I don’t watch The View. Some of us work during the day–writing silly little blog posts etc. But I was a little disappointed that I missed Obama, the first reigning (sitting?) American President in history to be interviewed on a TV talk show, disappointed until I saw this clip. Doesn’t look like I missed much. [...]

So I’m watching last comic standing tonight. Nobody is all that funny. What ever happened to Paul Foot? But I did notice something. That it’s more important to have an interesting colorful persona than to have “good jokes”. Several of the comedians were funny on paper. One even got the compliment that if the show [...]

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PEOPLE ARE SO DELUDED!
I’m at a Nice business event and some Nice guy in a Nice suit is at the front of the room giving a Nice endlessssssszzz presentation on Presentation Skills. It’s all very Nice.
I’m guessing this is also taking place in boardrooms boredrooms in Belgium and Japan and the [...]

How often does it happen? A guy wins a Golden Globe for best actor in a movie and thanks his stand-in, a guy named Lloyd. The guy deserves the thank-you as much as all the pretty actors; Bridges said that Lloyd has been his stand-in in over 60 films. But how often does it happen?
Not [...]

It’s amazing what you can find online when you’re just roaming around. A client asked me to check out something on the Women’s Post website and I just happened to find a video of a recent panel I was on with Brett Wilson from Dragon’s Den and Catharine Fennell of Market Yourself Smarter.

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Found great quote on speaking in Jay Conrad Levinson book:
“Be sincere. Be brief. Be seated.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of U.S.

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Love the Bewitched type opening! Check this out.
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I have long been using Obama as an example of a guy who demonstrates the principles outlined in Step Into The Spotlight! back from when I first spotted him in a story about the 10 contenders for the democratic nomination. Obama knows what he’s doing in the arenas of personal branding, marketing, publicity, public speaking, [...]

I’m always telling entrepreneurs to stay in character in order to build a solid brand, but sometimes it pays to step out of character for a minute to get attention. Woody Allen’s characters jumped on and off the screen in Purple Rose of Cairo. Speakers know the best way to get an audience’s attention is [...]