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The Hero’s Journey (Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters. This is the template you must master if you are to succeed in the craft.

[The terminology is most often metaphoric and applies to all successful stories and screenplays, from The Godfather (1972) to Brokeback Mountain (2006) to Annie Hall (1977) to Lord of the Rings (2003) to Drugstore Cowboy (1989) to Thelma and Louise (1991) to Apocaplyse Now (1979)].

THERE IS ONLY ONE STORY

THE HERO′S JOURNEY:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Gives you a tangible process for building and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving catharses, of which there are usually four).

d) Gives you a universal structural template upon which you can superimpose your situational story.

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*****Belly of the Whale*****

In the Belly of the Whale, the hero must do what he needs to do, learns what he needs to do, practices what he needs to do or similar. He engages in that act will serve him or send him to the Road of Trials, where his Old Self will dissolve away. He is preparing for the dissolution of the Ordinary Self. Then he makes the physical crossing where all routes back are cut off - there is no going back.

*****Outer Challenge*****

It is in the Outer Cave of the First Threshold that the Hero will have to undergo a Trial that will make his or her deficiencies obvious. Normally, the Hero is confronted with (but does not conquer) the Outer Challenge. The Supernatural Aid’s Magical Gift may help overcome this Trial. In Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry has a duel with the Monster Book of Monsters, which he will learn to control later. In An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Zach swaps bunks and lies, showing his selfishness.

*****Willing or Unwilling Hero*****

Some indication of the Hero’s willingness (Willing Hero) or unwillingness (Unwilling Hero) is made explicit. In Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Bonnie runs out to meet Clyde.

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Q: How do I get started fast with writing articles? Is there a quick start method?

A: This is a great question because you have already decided to get started quickly, you just want to know how. Good for you!

Here are your quick start winning steps

Step 1 - Make the decision and commitment that you are going to write and submit your first article before your head hits the pillow tonight.

Step 2 - List your area of expertise. Write it down. It is helpful to have it in front of you to get your thoughts going.

Step 3 - Picture in your mind your ideal reader/client. What are their wants and needs? What are their most important question?

Step 4 - With your ideal client in mind, make a list of 5 to 7 tips that you can suggest to help solve their struggles. Just brainstorm. If you come up with more than 5 -7 that is fine.

Step 5 - Write a few sentences explaining one of the tips. Make it useable for the reader.

Step 6 - Do the same thing for the rest of your tips. You are in the home stretch here.

Step 7 - Proof read and spell check your article. Take the time to do this, it’s important.

Step 8 - Grin, because you now have your first article. Celebrate! You are just getting started.

Step 9 - Submit your article to the article directories.

Step 10 - You are not done yet. This next step hangs up many new article writers. Don’t let it happen to you. Get started on your second article.

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From Jeff Herring - The Article Guy

Michael, a 59 year old divisional vice president with one of the largest and most renowned financial service providers in the world, is working harder and longer hours than ever before in his career. He travels extensively, is heavily scheduled, and earns an annual salary over $500K.

Michael finds himself at what is most probably his professional peak. He is heavily and well invested, fully insured, able to fund college educations for his children and is in relatively good health, albeit stress-related minor health challenges. Barely making time for his favorite pastime of golf, he longs for a way to share his expertise without the management responsibilities that comes with his job. His company takes full advantage of his expertise and his natural talent to train others in the company. Occasionally, he’s asked to speak to his professional association.

Michael and I spent some time talking recently at a gathering of friends. Discussing ideas in which he could utilize his knowledge base in new and stimulating ways - including interviewing his favorite authors about their philosophies of success building practices and then producing a series of CDs based on those interviews, he left the gathering a little more confident that he could have another career path.

If you’re a top producer in a commissioned sales business such as insurance or real estate or if you’re a corporate leader who’s ready to challenge yourself beyond the bounds of your organization or you’re an entrepreneur leading the field, take these six (6) steps to help you think more seriously about making a transition to professional speaking:

1. Identify your core competencies. What are the things that you do that have taken you to the top of your profession either in your geographical area or in your organization nationwide? Write a list and make it as long as you can. You can edit it later.

2. Create a list of facts about yourself that have distinguished your expertise and brought recognition to you and your organization.

3. Compose a list of the major turning points in your life. What experiences did you have that are unique to you and that helped you form who you are today? Being able to tell stories about yourself, your early childhood experiences, handling crises, overcoming obstacles – those are defining experiences to which you can refer in building your signature speech.

4. Write a unique selling proposition about yourself. Make it two sentences which say, in short, “I am…. I do.”

5. Identify your target market. What organization, either a company or an association, boot camp or public rally with multiple speakers, would benefit from your expertise? When you read about current events in trade journals, magazines and newspapers, think about how your expertise could create solutions for those organizations.

6. Begin to formulate your signature speech. Imagine that you have 45 minutes to teach others what you know. What would be the most important elements to cover? What principles have served you over the years? Oprah Winfrey has special page in every O magazine entitled, What I Know for Sure. What do you know for sure?

Going through the process of answering these questions is fun and productive. You may be among the new breed of speakers that comes from passion and purpose for which professional speaking is a natural evolution.

Mary McKay is a booking strategist for speakers, experts, leaders, top producers and cultural heroes who want to secure paid speaking engagements.
She systematizes the booking process to uniquely position the speaker, optimize the appearance, generate referrals and enable more revenue potential through product sales.
Visit gettingpaidtospeak.com gettingpaidtospeak.com or call 949-429-6646.

What the Internet needs right now is an online audio directory. A web site where people can download audio files or audio articles for all the world to hear. Currently, there are many people throughout the world who cannot read or write, but they can speak in their native tongue. Additionally there is software, which helps translate into other languages.

Imagine being able to speak to the world online and help educate the mindless masses? There is so much the world needs to know and so many people left in the dark. It was recently recommended to me by Mr. Ed Howes that there needs to be an online audio directory web site and I agree. Actually, I have considered the Audio thing, even mentioned it to an online article submission web site entrepreneur, for a possible idea for the future of his site.

Personally, I have always listened to tapes, books on tape, radio talk shows of worthiness and feel I could do as good or better and perhaps in many cases offer more relevant and reality based information as well. An audio directory makes a lot of sense, I totally agree and believe that if it were done correctly it could be the next big thing next to the MySpace.com . Why? Well, simple because 80% of the World cannot read or write.

I suppose I would entertain such a business plan for an Audio Directory or start such a company. Audio takes up lots of bandwidth so you would have to be Backend loaded on the server side, but that is not too much of an issue. Good idea actually, maybe I should hit up In-Q-Tel for some cash, it would be a good way to get information into obscure places all over the world and really level the educational playing field and fulfill the No Child Left Behind and Digital Divide motifs? Thinking out loud again of course?

“Lance Winslow” - Online WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/ Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance in the Online Think Tank and solve the problems of the World; WorldThinkTank.net www.WorldThinkTank.net/

When I read different books on publishing, I think it is implied that publishing your own informational, inspirational or self-help books are the only works one can self-publish successfully. Granted, this is the Information Age and people buy information. But all due respect to how-to books, there is still a market for self-published fiction. I have found that self-publishing is just as viable an avenue for fiction, if not more.

One only has to look at the many fictional books that are circulating on the Internet (and off) which are doing well financially and which were self-published. Some have even been picked up by mainstream. One only has to go to Mosaic Books.com and Cush City.com and even my column, On The Same Page, to see this is true. Many of the authors I interview on my Internet radi shows are self-published authors of fiction.

To begin with, self-publishing is not only becoming more acceptable, it can be a lucrative venture. A few years ago, I read about a novel in the Publisher’s Weekly’s newsletter. Although this book was a self-published fictional book (it sounded like a roman a clef of Monica Lewinsky), it was chosen by the Double Day Book Club! This was a first. Now to me, that meant this was a door opener. For other examples, in mainstream America we can look to Grisham and James Redfield, the author of The Celestine Prophecy. What would have happened had these writers not self-published their fiction?

In African American literature, we know what happened with Michelle McGriff and many others who have ‘blown up.’

In addition, it is not unusual for authors who have been published by mainstream to turn around and self-publish their subsequent works. Why?

Factor in the recent explosion of print-on-demand companies and ebook companies or writers selling books directly from their website, and fiction is a great way to get your name out to the public.

Let’s look at what you gain when you publish your own non-fiction, then what you gain when you publish fiction. Neither one is better than the other. This is just to encourage writers of fiction to consider publishing their own works.
When you self-publish non-fiction, these are the things you gain:

· Speed. Most publishers work on an 18th month production cycle. Will you miss your market?

· Authority. The word ‘author’ is the root word in authority. People listen to you when you are an author. You become an ‘expert’ or ‘authority′ on a subject. From here you can do seminars, tapes, speaking engagements, and consultations.

· Control. Twenty-three per cent of publishers do not give the author the right to select the title, 26% do not consult the author on the jacket cover’s design, 36% rarely involve the author on the book’s promotion.

· A profit center. You make more money. The profit margin is 40% on a self-published book. After the advance, you only get 6 % to 15% of the sales on a traditionally published book.

· A reading audience. Many publishers receive more than 100 unsolicited manuscripts for consideration each day. As a result, no one will ever read your manuscript.

· A tax-write off. You get more write-offs as the publisher/author, than just the author.

When you self-publish fiction, in addition to all of the above, these are your gains:·

- Posterity. Your deciphering of mankind’s trials and tribulations in the twentieth century are recorded for future generations.

· Fame. If you build a reading audience, you may become famous. Even if you don’t become famous, you have a sense of satisfaction. A sense of testifying, a way of saying, ‘I lived. I was here. I made a difference.’ ·

- A possible movie deal. Movie companies, television and independent filmmakers are always looking for good stories. Many movies, such as Waiting to Exhale or How Stella Got Her Groove Back are made from books. My favorite book, Beloved, has been made into a movie. Although the movie can not touch the art of literature, Oprah has tried to capture its essence on film for future generations.

· A reading audience who loves stories. From the time man sat around the first cave fires, they loved to hear stories. When one hears a story, this can resonate in their mind long after the story is over. In essence, you are renting space in your reader’s imagination, which they will carry around with them for years.

Also take this fact into consideration. Many books which we have studied in our classrooms, such as Lady Chatterly’s Lover, (D.H. Lawrence), Leaves of Grass, (Walt Whitman) and Ullyses (James Joyce) would never have become classics if the writers hadn’t self-published. These books were ahead of their times and considered too risque to be published by mainstream publishers. So for writers of fiction, don’t wait for years and years to be discovered!

Life is a smorgasbord! Go out there and help yourself!

Dr. Maxine Thompson is the owner of Black Butterfly Press, Maxine Thompson’s Literary Agency, Maxine Thompson’s Literary Services. She is the author of six self-published titles. Her most recent novella, (Second Chances), included in anthology, Secret Lovers, made the Black Expressions’ Book Club Bestseller’s list. She is the author of upcoming novella, Summer of Salvation, which is included in Anthology, All in the Family.
She is the owner of maxineshow.com maxineshow.com. She is a host on voiceamerica.com voiceamerica.com.

You can sign up for her free newsletter at maxinethompson.com maxinethompson.com.

Many of the most effective low-cost marketing strategies require writing. What can a small business owner do if they’re not much of a writer? Can they still market their business themselves on a shoestring budget?

Marketing is a form of communication. And you do need to be able to write well to communicate effectively.

So what do you do if you don’t write very well? You have two choices. You can hire someone else to write for you. Or you can learn how to write.

My suggestion is that you learn how to write. Writing is a skill that can be learned. And if you are writing about an area that you have expertise in, YOU are the best person to share that information with your prospects and customers.

Take a writing class at your local community college or adult school. Learn the basics of good grammar and then write, write, and write some more. Practice, practice, and practice some more. The more you write, the better you will become.

Register for and read free newsletters, ezines and special reports so you can get a feel for how they are written. There is so much information available via the web; take advantage of it.

Until you perfect your writing skills, always have someone else proofread and edit what you have written. They will catch things that you miss. They will tell you if something is unclear or confusing.

It’s even a good idea to keep this up once you get good. Proofreading and editing your own work is difficult. And typos and mistakes don′t reflect well on you or your business.

So if necessary, hire someone to do your writing until you learn or improve your skills. But do acquire the skills. Strong writing and communication skills will always benefit you in business and in life, so it will definitely be time well spent.

(C) 2005 Debbie LaChusa

Debbie LaChusa created The 10stepmarketing System to make marketing your own business as simple as answering 10 questions. Learn more about this unique, step-by-step system and get a free 10-week Marketing E-Course when you subscribe to the free, weekly 10stepmarketing Ezine at

A little known way to receive ongoing web visitors, a higher Google Page Rank, and inbound links to your site without having to exchange links. All for free…

Article Writing - Pick a category you’re interested and/or know a lot about and write an article about it. It doesn′t have to be too long, just have some facts about something or even your opinion. At the bottom of the article make a new paragraph ‘About the Author’. Here you write a short summary about yourself and your site name and URL. You can even have related links in the article, this is especially good if you write an article pertaining to your site, than have links to your site to show examples.

Here is an example. Go to Google and type in - “Why Paid Inclusion Is Better Than PPC Advertising” be sure to use the quotations, you want to get an exact match. This is an article I wrote last year an already it’s listed on over 400 websites. I didn’t pay a dime. That over 400 links pointed to my website, because of my ‘About the Author’ section.

Another example is - “Dear Santa: Christmas Sucks!” also in quotation marks. My sister wrote this one and it is on over 60 sites. Again free advertising for your website because of the ‘About the Author’ section. Both of these articles are based on opinion and look how many sites listed them. Most people know to get a higher Google Page Rank you need people to link to your website. This is the easiest way, plus it’s free.

WebProNews.com - An excellent site to be listed on. They list almost any article that is webmaster related. They also allow you to upload a photo of yourself. Your article will be seen by thousands of people here.

webpronews.com/submit.html

You also have to be aware of some sites that offer to publish your article to thousands of websites for a fee. As you can see above, this really is not necessary. Just search the web for free article submission sites and you′re set.

Here are some more free sites that you can submit your articles to:

articlesubmission.com

ezinearticles.com

articlesfactory.com

infonexus.org

articlehub.com

Kristian Pulz is the owner of Links2See.com Links2See.com an online family directory and web2webgroup.com web2webgroup.com an interactive Yahoo Group for webmasters and website owners. He can be reached at mailto:webmaster@links2see.com webmaster@links2see.com

Here is a range of words that you could eliminate from your vocabulary altogether!

1. Try: Go ahead, try to pick up a pencil. Now, actually pick up the pencil. Notice that difference?

2. Should/Ought: Write yourself a list of 60 shoulds or oughts and feel how empowering that list is – not!

3. Want: Wanting is like wishing – there are only results or reasons. Are you going to take an action to reduce the gap between here and what you want? If not, discard the want.

4. But: “It’s a lovely shirt but it has a tear” or “It’s a lovely shirt and it has a tear”

Where else could you replace the word ‘but′ with the word ‘and′ so that you don’t waste 50% of your speech?

5. Might/May: Might visit the dentist ~ May visit the dentist ~ Will visit the dentist. There’s a distinct difference!

6. Can’t: “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” (Henry Ford) “I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” (Pablo Picasso).

I am certain that there is a myriad of words in our every day language that can be totally discarded or replaced with much more empowering terms.
Listen to your speaking this week and send me a list of any that you’ve noticed weakening your perspective.

©Thea Westra is an international life coach who resides in Perth, Western Australia. She is editor and publisher of a free, monthly newsletter at forwardsteps.com.au forwardsteps.com.au Thea also publishes a few blogs, visit here inspiration-daily.blogspot.com/ inspiration-daily.blogspot.com/ for directional links to each.

While article marketing may get your traffic and backlinks, not all article directories offer the same value. Sometime less is more, and it may help if you focus on niche directories. While you can submit to all directories, you will soon see that some get you more traffic and more links than others. The trick lies in unearthing the article directories that are the most effective for your particular requirements.

First, check the Page Rank. The higher it is the better the site will prove to be in the long run. The max Page Rank any site can get is 10, though you will find almost no article directories with that Page Rank.

How does the directory display your article? Check if it allows you mention your URL way up in the first para of your article or even the header? Do they use your article title in their URL? Most good sites allow this, so be sure to use your keyword in the title of your article.

Use tools like Alexia which give an indication about the directory value and popularity. While a low-value directory may accept and publish your article, it will be of no use if your target audience don’t visit that directory at all.

Even if a valuable site accepts and publishes your article, make your it is not hidden under a barrage of popups, ads, popunders, and banners. That’s sure to scare away prospects before they can read your article. Also, make sure that the topic you have chosen is not over-exploited on the site with countless other articles written about the same theme.

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Becoming a professional full time speaker isn’t easy…everyone knows that, it takes a lot of dedication, determination and most important you have to have the passion, if the passion isn’t there then my suggestion would be, don’t even attempt it! I could spend days teaching you how to package yourself as a professional speaker and how to gain more exposure, but the following article as been bundled to give you just a few quick tips and ideas so you can start implementing them into your business.

1. Niche yourself

Yes, I know you have heard this many times and it couldn’t be truer! One of the biggest mistakes a speaker can make is having too “general” of a topic. You want to narrow your expert niche as much as possible. Become the Speaker of Choice, research your topic industry so you know “what’s hot” and “what’s not”. Take that research and develop a niche around it, be sure it is something you have experience with and will be able to present it as a professional expert speaker in that field. Don’t waste your time, energy and money on developing a “niche” that just isn’t going to get any recognition because it isn’t something that planners will be looking for! Do your research and I do put emphasis on this tip! Once you have discovered your niche, you must continue to practice your speaking skills and update your material and presentations to keep-up with the trends and changing issues.

2. Build your credibility

There are many ways to build your credibility and become known as an expert, but this tip is about building your credibility by knowing your audience.

Your job as a presenter is to take the context you will present and put it into a form that your audience will understand and can relate to. You want them to really understand what you’re saying. Always remember your presentation is not about you, it’s about the audience, what they want to know, and what they want to know is - what’s in it for me? How will you help their business grow?…How will you help them save time…save money…How will you make them feel!

Vision yourself sitting in the audience you will be presenting to and ask yourself, “What do I want to get out of this?”, “What do I want to learn?”, “What’s in it for me?” Once you can perceive yourself as a participant of the audience than you can start putting the pieces together in building a top notch presentation that your audience will remember and one that will have members coming to you and asking you to get your schedule out because they want to book you.

The more you relate to your audience, the more you know your audience, the better your chance of building your credibility…you have an audience that is happy, engaged and drawn to you and one that is saying…Hey, this speaker knows his stuff…he knows us!

3. Develop an eye-catching media kit

Planners get hundreds if not thousands of proposals and media kits every year. You have to “wow” them immediately to grab their attention, before they set it down and go to the next one!

Make sure that your media kit is up to date, precise and professionally put together. Nothing else turns away a meeting planner or organization more than an unattractive, boring, and unorganized media kit. They won’t even bother with it nor have the time of day to look over the remaining contents if they don’t like what they see at first glance and many times the hours, days and money you have spent in putting it together are now wasted as it sits on the planners’ shelf gathering dust. I know this seems a bit harsh, but being on the ‘inside’ I know this to be true, as I have seen it many times, so just spend some time on your kit when putting it together or possibly re-do the one you already have, remember you want to catch the eye of the reader to draw them into reading more.

4. Have an online presence

Develop a website with information on your experience, topics you cover, promotional material available and testimonials from previous clients. You don’t need a big, fancy, or expensive website to attract visitors and the attention of meeting planners, just make sure you are catering to the planners needs and have the information easily accessible and downloadable. If you’re an article writer make sure you add your articles to your own site.

If your budget doesn’t allow for your own web site, join speakers’ organizations and add your name to their online listings - The more exposure you get, the better your chances of being found by people seeking speakers.

5. Work with meeting planners

Very important: be willing to work with them. Don’t be so stubborn that you talked yourself right out of one of the most important speaking engagements of your career. Most planners are eager to work with the speaker, but you also have to be willing to “give a little to get a lot”. Remember you want to be a magnet to planners and the “hiring” company, not an itch under their skin. So be pleasant and be negotiable and give them the best performance possible and in return they will continue to book you and recommend you!

You want to position yourself within the meeting planner realm as being enjoyable to work with, fun, and easy-going! Trust me on this one, there is nothing worse then working with a stubborn, un-pleasant speaker who is unwilling to budge or negotiate, it doesn’t matter if they are well-known or have years of experience, planners don’t have the time for this nor want to deal with it. I also want to mention, don’t be too quick to pass on a free speaking engagement as this can bring you more opportunities (Many great enterprises were built from small opportunities)

6. Introduce yourself as a contingency speaker

This is one way to get your “foot” in the door. One of the biggest fears of a meeting planner is a “no-show” or cancellation of the scheduled speaker. You can send out a letter via e-mail or regular mail to event planners, program managers, etc.

Your initial contact with the event planner should be on eliminating one of their largest fears. If you have a properly written letter and have done your research, you will more than likely make an immediate friend. This is where the business relationship begins and in most cases, the event planner or “hiring” authority will book you in because you have approached them this way.

7. Marketing

Add this to your weekly business tasks, this is of course a must, if you don’t market you all know they won’t find you! You have to go to them…let them know you are unique, you are knowledgeable, you are the best and that you can knock the socks off their audience. Don’t be afraid to approach meeting planners, you want to keep your name fresh in their mind! Be PERSISTENT!

Standing out from the crowd is a major challenge for today’s professional speaker. Marketing yourself and your company, should be one of your major priorities, which requires to be done on a regular basis. Unless you have ample time on your hands and the expertise it takes to market yourself effectively, one of the best suggestions we can make is hire a professional marketing specialist or consultant/public relations company. Find someone that will work side by side with you in developing a marketing campaign that will benefit you and your speaking career.

If your budget does not have room for the expense of a professional PR agent then there are many ways you can gain exposure and become known as an expert in your field by doing some simple marketing techniques that are sure fire ways to get you the attention you need. Remember to be unique!

8. Interact with potential clients

It is very important to mingle and network! Get yourself noticed. Hand out business cards every where you go. Talk to everyone you meet. Go to seminars and meetings that are the same as your expertise. Watch and pay attention. Who are the attendees, what is their reaction to the speaker on the platform? Most importantly, be very personable and agreeable with every meeting planner you meet. You want to leave the impression that you are easy going and willing to make adjustments at the last minute.

Meeting planners don′t like to work with difficult speakers and they look for someone with humor, an abundance of energy, flexibility, and great content!

9. Write a book/ info products

This is a BIG credibility builder.
I know it’s not as easy as it sounds, but if you are an expert in your field and you have information you want to share, I would suggest writing a book or some informational products. This is an excellent marketing tool and an addition to your income. We know you have the speaking ability and you know what you want to say, but some speakers just don’t know how or have the time to put it in book/product form. You do have the option of outsourcing that task. There are many companies who specialize in that field and can assist you with your project.

10. Article writing

Almost everyone knows about article marketing and submitting them online, but I just want to mention it again. I would have to say I bring up article marketing at least 5 times a day in many different conversations because that is how important I feel article marketing is.

You are a speaker…you are an expert…so you shouldn’t have any trouble writing a simple article. Add article writing and submitting them online to your marketing plan and do it on a regular basis. This is one of the best and FREE ways of promoting yourself and your business, and also gaining more visitors to your website!

Many times I see an excellent article that was written with just the authors name, no contact information…nothing! Well, if you’re like me you don’t have the time to try and do a search on this author to find their site and learn more, you want instant contact information by just clicking your mouse so you can be taken directly to where you want to go. So, don’t forget to add an eye-catching bio at the end of your article so readers can find you and learn more. Be sure and include your contact information including website and email address.

Wendi McNeill is the owner of Charli Jane Speaker Management and while working closely with speakers for many years, she assists them in growing their business and shares her expertise, knowledge and passion that are needed to grow your speaking business. She knows what planners are looking for and how to make a good impression by using simple techniques that can cut off months of research, save you money, time, and energy by mentoring and guiding you in the right direction. You can also learn more about speaking leads available at CharliJaneSpeakers.com CharliJaneSpeakers.com and visit her at CharliJane.com CharliJane.com to learn more about her services. She can be reached via email at mailto:wendi@CharliJane.com wendi@CharliJane.com or by phone at 877-570-0615