You are standing over the brownies and strawberries at some networking function, and a likely candidate for interest in buying your product or investing in your company looks across the chocolate chip cookies, smiles, and says, “I’m Ron, CEO of Everything.com. What do you do?”
So, you get one sentence to state your unique value proposition [...]

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Are you here with me in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show? If yes, join me Friday morning 10:30 – 11:30 for the Digital Hollywood venture capital panel. Las Vegas Convention Center, 2nd floor, North Hall.
Here is the link to the session, with the panel line up and all details. [...]

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I am excited to again chair the Venture Panel at Consumer Electronics Show this year at Digital Hollywood, this Friday, 8th January 2010, 10:30 -11:30. Please meet me at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s 2nd floor of the North Hall. The panel lineup is excellent, and I will again explore what is being funded, how [...]

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On Tuesday, November 10th beginning at 7:15 p.m. in Santa Monica, I will present 90 minutes on successful entrepreneuring, covering these issues:

What are the current economic conditions for entrepreneurs, and what are they doing to make it work for them?  
What will venture capitalists and angel investors invest in today?
What are the best strategies for [...]

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You know, now is a great time to make a big splash.  Bad economies that run everyone down need a spark of light and you can be it.  Is everyone around you bummed out?  Move on out into a new energy and shine.
All entrepreneurs know they must continuously market and network no matter how busy [...]

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I had that most wonderful experience that happens to public speakers every once in a while:  I said something that I didn’t know I knew, and it worked for everyone, including me.
I was speaking about social media to an audience of business folks who were not working in technology or new media.  I said, “You [...]

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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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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.
I was [...]

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My friend and colleague, LeeAundra Temescu, is an award-winning executive communications coach.  Her excellence lies not just in her experience training her clients in public speaking, but in her strategy helping them understand their goals, their next choices, and how to achieve them through positioning and presentation in public. She offers us this advice.  Find [...]

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You know, sometimes your value as a consultant lies not only in your deliverables, but in your “hidden roles” – skills that may be invisible to the client and the team, but which require years to refine. These hidden roles are never written into your contract. Mastery of these roles moves your service from [...]

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