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Strategies for Convincing Communication
& Powerful Relationships

• Climb the Ladder to Powerful and Clear Communication (464 words)
• Improve Business Relationships: Get Curious! (462 words)
• 12 Biggest Mistakes Salespeople Make in Their Writing (1382 words)
• Ten Tips to Get Busy People to Respond to Your Message (753 words)
• Persuasion Requires both Logic and Emotion (304 words)
• Smile—You’re on the Phone (314 words)
• You’re a Star Performer: Do You Need People to Like You? (270 words)
• Increase Your Persuasiveness with Mirrors (313 words)
• Need More Information? Stop Talking (304 words)
• Heard Any Good Questions Lately? (284 words)
• Flex the Right Muscle for Communication Success (283 words)
• Laugh Your Way to Positive Relationships (297 words)
• Dictionary Obstructs Successful Communication Practice (272 words)
• Winston Churchill Gives Communication Advice (220 words)
• Shape Your Message with a Strategy You Can Count On (282 words)
• Three Ways to Increase Credibility in Your Message (910 words)
• Attention is a Gift: Make Sure You Earn It (775 words)
• Persuasive Communicators Resemble Trial Lawyers (852 words)
• Abe Lincoln on the Power of Story (296 words)
• Skip the Apology: Retain Your Credibility (269 words)
• Tips on Persuasion:  Don Quixote Style (515 words)

Techniques for Credible and Compelling Writing

• Discover Your Simple Power to Increase Happiness  (500 words or 2000 words)
• Seven Keys to Drive Your Point Home (1,461 words)
• Six Principles of Persuasion (961 words)
• Take Your Overview and Skip It (303 words)
• An Unlikely Guide to Good Writing: the Telephone! (320 words)
• Those Extra Words Are Expensive! (285 words)
• Think Twice About the One-Page Rule (304 words)
• Make the Most of Your Chance to Succeed: Take a Second Look (295 words)
• That First Draft is for You: Don’t Send It! (329 words)
• Dare to be Different: Imitate Mark Twain (292 words)
• RX to Save Time and Increase Quality: Take a Rest (298 words)
• Use a One-Sentence Paragraph to Sell Your Idea (271 words)
• Crime Alert! Robbing Verbs Lowers Results (304 words)
• Why Less is More in Effective Business Writing (259 words)
• Golden Rule Attracts Customer’s Attention (283 words)
• It May Be Your Resume, But It’s not About You! (317 words)
• Make Your Message Concise: Delete Information Clutter (283 words)
• Reasons Customers and Co-workers Don’t Read Your Messages (312 words)
• Boost Productivity: Prepare Your Next Speech or Report in Hollywood Style (1109 words)

Secrets and Techniques for Powerful Presentations

• Sales Presentation Background Check (388 words)
• Think Twice About that “Thank You” (300 words)
• Skip the Apology: Retain Your Presentation Credibility (286 words)
• Use a Seven-Second Rule for Presentations (285 words)
• Stop Rambling: Use the Power of Three (282 words)
• Three Reasons to Rehearse Your Next Presentation (279 words)
• Are Your Deep Breaths Authentic or Counterfeit (317 words)
• Facing an Audience? Be Grateful for Your Jitters (347 words)
• Facing an Audience? Perform a Background Check (253 words)
• Need an Audience’s Attention? Try the Startle Factor (842 words)
• A Good Speech Doesn’t Stop on a Dime (821 words)
• Four Ways to Give Your Presentation Away (813 words)
• Move Your Business Presentation from Good to Great: Rehearse (798 words)
• Facing an Audience? Be Grateful for Your Jitters (847 words)
• Is That PowerPoint Slide a Risk You Should Take? (736 words)
• Keep Your Audience Engaged: Add Variety to Your Presentation
• Plan Question and Answer (Q&A) as an Integral Part of Your Presentation (897 words)
• Choose a Presentation Image to Strengthen Your Credibility (852 words)

Achieving Success in Sales

• Discover Your Simple Power to Increase Happiness  (500 words or 2000 words)
• Prerequisite to Persuasion (374 words)
• Six Principles of Persuasion (961 words)
• Seven Keys to Drive Your Point Home (1,461 words)
• What Kind of Contagion Are You? (353 words)
• 12 Biggest Mistakes Salespeople Make in Their Writing (1382 words)
• Sales Presentation Background Check (388 words)
• For Sales Success, Be Different AND Likeable (598 words)
• Need to Influence Stubborn & Defensive Colleagues? Change How You Say It!
  (528 words)

Use Influence and Credibility

• Prerequisite to Persuasion (374 words)
• What Kind of Contagion Are You? (353 words)
• Lead with Influence—Secret of an NFL Rookie Coach (475 words)
• Are You Making an Imus-like Mistake? (393 words)
• Simple Steps to Increase Your Power to Influence (296 words)
• Five Keys to Credibility at Work (1255 words)
• Need to Influence Stubborn & Defensive Colleagues? Change How You Say It!
  (528 words)

Techniques for Success for Networking

• I'm Networking and I Remember Your Name! (652 words)
• For Successful Networking, Bring Out Your Smile (472 words)
• The Introvert Advantage (And what we all can learn from it) (972words)

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