Richard Mintzer

Many of us may be 'wimps' when it comes to public speaking. With this in mind, this book shows how to address an audience in any situation. Using simple tips, you will learn easy & ingenious ways to relax, plan & prepare for your presentation.

Staying Cool when Stage Fright Strikes

Public Speaking for Wimps

Sam Friedman

The Everything Fundraising Book makes fundraising easy with step-by-step instruction and advice from the experts. Whether you are a community volunteer or a professional fundraiser, this clear and practical guide shows you exactly how to set goals, create a plan, and tap into a financial goldmine of corporate and government endowments. Features timely information on how to: budget your fundraiser and cover expenses attract and work with volunteers choose and organize campaigns and events use corporate fundraisers to increase visibility pitch to reluctant donors and sponsors and more! Experienced fundraisers Rich Mintzer and Sam Friedman walk you through the process and help you avoid the pitfalls, so you can focus all your energy on reaching your fundraising goals.

Create a Strategy, Plan Events, Increase Visibility, and Raise the Money You Need

The Everything Fundraising Book

Explains how to get started online, covering instant messaging, games, Web sites, and home page construction.

Kids' Everything On-Line

Describes the attractions and visitor information for New York City, and offers advice on where to stay and eat.

Everything Guide To New York City

Peter Murdock

The super-hot "Wimps" series--which has sold in the hundreds of thousands--is back, with smart strategies for confronting and overcoming people's number one fear: speaking in public. It's unavoidable. Be it at work or at a wedding, at some point everyone will end up in a situation where it's necessary to address an audience. And most people are total wimps when it comes to public speaking. While the stage fright may never entirely disappear, there are simple, easy ways to conquer it--and just opening this user-friendly and visually appealing guide will instantly begin to alleviate those sweaty palms, knocking knees, and dry mouth. Rich Mintzer, a noted lecturer on public speaking, begins by discussing the reasons underlying the anxiety, and suggests effective relaxation and visualization techniques. With lots of photos to help make his points, Mintzer offers tried-and-true strategies for becoming a more polished speaker, including ideas for injecting humor into your talk, tailoring a speech to meet the needs of the audience, making eye contact, and even using appropriate gestures. Above all, he addresses the importance of planning and preparation, and emphasizes the need for practice, practice, practice. The specific tips and advice on toasts, roasts, lectures, panels, and coping with electronic media will get anyone started on a rip-roaring, crowd-pleasing performance.

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