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Well, maybe. However, here are 6 great tips to take the pressure off, and make your short-notice speeches winners.

Long, long ago I was often in the position of being called upon to speak with very short notice. It may have been that I stepped in when another speaker had to cancel abruptly. Sometimes I had to rustle together a workshop on a topic familiar to me.

By that time in my career I had successfully overcome my fear of speaking in public, and the “rescue factor” lent the situation a yeasty excitement; I greatly enjoyed these occasions. And I′m sure my audiences cut me some slack because I had stepped in at the last minute; audiences are generally gracious that way.

I would probably have gone merrily on indefinitely, not worrying about the lapses and occasional lack of progression had not a teenager come up to me after a talk I’d given and asked me, “Why did you say ___? What did it have to do with ___?”

As I struggled to give her a concise answer, I realized, with a sinking feeling, that I had omitted an entire section of my argument–the section that connected facts I had given with the theory I offered. And, without that connection, there was no logic to my theory–and absolutely no reason for anyone to take the action I had urged!

That was a shocking wake-up call which left me with a feeling of humiliation that I had been so glibly unprofessional. It made me willing to spend the time to prepare myself for the unexpected. When I knew I was going to give a speech or workshop I’d have everything organized for every eventuality. Yet, because enjoyed speaking extemporaneously, I hadn’t felt the need to be prepared when I was called to do so. And I had to acknowledge that I had thought of myself as being such an interesting speaker that I didn’t have to worry about ordinary preparation. Whoops!

Here’s how you can prepare for your “spontaneous” talks:

Set up cue cards for three lengths of talks: 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 45 minutes. (I use different colors for each of my topics, so I don’t accidentally pick up the wrong set as I dash out the door!)

For each, write whichever of these points is appropriate for your topic:

The ACTION you want your audience to be moved to take. (I write only this on my last cue card, in large, bright-colored letters.)

Your CONCLUSION or THEORY which would validate that action. (Again, I use only one cue card, but this one I write in black, so I don’t confuse it with the Action card.)

The SEQUENCE OF STEPS à which à lead to the à conclusion. (I prompt my memory by using a single word, if possible, for each step, with an arrow leading to the following step, as I’ve done here.)

The FACTS which support your entire thesis. (I bullet these and put several on a card.)

Prompts for your OPENING.

THANK YOU’s or Acknowledgements.

You’ll observe that I did this in reverse order. I find it easier to prepare for different lengths of speeches when I do it this way; I don’t accidentally leave out important connections, as I did for my Wake-Up call.

I believe you will find, as I have, that spending time to think through and jot down your Reminders, takes the pressure off speaking spontaneously, and will make you more likely to accept those spur-of-the-moment engagements which can yield substantial monetary and professional rewards. And they’re fun!

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The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the cast majority of successful screenplays are built upon. Films as diverse as Gladiator (2000), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Raging Bull (1980) and Scarface (1983) were all constructed around the Hero’s Journey Template.

The Hero’s Journey takes the character through the Character Arc.

There are four significant stages of the Character Arc: overcoming the refusal, the transformation (road of trials), the rebirth through death and the apotheosis.

The apotheosis is where the character climaxes. The precursor to that is the atonement with the father, where the hero confronts that which prevents his illumination.

For example, deconstructing Raging Bull (1980), we see that the climax is when Jake La Motta confronts Joey and learns that he has been sleeping with his wife (Vickie). All actions lead up to and beyond that point (the winning of the Title is simply the B-story).

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Writers write? Right?
Whether we’re amateurs or professionals, we all share one common daily activity - writing.

So it makes sense that those successful writers would enjoy writing about their personal experiences in the publishing industry as much as they enjoy writing articles, reports, or books for profit.

Thankfully many best-selling authors and established experts in our industry willingly share their advice and suggestions for those beginners seeking to develop a profitable, fulfilling career as a writer.

I have read a lot of free reports, downloaded dozens of free tips and guides offered by online authors, published professionals and Internet marketing gurus. I have also purchased guides to writing for a living, books about how to become a successful writer, and e-books written by online experts.

I cannot tell you how to become a successful writer or whose book you should buy to learn guaranteed secrets to getting published. I can tell you my personal opinion and beliefs about what advice has proven to be valuable and what suggestions failed to provide me with any assistance!

First of all, regardless of whether I read a free resource or paid for a book of ideas about writing, a few frequent recommendations were offered by most successful writers.

1 - Write what you know about. Use your own life-experiences, passions, and interests to inspire ideas for articles.

2 - Create a how-to report about something in demand by the masses. Information sells, they say.
Most commonly suggested topics include:

How to make money
How to save money
How to become a better… (parent, spouse, business person etc.)
How to succeed in… (life, business, personal relationships etc.)
How to get free stuff… (publicity, money, products, publications etc.)
How to reach your dreams
How to become more… (self-confident, financially secure, better-looking, slimmer etc.)

- and other topics that give people good ideas, viable resources, and unique opportunities.

3 - Establish your own personal website. Give your “how-to” report away for free. By doing these two things, they say you will be able to promote yourself without spending a lot of money and you will attract people to your website to get your free report, which will give you the opportunity to sell them your other services.

4- Produce an e-zine. By offering to deliver a “free” newsletter to someone’s email box, you should be able to establish a list of readers. If your e-zine provides something valuable to your subscribers, you will continue to build a constant audience that you can promote yourself to every day, every week or every month (depending on the frequency of your publication.)

5- Write an e-book. Again your topic should be something you know about, some valuable tips you′ve acquired through your own life experiences or by extensive, documented research, or some unique, original ideas you can share with others to make their life better. Give your e-book away for free. (See #3 for the reasons why you should offer it free)

Maybe these ideas will work for you. Maybe they won’t. Maybe they’re becoming overused or over-publicized, thus decreasing their value, successful results and potential profitability.

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Once you have sorted and selected your topics, you are ready to put the inside walls together. The chapters and topics have formed the foundation. This exercise will take some time to complete but it should be done before any writing is started.

Start with the first chapter. Look at the first topic in your list, does this topic warrant being the first one? If not, re-sort your topic list so the most important one is at the top.

Write a sentence about this topic. The sentence should state something significant that makes this topic important enough to write about. For example, your topic may be “”Office Requirements”. The sentence you write could be similar to “When first starting your home office, there are certain pieces of equipment that you should purchase″.

This sentence describes the importance of having the topic in the book. You need to go through every single topic in your book and do the same thing. I have sometimes found that I need to change the topic because I cannot find anything that is truly significant.

Once you have finished writing your significant sentences, go back and change the sentence to a question. The reason for this is to create a question that you need to answer when writing about your topic. In the example above, you might change the sentence into the following question “What pieces of equipment should I buy for my office?” This question opens the door for discussion when writing about your topic.

Changing the significant sentence into a question for each topic gives you the framework for writing. You may ask if you need to do all the topics before beginning to write. I recommend that you do so because when you start writing you will not want to have stops while you organize the next chapter.

Bette Daoust, Ph.D. is a speaker, author (over 170 books, articles, and publications), and consultant. She has provided marketing, sales, business development and training expertise for companies such as Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Varian Medical Systems, Accenture, Avaya, Cisco Systems to name a few. Dr. Daoust has also done extensive work with small businesses in developing their marketing, training, and operational plans. You may contact Dr. Daoust at BizMechanix.com BizMechanix.com. You may also view her latest publications at BlueprintBooks.com BlueprintBooks.com. Dr. Daoust also writes for the National Networker theNationalNetworker.com theNationalNetworker.com.

Article marketing is one of the easiest ways to gain strong, presold web traffic today. Now, at one time, article marketing was used (and really still is, by some PPC web pages today) primarily for the generation of content for PPC and traffic – driven web sites.

But for the article writer himself, article writing provides the opportunity to create useful backlinks that can be used to increase search engine rankings over time.

When you write an article, you should do so with an end in mind. This should be to interest the reader to the extent that they want to use your article on their website. It is not sufficient just to write some general information so that visitors will click on some Adsense ads and make you money. Everybody does this and while Adsense is not dead as many have rumored, it is no longer the cash cow that is was. The way to make money now is from authority websites that provide useful information and that are monetized using several different income sources. Like any other, these websites have still to be advertised to be successful.

There are several ways of advertising your site online ranging from straight pay per click advertising to several forms of ad generation software, but by far the most productive is article marketing. This is what you do:

1) Write informative articles

2) Add text anchor backlinks to your articles

3) Submit your articles to the various online article directories.

4) Start step 1) over again.

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Article Marketing has become one of the major seo strategy techniques today. In fact its value has been raised from a mere idea to a mandatory function. However, with every seo specialist now doing this, it is becoming harder for your articles to rate a mention in a sea that fills everyday with millions of new articles. There are other techniques though that can get your articles read.

In some areas like search engine optimization, article marketing, internet marketing and so on, there is a constant flood of articles into the article directories because of this you now have to look at new ways of getting your articles noticed. No one will ever dispute that article directories are still a great way to get your articles distributed but you do need to consider other options.

For example, if you find that your articles are being regularly picked up by a particular website, blog or forum then one of the best ways to get your articles read is to go to that website, blog or forum and offer to write for them regularly. The way you will be able to identify where people are coming from is by checking out your weblogs. If you are serious about making any money on the web you need to be checking them on a daily basis to find out where people are coming from to find your website.

Often you will find that because of the certain type of people that some websites are attracting, you may find that it is easier to sell to those referees compared to the people that come from the search engines. I had a situation 12 months ago where one of the websites that was referring people to us via an article, had a sales conversion rate of 82%. This number is certainly unheard of on the internet but it is in fact easily achievable. Because of a massive surge in sales, we approached that particular website and we write for them regularly. There is benefit for both organizations, for this website they get quality articles and we get the sales we desire.

Article marketing does not have to be difficult; it simply requires you to know who your customers are and where they are coming from. The secret to successful article marketing is to have access to your weblogs. If you cannot get access to your weblogs then you need to build a system that will allow you to do that.

Once you know who and where your customers are coming from, simply write or call the people who own the website, forum or bloggs and offer to write quality articles for them. Most website owners will value that offer, especially if you are writing exclusive material that no one else has.

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Online trade has been growing steadfastly during the last several years. One can purchase just as many things online as in real life. It is widely perceived that online trade is more convenient, custom-oriented and certainly quicker than traditional purchasing at the supermarket. You should not stand in line to buy the products; everything you purchased online can be delivered right to your doorstep. However, one should always remember that sometimes online trade is not a safe one. There are some instances when the customers have paid for the products yet these products have never been delivered to them.

There is also one industry where you should follow several rules which will prevent you from being cheated by unethical and fraudulent companies. This industry is online essay writing service. You are apparently aware what you should do if you are purchasing TV set or DVD player online. However, what you should pay attention to if you are resolved to buy term paper online? First check out whether you have provided the writers and researchers with the term paper topic of your essay. Remember that in many cases the customers either forgets to provide the company with the right topic or the topic is vaguely formulated. Needless to say that in this case it would, be extremely difficult even for experienced and skilled writer to research and write the paper that would match your initial instructions and what more – your expectations. Term paper topics as well as instructions may vary, yet they should match the requirements set by your tutor.

Second, pay closest attention to the instruction that you provide. Make sure that these are instructions demanded by your tutor; otherwise the term paper written will not match those set by your college or university. In this case you might wound up with useless yet sometimes expensive paper. Third–try to find out about the company you are dealing with, as much as possible. You should convince yourself that the company really has professional and experienced writers who can produce high-quality, well-written custom term paper that matches the instructions and requirements set by you. If you follow these several simple advises, than there is a high probability that your custom term paper will be written according to your specifications.

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OK, time to be honest: Do you think you can really write an article that is good enough to be published?

No? Why not?

You don′t need formal training or even a history of getting an A in high school English to be a good article writer. There is a way to seem like a great writer, right from the first time you try.

If you can read an article, you can write an article. Here’s how to get a quick start:

1. Decide the type of article you would like to write and then read every article you can find on your subject. You can search your topic on search engines or go to article directories.

2. Choose the writers with a style you admire. Read everything they have ever written. Then read your favorite articles again.

3. Take some of the best articles you can find and type them word-for-word into your word processing program. As you type the writer’s words, you will get the “feel” of the way he or she writes.

4. Choose your topic and then just start to write. Don’t try to make corrections while you write. Just let the words flow.

5, Edit your article using the same format that your examples used.

I know this system can get you started writing articles because it worked for me.

I grew up reading magazines like Seventeen and as a young wife, Family Circle and Woman’s Day were my weekly companions. I read articles almost everyday.

When I had my first opportunity to write an article I was ready. The rhythm of article writing was already in my soul. It was enough to get me started and I eventually had articles published in Family Circle, Woman’s Day, the magazines that I had spent hours and hours reading.

But, I didn′t stop there.

I wrote my first two articles and then read every book I could find on writing and selling articles. When I switched to writing for the Internet, I read everything I could find on that subject and made adjustments.

I never did get an A in English, and I’ve never taken a course on writing. Everything I ever learned about writing articles and books I learned by reading great examples and books on writing.

You can too.

After you read WRITE AN ARTICLE-A-DAY, THE EASY WAY by Georganne Fiumara, you will be able to write a professional quality article in just one day or an e-book in 7 days for fame, fortune or web traffic. To find out more, go to WriteAnArticleADay.com WriteAnArticleADay.com right now. Do you have questions about writing articles? Ask them at Article-Answers.com Article-Answers.com.

A call to action such as call now, order now, and click here can dramatically increase your sales. Motivate readers to do what you want them to do with action verbs. Give precise instructions. Tell them exactly what to do. Give them a direct order. Add an incentive or benefit to your order to encourage them to take the desired action.

Here are examples of action words you can use on your web site, in your email, and in other marketing materials.

Examples of Call to Action

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• Order NOW before all copies of this limited edition are taken! 1-800-555-1234.

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Article Marketing – Can You Really Generate 500 Visitors Per Day with an Article Marketing and List Building Strategy?

I will jump right out in the front and give you the conclusion to this article before you read it: I have, and so can you.

Let me tell you how it works.

First, list building stimulates an activity called leveraging your traffic. You can multiply your traffic by as much as 5 times or more, just by list building.

How does that work? The idea here is that if you have 100 unique visitors to your web site from some traffic source, and you simply point them to your sales pages, then everyday you will continue to have 100 visitors. But if on the other hand you point them to a list building name squeeze page, and have them opt in to an email list, where you can mail them several times per week, then over time, you leverage your traffic. I currently operate at about a 500% traffic differential between my original unique traffic and my total unique traffic, and it is list building that makes that happen.

Second, article marketing creates some of the very best traffic for list building, because it is for all practical purposes completely prequalified.

Let me explain. When someone clicks through to your web site from an article, he hasn’t just knee-jerk responded to some ad you placed somewhere. He is clicking through because he likes something you put in the article. He likes you style, he thinks you offer good information. But the bottom line is, the person who clicks through to your web site after reading your article is qualified, and wants more information from you.

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