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Perhaps you're seeking to purchase your first home. Or maybe you already own a home, and need some extra money. In either case, you will want to research the different types of home loans to find out what best suits your needs.In basic terms, home loans and mortgage refinancing work by exchanging property for money. Lenders love home loans because they're getting the most valuable collateral of all -- your home. The way they see it, you're less likely to break the terms of the loan agreement if you risk losing your residence in the process. Because home loans are such a safe bet, there are multitudes of hungry companies waiting for consumers in need.Many home loans and mortgage refinancing can be obtained without ever leaving the comfort of your living room. Thanks to the Internet, it's entirely possible to go through all the steps of securing a home loan right at your desk. Gone are the days of traveling to a bank and meeting with a loan officer. With so many companies offering you the ability to apply for home loans and mortgage refinancing online, it's fast and easy to get the money you need, when you need it.Because there are so many providers offering these types of loans and services online, it's often difficult to kno

k under the duress of the life threatening conditions of climbing Everest. She uses lots of slides, mostly awe inspiring images of her expeditions as she takes the audience on a dangerous journey to top of the world. That is how to use PowerPoint - not lists of words and unreadable quotations.

So shut the laptop, write the speech then ask, “Does this speech need visuals, and is PowerPoint the best way to do that?” Perhaps there is a better way to convey the message. You will be amazed at the alternatives. Perhaps you can use a prop, or a volunteer from the audience, or give the audience a work sheet, or get people to do an exercise. There are so many ways to involve the audience creatively to get a message across that are a thousand times more outstanding than a PowerPoint slide.

Be creative with your visuals and involve the audience.

Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech.

From 30 years of acting, training and professional speaking I have boiled the key elements of an outstanding speech down to four - represented by the acronym PEPP.

Speak with PURPOSE
Draw from your EXPERIENCE
Present with PASSION
Make it a PERFORMANCE

Purpose - Set a clear purpose to the speech and let the audience know what it is up f

Moving Guide - 6 Methods To Bring Down Moving Costs
There are many reasons why people moved. It could be due to a job transfer, getting married or even due to the upgrading of their home. When moving from one location to another, costs will definitely be incurred but the costs need not be high. We will look at some ways on how to bring the costs down.1) Seek help from your friends. Instead of engaging a moving company to help you move the stuff, just give a call to ask your friends to help you out. If they have a car, ask them to drive your stuff to your new location and you can treat them to a nice dinner after that.2) Get free boxes. Go to your supermarket or drug store and look for their designated area where they usually dump their boxes. They would be glad to pass you the boxes because you save them the hassle of bringing it to the rubbish dump. By doing so, you would have easily saved $100 or more when buying new boxes.3) Use clothing to pack fragile items. Buying special materials to pack fragile and expensive items can be expensive. A cost saving tip is to wrap all these fragile items into your blankets, unwanted clothes, bathroom towels and even bed sheets. After you have moved to the new location, you can put them into the washing machine to wash.4) Go shopping for a

I learned my craft as a speaker a long time ago, and I have kept on learning and practicing it every day for the past 30 years. That’s the thing about any talent, you have to practice if you want excel. I was also lucky; I learned my craft in the days “BP” – Before PowerPoint. You might think today that PowerPoint makes it easier – not at all. PowerPoint in my experience is the reason why so many people in business have become utterly boring speakers and I have made it part of my life’s mission to change that - especially for women, for whom learning to deliver an outstanding speech is even more important as a key to business success.
First let’s get a definition sorted. What do I mean by an "Outstanding Speech?" Well I don’t mean that you have to be able get up in front of thousands of people and compete with Tony Robbins or Les Brown or Brian Tracy or any top level professional speakers. You don’t need to be anywhere near that good to rate as outstanding, you just need to stand out from the crowd, and as 90% of all business presentations are – how can I say this politely – mediocre, being outstanding is not so hard.
You have delivered an outstanding speech if the day after the speech:

1. The audience can remember who you are, your name.

2. The audience can remember your message.

3. Some of the audience take action because of your speech.

Those don’t seem like tough objectives do they? But often I can’t remember the name of the speaker by the end of the next coffee break and I never even got the message during the speech. The reason that most people fail to achieve these basics is that they never planned to in the first place, which is why simply by reading this article you are going to be streets ahead of them.
So that’s the goal – now let’s look at the three basic rules to achieve them.

Rule 1 - Learn to love yourself

Rule 2 - No PowerPoint until after the speech is written

Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech

Rule 1 - Learn to Love yourself.
Why do apparently confident, successful people get on stage and crumble into incomprehensibility? Oh you have done that too huh! Lack of self confidence is a speaker’s greatest challenge, and especially women. When I changed gender I started working more and more with women in business groups and I could not understand why so many women chose to sit down to present. The more I looked into this the more I realised that the social conditioning a women receives throughout her life often totally undermines her self confidence and sense of being great at what she does. It’s one of the key reasons why women have a hard time competing with men at work, but it can be overcome, especially if you learn to write and deliver an outstanding speech.
Self confidence is all about loving yourself. You see if you don't love yourself, if you don't respect yourself, if you aren't sure of how good you are at what you do then there is this subconscious message in your brain saying, “I don’t like who I am, so why should the audience?” That’s what causes you to start to panic – self doubt. So you need to erase the self doubt by replacing it with self love.
Step 1 – Tell yourself why you like yourself. When you get up every morning go to a mirror, look yourself in the eye and say “I like myself because….” Tell yourself what you like about yourself, as many reasons as you can, and if you have to – LIE!!! Go say it "I like myself because I am an outstanding speaker." Convince yourself that you really are OK. You are worth listening to, you have value, your ideas can help people, you have earned to right to be confident in yourself.
Step 2 – Create a Wins Book. Get a scrap book and start collecting all the good feedback you can. Photocopy all your certificates, copies of reports from any event when you did good, testimonials from clients, friends, anyone who writes to you and says "Hey! That was great thank you, you have really helped me." Have you set up a new club – it’s a win. Lost 28 lbs at Weight Watchers - put the 4 silver sevens in your win book, together with an after picture. Delivered an outstanding speech, get a testimonial, ran a successful exhibition stand - get a picture. DO YOU GET THE PICTURE!! Create a book of all the positive and wonderful things that have happened in your life and keep it going. Then before you have to speak, get the book out and read it.
Learn to love yourself and the audience will love you as well.
Rule 2 - No PowerPoint until after the speech is written
PowerPoint tends to make people lazy. We are all busy, but if you get out PowerPoint the day before the presentation, write your notes in the form of slides and then proceed to deliver them at the rate of one every 30 seconds, reading most of them out, is it surprising that the audience is asleep by the end and can't remember a thing. And how can you expect the audience to respect you when you have shown them so little respect in the first place.
PowerPoint is great if, and that is a BIG IF, you have visuals and useful information that are best conveyed visually. A friend of mine, Cathy O'Dowd, was the first woman to climb Everest from both sides. She talks about teamwork and illustrates her outstanding speeches with stories of her experiences of teamwork under the duress of the life threatening conditions of climbing Everest. She uses lots of slides, mostly awe inspiring images of her expeditions as she takes the audience on a dangerous journey to top of the world. That is how to use PowerPoint - not lists of words and unreadable quotations.
So shut the laptop, write the speech then ask, “Does this speech need visuals, and is PowerPoint the best way to do that?” Perhaps there is a better way to convey the message. You will be amazed at the alternatives. Perhaps you can use a prop, or a volunteer from the audience, or give the audience a work sheet, or get people to do an exercise. There are so many ways to involve the audience creatively to get a message across that are a thousand times more outstanding than a PowerPoint slide.
Be creative with your visuals and involve the audience.
Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech.
From 30 years of acting, training and professional speaking I have boiled the key elements of an outstanding speech down to four - represented by the acronym PEPP.

Speak with PURPOSE

Draw from your EXPERIENCE

Present with PASSION

Make it a PERFORMANCE

Purpose - Set a clear purpose to the speech and let the audience know what it is up f
How To Choose The Right Web Design Company
1. Size does not equate to competencePeople sometimes assume a company with more money, employees, office space etc will be more capable than one with less. This is not necessarily correct. In fact much smaller businesses (or individuals) if they apply themselves intelligently/effectively, are often likely to be able to deliver better quality-and more personalized-services than bigger ones. My advice it that you get authentic proof of competence in form of past web design projects (website addresses) the individual or company you want to choose has handled. Go one step further, if possible and request for client contact details so as to verify the claims made.2. Do they have a business philosophy that protects you, the client?Customers naturally often complain about unreliable service providers -including Internet-related service providers. The “newness” of the website concept sometimes can lead to uninitiated business owners getting less than they pay for. For instance, websites could be built with little or no effort made - by the designer - to help the owner understand how to use it to reduce advertising/marketing expenses while increasing sales leads generation. Such costumers would subsequently lose faith in the use of websites
ce take action because of your speech.
Those don’t seem like tough objectives do they? But often I can’t remember the name of the speaker by the end of the next coffee break and I never even got the message during the speech. The reason that most people fail to achieve these basics is that they never planned to in the first place, which is why simply by reading this article you are going to be streets ahead of them.
So that’s the goal – now let’s look at the three basic rules to achieve them.

Rule 1 - Learn to love yourself

Rule 2 - No PowerPoint until after the speech is written

Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech

Rule 1 - Learn to Love yourself.
Why do apparently confident, successful people get on stage and crumble into incomprehensibility? Oh you have done that too huh! Lack of self confidence is a speaker’s greatest challenge, and especially women. When I changed gender I started working more and more with women in business groups and I could not understand why so many women chose to sit down to present. The more I looked into this the more I realised that the social conditioning a women receives throughout her life often totally undermines her self confidence and sense of being great at what she does. It’s one of the key reasons why women have a hard time competing with men at work, but it can be overcome, especially if you learn to write and deliver an outstanding speech.
Self confidence is all about loving yourself. You see if you don't love yourself, if you don't respect yourself, if you aren't sure of how good you are at what you do then there is this subconscious message in your brain saying, “I don’t like who I am, so why should the audience?” That’s what causes you to start to panic – self doubt. So you need to erase the self doubt by replacing it with self love.
Step 1 – Tell yourself why you like yourself. When you get up every morning go to a mirror, look yourself in the eye and say “I like myself because….” Tell yourself what you like about yourself, as many reasons as you can, and if you have to – LIE!!! Go say it "I like myself because I am an outstanding speaker." Convince yourself that you really are OK. You are worth listening to, you have value, your ideas can help people, you have earned to right to be confident in yourself.
Step 2 – Create a Wins Book. Get a scrap book and start collecting all the good feedback you can. Photocopy all your certificates, copies of reports from any event when you did good, testimonials from clients, friends, anyone who writes to you and says "Hey! That was great thank you, you have really helped me." Have you set up a new club – it’s a win. Lost 28 lbs at Weight Watchers - put the 4 silver sevens in your win book, together with an after picture. Delivered an outstanding speech, get a testimonial, ran a successful exhibition stand - get a picture. DO YOU GET THE PICTURE!! Create a book of all the positive and wonderful things that have happened in your life and keep it going. Then before you have to speak, get the book out and read it.
Learn to love yourself and the audience will love you as well.
Rule 2 - No PowerPoint until after the speech is written
PowerPoint tends to make people lazy. We are all busy, but if you get out PowerPoint the day before the presentation, write your notes in the form of slides and then proceed to deliver them at the rate of one every 30 seconds, reading most of them out, is it surprising that the audience is asleep by the end and can't remember a thing. And how can you expect the audience to respect you when you have shown them so little respect in the first place.
PowerPoint is great if, and that is a BIG IF, you have visuals and useful information that are best conveyed visually. A friend of mine, Cathy O'Dowd, was the first woman to climb Everest from both sides. She talks about teamwork and illustrates her outstanding speeches with stories of her experiences of teamwork under the duress of the life threatening conditions of climbing Everest. She uses lots of slides, mostly awe inspiring images of her expeditions as she takes the audience on a dangerous journey to top of the world. That is how to use PowerPoint - not lists of words and unreadable quotations.
So shut the laptop, write the speech then ask, “Does this speech need visuals, and is PowerPoint the best way to do that?” Perhaps there is a better way to convey the message. You will be amazed at the alternatives. Perhaps you can use a prop, or a volunteer from the audience, or give the audience a work sheet, or get people to do an exercise. There are so many ways to involve the audience creatively to get a message across that are a thousand times more outstanding than a PowerPoint slide.
Be creative with your visuals and involve the audience.
Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech.
From 30 years of acting, training and professional speaking I have boiled the key elements of an outstanding speech down to four - represented by the acronym PEPP.

Speak with PURPOSE

Draw from your EXPERIENCE

Present with PASSION

Make it a PERFORMANCE

Purpose - Set a clear purpose to the speech and let the audience know what it is up f
How To Borrow Rollover IRA Money?
It's About The RolloverTypically, borrow rollover IRA is transferring your retirement funds from your previous employer to your own individually managed retirement fund. You can do a rollover when you are leaving your job for another one, opening yourself a small business or retiring.Several benefits exist if you do a borrow rollover IRA and it gives you more control of how your funds are utilized, not to mention where they are invested amongst other things. This is because if your retirement funds are invested in the company plan you you don’t have an option of deciding where to invest or have a limited option. In case of mergers or acquisitions while the plans at your previous company may be to your liking, the new company plans may actually turn out to be a disadvantage to you or may simply not be to your liking. In this scenario it is better to have greater control over your money.While this doesn't mean that the investments you choose will give you greater returns, you will certainly be in better control.If you borrow rollover the IRA money then the fate of your money is separated from the fate of your employer. All companies fall into trouble and in many cases bankruptcy or fraud of any kind is uncovered, you risk losin
y reasons why women have a hard time competing with men at work, but it can be overcome, especially if you learn to write and deliver an outstanding speech.
Self confidence is all about loving yourself. You see if you don't love yourself, if you don't respect yourself, if you aren't sure of how good you are at what you do then there is this subconscious message in your brain saying, “I don’t like who I am, so why should the audience?” That’s what causes you to start to panic – self doubt. So you need to erase the self doubt by replacing it with self love.
Step 1 – Tell yourself why you like yourself. When you get up every morning go to a mirror, look yourself in the eye and say “I like myself because….” Tell yourself what you like about yourself, as many reasons as you can, and if you have to – LIE!!! Go say it "I like myself because I am an outstanding speaker." Convince yourself that you really are OK. You are worth listening to, you have value, your ideas can help people, you have earned to right to be confident in yourself.
Step 2 – Create a Wins Book. Get a scrap book and start collecting all the good feedback you can. Photocopy all your certificates, copies of reports from any event when you did good, testimonials from clients, friends, anyone who writes to you and says "Hey! That was great thank you, you have really helped me." Have you set up a new club – it’s a win. Lost 28 lbs at Weight Watchers - put the 4 silver sevens in your win book, together with an after picture. Delivered an outstanding speech, get a testimonial, ran a successful exhibition stand - get a picture. DO YOU GET THE PICTURE!! Create a book of all the positive and wonderful things that have happened in your life and keep it going. Then before you have to speak, get the book out and read it.
Learn to love yourself and the audience will love you as well.
Rule 2 - No PowerPoint until after the speech is written
PowerPoint tends to make people lazy. We are all busy, but if you get out PowerPoint the day before the presentation, write your notes in the form of slides and then proceed to deliver them at the rate of one every 30 seconds, reading most of them out, is it surprising that the audience is asleep by the end and can't remember a thing. And how can you expect the audience to respect you when you have shown them so little respect in the first place.
PowerPoint is great if, and that is a BIG IF, you have visuals and useful information that are best conveyed visually. A friend of mine, Cathy O'Dowd, was the first woman to climb Everest from both sides. She talks about teamwork and illustrates her outstanding speeches with stories of her experiences of teamwork under the duress of the life threatening conditions of climbing Everest. She uses lots of slides, mostly awe inspiring images of her expeditions as she takes the audience on a dangerous journey to top of the world. That is how to use PowerPoint - not lists of words and unreadable quotations.
So shut the laptop, write the speech then ask, “Does this speech need visuals, and is PowerPoint the best way to do that?” Perhaps there is a better way to convey the message. You will be amazed at the alternatives. Perhaps you can use a prop, or a volunteer from the audience, or give the audience a work sheet, or get people to do an exercise. There are so many ways to involve the audience creatively to get a message across that are a thousand times more outstanding than a PowerPoint slide.
Be creative with your visuals and involve the audience.
Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech.
From 30 years of acting, training and professional speaking I have boiled the key elements of an outstanding speech down to four - represented by the acronym PEPP.

Speak with PURPOSE

Draw from your EXPERIENCE

Present with PASSION

Make it a PERFORMANCE

Purpose - Set a clear purpose to the speech and let the audience know what it is up f
Two kinds of Advertising for a Marketing Strategy
Advertising is the lifeblood of any business. If you do not learn how to advertise your products and services both efficiently and effectively, you won't be in business long. While the Internet has lessened or eliminated many of the costs normally associated with starting and running a small business, and it's now easier than ever, you'll never realize significant profits if you don't grow your business through effective marketing.There are really just two kinds of advertising - that which you pay for and that which you get for free. And both should have their place in your overall marketing strategy. The problem arises when one does not understand how or when to use each.Everywhere we look it seems that someone is claiming you can get rich online by taking advantage of the free advertising the Internet offers.While it's a true statement, the misleading part is that it's almost always followed by something like, "We'll give you a list of over 984324874984 places to advertise for free!" They normally go on to explain how anyone can get rich on the Internet because all of the advertising is free, and if you just send them $29.95 ... well you know how it goes.Unfortunately, as anyone who has tried posting zill
helped me." Have you set up a new club – it’s a win. Lost 28 lbs at Weight Watchers - put the 4 silver sevens in your win book, together with an after picture. Delivered an outstanding speech, get a testimonial, ran a successful exhibition stand - get a picture. DO YOU GET THE PICTURE!! Create a book of all the positive and wonderful things that have happened in your life and keep it going. Then before you have to speak, get the book out and read it.
Learn to love yourself and the audience will love you as well.
Rule 2 - No PowerPoint until after the speech is written
PowerPoint tends to make people lazy. We are all busy, but if you get out PowerPoint the day before the presentation, write your notes in the form of slides and then proceed to deliver them at the rate of one every 30 seconds, reading most of them out, is it surprising that the audience is asleep by the end and can't remember a thing. And how can you expect the audience to respect you when you have shown them so little respect in the first place.
PowerPoint is great if, and that is a BIG IF, you have visuals and useful information that are best conveyed visually. A friend of mine, Cathy O'Dowd, was the first woman to climb Everest from both sides. She talks about teamwork and illustrates her outstanding speeches with stories of her experiences of teamwork under the duress of the life threatening conditions of climbing Everest. She uses lots of slides, mostly awe inspiring images of her expeditions as she takes the audience on a dangerous journey to top of the world. That is how to use PowerPoint - not lists of words and unreadable quotations.
So shut the laptop, write the speech then ask, “Does this speech need visuals, and is PowerPoint the best way to do that?” Perhaps there is a better way to convey the message. You will be amazed at the alternatives. Perhaps you can use a prop, or a volunteer from the audience, or give the audience a work sheet, or get people to do an exercise. There are so many ways to involve the audience creatively to get a message across that are a thousand times more outstanding than a PowerPoint slide.
Be creative with your visuals and involve the audience.
Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech.
From 30 years of acting, training and professional speaking I have boiled the key elements of an outstanding speech down to four - represented by the acronym PEPP.

Speak with PURPOSE

Draw from your EXPERIENCE

Present with PASSION

Make it a PERFORMANCE

Purpose - Set a clear purpose to the speech and let the audience know what it is up f
Event Marketing What, Why and When?
The length of time it takes to get to market is critical to your product’s success. You need to deliver the right message about your product to the right audience, facilitate a rapid adoption rate and cover your territories to maximize market penetration. Here I want to tell you some thing about the Event Marketing means what is this and what is its benefits, as i told you first that you need to deliver the right message about your product to the right audience otherwise your efforts will be less effective.The event marketing is something that will appeal to targeted audience. means you need to create some events with the help of well known personalities and invite all those persons that are interested about this event and here you needs to demonstrate your product that is useful for these type of consumers, here your this efforts give you maximum ROI, in the most of the country some branded company organize the games, and here they give their products in the prize to the winner, by this they do advertisement of there product before the targeted audience only this is less expensive, but targeted.And second that is most important thing is this that your event marketing campaign should have some go
k under the duress of the life threatening conditions of climbing Everest. She uses lots of slides, mostly awe inspiring images of her expeditions as she takes the audience on a dangerous journey to top of the world. That is how to use PowerPoint - not lists of words and unreadable quotations.
So shut the laptop, write the speech then ask, “Does this speech need visuals, and is PowerPoint the best way to do that?” Perhaps there is a better way to convey the message. You will be amazed at the alternatives. Perhaps you can use a prop, or a volunteer from the audience, or give the audience a work sheet, or get people to do an exercise. There are so many ways to involve the audience creatively to get a message across that are a thousand times more outstanding than a PowerPoint slide.
Be creative with your visuals and involve the audience.
Rule 3 - Use my PEPP Talk Formula to write and deliver your speech.
From 30 years of acting, training and professional speaking I have boiled the key elements of an outstanding speech down to four - represented by the acronym PEPP.

Speak with PURPOSE

Draw from your EXPERIENCE

Present with PASSION

Make it a PERFORMANCE

Purpose - Set a clear purpose to the speech and let the audience know what it is up front.
This is the most important element in writing an outstanding speech and doing this keeps you focused on your single message. The audience can't take in more than one message anyway because they will often be hearing lots of other things that day. Make it something they can remember, and repeat is over and over again in a variety of different ways so they don't forget it. Ask yourself this question.
“What do I want the audience to remember?”
If you can get a single message clear in their minds it will act as a trigger to help them remember the entire speech later and remember what you asked them to do after the speech.
Which brings me to the second part of the purpose. Why are you doing this speech? What do you want out of it? What do you want the audience to do after the speech? Read your report, sign up for a newsletter, come to your exhibition stand, give you their business card, come to your shop, vote for you etc. Be clear about exactly what you want the audience to do, make sure that you tell them and then make it is easy for them to do it. If you need to give an incentive don’t hesitate. “Get a free ebook if you sign up for my newsletter.”
Experience/Expertise - Speak from your experience and expertise - If you have not earned the right to speak on the topic - don't speak.
Use no more than three of four points to support your message. Look at the letter E - One main down stroke for the main message and three horizontal lines for the supporting points. We all like stories, we remember them easily and life stories introduce humour and drama into the talk. This helps you as well because it is difficult to forget your speech if it’s a story you have lived through. 2000 years ago one of the worlds greatest speakers taught with stories that we still remember today - It doesn’t matter what religion you are I am sure you know some of those stories, they are so memorable.
Passion - Love your topic; be passionate about the topic and your desire to entertain the audience with it.
If the topic is not something you are passionate about, link it to something you are passionate about. Love the audience and they will love you back - the more passionate you are about the topic, the more memorable and entertaining your speech will be and the easier it is to deliver.
Performance -Remember that no matter what the topic or the occasion, when you speak - THIS IS SHOW BUSINESS.
If you are just going to read out your speech you might as well type it and send it. You have to give the audience more than they can get from reading - so have fun, involve the audience, let the power into your voice, be playful, use humour, become a storyteller, and remember that silence.........
.......is the speakers most powerful tool.
I know this is generalising but become a storyteller to reach women, present facts in a logical but entertaining way to reach men, and mix the styles so that you appeal to both and alienate neither. We all like humour, we all like to be entertained - but most of all most people love stories and remember them.
To become an outstanding speaker be a Storyteller with a Message.

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