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	<title>Jane Atkinson, Speaker Launcher Blog, Speaker Coach, Presentation Skills, Speakers Bureaus</title>
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	<description>Catapulting Speakers Into the Top 3%</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>From 0 to 80 Gigs, Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/62/from-0-to-80-gigs-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people ask me if it&#8217;s really
possible to go from 0 to 80 engagements in
just a few years and the answer is &#8216;YES&#8217;!
How many people do it?  I&#8217;d put it around the
5% mark.
So what does it take to actually get there?
Well, I&#8217;m going to give you a formula, but we
also have an upcoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Crazy Simple, But it Works</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/61/its-crazy-simple-but-it-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we get so caught up in business
plans and websites and videos and blogs and
newsletters that we forget to do one of the
most basic marketing maneuvers.
Pick up the phone!!
Mark LeBlanc, the President of the National
Speakers Association spoke in Toronto
recently about the importance of consistency
of our outbound client calls.
Mark talked about calling just 1 prospect every
day.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your website getting you booked?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/57/is-your-website-getting-you-booked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
	<category>Technology Speaking Business</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was working with a
speaker whose website was about 6
years old.  It had evolved and
changed over the years and had a
ton of information and many
options for the visitor.
But even though he was getting
huge amounts of traffic, the
website wasn&#8217;t working. He wasn&#8217;t
getting booked for speeches or
selling product.
Why?  His buyers were getting
confused. There were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you turning your clients off with your voice message?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/56/are-you-turning-your-clients-off-with-your-voice-message/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/56/are-you-turning-your-clients-off-with-your-voice-message/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the middle of a move of home and
office, so here&#8217;s a quick, bite size,
tip for you&#8230;.
I returned a call to a speaker last week
and got his voice mail.  What I heard
was disturbing.
&#8216;Thank you for calling me, Joe Speaker,
I can help make your meeting memorable
cause I&#8217;m a really great speaker&#8230;..
blah, blah, blah, blah.&#8217;
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck at a Plateau?  Four Ways to Catapult Your Business</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/55/stuck-at-a-plateau-four-ways-to-catapult-your-business-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Speaking Business Strategy</category>
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speakers aren’t supposed to need help.  They are the people everyone else goes to for help.  But let’s face it, every once in a while, you get stuck.  It’s inevitable. 
 
No one can blame you if you’ve hit a rough patch after working like a dog for 5, 12 or even 20 years.   This business is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Sell Your Way Out of a Paper Bag?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/48/cant-sell-your-way-out-of-a-paper-bag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/48/cant-sell-your-way-out-of-a-paper-bag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 We are constantly working to try to make our phone
ring.  We build websites, demo videos, write
articles, run mail campaigns, do free speeches,
etc., to get clients to our door.
But when they get there, do we close the sale
every time?  How about 50% of the time?
Many speakers suffer from the inability to sell
themselves.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laptop Dies, But Speaker Doesn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/47/laptop-dies-but-speaker-doesnt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/47/laptop-dies-but-speaker-doesnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
	<category>Presentation Skills</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine it&#8217;s three minutes until you go on  stage
and your brand new laptop dies and takes your
slide show and presentation with it.
Then, you are introduced.
You walk onto the stage, close the laptop lid, and
say &#8216;apparently, we&#8217;ll be doing something
different today&#8217;.
That&#8217;s exactly what my client June Cline did last
week when her technology failed.
And you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Member of the &#8220;Sales is Icky&#8221; Club?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/42/are-you-a-member-of-the-sales-is-icky-club/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakerlauncher.com/blog/42/are-you-a-member-of-the-sales-is-icky-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booking Speeches</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how to sell myself&#8217;,
&#8216;I&#8217;m no good at sales&#8217;,
&#8216;I&#8217;d much rather have someone else talk about me
than talk about myself&#8217;&#8230;..
All common things that I hear from speakers.  Are
you a member of that club?  If so, you can relax.
Selling yourself as a speaker doesn&#8217;t have to be a
burden.  There is a [...]]]></description>
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