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What is the best way to find a presenter?

  By Mélanie Better speaking, Professional Speaking
Finding the right speaker is easier with these clues

How to find the right speaker for your keynote presentation. Read more…

Tagged   entrepreneurship, fee, hire, keynote, performance, professional, rates, speaker, speaking
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Public vs. Professional Speaker

  By Mélanie Better speaking, Professional Speaking
Anyone can step up on a soapbox and be a public speaker

What is the difference between a public speaker and a professional speaker, and how can one transition from one to the other? Read more…

Tagged   business, keynote, networking, professional, public, speaking, speech, success
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The Menu Approach: How to write an effective and memorable speech in 5 minutes

  By Mélanie Better speaking, Better Writing
The Menu Approach to speech writing

A good speech is much like a good meal. If you follow the recipe for a basic speech (meatloaf), the end results are OK. If you follow the formula for a full meal, the results are stellar. Read more…

Tagged   menu approach, speaking, speech writing, tell them, time management, Toastmasters, writing a speech
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Hope Kersplats

  By Mélanie Hope Deflates

I just received an e-mail with the following subject line, “Now panic and freak out…” Some sort of advertisement about low prices – but who… Read more…

Tagged   autos, hope
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Tetris, drums, and a bag of dog food

  By Mélanie Hope Deflates, Las Vegas, Moving, News, Stories and humor

We began the day by folding all the towels – then putting them in the back of the carport so that the guy with the… Read more…

Tagged   check engine light, family, humor, Las Vegas, moving, news, overcoming, pets, relationships, Seattle, snuggie, stories, travel
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The Check Engine Light Saga continues

  By Mélanie Hope Deflates, Las Vegas, Moving, News, Stories and humor
The Honda check engine light

You can probably guess from the title what I’m about to say. As I’m running around trying to get everything disconnected, undone, tore apart, packed,… Read more…

Tagged   autos, check engine light, family, Las Vegas, moving, news, overcoming, pets, relationships, Seattle, stories
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