Volume IX, Issue 3
ISSN: 1544-6913
August 25, 2010
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IN
THIS ISSUE
(1)
Theme – FACTS
(2) Three Articles
Featured This Week
(3) Creativity
– How Artful Are Your FACTS ?
(4) Powerful Presentations – As a Presenter, Are You
Working with Both FACTS and Ideas?
(5) Become an Outrageously Powerful
Presenter. Excel by Presenting Great Content Loaded with FACTS
(6) Storytelling
Power – The Power of Storytelling -
Making FACTS Live
(7)
Freelance Living – As Business People, How Do We
Deal with FACTS ?
(8) Letters and Feedback from You, Our Readers
(9) Who Is Chris King Anyway?
(10) Subscribe/Unsubscribe
Information
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real FACTS . - Abraham Lincoln, American President
There are no FACTS, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
I picked FACTS for this week's theme for several reasons. With the Internet today we have so many FACTS and/or information at our fingertips, it is almost impossible to avoid overwhelm and overload. Because of this, a good number of marketers warn us to avoid the FACTS when writing sales letter copy. And yet, others say to always include the FACTS , because they give buyers the rationale for buying after they have emotionally decided they want the product.
Then, there is the question about truth and the FACTS. I found 14 pages of quotations and quite a few brought up the question about truthful FACTS even though many were of the age before the Internet. There were also quotations about the influence from FACTS upon education, creativity, and imagination.
The British writer Arthur Conan Doyle stated, Depend upon it. There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless FACTS elbowing out the useful ones.
My father always stressed the importance of leaving room for useful information , rather than memorizing a bunch of FACTS that you could look up in the library, a phone book, a dictionary, and/or a cookbook. Fortunately, I attended a college that believed the same way.
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(2) Three Articles Featured This Week
Visit
http://www.powerfulpresentations.net
to read, "Using
the Basics for a Winning Presentation.
Visit http://www.storytellingpower.com to read "Making Use of the Power of Story During Crisis .
Visit http://www.freelanceliving.com to read "What Is Your USP? How to Define It for Yourself and Others.
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(3) Creativity – How Artful Are Your FACTS ?
FACTS can be turned into art if one is artful enough. - Paul Simon, American musician
What a wonderful thought provoking statement by Paul Simon the above is! Yes, we are all overloaded today with FACTS. How can we turn them around to use them creatively and artfully?
A great example is Facebook. FACTS tell us that the number of people signed up is bigger than a country and daily visitors are only second to Google. Because of this, many smart Internet marketers are artfully finding ways to succeed using Facebook as a tool.
Are you? And how? Don't be left behind.
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(4)
Powerful Presentations – As a Presenter, Are You
Working with Both FACTS and Ideas?
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an
ellipse with two focal points of which FACTS are one and ideas the other. - Victor Hugo, French author
We are definitely in an age where our audiences are thirsting for both FACTS and Ideas. As presenters, I feel that we must still entertain to keep our listeners engaged and learning from us. However, we have to work harder to research and prepare FACTUAL information.
There was a time when a speaker could tell stories and basically give the same presentation over and over again. No longer. We want it all the fun, the personality, the relationship building along with the in depth, useful, and action oriented information. No more resting on our laurels.
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_______________ QUOTATIONS_______________
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is
a lot like a computer. It will only take so many The telephone book is full of FACTS, but it doesn't contain a single idea. - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher When you have the FACTS on your side, argue the FACTS . When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. - Al Gore, American Vice President One of the virtues of being very young is that you
don't let the FACTS get in the way of your FACTS do not cease to exist because they are amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert FACTS . - Henry B. Adams, American historian |
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(5) Become an Outrageously Powerful Presenter. Excel by Presenting Great Content Loaded with FACTS
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But you must devote nourishing time to the e-book and to others' presentations, along with your courage to use it to become outrageously powerful. Let it answer all of your questions and by presenting great content loaded with FACTS - you will become an Outrageously Powerful Presenter. Then set your goals which will lead to credibility and being in demand as a speaker.
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(6)
Storytelling Power – The Power of Storytelling -
Making FACTS Live
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of FACTS but learning how to make FACTS live. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer
I wish that my school and even college history teachers had all been introduced to the above quotation by Oliver Wendell Holmes. I was a great student in school, but the one subject that I hated and didn't ever get A's in was history. And, it was because we were only exposed to and tested on the FACTS .
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(7)
Freelance Living – As Business People, How Do We
Deal with FACTS ?
Anyone who says businessmen deal in FACTS, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher
I got such a good chuckle from the above Forbes quotation. If you are in business, as I am, you have most likely been asked to prepare a business plan with income projections.
As you probably know and do, we tend to be optimistic and estimate our financial projections with a bit of exaggeration. The sad part is that deep in our subconscious, we know they are exaggerated fiction not FACTS . And, if we don't act with the true belief that they are not only possible, but also definite without any doubt, the Law of Attraction will not work for and with us.
So, believe and visualize with certainty. Then, let me hear about your success.
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Who Is Chris King Anyway?
Chris King of Creative Keys loves what she calls her "Portfolio
Career." What is that, you ask? It is a life filled with a variety
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