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Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp

https://player.vimeo.com/video/1032834490 Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is…

4 weeks ago

Speakipedia Podcast #29: Susan Ford Collins

https://vimeo.com/1032827755 Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? This is Speakipedia Media…

1 month ago

Speakipedia Podcast #24: Captain Gene Flipse

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:03) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

3 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #23: Mitch Mitchem

Transcript  Dave Bricker (00:00) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

3 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #22: Paula Rizzo

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

3 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 15:<br>Simone Vincenzi

  Transcript Dave Bricker: Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

5 months ago

Influencer Dashboard Support

The Speakipedia Influencer Tools run in your web browser. Before you assume they're broken and submit a support request: Clear…

5 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 16:<br>CJ Singh

 Transcript Dave Bricker (00:09) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is…

5 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #12:<br>Errol Leandre

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

6 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 9:<br>David H. Lawrence the XVII

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:01) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakypedia…

6 months ago

Audience Inspector (Demo)

by Dave Bricker Load a demo and experience the AI-generated results. Get access to work with your own content. Intro…

6 months ago

Nonfiction Writing and the One-sided Sales Conversation

Business, technology, and how-to books can be viewed as one-sided sales conversations. Though the author may hope to sell products…

6 months ago

The Perfect Book Sales Page

Tom Morkes published The Perfect Book sales Page on his blog. I'm usually the first person to reject formulaic approaches…

6 months ago

How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX

This article explains how to produce and market a professional quality audiobook using Amazon ACX. Through ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange),…

6 months ago

Tabs, Indents, and Margins: How to use the Tab Ruler

This article explains the tab ruler found on every word processor and typesetting application. Understanding the simple and elegant split…

6 months ago

Simulating the Appearance of Traditional Print

Digital typography offers capabilities that printers working with hot lead type and wood type could only dream of. Digital type…

6 months ago

Book Design – Revisiting Classic Layout for Print and EBooks

Book design has changed since publishing became a gigantic industry. Typesetting was once performed by trained craftsmen who apprenticed to…

6 months ago

Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?

You threw a grand party but nobody came. Your novel is so good but you're not selling books. What happened?…

6 months ago

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2

Part 1 of Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover critiqued "professional" covers taken from Amazon's Editor's choice…

6 months ago

How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate

Few subjects arouse more passion among writers and designers than the debate over how many spaces should follow a period.…

6 months ago

Self-Publishing & Vanity Publishing: Confuse Them and Pay the Price

What is true self-publishing? What is the difference between self-publishing and “vanity publishing” or “subsidy publishing?” How do these differ…

6 months ago

Why You Need a Professional Editor

After completing the final draft of a manuscript for my fifth book, I wanted a reality check. I hired a…

6 months ago

Proposed Standards for Book Typography

The word processor has placed new burdens on writers to understand how to use italics, big and small capitals, dashes,…

6 months ago

Book Design Basics: Small Capitals – Avoiding Capital Offenses

Use of Small Capitals—uppercase characters designed at lowercase scale—is one aspect of writing and book design that isn’t taught in…

6 months ago

Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods

Part 2 of Fundamentals of Book Design explores optical margins, paragraph formatting and spaces. Read about margins, layout and leading…

6 months ago

Stop Picking on POD

A great technology is getting a bad rap for the wrong reasons. Print On Demand (POD) technology is often mislabeled…

6 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #5:<br>Neal Petersen

Transcript Dave Bricker   (00:06) This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by Speakipedia .com. Want to expand your speaking and storytelling…

8 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 4:<br>Rosemary Ravinal

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

8 months ago

Free E-Books by Dave Bricker

Effective speakers wrap their messages in stories—but few understand what stories are and how they work. This brief guide explores…

11 months ago

Twenty Most Popular Speaking Topics

Here are speaking topic trends observed in conferences, and media as of April, 2023. Speaking topic trends can change quickly.…

11 months ago

Who’s Your Meeting Monitor?

What is a meeting monitor? One of my colleagues and I jokingly refer to that role as “the meeting monster.”…

11 months ago

Famous Speeches: Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”

Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address has been recorded by numerous orators over the years, including Orson Welles, but few of…

11 months ago

Technical Issues? Keep the Room Engaged!

My client wanted to broadcast my presentation to a satellite office and to some of their team members who were…

11 months ago

AV Rider

A rider is a document that addresses additional details, conditions, or terms of a contract. Copy and adapt this "AV…

11 months ago

What Webcam is Best?

Webcams are light and compact, and quality has gotten better as videoconferencing has become more popular. Most laptops and many…

12 months ago

News Flash! Virtual Backgrounds Don’t Work

Virtual backgrounds for on-screen meetings are very popular. Why not hide that messy bedroom and look like you’re in a…

12 months ago

Don’t Let the Truth Ruin a Good Story

If we’re honest and authentic, we often feel compelled to fill in every detail of a story as it actually…

12 months ago

What Problem Do You Solve?

So many speakers are subject matter experts …  and of course, we have to be. But if you tell people…

12 months ago

The Imaginary Law of Perfection

You imagine that you have to get through your speech without forgetting a word. You imagine that you’ll bomb if…

12 months ago

The Fifth Wall

My last video talked about the fourth wall—an acting term that refers to the invisible “fourth wall” between the audience…

12 months ago

Storytelling Mistakes: The Data Dump

WordPress is a content-management platform used to drive over 455 million websites. Written with open-source technologies like PHP and MySQL,…

12 months ago

Rehearse the Short Speech You Never Want to Give

Imagine this happening to you: You’re up on stage in front of a room full of people. You’re focused and…

12 months ago

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