The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Professional Speaker

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Professional Speaker

Author: Thomas A. Lisk Ph.D.

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1440636567

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Get the gift of gab. In this guide, readers will find indispensable information on how to pursue public speaking as a full- or part-time career. Written by a 30-year veteran public speaker and bureau chief, this book shares details, advice, and insider tips on how to prosper in this highly competitive and lucrative field. • Expert author in a rapidly growing field • Contains inside tips on every aspect of speaking professionally • Clear and practical information about how to set up a professional speaker’s business and promote it • Suggestions for extra goods and services for additional revenue • Features event planning and organizing strategies and instructive anecdotes from the field


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Direct Marketing

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Direct Marketing

Author: Robert W. Bly

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780028642109

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Offers advice on starting a direct marketing campaign, including tips on doubling response rates, writing creative copy, and evaluating mailing lists.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Consulting

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Consulting

Author: Robert Bacal

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780028642710

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Provides advice on starting a consulting business covering such topics as ethics, data gathering, multiple-income stream strategy, professionalism, marketing, and fee structures.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Web-Based Business

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Web-Based Business

Author: Steve Slaunwhite

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0241883679

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The web-based basics! Aspiring web entrepreneurs will find here everything they need to know about starting and running their own small-scale online business. Whether they intend to sell goods, services, subscriptions, or advertising, this book provides them with the specific nuts and bolts of planning, designing, building, hosting, marketing, and operating their online businesses. ?The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Starting Your Own Business has over a quarter million copies sold in five editions ?1.6 million web-based businesses in the U.S., a $175 billion market in 2007 ?Online businesses benefiting from increasing number of Internet users, with increased traffic for subscription, advertising, and affiliate program revenue


Do It! Marketing

Do It! Marketing

Author: David Newman

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0814432875

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Discover the principles, practices, and insider secrets of paid professional speaking success in 77 instant-access “microchapters” that will help you market your smarts, monetize your message, and dramatically expand your reach and revenue. For thought-leading CEOs, executives, consultants, and entrepreneurs, the true test of your personal brand comes down to one simple question: When you speak, do people listen? In Do It! Speaking, nationally-acclaimed marketing expert and host of the The Speaking Show Podcast David Newman teaches you how to build a thriving speaking career. Regardless of the speaking venue: in-person events, virtual appearances, conference stages, and any other place where you are being paid to share your expertise with an audience, the powerful articulation of your value, relevance, and impact is what makes experts stand out. But where do you start when you’re trying to build your speaking platform? This book is the definitive guide on how to: Develop your speaking-driven revenue streams. Quickly commercialize your knowledge in today’s economy. Bolster your visibility, credibility, and bank account. Become a better messenger of your company’s message and dominate your marketplace. Do It! Speaking shows you the inside track on marketing, positioning, packaging, prospecting, outreach, sales, and how to get more and better speaking gigs on behalf of your company, your brand, and yourself.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading

Author: Abby Marks Beale

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781592577781

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Presents strategies and techniques designed to increase reading speed, and improve comprehension and retention of a variety of reading materials.


Idiot's Guide: Starting a Food Truck Business

Idiot's Guide: Starting a Food Truck Business

Author: Alan Philips

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1101580151

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- Everything readers need to know to start up and operate a wildly popular mobile food business - Includes crucial marketing expertise from a successful food truck entrepreneur