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Book linksCheck out the audiobooks ! Travel is even more broadening when you can listen to a book while you drive.Most of the books here concern some aspect of communication (including selling, the most common form of business communication). A few of them are books written by friends and colleagues in the speaking profession, so I know they're good. You will find all of them useful. The communication books immediately follow; the books written by speakers are further down the page. You also have a link that will show you a long list of books about speaking if you would like to go beyond my recommendations. Finally, there is a general search box to help you find books, magazines, and videos on any subject.
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or a consultant or writer using
speaking to boost your practice, you face a common challenge: you sell an
intangible. Allan S. Boress figured out that trying to sell your professional
services the same way salespeople sell products can be deadly to 
and some even know how to say it. But how do
you get people to ask you for it? Alan Weiss's book,
Money Talks: How to Make a Million as a Speaker
, gives you solid, practical guidance on that process. His dedication says,
"For all those who mount a lonely platform to speak their minds,
irrespective of popular opinion, conventional wisdom, and political pressure.
May you be rewarded for your honesty and your courage." Whether you are
beginning as a speaker or simply polishing the basic skills, this book provides
valuable information to help you speak effectively and professionally. We
highly recommend this one! Easy to
order here!
She grew up in the speaking business with her mother, Dottie Walters. She tell
you not only how to write, research, and deliver a speech, but makes
suggestions on how to anticipate and overcome such things as a heckler in the
audience, the bulb burning out in the overhead projector, or losing your train
of thought. The way you handle a joke a potential disaster is more important
than the problem itself--Lilly shows you how.
Easy to order here!
has earned high praise from the people in the trenches, the ones who have to
write and deliver their own speeches. Sound advice on researching, writing, and
delivering an effective speech. Detz writes speeches for executive at major
corporations and has earned an Excellence Award from the International
Association of Business Communicators.
Easy to order here!
Bill Karlson wrote
Get Top $$$ In a Job You Love!, 2nd edition
. It's concrete and practical. Before becoming a fulltime professional speaker,
Bill worked as a highly successful executive recruiter--he knows how and why
people really get hired, and fired. Bill says, "We'll equip you to get a job
that allows you to realize your dreams and be passionate in what you do,
while making certain you get top starting pay!" And he delivers what he
promises.
Easy to order here!
This audiobook presents the basic steps of
high-efficiency selling: improving personal time management, gathering more
information, and delaying the presentation and closing stage of the sale. He
tells the listener how to cut through the kinds of "blind-alley appeal" that
tends to hinder most sales presentations to introduce a technique that results
in the kind of customized proposal that makes the sale. 2 cassettes.
Easy to order here!
and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple
yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. The
four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything
personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. It's the how and why
one should do these things that make
The Four Agreements
worth listening to and remembering.
hear the famous voice reading his own bestseller in which he uses his
storytelling skills and personal anecdotes to explain the spiritual role of
pain and suffering. Through his personal pain and by helping others who have
endured much worse shame and loss, Schuller has learned the value of holding
onto hope, turning to God, and gaining perspective on one's pain.
in the audiobook version of
My Journey: From an Iowa Farm to a Cathedral of Dreams
is Schuller reading it himself. However, Tim Jerome brings life into the
reading of Schuller's autobiographical account of his journey from "the
dead-end of a dirt road that had no name and no number" to founding and
pastoring one of the most well-known and influential ministries in the world.
