From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Hockey crowd puts me in mind of speech audiences

by Cynthia J. StarksApril 28, 2010

Last Friday night, my husband and I went to the first hockey game of our lives. The game pitted the Indiana Ice against the Green Bay Gamblers in the playoffs for the Clark Cup (Indiana lost).
I had heard that hockey fans were rowdy, raucous and riled up. I hadn’t fully appreciated what that meant, nor [...]

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Joan Detz: She’s the Best, Part 2

by Cynthia J. StarksApril 24, 2010

Last time, I wrote about the wonderful experience I had at speechwriting guru Joan Detz’s “The Business of Six-Figure Speechwriting” seminar in Philadelphia in early April. Because Joan covered so much and gave the class so many tips, I thought I’d share a few more here.
The following ideas are specifically for freelance speechwriters, and focus [...]

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Joan Detz: She’s the Best

by Cynthia J. StarksApril 21, 2010

The weekend of April 10, I travelled to Philadelphia to attend a speechwriters’ workshop with Joan Detz, master speechwriter, speaker coach and author of How to Write and Give a Speech, Can You Say a Few Words? and It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It.
The seminar was on “The Business of Six-Figure Speechwriting.” [...]

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Another good resource for speechwriters

by Cynthia J. StarksApril 15, 2010

Recently, I blogged about a resource for speechwriters called The Standard Directory of Advertisers. Sometimes called The Big Red Book of Advertisers, it’s a reference book listing all the companies in the nation that spend advertising dollars, and have marketing and communications staffs.
The book contains both contact information for those folks and a wealth of [...]

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The little speech that could

by Cynthia J. StarksApril 4, 2010

This is the story of a speech and its unexpected path.
 
On Feb. 16, as readers of this blog may remember, I gave a speech at the Columbia Club of Indianapolis on “How to Write a Speech.” The talk was well received (audience members filled out speech evaluation forms) and I submitted it to David Murray’s [...]

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