Thomas Antion - Wake em Up! How to Use Humor & Other Professional Techniques to Create Alarmingly Good Business Presentations

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Tom Antion Your A to Y Guide (No ZZZZZs Allowed) to More Interesting, Fun and Memorable Programs

Anchor Publishing

Copyright 2010 Tom Antion All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying without written permission of the publisher.

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Limits of Liability and Disclaimer of Warranty

The author and publisher shall not be liable in the event of incidental or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of injury as a result of excessive laughter caused by using the techniques described in this book. All business presenters, speakers, and audience members should consult their doctor before attempting to use or allowing themselves to be exposed to excessively interesting information. The author and publisher have used their best efforts in preparing this book and the information contained herein. No warranties of any kind are expressed or implied other than Tom says, If you use this stuff, you wont bore your audience to tears.

I dedicate this book to Kay and Maggie.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tom Antion is an internationally acclaimed expert in the field of high-impact and humorous communication techniques. He is a full time professional speaker and speaking coach who has been featured on major news media worldwide including the Canadian Broadcast Network, The Australian Broadcast Network, Associated Press, The Tokyo Today Show and hundreds of radio, television and print outlets across the United States. His clients include Kodak, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, John Wanamaker Department Stores, Hallmark Cards, Siemens Rolm, Sylvan Learning and The National Geographic Society.

A favorite at many corporate and association meetings, Tom was the featured speaker at the All California Regional Conference for Meeting Professionals International and also for their educational retreat in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to his busy corporate speaking schedule Tom has presented 65 Chapter Training Events and 6 National Training Events for the prestigious National Speakers Association where he is the one called to teach other professional speakers how to make their audiences say WOW!

Tom was starting offensive guard for the West Virginia University football team where he earned his Bachelors degree in psychology. Tom says he got his clinical experience in psychology in the six years after he graduated when he owned a nightclub just outside Morgantown, West Virginia. The ultimate entrepreneur, Tom has never had a job. Starting from scratch, he owned five apartment buildings and a hotel BEFORE he graduated from college. He currently owns three small businesses and has owned an internationally acclaimed entertainment company called PrankmastersSM, a firm that custom designed more than 4500 good-natured practical jokes.

Tom is the author of the only video seminar of its kind The Wake em Up VideoProfessional Speaking System. This training course is considered the standard for training professional or aspiring professional speakers in the art of speaking and the science of marketing professional speaking and training services.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
(OK. I know you won't read this, but they will.)

Thanks to: Mom and Dad who have supported me in everything I have ever done (except the time I ran away from home and tried to survive on grass soup and hot dogs that lasted about three hours). Janice Stevens for her NOZZZZZs idea at our brainstorming session and her tireless late night editing. Bonnie Davies for sticking with me through all the ups and downs. Chris Davies for keeping my computer running and being such a good friend. Art Gliner for his overall assistance especially on the international section and for always coming through whenever I needed a list of something. Sheila Feigelson for her wonderful name tag ideas, female presenter segment, and proofreading and editing. Paul Radde, Ph.D., Director of the Audience CenteredTM Seating Institute for being such a great mentor and teaching me all about State of the Art Seating and the trick to keep my tie straight. Dottie Walters, Lilly Walters, Michael Walters, and the Cowboy my "left coast"family, plus all their fine support staff. Carol Krugman for all around support for me, "the fence man," and for being such a great leader of all my MPI net buddies. Janet Novotny for being such a top-notch editor or is it editriss? Joan Eisenstodt for sharing her precious time and vast experience with me and also for getting me on MPI network. Cindy Butler and Andrea Scott and the rest of my "MPI Net buddies" for their title suggestions. Larry Tracy for his section on hostile audiences. Wendy Zhorne for her tireless page and a half of editing (Ha-ha).Vicki Flores at Optima Design for her excellent cover work (take another look at the beautiful work she does). Wolfe Rinke for being a great business mentor and for contributing to the involvement section. Sally Walton for keeping me up on diversity issues. Bob Lunsford who was always there when I would get into some weird computer problem. Dan Poynter who got me started writing and publishing many years ago and who is always ready with a good joke. Marie Betts-Johnson and Mary Murray Bosrock two fine protocol experts that helped me on the international section. Maggie Bedrosian who keeps trying to teach me that Life is More Than [My] To Do List (For those of you that don't know that is the title of her latest book). Steve Hardiman for his WordPerfect tips. Pat Carlyle for her videoconferencing tips. David Rich for his sales and marketing tips and also for being a great roommate at Meeting World. Gene Perret and Linda Perret two famous and funny people for their manuscript review. Bob Lucas for his help on the body language section. Lizz Curtis Higgs, Patricia Fripp, Hope Mihalap, Nancy Rosen, Denise Koepke, Barbara Sanfillippo, Joyce Saltman, Marianna Nunes, and Lola Gillebaard, for their contributions to Chapter 19. Mike Rounds, Doug Fox and Vern Hoven for their contributions to Chapter 17. And to my idol Charlie Jarvis, (folks there's not a funnier man on earth), for the countless hours he spent on the phone with me talking about humor.