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Digg it UP - What Keeps You Awake The Night Before A Big Sales Presentation
I admit that for some time I was resistant to doing any marketing via old fashioned snail mail. After all, email is FREE (at least for the time being). Why pay to print and mail anything at all? I mean, I'm the Ezine Queen - not the direct mail queen! And I was already making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year using the Internet.Well, I can tell you I've changed my
Please read the next statement twice.
I was so scared - I prepared!
I was so scared - I prepared!
I didn't sleep for two days.
Up to this point in my life I had never prepared so thoroughly as I did for this 30 minute stand-up presentation in front of my peers, and by the way all dressed in military uniforms.
Was I nervous - you bet!
Did I have the butterflies in the pit of my stomach - of course, but now they were flying in formation.
As soon as I began my presentation, the butterflies disappeared a
So you are going to sit down and write your own resume – what should go into it? Well of course your contact details – how will they find you if not? There are three other important features that are needed in your resume – they are:ExperienceIf you're a recent college graduate without any or much work experience your education should be listed first and
Does your mind start racing and imagining all the things that can go wrong? Is it hard to fall asleep the night before? When you wake up in the morning are you surrounded by a wall of butterflies?
Hey - I've been there and done that. That's right, yours truly, author, professional speaker, and newsletter publisher has experienced all of the above.
So, are you wondering what happened to change all that? What changed and what allows me to feel very comfortable doing the things that once made me nervous and riddled with self-doubt?
Allow me to digress a little. I want you to know how bad my nervousness really was.
It all started in high school. I enjoyed the school politics. I got lucky and was elected sophomore and junior class president.
Lots of meetings and zero stand-up presentations.
Then, I somehow got elected president of the student body in my senior year.
Lots of meetings and I thought zero stand-up presentations.
I was in for the shock of my life. After the election, our high school principal, Mr. David Van Brunt, told me he had some additional duties for me during the next school year.
One of my new responsibilities included going on stage and leading the entire school, 900 students to be exact, in saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
So you're thinking what could be easier?
Well it's one thing to recite the Pledge when you're standing up in front of your seat in the auditorium.
It's something else to have to do it on stage facing 900 fellow students and all the teachers chit-chatting against the walls.
I won't go into all the details about how nervous I was before the student assemblies - the only place you could find me an hour before show time was behind closed doors in the bathroom.
So that's the problem. How did I fix it? In college, during an ROTC class, in my junior year, I was asked by the instructor to teach a class from a chapter in our textbook.
It was to be a 30 minute stand-up presentation to a group of 25.
Please read the next statement twice.
I was so scared - I prepared!
I was so scared - I prepared!
I didn't sleep for two days.
Up to this point in my life I had never prepared so thoroughly as I did for this 30 minute stand-up presentation in front of my peers, and by the way all dressed in military uniforms.
Was I nervous - you bet!
Did I have the butterflies in the pit of my stomach - of course, but now they were flying in formation.
As soon as I began my presentation, the butterflies disappeared an
If you're giving away advertising premiums or specialties such as business card magnets, calendars, pens, notepads, jar openers, chip clips, or whatever with your contact information on it...two things can happen.It will either be a huge success or, in most cases a total failure. I'm always amused at Loan Officers that buy large quantities of calendars and sports team sc
So, are you wondering what happened to change all that? What changed and what allows me to feel very comfortable doing the things that once made me nervous and riddled with self-doubt?
Allow me to digress a little. I want you to know how bad my nervousness really was.
It all started in high school. I enjoyed the school politics. I got lucky and was elected sophomore and junior class president.
Lots of meetings and zero stand-up presentations.
Then, I somehow got elected president of the student body in my senior year.
Lots of meetings and I thought zero stand-up presentations.
I was in for the shock of my life. After the election, our high school principal, Mr. David Van Brunt, told me he had some additional duties for me during the next school year.
One of my new responsibilities included going on stage and leading the entire school, 900 students to be exact, in saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
So you're thinking what could be easier?
Well it's one thing to recite the Pledge when you're standing up in front of your seat in the auditorium.
It's something else to have to do it on stage facing 900 fellow students and all the teachers chit-chatting against the walls.
I won't go into all the details about how nervous I was before the student assemblies - the only place you could find me an hour before show time was behind closed doors in the bathroom.
So that's the problem. How did I fix it? In college, during an ROTC class, in my junior year, I was asked by the instructor to teach a class from a chapter in our textbook.
It was to be a 30 minute stand-up presentation to a group of 25.
Please read the next statement twice.
I was so scared - I prepared!
I was so scared - I prepared!
I didn't sleep for two days.
Up to this point in my life I had never prepared so thoroughly as I did for this 30 minute stand-up presentation in front of my peers, and by the way all dressed in military uniforms.
Was I nervous - you bet!
Did I have the butterflies in the pit of my stomach - of course, but now they were flying in formation.
As soon as I began my presentation, the butterflies disappeared a
Even as today’s professional women have succeeded in becoming highly respected members of the workforce and have achieved some parity, fairness in compensation has remained a sticking point, according to PINK magazine. Many of my clients have concerns and apprehensions about moving themselves to the next level in their organizations and are not demanding the money and recogniti
I was in for the shock of my life. After the election, our high school principal, Mr. David Van Brunt, told me he had some additional duties for me during the next school year.
One of my new responsibilities included going on stage and leading the entire school, 900 students to be exact, in saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
So you're thinking what could be easier?
Well it's one thing to recite the Pledge when you're standing up in front of your seat in the auditorium.
It's something else to have to do it on stage facing 900 fellow students and all the teachers chit-chatting against the walls.
I won't go into all the details about how nervous I was before the student assemblies - the only place you could find me an hour before show time was behind closed doors in the bathroom.
So that's the problem. How did I fix it? In college, during an ROTC class, in my junior year, I was asked by the instructor to teach a class from a chapter in our textbook.
It was to be a 30 minute stand-up presentation to a group of 25.
Please read the next statement twice.
I was so scared - I prepared!
I was so scared - I prepared!
I didn't sleep for two days.
Up to this point in my life I had never prepared so thoroughly as I did for this 30 minute stand-up presentation in front of my peers, and by the way all dressed in military uniforms.
Was I nervous - you bet!
Did I have the butterflies in the pit of my stomach - of course, but now they were flying in formation.
As soon as I began my presentation, the butterflies disappeared a
There are all kinds of smart moves professionals can make to raise their media visibility. Here are ten things not to do if you’re aiming to heighten your public profile.1. Don’t make the story about you. The media care about, and want to use, your knowledge and expertise. Build your media pieces around the topics that the public, and the media, want to learn more about
I won't go into all the details about how nervous I was before the student assemblies - the only place you could find me an hour before show time was behind closed doors in the bathroom.
So that's the problem. How did I fix it? In college, during an ROTC class, in my junior year, I was asked by the instructor to teach a class from a chapter in our textbook.
It was to be a 30 minute stand-up presentation to a group of 25.
Please read the next statement twice.
I was so scared - I prepared!
I was so scared - I prepared!
I didn't sleep for two days.
Up to this point in my life I had never prepared so thoroughly as I did for this 30 minute stand-up presentation in front of my peers, and by the way all dressed in military uniforms.
Was I nervous - you bet!
Did I have the butterflies in the pit of my stomach - of course, but now they were flying in formation.
As soon as I began my presentation, the butterflies disappeared a
Credibility: I admit it is a term I use quite often. In fact you'll see it all my company's marketing materials. Credibility is often ignored by my businesses, but if you have it, your business has a tremendous chance of continued growth, if you don't have it - buckle up, it might be a bit of a bumpy ride. You need to establish thre
Please read the next statement twice.
I was so scared - I prepared!
I was so scared - I prepared!
I didn't sleep for two days.
Up to this point in my life I had never prepared so thoroughly as I did for this 30 minute stand-up presentation in front of my peers, and by the way all dressed in military uniforms.
Was I nervous - you bet!
Did I have the butterflies in the pit of my stomach - of course, but now they were flying in formation.
As soon as I began my presentation, the butterflies disappeared and all the anxiety was gone.
That's the story and here's the point.
Preparation eliminates anxiety! I never forgot that and neither should you.
Preparation turns self-doubt into self-confidence.
It just does!
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