13 Publicity Tips for Professional Speakers
In a funk because other speakers seem to be snagging all the media attention? It’s time to start claiming your share. Here are a baker’s dozen of tips that will boost your publicity efforts and help you finally get noticed.1. Every time you speak before a group, offer to submit a short summary of your presentation for the group’s newsletter. Don’t forget to send your photo. It gets you in front of those you just spoke to as well as those who missed you the first time around. Many groups also send their newsletters to the media. Be sure the last paragraph tells people what you do and how to get in touch with you.2. Call the advertising department of every newspaper and magazine you want to get into and ask for a copy of their editorial calendar. It’s a free listing of all t

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Right about now in this one sided conversation, you go all fuzzy in your mind and can no longer focus on his specific words. You say yes, schedule the appointment and leave the office. You brain is stuck in gear and continues to see and hear the doctor seal your fate.

Thirty minutes later all you can think about and mentally visualize is the doctor and his words. You continue to experience mental movies of your own funeral. It is on a feedback loop repeating itself ad infinitum. You feel worse minute by minute.

Want to discontinue this frightening experience?

In order to overcome this negativity, you must switch from right-brain imagery to left brain verbalization. How? For it to work you must just do it and not analyze how insane it sounds.

Internally sing the B.I.N.G.O. song and your mind will turn positive and your mental movies will produce silly cartoon characters, and eliminate the thoughts of hospitals, doctors, and funerals.

You remember B.I.N.G.O. from kindergarten. Silently (or aloud if you are alone) focus on the words and sing them. Remember, you slap your thigh for each letter in the name, B.I.N.G.O.

There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and B-I-N-G-O was his name-o.

The second stanza goes,
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

Third stanza:
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o - -N-G-O, ---N-G-O, --N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

You continue removing one-letter at a time, and replace it with smack on your thigh, until the end. In about one-minute you have switched brain dominance from your horrible, scary right-brain mental movies, to smiling by using your left-brain and its verbalizing skills to chose to get a second opinion.

This schema (mental strategy) works after a

ment and leave the office. You brain is stuck in gear and continues to see and hear the doctor seal your fate.

Thirty minutes later all you can think about and mentally visualize is the doctor and his words. You continue to experience mental movies of your own funeral. It is on a feedback loop repeating itself ad infinitum. You feel worse minute by minute.

Want to discontinue this frightening experience?

In order to overcome this negativity, you must switch from right-brain imagery to left brain verbalization. How? For it to work you must just do it and not analyze how insane it sounds.

Internally sing the B.I.N.G.O. song and your mind will turn positive and your mental movies will produce silly cartoon characters, and eliminate the thoughts of hospitals, doctors, and funerals.

You remember B.I.N.G.O. from kindergarten. Silently (or aloud if you are alone) focus on the words and sing them. Remember, you slap your thigh for each letter in the name, B.I.N.G.O.

There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and B-I-N-G-O was his name-o.

The second stanza goes,
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

Third stanza:
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o - -N-G-O, ---N-G-O, --N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

You continue removing one-letter at a time, and replace it with smack on your thigh, until the end. In about one-minute you have switched brain dominance from your horrible, scary right-brain mental movies, to smiling by using your left-brain and its verbalizing skills to chose to get a second opinion.

This schema (mental strategy) works after

ome this negativity, you must switch from right-brain imagery to left brain verbalization. How? For it to work you must just do it and not analyze how insane it sounds.

Internally sing the B.I.N.G.O. song and your mind will turn positive and your mental movies will produce silly cartoon characters, and eliminate the thoughts of hospitals, doctors, and funerals.

You remember B.I.N.G.O. from kindergarten. Silently (or aloud if you are alone) focus on the words and sing them. Remember, you slap your thigh for each letter in the name, B.I.N.G.O.

There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and B-I-N-G-O was his name-o.

The second stanza goes,
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

Third stanza:
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o - -N-G-O, ---N-G-O, --N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

You continue removing one-letter at a time, and replace it with smack on your thigh, until the end. In about one-minute you have switched brain dominance from your horrible, scary right-brain mental movies, to smiling by using your left-brain and its verbalizing skills to chose to get a second opinion.

This schema (mental strategy) works after

you are alone) focus on the words and sing them. Remember, you slap your thigh for each letter in the name, B.I.N.G.O.

There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and B-I-N-G-O was his name-o.

The second stanza goes,
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

Third stanza:
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o - -N-G-O, ---N-G-O, --N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

You continue removing one-letter at a time, and replace it with smack on your thigh, until the end. In about one-minute you have switched brain dominance from your horrible, scary right-brain mental movies, to smiling by using your left-brain and its verbalizing skills to chose to get a second opinion.

This schema (mental strategy) works after

og and Bingo was his name-o - -N-G-O, ---N-G-O, --N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o.

You continue removing one-letter at a time, and replace it with smack on your thigh, until the end. In about one-minute you have switched brain dominance from your horrible, scary right-brain mental movies, to smiling by using your left-brain and its verbalizing skills to chose to get a second opinion.

This schema (mental strategy) works after a fight with your significant other, boss, or guidance counselor, anything that causes right-hemispheric hijacking of your mind with mental imagery of death and destruction.

Once you are emotionally engaged in looping the previous scene repetitiously, singing B.I.N.G.O. will tear and disconnect the mental imagery. After B-I-N-G-O your mind is in left-hemispheric dominance, and you can think rationally.

Tell me something; is Bingo the name of the dog or the farmer?

Grandmother Cell

A scientist at the University of Leicester (England), Dr. Quiroga offered evidence that all it takes is one neuron (nerve cell) to produce the memory of a given image.

So what

For the past century it was a given that it required a neural network (a lot of neurons), working as a team, to reproduce specific memories. This article appeared in Scientific American, May 18, ’07.

It is a vindication of the original work of Dr. Jerome Lettvin who in the 1960s was laughed off the neurobiology lecture circuit for opposing the view of specialized neurons for different parts of our memories. He called his theory the Grandma cell, a single neuron (not a neural network) for each member of our family. He was right, only one for each relative, friend, and even Tom Hanks.

Is there a point to this

Each neuron is hardwired to an abstract (opposite of concrete) concept of Grandma, your boss or that Hilton celebrity. Our memory is focusing on a generalization, not a specific visual feature. Any single element reminding us of the sound, look or feeling of the original memory will link that memory to our present state of mind.

A smell of apples can produce a short mental movie of Mom’s apple pie.

This single neuron is no