These are a continuation of notes from a presentation given by Mark Merrill. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
Dress for success:
- Nonverbal clues: have a firm shake.
- Wardrobe should reflect your audience.
- If tall lady skirt lengths of helm should be top or bottom of the knee
- Short boy: top of your knees. When you sit it needs to cover your thighs.
- Stockings should match skin tones.
- Red is an aggressive color for shoes
- Women: one set of earring and don’t’ have them dangling.
- Colors for men dark blue or grey.
- If speaking in front of kids speaker can wear T-shirt and jeans for high school.
- The color blue is very popular.
- By the way when your onsite offer to speak somewhere else..
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- You need to tell the temperature of the room to have it as 65. Keeps people awake
- How long to make a first impressions 47 sec.
- Most important thing to do in 7 sec is to smile
- What is the University of Professionalism? Handshake.
- Appearances is just as important as body language.
- What is the appropriate length for women’s skirts? I short nothing over an inch above your knee.
- As a general rule of thumb men should always wear a suit. It depends on the audience.
- What is our opinion about tattoos? Depends on the audience
- Earrings: onset of small or no earrings
- Men should always be clean shaven> depends upon the audience
- Hairstyle best for women presenters? What suits for your presentation? Ladies be constative. Guys go a professional barber.
Body language:
- Non-verbal tricks in speaking.
- What makes a ted talk go viral?
- Survey people rated ted talks without video and video and rated them about the same.
- 60-90% of communication is nonverbal.
- The first impression will define the overall performance.
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- The smile is the only expression that can be seen 400 feet away.
- Those who smile are rated more intelligent.
- A real smile is seen when you see the eyes are affected.
- When you first meet someone will meet the hands.
- Good ted talks will do a lot of hand motions.
- Palms up is a more positive hand motion rather than palms down.
Social media blueprint
- Build your possibilities
- How do we stand out?
- Waitress joked and said he needed a Pepsi thought she wouldn’t offer it. She went to another place to get a Pepsi.
- Some speakers try to give your contact an experience.
- Consistently show up.
- Q: build your list of possibilities.
Freebies but they need to offer testimonials and other contacts
- Q: Establish a contact list.
- Partner up with people.
- Purchase domain names: get misspelled name buy it and point it to the correct one.
- Buy nanme.live and do your broadcasts.
- Buy domains that match your books.
- Set up social media in everything. You dot know what the next big things will be. Ie snapshot.
- On a new technology find grab your name quickly.
- link in front > Latest Blog.
- Crate value to people.
- Google your name and see what comes up.
- Create your own event if you are not getting hired. One person rented a center and provide the jsuc.
- You can partner with someone else if you don’t want to do it alone.
- Go the extra mile.
- When you get to the stage and you begin to feel overconfident or weariness of doing this again then you need to reinvent yourself.
