After you’ve spent hours (and often days) developing a great presentation, your delivery is the icing on the cake. You can truly raise others opinion of you by delivering your presentation in a professional, personable, and motivating manner.

Here are five keys to improving your delivery.

Even if you’ve developed a great presentation, landmines can explode immediately before or while you’re delivering it. Avoiding these issues begins in the preparation.

After you’ve actually created your presentation, here are five key elements in preparing for it.

If you’re still mailing out press releases and hoping to gain media attention, you are wasting your time. Today’s reporters work in an entirely different mode than just a few years back.

Here are five approaches that will gain the attention of a reporter.

According to statistics, a staggering 48% of sales people don’t follow up with a prospect after a meeting. Combine this with the fact that it takes five to twelve contacts to close a deal, and you can see why a lot of sales never materialize.

But this doesn’t mean you should badger a prospect with generic calls and emails. Rather, each contact should be a valuable exchange between you and your prospect. Here are five ways to do that.

A personal mission statement allows you to define what is important to you and outline the difference you believe you can make in the world. Like any mission statement, this is not a document that you write once and forget, but a living document that will evolve as you move forward in life.

Here’s an outline that will allow you to develop your personal mission statement.

The word “hobnob” means to hang out with, or spend discretionary time with someone. Because you’re holding so many things together in your business and your life, you’ve got limited time for hobnobbing. So, whether it’s face-to-face or by phone, Skype, email or social media, it’s important to hobnob with the right people.

Here are five characteristics of those who will add value to your business and your life.

Here’s a way to give a no-cost holiday gift to a woman who is just starting a business. Here are five memorable quotes from past Woman’s Advantage® Calendars.

A great way to increase your personal productivity is by planning for downtime and capitalizing on it when it occurs. Now this doesn’t mean that you have to push more activity into every available minute, stressing yourself out. But always have something important to work on when you do have lulls that you want to fill. Here are five great ways to capitalize on your downtime.

As the Woman’s Advantage® Calendar quote at the bottom of this message encourages: “Belong to a tribe you love.” It is important to be part of an organization of like-minded women as you move through life.  While there are countless numbers of women’s organization around the world, here are five you should learn more about.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the most amazing innovators of all time. In fact, he was the ultimate forefather to all entrepreneurs. Here are five of his great ideas that you can implement in your business and your life.