Summary: 5 practical ways to improve your communication skills.

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Do you know why toddlers throw temper tantrums? They are angry, they are frustrated, they want something, but they have a limited ability to verbally express themselves.

On flipside, most influential leaders in business and politics are successful because they know exactly what to say, how to say it and when to say it. They have an uncanny ability to paint a picture and persuade people to buy into their vision.

Unfortunately, most people are more like a toddler than they are a leader. Miscommunication runs rampant in our relationships and work environment. We know what we are thinking, but we aren't able to put those thoughts into words. We can't find words that fit emotion we are experiencing or idea we want to convey. So we, as adults throw our own version of a temper tantrum using silent treatment, insults or resentment. Most of us can't find right words, because our communication skills are too limited.

Here are 5 ways to improve your communication skills:

1. Read more. Fiction, biographies, magazines, newspapers, just about anything. You will be able to pick up new words and see them naturally used in context.

When was last time you sat down and reviewed your business plan? Have you ever done a business plan?

Today, right now, why not just sit down and write a simple plan of where you want your business to go and what you need to do to get it there. Why not sit down, write out what you want you business to accomplish and what it will take to meet those wants.

Here are ten questions to ask yourself while planning: 1.Do you have a product and are you offering it in every form of media possible? (book, e-book, booklet, e-booklet, articles, disk, CD, DVD, video, audio) 2.Can you make a product? 3.Do you have a niche for your products or services? 4.Is there a niche you haven’t thought of or tried? 5.Do you have an associate, partnership, or joint venture program or participate in any? 6.Are you getting publicity you deserve? 7.Do you give interviews? 8.Do you have something you can talk about, train others to do, or want to become a presenter? 9.Do you network at right places, with right people, at right time? 10.Do you volunteer in your community?

If you answered NO to most of those questions, think again. I have searched Internet far and wide, for many long hours and read, researched, and reviewed many tools that I thought might help my business and Internet business. Now I’d like to share these proven tools with you to help you accomplish what you want to do and CAN do in your business. I have personally used, and am implementing all recommended tools below and have become an associate or affiliate member of some; that’s how much I believe in them. These tools have opened my eyes and have helped me rethink my business plan and what I CAN do! I still have a lot of work to do with all information I’ve learned, but point is I’m working it and my business and income is changing for better because of these tools.

~~ DIFFERENT MEDIA’S in WHICH TO CREATE YOUR PRODUCTS: If you already have a product, rethink it and see how you can re-offer it. My dear friend and client, Tom Antion, has a product, * Electronic Marketing Butt Camp on CD *at http://www.antion.com .cgi/123221/buttcampcd.htm His CD is packed with how-to information for Media Marketing, Telephone Seminars, E-Books, CD Productions, Auctions, and much, much more. He named it Butt Camp because he sits on his butt all day making money and so can you! (Don’t let title of his site, Speakers Shop, scare you away. Believe me, his stuff is not just for speakers BUT that is his niche market).

~~ HOW TO CREATE A PRODUCT: If you don’t have a product and would love to learn how to create one, check out, * Make Your Knowledge Sell * at http://www.sitesell.com/overhallsales.html Ken Evoy’s manual will tell you step by step on how to develop a product and how to sell your product.

~~ FINDING YOUR NICHE and MARKETING FOR YOUR PRODUCTS: Another useful tool, * The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on Internet * Home Study Course that I highly recommend is at http://www.marketingtips.com .cgi/47903 Corey’s site is also loaded with lots of FREE marketing information.