If you don’t make money (or don’t want to) doing what you do, then you can probably skip this post. I personally have a few blogs that I really enjoy, and www.redheadwriting.com is one of them. In a recent post – It’s not free, Erica Napoletano writes about the value of your time and the […]
Category: Writing Tips
Writer’s Block?
What do you call it when you just can’t seem to find anything to write about? Actually that’s not right. What is it when you can find stuff to write about, but you just can’t find the … I don’t know … energy? umph? hmmm something to just write? Is there a point where writers […]
Search Engine Results
How much do you know about how search engines operate? Do you know what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is? I like to look at what topics people are searching for that lead them to my blog. For one, it let’s me know what is working on my site. Secondly, it gives me some ideas for […]
SpeakerBlogger.com is Live!
http://www.speakerblogger.com/ I’ve been working with Arlen Busenitz on a new project, and we have taken it live this week. SpeakerBlogger.com is our new site to Help individuals take their experience & passion and create a platform to help others and make a profit. Take a look now, and sign up to get our free e-book, 7 […]
The write lesson at Starbucks
Are today’s students learning the wrong lesson from college? I decided to try this Starbucks place everyone is talking about. No, it’s not a flashback post. I’m just not a coffee drinker, so I’m sitting here drinking an Orange Mango Smoothie, extra plastic top, extra grande straw, looking for a different view on things as […]
Writing the Icebreaker: Part two
In Part one, you learned the first steps to creating an Icebreaker speech; the first speech you will give in your Toastmasters club. For this lesson, we’ll take our example message and work on our opening remarks. You may wonder how we can craft these without determining our three main points, right? Good call. Let’s draft […]
Writing vs Speaking – is there a difference?
I read another great post today on Men with Pens. This post, titled How to find your writing voice leads with the same picture as this post (yes, I stole it). My point: when you want to find your speaking voice, you may want to start by examining your writing voice. In fact, the main […]
Writing the Icebreaker: Part one
For the next few days, let’s learn about crafting an Icebreaker speech for a Toastmasters meeting. The Icebreaker is generally the first speech given in a Toastmasters club, and sometimes elicits a bit of anxiety in new members. For most speaking, I would suggest beginning with some audience analysis. Who is your audience and how […]
Find your message
Do you struggle to get your ideas heard and remembered? Maybe you are having trouble deciding what your core message is? Maybe you don’t know that you need a core message? In the book Made to Stick – Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath, the authors discuss a logical and repeatable two […]
Writing Tips: The Brain Dump
Are you struggling for a topic for your next college paper, staff meeting, or pending speaking opportunity? One of the ways to get a number of ideas on the table is to do a brain dump. Now, don’t confuse this with simple brainstorming, which is very similar. This type of brain dump won’t be about […]