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April 22, 2014 by David J.P. Fisher Leave a Comment

How Stand-Up Comedy Can Help You Sell and Influence

How Stand-Up Comedy Can Help You Sell and Influence

This article originally appeared at Firmology.com.  Read the whole article here. ******* Do you want to get better at persuading people? My guess is that you do because whether you are a salesperson selling a product, an entrepreneur courting an investor, or a business owner convincing your team about your vision, your success hinges on […]

Filed Under: Closing Skills, Public Speaking Tagged With: closing skills, comedy, influence, presentations, public speaking, sales, sales training

December 26, 2013 by David J.P. Fisher Leave a Comment

Being a RockStar Public Speaker

Being a RockStar Public Speaker

Being a public speaker is as close as you can get to being a RockStar during the daytime.  And, it involves pretty much the same steps too:  develop material over weeks and months, make a ton of phone calls trying to get booked, spend a solid amount of time getting to the venue hours early […]

Filed Under: Business Book Ideas and Notes Tagged With: band, Confessions of a Public Speaker, playing live, public speaking, rockstar, Scott Berkun, stage fright, TED talks, The Year without Pants, toastmasters

December 17, 2013 by David J.P. Fisher Leave a Comment

Zumba, Mistakes, and the Trick to Public Speaking

Zumba, Mistakes, and the Trick to Public Speaking

I was reading through Scott Berkun’s Confessions of a Public Speaker and I came across the line: Know that your response to a mistake defines the audience’s response. And I thought to myself, “Dude, you couldn’t be more right.” I’ve spent most of my professional career speaking in front of people as a sales trainer, […]

Filed Under: Business Basics, Business Psychology, Public Speaking Tagged With: confidence, experience, live music, presentation skills, public speaking, stage fright, zumba

October 16, 2012 by David J.P. Fisher Leave a Comment

Know Your Audience

For the past few years, I’ve been making professional development videos with my friend Rob Hazan from Me on Video.  We create a studio in my living room and put together short clips that we post on YouTube.  It’s pretty cool that we have a forum to do this, and it’s cool that the videos […]

Filed Under: Business Networking, Public Speaking Tagged With: business, business networking, cat, cats, communication, communication skills, kitten, kittens, public speaking, relationships, sales training, YouTube

August 31, 2012 by David J.P. Fisher Leave a Comment

2 Simple Secrets Professional Public Speakers Use

2 Simple Secrets Professional Public Speakers Use

Public speaking remains one of the biggest fears that people wrestle with, and it is only made worse by the fact that we seem to be speaking in front of groups more and more often!  Office meetings, sales presentations, networking events; our schedules are filled with opportunities to share our ideas in front of an […]

Filed Under: Introduction Skills, Public Speaking Tagged With: fear, keynote, meetings, microphone, networking, podium, presentation, psychology, public speaking, sales presentation, stage, stage fright

August 29, 2011 by David J.P. Fisher Leave a Comment

3 Keys to Introducing Yourself to a Group

At some point in your professional career you are going to have to stand up in front of a group of people and introduce yourself.  It might be at a formal networking event where everyone is going around the room and giving their “elevator speech”, or maybe it’s a professional conference where you are each […]

Filed Under: Business Networking, Introduction Skills Tagged With: business, business networking, charisma, communication skills, communications, elevator pitch, elevator speech, introductions, networking, platform skills, professional networking, project, public speaking, volume

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