speaker: TWITTER AND LINKEDIN. So, you have to use these tools – even if you’re already on facebook. GET ON TWITTER. If you’re not, then I suspect it’s because you’re go

And I think the keyword here is BUSINESS. Google calendar is great and Outlook calendar is great too but what happens when you get an assistant and you need to share your calendar but you don’t want her to see all your personal notes! You’re going to need a Business Calendar that allows you to put everything in one place: your business clients – their name, email, phone, and notes about the speak engagement, etc as well as your, personal notes and todo lists. So, this is one

How to choose an good accounting software in the cloud? The rave now is “in the cloud, in the cloud, it’s great in the cloud.” Well, to be quite honest, it’s scary being in the cloud OPEN for cloud hackers to come and steal all your information – but especially if all your bank account information is there. Well, I use Wave Accounting because it uses 256-bit SSL encryption, and its servers are housed in facilities with physical and electronic safeguards. Its protocols are ce

You might wonder WHY? Why do I need this added expense? Why can’t I just use my cell phone? Why can’t I just use my land line? Or worse yet is I’m paying for business line…Now, if you’ve had your business line for 20 years and you don’t want to get rid of it…I understand that BUT you still need to be mobile – in other words, people calling your business line and/or a local number and it transferring to your phone for you to answer it or send it to voice mail and once you

Every year this time I take a yearly assessment. I think about all the things that made me smile, all the business decisions that made me frown, and all the lessons I've learned. (I don't wait until January because I'm already geared up to go by then.) Here are two things I've learned just from this year: 1. Don't move to hasty and don't move to slow. I know. This is very difficult to do. One thing I heard this year that made me understand that I really do know when the