With the current climate and situation surrounding COVID-19, thought leaders are transitioning and adapting to virtual formats to continue sharing their ideas and solutions. There are many tools and tips to help adapt a presentation to online, but one hurdle remains: how do you keep a virtual audience engaged when you can’t read the “digital room”?
We put together a few helpful tips to ensure your presentations are engaging and prevent attendees from clicking “leave meeting.”
Switching up your speaking strategy can be a daunting task—especially when it calls for shifting away from being on stage, and toward being on screen. In this time of extreme global uncertainty, many conferences and events are either being canceled, postponed, or moving to virtual—from Facebook’s F8, to Google’s Cloud Next, to Austin’s famed SXSW (see our running list of events here). As the events industry looks to tackle the challenges wrought by COVID-19, the question stands: how can speakers stay ahead of the curve while also doing their part to flatten it?
When you think of the term “thought leader,” what comes to mind? It’s always been defined as being a known expert or trusted source in your field. Thought leadership exposes your business to your market in a credible way. To build it, it's important to step up and bring your industry to a higher level of thinking about the strategic problems it faces.
As we face this abrupt shift in our lifestyles with COVID-19, nothing changes with how we define thought leadership, but we are needing to get more creative with how we practice it. What remains consistent amid all these changes(and arguably now more than ever)?
Looking to take that next step forward to increase positive exposure for you and your company? It may be time to take the stage.
Speaking at conferences can be a key tactic to ensuring your brand gets in front of target audiences that matter the most. Yet, building a speaking program calls for more than just relying on your ideas alone to bring results.
We’ve compiled a checklist of six essential steps to consider before getting on stage and taking the mic.
This post was originally posted on the Max Borges Agency blog as a contributed article by cred.
There is simply not enough time in the day to absorb all of the information we receive in various forms, much less in our inboxes alone, so the first impression is everything. The role of a subject line is to set the scene for what your reader can expect to receive in your message. These can be short, sweet and to the point; or long, detailed and deadline-oriented. In this post, we share three tips to ensure yours is hook, subject line, and sinker.
As we turn the page on a new decade and reflect on our successes, failures, and lessons learned, we seek new ways to improve ourselves. With the start of a new year comes resolutions, and here at cred we’re striving to improve our morning routines to get the most out of every day.
So how can you create a morning routine that instills positive habits and a feeling of accomplishment before your morning cup of joe? Here are a few tips inspired by leading entrepreneurs squeezing the most out of every morning.
