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It is always a good exercise when you try to determine your speed reading rate at every point in time of your reading any material. When you do this you should also remember that your comprehension rate is also a factor that determines your rate of reading. If you read a material and gain a rate of 400 words per minute without understanding what you read, then you have not actually speed read at all.

Thus it is vital that you consider material of interest to you to improve and enhance quick understanding of any material before you. When you test yourself, it simply shows that you are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve a good speed reading. One of the strategies that can help you test as well as improve or increase your speed reading rate is the use of the progress chart report. I will be showing a sample of it and how you can put it to use for maximum results. However, there is no hard and fast rule about this method, you may devise any other one you feel will help you better.

A Typical Progress chart:

Reading rate: Time(seconds)/Time(Minutes) Comprehension Level
Reading Speed 1:
Reading Speed 2:
Reading Speed 3:
Reading Speed 4:

As you practice reading, take note of how many words make up the article you are trying to speed read. Once you are through, try to calculate the amount of time it took you to complete it and record this as either per minute or seconds. As you progress, you should notice progress from each of the speed reading rate, this will help you to want to do more and will help you to achieve an amazing speed in reading after a lot of practice. Now i want you to calculate how long it will take you to complete the paragraph below.

Let’s take an example below:

Even in some small towns, the rate of crime is higher than in the bigger ones. This change in societal values is making people wonder where the world is heading to, more especially as the government is not doing much to stop a difficult economy. Consequently, people are trying to survive neglecting loved ones, friends, and moral values to get what they want.

How long did it take you to complete the above statement? As for me, it took me 10 seconds to read and comprehend a sixty three word count paragraph. So my Reading Speed will be calculated thus: 63/10 = 6.3 words per second. Therefore i will be reading at a rate of 6.3×60 = 378 words per minute.

My comprehension level:
Crime rate is increasing in small towns, Changes is causing increase in crime. Poor leadership has caused difficulty resulting in neglect of family and human values.

Hello, are you there? What is your comprehension and speed reading level?

To increase any level of speed reading, you will need to preview, review and read a material in an area of interest to you, that way you are more likely to conquer your limitations to speed reading.

Joe Okoro writes about Speed Reading in his free reports. You can sign up for his courses and get additional information by visiting: speedreadingguideonline.com speedreadingguideonline.com

Traditionally, storytelling was reserved for passing information and preserving history. Elders would share tales of the best hunting grounds and seasonal shelters to make sure younger generations were able to provide basic necessities. These stories were presented in an entertaining fashion to make sure the youngsters listened and retained the information. There weren’t sticky notes to use as a reminder back then, so these stories were very important.

Each story had meaning. The story of a battle might teach about enemies, heroes, or trust. A story about a flood might contain a lesson of a valley to avoid during the spring as creeks would rise. A tale of achievement might motivate a person to be a leader or encourage them to think of others. These stories tied the group together, forming a bond of shared history and lineage.

Today, stories are told for entertainment, but there is still the potential for a deeper meaning. Basic needs are met for the most part and we don’t need to know where the best hunting grounds are or where we can find shelter in the winter. Instead, we share tales of love, horror, and drama. With basic needs met, we can focus on higher needs, such as the need for love, helping those less fortunate, or achieving our personal goals.

Although the reason for sharing the stories has changed, there is still a reason present. When you are writing a tale, ask yourself what you hope the reader will remember when he finishes. If it’s a romance, do you want to share what should be avoided or a feeling of hope for the future? If it’s a horror story, is there a moral contained in the tale? Each story, regardless of genre has the potential to convey a message. Make sure you are clear on the message conveyed so the reader will understand the point of the story.

In order to clearly convey the meaning, time frames are integral to any tale. Depending on the story to be told, the time frame can vary from a couple of minutes to an entire lifetime. It’s important to determine the timespan limits for your story prior to beginning the tale.

To keep the story interesting, you must have a clear idea of where it begins and ends. This doesn’t mean the entire tale must be outlined before it even begins! I rarely begin a story and have it follow the intended path. Instead, you need a general idea of what you want to convey to your audience in this tale.

By having a clear idea of where the story starts and where you think it should end, you limit the potential for rambling. I have a hard time ending stories. In the process of telling the tale, I fall in love with many characters and want to know what happens next. I know many writers fall into this trap and lose their way in the story.

While I enjoy the never-ending possibilities of a new character, my reader may not feel the same. Most readers want to read a story and come away with a clear idea of why the story was told. They want to gain some insight into humanity, learn a new concept, or experience an adventure through the eyes of another. While you want to pique their curiosity about your characters, and their continued wellbeing, you don’t wish to bore your reader with a rambling tale that goes nowhere.

Each genre of writing has a different focus, but all tales lend themselves to structured writing if you take a moment to think before writing. There is a clear beginning to the adventure and after it ends, so should the tale. Have a clear idea of the story and the meaning you want to share with the reader before you start writing. Think the story through, decide which information is important, and then write it down. Introduce the characters and get to the meat of the tale quickly so you don′t lose any readers along the way.

Sonia is an author on Writing.Com/ Writing.Com/ which is a site for Writing.Com/ Writers.

Many folks are quite capable of running substantial businesses with some level of success despite the fact that their knees start knocking when they are asked for the simplest of introductions to their business. Speaking is marketing and many in this boat are hungry to learn how to go from “some” success to much greater success.

Since I am assuming you are hungry for such knowledge, I′ll go with an easy food analogy: making a powerful presentation is as easy as making a grilled cheese sandwich. The 1st piece is the slice of bread. This is your opening. It has to be fresh or you’ll lose your audience. None of this “I flew in from Vegas & boy are my arms tired” hooey. It has to be firm. Strong voice & confident posture. Whole grain bread here- none of that wimpy stuff. You have to catch them in your mouse trap at this point- grab their attention- tell them what you’re going to do for them & why they should listen- in this case, I′m making giving a presentation to hundreds of folks as easy as making a grilled cheese sandwich.

Next is the cheese- this is your content- the whole point of making the sandwich in the 1st place, right? In theory, more cheese is better, but if you ever tried to make a grilled cheese with more than 3-4 slices of cheese max, you’ll know that doesn’t work out so well. Too gooey for the pan &amp in this case too gooey for the brain. No one can retain more than 3-4 key points- at best. Adult learning is compromised not only by our limited attention but by our limited capacity to sit &amp be still.

The butter is a key piece and the buttering up of the audience needs to start early. What I mean is meeting & greeting your audience so you know them, what brought them to see you present, what their expectations are; and so you can include them in the context of your talk. It also fosters friendlier faces in the crowd so you don’t have to go thru the whole naked visualization thing.

Finally there is the 2nd slice of bread. It should match the 1st. No really. I′m pretty sure that you make your grilled cheese sandwiches with the same type of bread on either side. Not rye on one side & a hot dog bun on the other. The conclusion should link back to your opening. Many presenters I know end up with more of an open faced sandwich- no clear closing- just sort of the proverbial fade to black. The most clear way to mark your closing is to create a call to action on the part of your listeners.

Here it is. Go make your own grilled cheese sandwich so the next time you are called on to make a presentation it- & you- are ready to step up in such a way that is just likely to earn you more cheese!

MICE exists to ignite a sense of integrity and joy in your workplace or organization. We strive to make your workplace the place you most want it to be, and you the type of worker you most want to be. We do this by providing continuing education programs to healthcare professionals customized consultation, training and direction to businesses as well as entertaining and inspiring motivational seminars. MICE President and Owner, Jackie Barnes, is a licensed clinical Social Worker with an MBA who has over 20 years of healthcare experience in both clinical and managerial roles.

Congratulations, you’ve written a book and even gotten it
published! Now, all you have to do is get people to buy it.
Getting people to actually enter a bookstore with the purpose
of buying your book is not easy because you’re not a “brand
name” yet. But you do have a potent weapon at your command–
the telephone. Use it.

Call the editor of the books section of your paper. Say you’d
like to send a copy to him or her. Ask if he has a few minutes
so you can briefly tell him about the book on the phone. After
you send the book, give her a chance to read or at least glance
at it, then call again.

If you can possibly tie the book to something in the news, that’s great. Let’s say you wrote Cooking with Chocolate and
the health section of your paper has an article on the health
benefits of chocolate. Call editors and reporters in the health, food and book sections.

If there’s a human interest reporter or columnist, call and then
send them a copy of the book. Human interest reporters can
usually write on anything that interests them. Try to interest
them in you. What did you do before you wrote the book and why
did you write it? Do you have eight children and wrote it at
your kitchen table every morning between 2:00 and 5:00 am? Did you gain 20 pounds writing the book? Or, did you lose
20–proving that chocolate really isn’t fattening?

Call the assignment editors at television news programs.
Frequently, if there’s an interesting hook, they will interview you. Track down book shows on radio and television
and call the producers.

Don’t be afraid to make the phone calls and don’t believe
someone when he says he’ll get back to you. He won’t. The
person who has the most to gain (you, in this case) has to
make the call. Too often people are afraid to call. Ask
yourself what’s the worst that can happen. They’ll say no,
right? Editors are not going to gather menacingly on your
doorstep or come after you with garlic and torches. They’ll
say no. Can you live with that? Of course, you can, so
call.

Put on a comfortable pair of shoes, gather up copies of the
book and hit the pavement. Stop in at every small bookstore
and beg to leave copies. I assume you′ve already called the
biggies. Offer to appear to talk bout and read from your book 9or doi a mini-seminar.

You’ve got to do things to create a buzz. The author of the
aforementioned book on chocolate could give away chocolate
bars with each copy. Or slices of cake she made (recipe in
the book) during her appearance in the bookstore. It
wouldn’t be a bad idea to drop off a cake with the book in
the newsrooms.

Don’t forget retailers. They might agree to do a window
around your book. I once got a prominent jeweler to do a
window with diamonds falling out of toe shoes and copies of
the book, written by a dancer, displayed.

Miriam Silverberg is president of Miriam Silverberg Associates,
a publicity firem in New York City. Listed in Who’s Who of
American Women, she has publicized authors, restaurants, hotels, New York City Ballet and people in the fashion, beauty and medical fields. She is a guest on the publicity panel at Marymount Manhattan College’s seminar for writers.

She may be reached at mailto:silverbergm@iopener.net silverbergm@iopener.net.

Virtually everything ever written about freelance writing and getting published says that you need to write query letters. Yet in the Internet Age, the truth of the matter is that query letters are almost always a huge waste of time.

Certainly some people do get work by writing query letters. But the query process soon turns into a numbers game, almost like a direct mail campaign. You have to send out so many queries to get meaningful responses that you won’t have much time left to do any actual work. A good query letter must be carefully crafted and painstakingly personalized. To compose one that doesn’t sound cutesy or contrived is difficult and time-consuming.

The reality is that you must think of editors as your potential customers. They control the budget and whether or not to buy from you. It is NEVER a good idea to harass or inconvenience a customer. For many busy editors, query letters are annoying. Often they are just another form of junk mail.

Now you’re probably thinking, “If editors don’t read query letters, how does anyone ever get published?” What the writing books don’t tell you is that article topics are often defined far in advance. At many magazines, editors figure out a monthly or yearly plan. Barring some earth-shattering catastrophe, the editors stick to that plan. The standard query letter is usually a waste of time because with the calendar of topics decided well in advance, off-topic queries are ignored. In other words, your carefully crafted query letter gets round-filed, not because it’s bad, but because it had no hope of being used.

The fact that query letters are often thrown away doesn’t mean editors don’t use freelance writers; they do. But the reality is that editors tend to rely on a stable of writers who have proven themselves experts on the magazine’s chosen topics. So if you want to be published, your task is to discover those topics and become one of those experts.

From an editor’s point of view, few decent writers actually exist out there in the big world. Editors have simple needs: they want articles that are original, easy to read, accurate, and on time.

Flakey writers that don’t meet deadlines are the bane of every editor and publisher in the industry. If you meet your deadlines, every time with no excuses, you will stand out from the pack. If you consistently send articles that are:

* precisely focused on a topic the magazine wants to run
* written in the magazine’s chosen style and tone
* 100% accurate and error free;
* formatted the way the magazine wants them;
* and arrive BEFORE the deadline

an editor will notice you!

Okay, so what if you’ve never written for that magazine before? Instead of querying, do some research on the magazine. After you have read the magazine and any available writer’s guidelines, write a polite letter to the editor to ask for an editorial calendar and explain your expertise.

This method is far preferable to any query letter, no matter how clever or well-written. Why? With some concise information about you, often an editor can tell whether or not your writing will be a good fit for my publication.

For example, if you say that you have written articles for managers about “enterprise computing” and the editor works for a “how to use Microsoft Word step by step” magazine, it’s likely that you won’t be the right writer for that magazine.

However, if you explain that you spent two years teaching “introduction to word processing” classes at your local YMCA, and that you wrote handouts for your students about how to get started using Microsoft Word, that same editor might just encourage you to submit a few articles! At the very least, the editor might send you the editorial calendar.

Don′t forget the basics! Simple little things often make you stand out from the crowd and help your chances of getting published. For example, when writing an e-mail or letter to an editor, always remember that you are writing to someone who spends a lot of time with words and probably has a degree in English or Journalism. Double-check your spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Format properly. If you don′t compose your e-mail competently and professionally, editors won′t believe that you can write a good article.

And finally, be truthful. Don’t inflate your credentials. Don’t fib about how much you know about a topic. Don’t gush, and don’t sell. Just state your credentials concisely, clearly, and correctly. Editors don’t need to be sold and they have no tolerance for hype. They’re just too busy to put up with it.

Susan Daffron is the President of Logical Expressions, Inc. (

The first step is you want to identify your niche. And I think that some of the websites out there are probably too general. So for example, if you′re into pet supplies and you service, you know, you have products for dogs and cats and goldfish and iguanas. You′re probably better off focusing on of those four and really working on driving traffic from people who are dog lovers. Or from people who are particularly cat lovers. Or iguana lovers, or whatever.

Rather than trying to send out emails to everybody that promotes everything. Of course the same thing would be with any other niche. So imagine that it’s fishing. There’s a vast difference between deep-sea fishing and freshwater fishing. So you would want to work on building two separate email campaigns for those. You’d, realistically you’d want to have to separate websites.

Unless for some reason you’ve got some type of a catalog website. However, most people who haven’t been online for more than a couple years, really aren’t at the point to make a catalog website work. You really need to be working with what most of you have right now and that’s just a one to ten page website that has a sales page on it. It has some articles on it. It drives traffic to it. But it really should be focused on one niche. So identify what that niche is going to be.

If you do have a website that perhaps has five different categories like dogs and cats and goldfish and iguanas. Choose one of those and work on that one for a period of time. Work on generating traffic to a particular squeeze-page that services one small niche or sub-niche of your website.

Get good at that and then perhaps on down the line you can add in some of the others

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When you hear yourself on your voicemail are you shocked? Disgusted? Embarrassed? Unfortunately, what you hear on your answering machine is the truth. It is the sound by which everyone recognizes you. It is your vocal image.

37% of the image we project is the sound of the speaking voice. 55% is our physical image and a mere 8% our content. Now, let me ask you. What does your vocal image say about you?

We have 5 cavities in the body in which the voice should vibrate or resonate when we speak: the voice box, the throat, the mouth, the nose, and the chest. Since the majority of the population does not breathe with the support of the diaphragm, so too, most people are not able to utilize that fantastic chest cavity. James Earl Jones is using it and so is Cher. Do they have something special? No. Because they breathe with support, their chest is their major amplifier, their major sounding board which is why their voices sound so good.

Look at it this way. The power of your voice can only start at your breath placement. If you are a shallow breather, in which you are utilizing only the upper portion of the chest for respiration, then your voice is being powered from the throat up. If, on the other hand, you are breathing with the support of your diaphragm, then the power of the voice begins with that huge cavity known as the chest. Look at the size of the other 4 cavities and contrast them to the size of the chest cavity.

[By the way, if you don’t know where your diaphragm is, place your hands under your rib cage and cough. Did you feel that muscle ‘kick out’? That is your diaphragm. You may remember that muscle if you ever attended a funny movie, laughed for 2 hours and felt sore afterwards or perhaps you’ve had a cold with a hacking cough and noticed that you were sore in that region.]

When I work with my clients, I show them how to find their optimum speaking voice. The pitch (highness or lowness of sound) of the voice will drop to some degree in most cases. It may be several steps – it may be a mere half step. But that change makes all the difference in how good the voice really is.

One of the most astounding voice changes I have ever encountered was Craig, a young man who wanted to become a policeman. After his second class, Craig’s father told him it was the best investment he had made. If you would like to see a ‘before’ & ‘after’ video clip of Craig, click on the link below and make sure your volume is on:

When I was in graduate school, my music professor told me that the pitch of my speaking voice was too high. She played a note on the piano, telling me that that was where my habitual voice was. Then she went down about 4 steps lower and told me that that note was where my optimum voice was. Again, I’m talking about my speaking voice – not my singing voice! That day changed my life because I discovered a voice that sounded more mature, a voice that was richer, deeper, resonant. In a word, warm. Diane Sawyer has it George Clooney has it. Melanie Griffith, on the other hand, does not.

After graduate school, my voice got me my jobs in New York City because I sounded more mature than I was…I sounded like I knew what I was talking about. And it can happen to you too. There are a lot of fantastic voices out there but you will never know how good your ‘real’ voice is until you learn to breathe with support, find your optimum pitch, and ‘let your chest do the talking.’

As Kathleen Turner told Barbara Walters in an interview in 1989, the power of the voice is exciting as heck!

Nancy Daniels is a voice specialist and president of Voice Dynamic. Working privately and corporately, she launched Voicing It! in April of 2006, the first video training course on voice improvement. You can watch a clip from her DVD on her website, ‘before’ & ‘after′ takes of her clients, and a 16-minute video in which Nancy describes what voice training can do for you at voicedynamic.com/products.htm voicedynamic.com/products.htm

You′ve been thinking about writing a tips booklet. After all, it’s shorter, faster, and easier than writing an entire book. A single tips booklet manuscript can be recycled over and over again, developing a new income stream with each deal you make. The booklet can be distilled from a book you′ve already written, a newsletter you distribute, or from sound bites you continually share with clients, audiences and anyone who will listen.

When that booklet is done is when the fun really begins. You can sell it as single copies or as large quantities that you produce for your clients. Or, you can sell the rights to the contents, on a non-exclusive basis, in many ways. Think about all the languages in the world. That can be a starting point. Find someone who is interested in licensing the right to your material to translate into another language, reaching a non-English speaking population in your own country or in a different country.

They get to do the translating, editing, production, marketing and distribution, and pay you for that right! You could also license the rights to your information to a company who wants to purchase 10,000 or more copies of your booklet. They can generally buy print less expensively than you can sell it to them. You will once again license them the right to do all the work, and pay you for it.

You may also find other venues interested in your manuscript. What about an audio CD publishing company? You can hire yourself out to record the program as part of the licensing deal or the audio publisher can bring in their own speaking talent.

What about licensing the use of your content to a catalog company to pepper their catalog pages with your tips? Or a public relations firm can bring your booklet manuscript to a client of theirs to use as a radio, television or print commercial: ‘This organizing moment has been brought to you by XYZ Office Supply Company.’ Do your tips work individually on posters, coffee mugs, tee shirts, screen savers, or computer mouse pads as
advertising specialty items? What about a tip a day on a calendar or as a CD or even as the premise of a board game? Would some tips work as a needlepoint design?

These are just some of the many ways one single tips booklet manuscript in your area of expertise can be recycled over and over again, reaching a larger audience and generating thousands of dollars for you, with your client doing all the production. Think of what other ways you can license your booklet content. The possibilities are endless!

Paulette Ensign has personally sold over a million copies of her 16-page tips booklet, ‘110 Ideas for Organizing Your Business Life,’ in four languages, without spending a penny on advertising. That includes several licenses. Her company, Tips Products International, has products and services to assist you in writing and marketing your own booklet on any topic. tipsbooklets.com tipsbooklets.com

The Hero’s Journey (also known as the Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. It is upon this structure that situations are superimposed. This is why stories such as Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000), Godfather (1972), American Beauty (1999), Annie Hall (1977) and many others (all deconstructed at www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html) appear to be different but are all constructed, almost sequence by sequence, in the same way.

The following blockbusters have all been structured around the Hero’s Journey template: Titanic, 1997 - grossed over $600,000,000; Star Wars, 1977 - grossed over $460,000,000; Shrek 2, 2004 - grossed over $436,000,000; ET, 1982 - grossed over $434,000,000; Spiderman, 2002 - grossed over $432,000,000. So how come you don′t know it inside out?

For a number of very valid reasons, if you want to write (and sell) successful stories, whether they’re Hollywood blockbusters, Indie successes, novels or other story forms, you need to master the Hero’s Journey in a very detailed way…

EVERY HERO MUST BE A FISH OUT OF WATER AT SOME POINT

One critical element of any successful story - as all stories involve Transformation - must be the Fish out of Water stage. The Hero demonstrates the Devolved State upon entering a new domain and the Evolved State upon leaving it. In Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Axel arrives in Beverly Hills as a Fish out of Water and departs it as a Master [of that World].

The Fish out of Water stage is commonly seen at a number of points [along the Hero's Journey], including:

Upon entry of the First Threshold, where the Hero enters a New World. In Departed (2006), both Billy and Colin are initially Fishes out of Water in the police department. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), both Ennis and Jack Twist are Fishes out of Water when they first make their way to camp on the mountain.

Upon entry of the Road of Trials and Transformation. In The Godfather (1972), Michael is initially a Fish out of Water when he arrives in Sicily. In Gladiator (2000), Maximus is initially a Fish out of Water in Rome.

Learn more…

WRITE THAT SCREENPLAY!

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Many people which in online business world find difficulties in searching long-term and continuous earnings.

According to research which have been done, one of the way of people market its product and become rich through internet are by writing articles.

Following will be explained about the ways to write article and market your product

First regulation :

Do not stop to look for and read other related articles that you prefer with your enthusiasm. With reading many articles, your knowledge and keywords will automaticly increase.

Second Regulation :

Searching the topic of interesting to make the topic mentioned as your article materials. Many sites providing the source of articles, for examples :

workoninternet.com
smartads.com
goarticles.com

Look for your inspiration there, and find interesting title and develop your mind.

Third regulation :

After getting materials to write article, make yours mind framework or map into diagram block or mind mapping. You can use or program of software that like mind mapping. Or you do it by yourself at a piece of paper.

Fourth regulation :

After mind framework work up, hence developing the mind framework as according to point of each mind block. Writing sanely and plausibility. Peoples always like to read article to feed them by informations and knowledges.

Fifth regulation :

After writing finish. Start to read again all content that you write. You can edit some mistakes and maybe something that on your mind have not been wrote yet.

Note : Title is a major matter to be paid attention. People usually like title with word opener likes: How to make money online? , 5 ways to improve your business skill. Title early influencing entire of article content which you write on. If reader frown upon your title, hence they not possible have a will to read the overall of your article.

After all articles You have been made, hence upload your article into your web hosting and start to publish it on internet.

Many sites providing a service to publish your article on internet for free and also at the certain price.

For example :

www.ideamarketers.com

In each published article, make sure to always put your box resources below which are contain your site links. If your article was accepted and getting many appreciation of reader. Hence they will always visit your sites. Therefore exploit this opportunity as good as possible in doing sales of you. If you sell e-book, hence each;every part of your writing is accompanied ation that contain the information links to your e-book sites. With note, don’t put down affliate links at your article or they would not respect you.

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Handry Teguh is a web designer and articles publishers at buaya.com. buaya.com.
And now his job was an IT Solution Consultant and Implementator in
security and storages solutions of Multi Vendors Product like : CA, MICROSOFT, GFI, SYMANTEC, CCTV.