Five Tips to Become a Soundbite Genius

Written by Susan Harrow


Article Date: 2004 Category: Marketing, Publicity Keywords: get on TV talk shows, public relations, marketing, publicity, Susan Harrow, media attention, soundbites

Description: You Have Nine Seconds to Tellrepparttar World Your Message. Are You Prepared? Follow these five tips for developingrepparttar 120240 right soundbites.

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Five Tips to Become a Soundbite Genius

1. Speak in soundbites to everyone.

Getting key phrases for concepts and ideas across clearly is central to all communication. As a fun practice try to shave off any extraneous details during conversation in your everyday life. In Errol Morris' film *Fog of War* former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said, *Never answerrepparttar 120242 question that is asked. Answerrepparttar 120243 question you wish were asked.* Begin to train yourself to speak only what you want others to hear. In this way you'll be shaping other's perception of you-which isrepparttar 120244 essence of good media.

2. Answerrepparttar 120245 first interview question with your sermonette.

In a 1989 interview onrepparttar 120246 NPR show Fresh Air veteran TV journalist David Brinkley said, *Everyone of them [his guests] will arrive inrepparttar 120247 studio with some little sermonette in mind, and determined to deliver it. So one thing I do is first ask them a dull, boring question like, what do you think about this. And let them deliver their little sermonette. And then we get torepparttar 120248 hard core of what we're there to talk about.* Your first and last points haverepparttar 120249 most impact so plan and deliver your sermonettes no matter what you're asked.

3. Frame your ideas for your audience.

Jennifer O'Neil, a film producer and director, explained that when shooting background footage (b-roll) she uses a technique called *grounding.* To *ground*repparttar 120250 camera must end definitively on an object or scene that signalsrepparttar 120251 viewer that that segment is over. I suggested to her that she probably also usedrepparttar 120252 opening footage to *ground* or shaperepparttar 120253 beginning of how she wanted a viewer to perceiverepparttar 120254 scene. In this way you orient your audience torepparttar 120255 scene orrepparttar 120256 material you want them to focus on.

Internet Marketing is Changing Right Before Your Eyes!

Written by Ken Nadreau


There's no doubt about it . . .

Big changes are inrepparttar air!

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The choice is yours!

You see, what most marketers have been spending their time on might be called "peer marketing", that is selling to their fellow marketers. Hundreds and hundreds of programs and ebooks have been written designed to draw in affiliates to dorepparttar 120242 bidding and "leg work" for those producing them.

So now we have tons of "how to's" and just as many affiliate programs that have, over time, gotten real old.

Then, on top of all that, you have thousands of traffic exchanges and paid to read email advertising sites to make us think that we're actually marketing to someone.

But in reality, all we're really doing is perpetuating this "peer marketing" phenomenon that's frankly spinning our wheels and getting us nowhere.

We all know it's not working. We all know that, in spite of all repparttar 120243 hype and hoopla, 95% of all online businesses are still failing miserably.

Let's face it, Internet Marketing is in a rut that's got us all running around in circles!

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Lately, new tools and methods to infuse new life into online marketing have been hittingrepparttar 120244 scene . . .

Things like Niche Marketing are beginning to draw many away from "peer marketing", and teaching them to spend their time finding out what other people want and connecting them to those products.

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