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The skills of poise, physical ease in public, clarity of speaking, and engaging, effective communication are well understood and can be practiced and developed in ways that will greatly improve your success in presenting yourself in any setting. Melanie Martin Long, a celebrated teacher of acting and directing, leads you in an in-depth exploration of the skills - and the joy - of performance and self-presentation. With the skills you’ll develop, you can confidently step forward as a performer or presenter, offering your best self to the world in any setting.

Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. 

Derral Eves has generated over 60 billion views on YouTube and helped channels grow to one million subscribers from zero. In The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue, the owner of the largest YouTube how-to channel provides the secrets to getting the results that every YouTube creator and strategist wants. Eves will reveal what listeners can't get anywhere else: the inner workings of the YouTube algorithm that's responsible for determining success on the platform, and how creators can use it to their advantage.

Content Inc. is the go-to guide to building a solid small business by establishing a loyal audience before you sell products or services. In this audiobook, Joe Pulizzi provides a lower-risk, more effective way to create a path to startup success by re-engineering the process that so often leads to failure: You’ll learn how to develop valuable content, build an audience around that content and then create a product for that audience. Content Inc. walks you through the entire process.

For podcasters in the pursuit of producing better shows and uncovering the business that power audio creators. Audience is not just another podcast about podcasting. Respect the craft of audio – subscribe to Audience! We publish 3 stories from audio creators every month. Once a month, Stuart & Matt cover the most important podcast news headlines from the audio industry. A Castos Original Series. Hosted & Produced by Stuart Barefoot. Co-host & Executive Producer Matt Medeiros.

Each episode of Audience goes behind the scenes of all kinds of podcasts to uncover the creative process that powers audio creators. Audience is a Castos Original Series that is hosted, produced and edited by Stuart Barefoot.

The creator of the Unmistakable Creative podcast makes a counterintuitive argument: By focusing your creative work on pleasing yourself, you can increase your productivity, happiness, and (eventually, paradoxically) the size of your audience. Creating for your own pleasure--whether you're...

One of Barack Obama’s longest-serving speechwriters reveals the public speaking lessons that will help you become a more confident and compelling communicator and leader. As a White House speechwriter, Terry Szuplat helped craft hundreds of speeches for President Obama. But when it came to...

A responsibly saucy spin on murder mystery, spooky history, and true crime. With a graduate degree in Criminology, Kim is prepared to drop some seriously spooky knowledge on you that will make you think twice about your weird neighbor and walking home alone at night. Join us for the scoop every single Sunday!

Most of us are quite relaxed and confident when we're with our friends and family. We can tell a story or even tell a joke. But put us on a platform and we can feel very different. When we speak to an audience, we often put on a public mask; and use a different voice. Why can't we seem to be ourselves when we give a talk? In this audiobook, we will look at all aspects of spoken communication, from structure right through to delivery. We will learn how to have a conversation with our audience - to be ourselves - so that we connect with them every time we speak.

Your style is perfect for you. Public speaking coach to the C-suite Bill Hoogterp reveals proven tips, techniques, and exercises to amplify your effectiveness as a speaker and communicator. He explains how the brain processes information, what people respond to, and how to hold the audience in the palm of your hand. Great public speaking can be learned. Hoogterp's unique method turns fear into fun and tells you how to be your natural, authentic, unique self - and deliver your perfect presentation for any audience each and every time.

Pitching sucks. The word alone conjures up dull PowerPoint decks, pushy tactics, and shouty emails. But it doesn't have to be that way. Danny Fontaine, an expert in innovative pitching, presents a game-changing guide that transforms pitching into an exciting, creative and enjoyable experience. Drawing from his billion-dollar pitching experience, this book delves into the psychology of connection, storytelling mastery, and practical methods and frameworks for persuading any audience, backed with anecdotes of some of the very best, and worst, pitches of all time.

Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards, 2021 Inspire young readers with this short, essential introduction to Black British history by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. When did Africans first come to Britain? Who...

Know Your Audience is a weekly podcast for the leaders making consequential brand decisions while the ground shifts beneath them. CMOs, CPOs, and CEOs face a fundamental change in how their organizations can understand customers, and the decisions that depend on it. Produced by Soulmates.ai.

Springsteen Fandom: "A Lifetime Conversation" explores the experience of the Bruce Springsteen musical fandom as a mutual exchange between artist and audience. Choosing significant stops of the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour as a narrative guideline, the book presents a thorough...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From a leader whose business is all about creating connection: strategies to find your audience, hone your brand, and achieve your dreams by letting the world see the real you. Do you feel like you're hiding in the shadows and not living up to your true potential? Do you lack...

Facebook Ads with Fexingo is the show where Lucas and Luna cut through the noise of social media marketing to focus on the actual mechanics of Meta's advertising platform. Each episode centers on a specific tactical question: how to structure a conversion campaign for a B2B SaaS product with a $50 cost-per-acquisition target, or the real-world implications of Apple's iOS 14 ATT policy on audience targeting accuracy. Lucas, with his journalist's rigor, anchors every discussion in hard metrics — click-through rates, cost-per-thousand impressions, return on ad spend — while Luna, as the ...

Lucas and Luna deconstruct the mechanics behind podcast growth — not as theory, but as applied audio marketing. Each episode picks one real show (or network) and reverse-engineers its audience strategy: why certain episode hooks drive downloads, how cross-promotion swaps actually affect subscriber counts, and what Apple Podcasts chart algorithms reward in 2024. They bring receipts — referencing specific CTA tests, SEO metadata tweaks, and ad-read placement data from shows like 'The Economics of Everyday Things' or 'Acquired'. The listener is a podcaster who already has 30+ episodes under ...

Lucas and Luna dissect the mechanics of YouTube channel growth — not by chasing algorithm hacks, but by studying real creator case studies and platform data. Each episode takes a single metric (like audience retention, CTR, or watch time from browse features) and maps it to a specific production decision: how to structure a video hook, why a certain thumbnail outperformed, or when to pivot from short-form to long-form. Lucas, a former journalist, presses for evidence — 'Show me the YouTube Analytics report' — while Luna, an engaged creator herself, tests every insight against her own ...

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