One of the secrets of successful presentations and public speaking is to gain your ease right at the beginning of the presentation – or beforehand.  One of the best ways to gain your ease is to settle into your own authentic self, and speak from there. Try these strategies.
Arrive early.  Greet your hosts, then excuse [...]

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There’s a boatload of Benjamins* to be made by looking at societal changes and filling a need:

Overweight people need exercise, but standard equipment can’t hold the extra weight. A plus-size woman launched Super-Sized Cycles for those who weigh 300+ pounds. Ka-ching!

Hospitals are foreign—to everyone. Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles is wooing Korean patients [...]

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There is always talk about what the electronic world gets to know about our most private behaviors, like what we read or buy or do.  Some say it is an invasion of privacy.   Some say it is an advantage that companies will send us offers for stuff we really want.  But since the launch of [...]

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The other morning I was awakened at 6:30 a.m. from a deep sleep (I am a California night person) by one of my clients (a NYC morning person) with an urgent (right now this minute) assignment (it couldn’t have been called a request):  to rewrite the investor summary for investors who couldn’t spell software.
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My close colleague, Gene Siciliano (our “CFO for rent” at www.cfoforrent.com) is an excellent strategist, consultant and speaker.  His website is filled with resources and articles, and you can sign up for his newsletter.  I wanted to share this article with you about his strategies for business goal setting.

Business goal setting is a funny thing. [...]

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Dell is demonstrating (perhaps even proving) an emerging model of outreach in marketing and direct sales using a combination of blogging, Twitter and “direct mail” offers via an opt-in campaign.  Each new follower in Dell’s Twitter audience, by opting in, is pre-qualifying him- or herself as a prospect, for minimal cost on Dell’s part.
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This is a new series and category that addresses the deadly details of making sure that all your efforts in creating business and balance do not come to naught due to the necessaries of life left undone ~ necessaries like money, legalities, insurance, administrivia.  Attention to these tactics allows your power to work in the [...]

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Terry Corbell, my close colleague and friend, is Seattle’s “Biz Coach.”   I wanted to share his article on steps for a company turnaround, and refer you to his site, where you will find hundreds of articles (http://www.bizcoachinfo.com).
If you’re struggling like many businesses, you know the myriad of challenges exacerbated by the economy. However, despite the challenges, [...]

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At some level we all understand that the Internet is a distribution channel, but in other ways we treat it as a world in itself, an environment in which we spend our time, and then we can lose sight of the ways it functions for distribution of products and services (including information). 
In the world of [...]

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Once, playing poker with Lewie Palter, a teacher of actors at Cal Arts, I remarked that actors had all the character traits of entrepreneurs:  they didn’t follow the usual path, they had deep confidence in their own talent, and they would abandon a conventional life to build the life and self-expression they envisioned.  In fact, [...]

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