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Time for a little shameless self-promotion — for you, and for me. It’s a triple-whammy set of audio interviews about perfect pitches. Enjoy!

The Reflex Blue Show: Podcast

Here’s a podcast interview from The Reflex Blue Show, a fantastic podcast covering the graphic design industry. We recorded the podcast just before I spoke at the inHOWse Design and Creative Freelancer Conferences in Denver, CO. Hosts Donovan Beery, Nate Voss and I talk perfect pitches, creative freelancing and Scrabble. Y’know — the usual.

Pitch Perfect: Rock Unemployment

Melanie Orndorff is the brainy beauty behind Rock Unemployment — a site that offers “job search tips, cheap fun ideas, and inspirational articles & interviews for gigging creatives.” In our podcast interview, we talk about selling yourself with passion and mobilizing your network. Stream the podcast right here, or download it here.

Here’s Melanie, looking gorgeous (as usual):

The Perfect Pitch: Freelancer Forum

Here’s your chance to listen to me make a few brilliant folks work on their pitches. Colleen Rice Nelson from Freelancer Forum on Blog Talk Radio is a force of nature, and I was giddy to work with her and several others to create introductory pitches that aligned with their personal and professional style. If you are feeling fussy and not in the mood for the background portion, scan through to 20:05 to listen to the live work. Check it out here.

Here’s Colleen, looking fierce & ready for podcast action:

What’s your pitch? Lay it on me in the comments.

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I trust that you are always thinking about your audience when you craft a talk, workshop or presentation; right? It’s easy to slip into a couple of less-than-effective habits when turning your talents into talks.

Garr Reynolds changed the face of my presentations three years ago (thanks to Colleen Wainwright for turning me on to him and to Nancy Duarte). His recent piece on using lessons from aikido to deal with difficult audience members is brilliant.

Here’s a quick tips video to get you grooving:

Read more and find out how to apply these tips over on my guest post for the Creative Freelancer Blog.

What are your presentation questions, tips or comments? Let me know in the comments!

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{UPDATE: click here to listen to the show recording while you read}

I’ll be a guest on Colleen Rice-Nelson’s blogtalk radio show (you have to set up an account quickly to participate–sign up and my workshop are free!)

I will be teaching listeners how to set up their perfect pitch–whether it’s a 30 second blurb or a longer pitch to a prospective client. My goal is to help folks get their point across clearly, succinctly and with their own personal style.

This will be an interactive session and several folks are going to volunteer to work on their pitch LIVE on the radio! Invite a friend and have fun!

Don’t have an hour to spare? Can’t make it? No problem, check out the 2:35 minute version or gimme a jingle and set up a free 30 minute session to polish your pitch or get your project rocking!

Comments? Tools you use to build a perfect pitch? Add ‘em in the comments below!

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Last week, I had the pleasure of recording a tele-seminar with Dallas Travers and her Thriving Artist Circle. Five brave volunteers completed a Project Assessment, detailing what project they were working on and what help they needed. We then worked with them to help them combine their personal strengths with their struggles to come up with unique project solutions to move them forward. This one hour recording gives you a great example of how I help self-starters learn to be self-finishers. Remember: if you focus on even ONE of the 5-steps to self-finishing, you WILL make progress!
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Dallas and I invite you to download and listen to the tele-seminar:  Dallas Travers & Dyana Valentine: Finish What You Start! (you may wish to complete the Project Assessment first), and enjoy the process. Write your questions, suggestions and ideas in the comments. Let me know how I can help you finish what you start!

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Pitch Perfect: 3 Steps to your perfect pitch

Ever find yourself in a panic when someone asks, “What do you do?” Here are 3 easy steps to take to create a perfect pitch, elevator speech or blurb. Please make comments and let me know your ideas for creating a perfect pitch. Ideas in this video are adapted from a tool developed by Colleen Wainwright and used with permission. Find out more about how fabulous SHE is at communicatrix.com.

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