Life of E's

Question: Have you ever considered using a questionnaire to help you determine the fee that you will charge for your presentations?  I’m still trying to decide if this is a good idea.  If a school/business contacts you and asks about presentation fees, you could fax them the questionnaire.  They could answer the questions and fax [...]

Tags: Billy Simms, fee, fees, speaker

Question: I currently charge $500 for a student presentation on bullying that lasts between 45 minutes and one hour. If I’m speaking at a large campus I like to divide the students into two different groups. Up to now, I have not charged any extra money if I do a second presentation. Should I consider [...]

Tags: fees, multiple presentations, presentation fees, presentation value

Question: What is the difference between a book keeper and an accountant? I know that Heather (of Champion Assistants) is going to help me set up Quickbooks properly and begin the process of entering the financial information, teaching me things along the way. So, besides the tax form filing for the yearly taxes, what am [...]

Tags: accountant, bookkeeper, Champion Assistants, CPA, Quickbooks, taxes

Question: My computer recently crashed.  I had backed-up most of my writing files prior to the computer crashing.  However, I have no way of currently backing up my hard drive.  I know someone who is recommending Carbonite.  This is an on-line service that continually backs up all of the information on your computer.  It costs [...]

Tags: backing up, Carbonite, crash, gmail, hard drive, Norton Ghost

Suggestion: After a discussion on a Tier 2 call the other day, I have been looking into more info on using music (either on a recording of your content or as an intro to a workshop you’re doing).  A teleseminar that I have been re-listening to this morning is one from SpeakerNetNews where Rebecca Morgan [...]

Tags: Al McCree, Bob Richardson, Rebecca Morgan, royalty free music

Suggestion (for all of us): I am listening (re-listening since I need to hear things many times) to a SpeakerNetNews teleseminar with Patrick Donadio.  I listened to it about 6 months ago and of course, now I’m hearing things I am sure were not on there the first time I listened.  And one of those [...]

Tags: Add new tag, belief, belief journal, journal, Patrick Donadio, SpeakerNetNews

Question for you: “Are you driving with the brakes on?” (Mike Rayburn) I heard him say this in a recent speech…and it really struck me and I wanted to share it with you.  It’s something we can all ask ourselves. Posted by Meggin | 3/20/08

Tags: brakes, driving, Mike Rayburn

Suggestion: In today’s Visual Thesaurus Magazine article, I was intrigued by the way the author discusses an alternative to mindmapping so I just thought I’d share it in case you’re interested. It can also be used for project management, which is something I hadn’t thought about before in this way. Here’s the link: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/1338/ Thanks! [...]

Tags: mind map, mind mapping, MindMapping, Visual Thesaurus

Question: During yesterday’s “Dr is in” session, Meggin, you mentioned reminding you to share software titled Contribute.  The time flew by and we didn’t get back to that piece.  I was wondering if you could let us know what the software is about?  Thank you. Posted by Sherry Hecht | 3/14/08 Response: Time did fly [...]

Tags: Adobe Contribute, Dreamweaver, software editing

Book Suggestion (from Linda): Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (anniversary edition is available) by Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. published by Ballantine Books ISBN 0-449-90292-7 In addition to positive affirmations and visualization, I like to use the Five Truths About Fear from page 30 in Dr. Jeffers’ book: Everyone feels fear as he or she [...]

Tags: fear, Linda Evans, Susan Jeffers