Timothy Hyde - Creating Fresh Ideas Faster

What Matters Now - eBook

Here's some more terrific reading for you.

A free eBook compiled by Seth Godin

Highly recommended.   (Download here).

The BookRapper

This is good. Seriously good.

Melbourne writer, thinker and business coach Geoff McDonald takes a current business best seller and does a very funky condensed version. He does one a month and there are 18 so far.

Here's the good bit. He used to sell these off his website.
They are now free! You can download whichever you like or a zip file of the whole lot

http://www.bookrapper.com/index.html

Condensed versions based on -

  Seth Godin- "Meatball Sundae", Chip & Dan Heath "Made to Stick", Gladwell "Outliers", Timothy Ferriss "4 Hour Work Week" . etc etc

You'll be the conversation hit at the Xmas party!

Trade Shows - Play Fair?

Another interesting discussion on Trade Shows.

What's your real reason for taking part?

http://tinyurl.com/yl74zye

Trade Shows 2010 - Strategies for Success

In a world of Internet Marketing and Social Networking do Trade Show still have a place?

Yes, they certainly do! And with a returning optimism my prediction is they will be HUGE in 2010.

I thought this was a terrific article on how to make the most of the often large investment you make in having a booth at a show.

http://tinyurl.com/yb6knbc

If you are interested in adding a touch of magic to your booth this year, give me a call. I perform at a few select shows each year and would be happy to discus ways to make your next show the best it can be.

Conference MC Feedback

Just received this feedback from my client and delegates from the Future Energy Conference I was MC at in Hobart.

Dear Timothy

We would like to formally thank you for facilitating the smooth running of our Conference recently.

From the perspective of the Conference Coordinators you were flexible, responsive, professional and greatly assisted the smooth running of the Conference.

Your style and wry humour was appreciated by the Delegates and the formal feedback we have recieved has indicated a resounding "excellent" in the quality stakes.

Association Conferences - Outlook for 2010

As a lot of my work is as an MC or Keynote presenter to the Association market, I found the following survey very interesting.


After a couple of hard years the outlook is a bit more confident  

http://tinyurl.com/yfmtocr

Corporate MC - Tips on Pronouncing Names

One of the challenges every MC faces is the correct pronunciation of peoples names.

And with the global village we live in, increasing these names are becoming more and more exotic.

Two great resources were shared with me during the week.

http://www.pronouncenames.com/

http://www.howtosaythatname.com/

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I shared these with my MC Tips List during the week.
If you would like more tips like these or to access other
great MC Resources Visit

http://www.timothyhyde.com/mcresources.html

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Planning a Meeting, Event or Conference?

Fantastic set of downloadable check lists for anyone running an event

http://midwestmeetings.com/how-to-library/checklists/

Corporate MC - Feedback

Received some great feedback from my recent Corporate MC engagement at Crown Casino Melbourne.

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Timothy was absolutely fantastic, just the right mix for our type of industry and as one person said, "not over the top like a lot of MCs". He was entertaining but also very professional. Our guests responded well to his opening address. I asked the Committee to respond and these are the responses I received.

“I and my guests thought he was excellent, a real pro! I found how he seemed to relate to our industry extraordinary. He was very well prepared, obviously took in his brief well and introduced the main speakers with aplomb.”

“Excellent. Timothy was very entertaining as an MC and complimented our efforts to make a very enjoyable and relaxed night.”

“I think he did an excellent job, he made the night go well, contributed to the introductions and read his notes well, to me he was another positive about the evening and I wouldn’t have any problems with him doing another night in the future, he came across as very professional.”

“I think he worked the room very well and it shows that when you have a professional MC it really is worth it. Some humour, his very professional delivery and “that jacket” seemed to go down well with the audience. I’d be happy to use him if I needed an MC.”

 

Feedback

I did a big keynote presentation two weeks ago.

I thought it went well. The audience laughed in all the right places, took part in all the exercises and responded well with their applause at the end.

But I had doubts if the client actually liked it. They had been there the whole time watching, but very little feedback, stated or unspoken was forthcoming. I followed up with a thank you note a couple of days after and received a nice comment, but again brief. Oh well I thought, win some lose some.

So imagine my surprise yesterday, when the Speaker Bureau rings to tell me the client absolutely LOVED me and wants me back to MC the whole conference next year.

Perhaps they had to wait to read the evaluation forms.