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White Death on the Podium
By Peter Temple · 18 years ago
Our eyes are attracted to shiny things. You know that when you take a walk in the park; the glint of the sun from a gum wrapper lying in the grass draws your attention. Or ...
Internet Authors are the new Slush Pile
By Mike Scantlebury · 18 years ago
Traditional Publishers are strange people. They have a habit of wanting everything - even if it's completely contradictory. For instance, I've just read an article where an established publisher was complaining that the standard of ...
A Better Way of Writing for the Internet
By Jo Ann Lequang · 18 years ago
Writers who seek freelance assignments on the Internet soon find themselves no longer writers at all. Websites devour huge amounts of content and those that furnish this consumable substance are now content providers. Some writers ...
Presentations for disaster
By Vincent Stevenson · 18 years ago
The standard of communications skills was outed with this week's edition of The Apprentice.
To be honest, in my thirty years in industry they have always been a cause of concern.
Last week's edition of ...
Demystifying Health, Wealth & Happiness --- Writing Your Way to a Radical New Existence
By Marilyn Schwader · 18 years ago
I'm the queen of "Shelf-Help", those bookcases full of material from seminars, workshops, and the Internet that guarantee your success if you just do ________ [fill in the blank]. Oh, I've benefited from most of ...
Online Grammar Check Technology – Transforming Your English Writing Professional!
By Gil Lavi · 18 years ago
Regardless of whether you are a native or non-native English speaker, what matters is the way you write English; the more accurate, rich, and correct your written English is, the more people who read your ...
Know How to Choose a Topic for Your Article
By Maria William · 18 years ago
If you are into serious article marketing, then you be continuously in need of new topics to write on. You might have written articles for one month, but could be at a loss about what ...
Advantages of Writing e-Books
By Ronald Firquain · 18 years ago
Writing e-books can be a more cost effective means to promote your work while being environmentally friendly in the process. If you are meaning to make a name for yourself as a writer, then perhaps ...
5 major mistakes in public speaking
By Vince Stevenson · 18 years ago
1. The audience will listen because I'm a subject matter expert and what I have to say is interesting.
This is probably one of the most frequent mistakes made by speakers. We all like to ...
The Power of Your Voice When Prospecting!
By Donna Tsiknas · 18 years ago
Are you running into the same responses again and again? You say the right words you follow the script to the T and yet successful prospecting eludes you? I am here to tell you that ...
Use your voice to wow the audience
By Vincent Stevenson · 18 years ago
Clearly for a professional singer the voice is their most precious instrument. It needs to be developed and it needs to be taken care of. Different nuances and levels of expression are developed and revealed ...
Building up the speaker
By Vincent Stevenson · 18 years ago
Introducing the guest speaker is not the easiest of tasks. Always remember your audience - what's in it for them?
How seldom do we hear an introduction which is really not much more than a ...
5 Simple Steps on How to Write Articles for Maximum Results
By David Wilson · 18 years ago
The most common problem that most of the website faces is lack of traffics. You may not know it that writing an article for publication in ezines and article directories is still one of the ...
Speaking with confidence, coherence and clarity
By Vincent Stevenson · 18 years ago
Know your content and concentrate on vocal delivery.
This is probably one of the most frequent mistakes made by speakers. We all like to think that we know our stuff, and many people do. But ...
Why You Should Write An eBook
By Cameron Johnson · 18 years ago
What the publishing industry needs are people who can tap into the world as it is today - inventive thinkers who can make the leap into the new age and work out how to solve ...
The 7 Levels of Publishing, Part One
By Mike Scantlebury · 18 years ago
Many authors don't stop to think that they are not all the same. They don't all want the same thing. In fact, there are seven possible levels of achievement open to authors.
The first is ...
Proofreading Tips - Four Effective Proofreading Tips
By Elaine Currie · 18 years ago
When writing anything for publication, proofreading should never be skipped or skimped. Thorough proofreading and editing should be an integral part of the writing process. Here are four tips for effective proofreading.
1. Check Your ...
A Professional Writer's Guide to Curing Writer's Block
By Jo Ann Lequang · 18 years ago
Writer's block is such a common obstacle faced by people tasked with seemingly insurmountable writing projects that you would think it was a problem that writers frequently faced. Professional writers don't get writer's block, at ...
Writing Technical Content for Consumers: The Mom Test
By Jo Ann Lequang · 18 years ago
This Mother's Day, it is appropriate for us to honor not only our mothers but one of our best focus groups for literature aimed at the healthcare consumer. Patient literature is exploding right now with ...
Internet Authors aren't Newspaper Columnists
By Mike Scantlebury · 18 years ago
The problem with the internet is that it changes so fast, and develops in so many different ways, that ordinary people have problems keeping up with it. Worse, they don't see new things as they ...