Archive for February, 2008

Wow, It’s Not Easy Being a Speaker

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I had the honor and pleasure to be a speaker at the Small Biz Summit 2008 today. It was a great opportunity to be on the other end of the slides. It’s been a while since I was a speaker and not the speaker support person or on the speaker support team. I was speaking on a Panel on how to transform your business. The panel presented 40 tips in 40 minutes. I had 10 minutes for my 10 tips. I had ten plus weeks to prepare. I started thinking about it maybe ten weeks ago, but didn’t dive into it seriously until maybe 10 days ago. We were supposed to have the slides finalized and to the event producer 14 days ago. I’m so used to most of eSlide’s clients giving us slides for their presentation the day before they are to present, I kind of thought 14 days in advance was silly. But it wasn’t.  Read the rest of this entry »