The Marketing Bureau

....To Market Your Business
by Susan Baroncini-Moe  
First Published on marketingprofs.com

Speaking is one of the best ways to get the word out about your company, especially for service-based businesses. As a public speaker, you share your expertise, gain credibility, and engage with your audience in a direct, relevant way that often leads to growing your business. But getting speaking engagements can be tough, and many would-be public speakers struggle to find opportunities. Here are five ways to get speaking engagements that market your business. Read more >>

Presentation Skills Training

ANCIENT FOLKLORE:    

In the ancient folklore of Presentation instruction, it was widely held that visualising your audience naked helped to reduce nervousness.   The concept lingers to this day.  

Warning!   If you're a presenter, a naked audience is not going to improve your concentration!   Eye contact is going to be a real problem for you.   And you're going to be very self conscious about the $2,000 designer suit you're wearing!  

New rule!   Never speak to a naked audience.   It can be distracting.  

Now read on to find out how The Marketing Bureau can deliver the most effective Presentation Skills Training on the market. Read more >>

By Whitney Johnson
First Published on hbr.org

Last week, I played the piano for my friend Macy Robison’s cabaret-style recital Children Will Listen. The 1,400-seat Browning Centre auditorium at Weber State University was sold out. The crowd loved her. I played exceptionally well, but the outcome could have been very different. Read more >>

Presentation Skills :: Media Skills :: Crisis Communications Skills

We are proposing to schedule the following open “Corporate Communications” Workshops during June & July 2010. Each of these Workshops is long established and well proven, having enjoyed significant success during the more than 15 years that we have been conducting them.

In this uncertain market, we should like to gauge levels of interest before committing to final scheduling. If you have an interest in one or more of these Workshops, please register your interest now (without obligation) specifying which Workshop/s you are interested in. We shall send full workshop details by return. Demand will determine whether these workshops are run in one or more key centres (e.g. Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch). Read more >>