Freek Robinson offers tips for successful interviews with Media
Marketingweb posted an excellent summary of points by Freek Robinson, a long time television presenter in South Africa. He gives the following excellent tips on how to conduct yourself during and interview. And I found this particularly useful as the frequency of my radio and television interviews are consistent and as new projects come about […]
Self-promotion interview with Damaria Senne
You may be interested in this interview I did with journalist and blogger Damaria Senne about self-promotion and building your own profile. A friend of mine once suggested that I offer this as a service to clients. So if you want to obliterate your competition and position yourself as an expert in your field or […]
The Attention Age Doctrine
This is a speech I gave last night for my Toastmasters club… I only had my first girlfriend when I got to university, after high school. So I was a bit of a slow starter back then. Every weekend I would rely on my best friend and neighbour to give me a lift to and […]
Lessons from Steve Jobs on making a excellent pitch in your Presentation
Today I learnt via the TED Blog about a great column on Steve Jobs’ presentation skills. The basics of it include the following factors: Go directly to the Business Week column here. And you can watch the speech directly from this link on Apple’s website. I watched the first 10 to 15 minutes of this […]
A civilized list when not to use email
Hot on the heels of my previous post about email jokes causing information pollution, I found a new manifesto on the very topic of bad email etiquette published here. Some of this could certainly apply to SMS or text messages as well.