วันอาทิตย์ที่ 9 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

5 Steps for Delivering an Excellent Presentation -- Not a Perfect One! by Nancy Daniels

If there is one thing that cannot happen in public speaking, it is the possibility of delivering a perfect presentation. What skills would you need to make your words or your manner of speaking perfect? Can you answer that honestly? Your presentation may be great; it may be excellent; it may be the best you have ever done; but, that doesn't make it perfect. Perfection is subjective in this particular venue. In fact, any live performance, be it music, theatre, or even in the sports arena, cannot be judged by that one particular word - perfection.
You can type something perfectly; you can build a box perfectly square; and, you can copy a paper perfectly. But trying to accomplish perfection at the lectern is a waste of time. Instead of trying to achieve something that is impossible, might I suggest you strive for excellence? Excellence allows for an occasional mistake; perfection doesn't.
Mistakes are made in live performances. It is unavoidable. It is normal. It is natural. Just watch or listen to the news on any given day and you will hear a mistake or two. You won't hear a lot of them, but they do happen. If you think that the only way you can give a great performance is by not making a mistake, then you are placing a pressure on yourself that is unfair - unfair to you as well as your audience.

Why Nervousness Increases Your Breathlessness in Public Speaking by Nancy Daniels

There is no doubt that for many novice speakers, breathlessness is an annoying problem. It goes hand-in-hand with a voice that rises in pitch and a speed that goes faster and faster. None of these 'qualities' are beneficial in public speaking.
Obviously, without air there is no voice. The difficulty for many speakers is that they find their supply of air depleting, so they speed up their sentence in order to try to finish their thought before being totally spent of oxygen. In the process, the pitch of the voice continues to rise in their frantic attempt to get it done. Does this sound familiar?
In most cases, people do not have the same difficulties in normal conversation; therefore, we can attribute this lack of control over the voice to being in a nervous state. The answer is to breathe; but, a better answer is to learn to breathe with the support of your diaphragm.

วันเสาร์ที่ 24 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2554

Online Surveys For Money: Represent The People! by Terro White

Online surveys for money are good option no matter you take it as a part time hobby or a full time job. The flexibility it offers and the minimal qualification it seeks make it even more popular. But the question may arise with who don't know the rules of this game as to what makes the companies pay for the surveys. What makes the surveys useful for the companies and what are the ways to improve the surveys to be written better for the companies.
As of the importance of the surveys for the companies investing hugely in them is immense indeed. It has become more and moreimportant for the companies to improve their product line with time so as to retain their place in the cut throat competitions in the market. Simultaneously it has become more difficult as well to do so for the original ideas are limited and to read the customers mind and their choices is not always easy.
Earlier the competition was not so acute and there were alternative ways for the companies to read their customer's mind. But today the competition is the question of life and death for the companies and people have no time to express their concerns; they rather prefer to leave a brand and pick the other. This causes great embarrassment for the companies when they find their sales undergoing acute falls with some of the products they launch while they unexpectedly receive the sales shooting up with other products with slight improvement.
How to predict the results of changes you make in your product is quite difficult sometimes.
And here is where the paid surveys enter into the game. It is better to invest a few thousand dollars on surveys to get pointed ideas in conformity with the customers' needs and choicesthan to be ready to bear the losses in millions altogether.