Two kinds of selling

Two kinds of selling

Aug. 4, 2010 by

I spent a day working on sales messages and presentation of those messages with a sales force, except the sales force was divided in two—half were an outside field force, and half were inside sales. We discovered that it was

The fourth wall or not

The fourth wall or not

Jul. 20, 2010 by

Over cigars and Chivas on Sunday night with Dikki Ellis, Michael Christensen and Zach Grenier, we came across an interesting distinction between clowning and acting, and one that is helpful to business speakers. Michael is a Co-Founder of the Big

Training the Speaking Voice

Training the Speaking Voice

Jul. 7, 2010 by

Some of us are born with, or acquire through experience, a voice that is tentative and evokes in others the tendency to ignore what we say. Habits such as talking too quietly, or too quickly, or going up at the