Doug Staneart
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Doug Staneart Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Presentation Skills, Team Building
- Best Sellers
- Fearless Presentations, Mastering Presentations, Cultivating Customers
- Career Focus
- Author, Keynote Speaker, Trainer
- Affiliation
- The Leader's Institute®
Doug is the founder of The Leader's Institute® Team Building company as well as the Fearless Presentations® Public Speaking Course. The Leader's Institute® was the forerunner for charity team building events when they introduced the Build-A-Bike® Charity Team Building Event to the world almost a decade ago. Doug is also a best-selling author of a number of books including Fearless Presentations, Mastering Presentations, and Cultivating Customers.
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Small Businesses Turn Leads into Sales by Responding Quickly
The key for a small business to turn leads into sales is speed. When people look for information, products, or solutions on the internet, they want instant gratification. If they have to wait for you to send back an email or wait for a phone call from you, you’ve probably already lost them. If they have to wait for you to send them something in the postal mail, you never had a shot anyway.
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Small Business Lead Generation – Why Spamming and Cold Calling Does Not Work
Every small business is the proverbial Needle in the Haystack, so small business lead generation is critical to an entrepreneur’s survival and the growth of his/her small business. The thing that most entrepreneurs forget, though, is that it is a lot easier to turn a prospect or lead into a customer if the lead calls you versus when you call them. It cracks me up when I hear titles of articles, seminars, or books about how to “Make Effective Cold Calls” or how to “Warm Up Cold Calls”.
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Small Business Lead Generation – Pay-Per-Click Advertising
Small business lead generation using pay-per-click ads can be very challenging. In fact, paying for leads can either make you really rich or drive you out of business. Google makes a ton of money every year from pay-per-click ads. Most of the money that they make from these ads did not generate a single bit of additional revenue to the companies or entrepreneurs who purchased them. However, there are a few people out in the business world who pay a little bit of money to Google and generate millions of dollars in return. They don’t generate this type of income by accident.
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The Top Ten Mistakes that Entrepreneurs Make when trying to Generate New Leads And How to Avoid Them
Small Businesses are always looking for new lead generation ideas, but many of the things that entrepreneurs do before they even make their first cold call or before they attend their first business card exchange practicaly ensure that they actually fail in the Lead Generation department. Folks say that “Experience is the best teacher,” but that is really only about half right. In fact, “Someone ELSE’S experience is the best teacher,” because they have already made those mistakes.
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PowerPoint: How to Deliver PowerPoint Presentations Designed by Someone Else
Narrating PowerPoint Presentations designed by someone else can be very challenging. In fact, one of the fastest ways to increase public speaking fear and make your PowerPoint presentations sound canned and… well boring, is to try to deliver a PowerPoint slideshow that someone else designed for you. This doesn’t mean that you can’t deliver PowerPoint slide decks that someone else created. It just means that when you do, you’ll probably be more nervous and have less of a natural flow than what you’d normally have when you stand up and deliver a speech.
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Public Speaking Skills: Public Speaking Fear Comes from Perceived Failure
Public speaking skill is just like any other skill in that the more success that you have, the more self-confidence in public speaking that you develop. The more failures, or perceived failures, that you experience, the more public speaking fear that you are going to experience. The nervousness or anxiety that you feel when you present is normal, but experiencing that public speaking fear for the rest of your life definitely isn't. Where does Public Speaking Fear Come From?
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Closing the Sale: Big Mistakes that Cause Your Customers to Buy from Someone Else
Closing the sale can be one of the trickiest parts of the selling process if you make a few mistakes. You’ve worked really hard to get tons of new people looking at your website and all of those great leads start flowing in. Now the most important part takes place. You have to turn those leads into sales. Unfortunately, this is the part at which most entrepreneurs fail miserably. Most small business owners have an expertise in their own industry, but they often don’t have a lot of first-hand experience in how to close the sale – especially when they are first starting out.
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Public Speaking Worries – Handling Questions & Answers
One expectation frightens people preparing for a public presentation above all others. The fear is, “Even if I master the material someone will ask me a question and I will look stupid.” Here is everything you need to know about handling Q& A. Keep these tips in mind and you can check that fear off your list.
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***The Best Team Building Idea Secret is to Create Lots of Energy and Enthusiasm
If you are looking for a fantastic team building idea or a secret to conducting a great team building event, the best piece of wisdom I have ever come across is the importance of energy and enthusiasm. Often times, event planners or people who are organizing a convention or annual event will hire a professional team building expert to facilitate some type of team building activity, but if you have a smaller group of people, how can you get the same type of results without breaking your budget? The key is to create a team building activity that does three things.
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***Team Building Events-How to Choose the Best Corporate Team Building Event
Team Building Events (and specifically how to choose the best, most appropriate, team building event) for your group or situation can be extremely difficult because of... Hello?! Team Building Event Companies! If you Google "Team Building Events," you will get results from every type of activity from classroom team training, to charity team building events, to outdoor scavenger hunts, to ropes courses.
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***Team Building is Boosted by Creativity
Corporate team building events within companies are always a big focus, but many companies are now focusing on building a team with creative outcomes to build even stronger team bonding. Why? Creativity pays off in a lot of ways, and when team members feel like they are inventing something that the world has never seen, the bonds of teamwork grow even faster. Whether you’re building a sales team, expanding product offerings, or encouraging a team atmosphere, put on your creative thinking cap to do business in a different way. Stimulate your sales team.
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***The Best Team Building Secret is to Create Lots of Energy and Enthusiasm
If you are looking for a fantastic team building idea or a secret to conducting a great team building event, the best piece of wisdom I have ever come across is the importance of energy and enthusiasm. Often times, event planners or people who are organizing a convention or annual event will hire a professional team building expert to facilitate some type of team building activity, but if you have a smaller group of people, how can you get the same type of results without breaking your budget? The key is to create a team building activity that does three things.
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Fearless Presentations® Public Speaking Course
The fastest, easiest, way to eliminate public speaking fear and become a more poised and confident speaker The 2-day presentation class helps eliminate nervousness, design and confidently deliver professional presentations fast, and teaches techniques to help participants think and speak on their feet.
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Fearless Presentations® Public Speaking Course
The fastest, easiest, way to eliminate public speaking fear and become a more poised and confident speaker The 2-day presentation class helps eliminate nervousness, design and confidently deliver professional presentations fast, and teaches techniques to help participants think and speak on their feet.
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The Leader's Institute Team Building
Leadership Training, Team Building Events, and Public Speaking Courses along with free leadership and public speaking articles and videos.
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