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Summer is a great time to line up fall speaking gigs.

Public speaking is a great way to generate new business. However, it’s not a time for a sales pitch. If you’re able to share your inside secrets about your expertise in an organized fashion, with a confident and vibrant tone, you’ll indirectly sell yourself and your products.

WHO TO PITCH
Summer is a great time to pitch your speaking services to professional organizations that begin their new membership calendar year or “season” in September. Keep in mind most professional organizations hold fewer meetings in the summer, since members are off gallivanting in the sunshine. However, organizations also survey their members during the summer about educational topics they’d like to hear about come the fall.

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What job opportunities are there in the travel industry?

The travel industry offers a lot of jobs and it is perhaps one of the more steady and flourishing industries today. It is tied in with the tourism industry. In fact, they are often considered the same industry. Even with the terror threats of post 9/11 and the current economic downturn, the travel and tourism industry has remained steadfast and still going strong. It can only slow down so much because people have the natural compulsion to travel.

People are nomadic. Maybe we are just wired that way because in order to survive, our ancestors had to look for greener pastures in various locations. Man is instinctively compelled to travel and explore and the majority of us would like to travel, at some point in our lives.

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