If you are involved in writing texts that will (or might) eventually be translated into other languages, there are a number of pitfalls to avoid. Just because you wrote your article, user’s manual or website in good, grammatical English does not mean it is suitable for the global marketplace. I have often seen it in [...]

Good public speaking should use attention gaining devices. Here is one that works every time: Virtually every speaking presentation I do, I find some excuse to get someone on stage with me. When an audience member is on stage, the rest of the audience is glued to the action for the following reasons:
1. They want [...]

What are the 5 best ways of getting known in the speaking industry?
Getting known in the speaking industry does not happen overnight. You need to work at it bit by bit. The first thing to remember is that you are an unknown in the beginning, even if you possess the expertise required for the audience. [...]

If you own or operate an outbound call center, you’ve probably heard quite a bit about various phone dialer systems. In fact, it’s likely you’re using one of the many systems currently on the market. While your current phone dialer may be adequate for your business needs today, you’ll probably grow out of [...]

Most people who use a CMS/Portal do so because they are very simple to setup. A web site in a box so to speak. What 99% of the users dont know is that there are ways to make it more secure and less likely to be hacked durring the install process! What i am going [...]

If you’re a consultant with a growing business, you may find that you’re out-growing the standard options for processing payments online, and yet are not producing the volume level of a particular service to justify the extra costs that a merchant account would require.
This is one of the reasons why I was looking for alternatives [...]

The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the cast majority of successful screenplays are built upon. Films as diverse as Gladiator (2000), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Raging Bull (1980) and Scarface (1983) were all constructed around the Hero’s Journey Template.
One excellent side-effect of the Hero’s Journey is the tendency to force writers to focus [...]

Is writer’s block real? No it is not real, as it is a self-induced issue from negative bio-feed back. If you wish to stop your perceived writer’s block simply replay a video in your head of something you discussed with a friend earlier in the day, or an article you read about in the [...]

One of the most popular ways of making money these days is to write articles for online business.
Writing articles has suddenly become the height of fashion with web marketers, and a lot of them are using this to makes extra cash for very little effort.
The question is how can YOU make money writing articles.
We are [...]

Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), the famous British novelist who wrote so much — ‘Of Human Bondage’ probably his masterwork — once said: ‘The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people [...]