4 tips for reading your audience at conferences
When I prepared to speak at a Financial Planning Association national conference, the following quote caught my eye: You don’t have good or bad audiences. You have audiences you read or you fail to read. -Richard Hall, Brilliant presentations: What the best presenters know, say and do This made me think about how to read […]
Market commentary with wit and wisdom
Can you recommend sources of market commentary with wit and wisdom? This request from a reader inspired me to ask my social media colleagues for suggestions. Personally, I enjoy Off the Charts by Floyd Norris in The New York Times. If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, this may not surprise you. I’ve written several […]
Guest post: Why you want to announce your book with a press release
Writing and publishing a book takes a lot of work, so you should maximize your gains from it. This is why I invited my friend, book PR expert Sandy Beckwith, to guest-blog about press releases. By the way, I recently completed Sandy’s online class about book PR, which boosted my readiness to launch my blogging […]
3 ways to speak plainly while giving financial advice
I love plain English. So I was delighted to find a section called “Speaking in Plain English” in How to Give Financial Advice to Women: Attracting & Retaining High-Net-Worth Female Clients by Kathleen Burns Kingsbury. I’ve known the author since at least 2010, when she guest-blogged for me about “Five Tips for Delivering Bad News […]
Escape your fears: A writing topic for financial advisors
“That guy looks like he wants to escape,” I yelled to my husband. I was joking about the stuffed animal climbing up the fence along the Ashuwillticook bicycle trail. However, the sight made me think about how appealing escape is for most people. You can offer escape in your blog posts. To pick your topic, […]