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Written by Vickie Sullivan
 How to Use Social
Media to Generate Speaking Opportunities, RainToday.com, July
2010
- Become a Must-Have Expert Everyone
Wants to Work With, RainToday.com, May 2010
- How to Use Your Bio to Bring
in Buyers, RainToday.com, April 2010
- 3 Types of
Prospects You Want In Your Pipeline Now , RainToday.com, February
2010
- Top Trends of the New High-Fee
Speaking Circuit, RainToday.com, January 2010
- 3 Types of Communities That
Can Grow Your Business, RainToday.com, December 2009
- Get More Business:
How to Work Successfully With Advocates, RainToday.com, October
2009
- Uncover Your
Brilliance: How to Write So That People Take Notice, RainToday.com,
September 2009
- Blockbuster
Books: 3 Ways to Write a Bestseller, RainToday.com, August
2009
- Website Makeovers: Three Things
Buyers Want to Find On Our Websites, RainToday.com, July 2009
- Competing in Crowded Markets:
Three Criteria All Busy Buyers Use, RainToday.com, May 2009
- Elite Brands in a Mass Market
World: Is Creating Low-Cost Lines Worth the Effort?, RainToday.com,
April 2009
- At a Crossroads: When to Overhaul
Your Market Strategy and When to Stay the Course, RainToday.com,
February 2009
- When Good Ideas Go Bad: What
to Do When Your Plan Isn't Working, RainToday.com, January
2009
- Three Reasons Why Great Clients
Leave and How to Get Back Into the Game, RainToday.com, December
2008
- 3 Types of Prospects to Go
After in a Volatile Economy, RainToday.com, November 2008
- How to Help Your Friends and
Advocates Get You New Business, RainToday.com, October 2008
- Speaking At Remote Events:
How To Be Present When Your Body Isn’t, RainToday.com,
September, 2008
- Meetings:
Tips, Trends & Tirades, 4Hoteliers.com, August 20, 2008
- Launching
an E-Newsletter: How to Start, Trade Press Business Builders
Newsletter, Summer 2008
- Trite, Banal, and Boring: How
to Generate Content that Creates High-End Brands, RainToday.com,
August 2008
- What to Do When Your Prospects
Fish for Free Answers, RainToday.com, July 2008
- When the Price Isn't Right:
How to Respond to Bargain Buyers, RainToday.com, June 2008
- How to Earn $10,000-Plus in
Keynote Speaker Fees, RainToday.com, May 2008
- Three Ways to Economy-Proof
Your Business Without Hurting Your Brand, RainToday.com, April
2008
- How to Brand Yourself in the
Workplace Vs. the Marketplace, RainToday.com, March 2008
- How to Find a Brand That Fits
Your Firm's Size, RainToday.com, February 2008
- 3 Ways to Expand Your Brand
into Something Remarkable, RainToday.com, January 2008
- Defining Your Expertise: 3
Questions for Choosing Your Best Branding Path, RainToday.com,
December 2007
- Creating Curiosity: Three Ways
to be Compelling, RainToday.com, October 2007
- How to Screen for Dead-End
Prospects,, RainToday.com, September 2007
- Dodging bullets: How to Avoid
Bad Clients, RainToday.com, August 2007
- Speaking On The National Associations
Circuit: How To Catch The Fast Track To Bookings, RainToday.com,
July 2007
- Referrals: What to Do Once
Your Foot's In The Door, RainToday.com, June 2007
- Lead
Generator:
Capture Leads Through Speaking, Sales & Marketing Management
Magazine, May 30, 2007
- Show and Sell: Three Stories
That Create the Emotional Drive to Buy, RainToday.com, May
2007
- How To Introduce Yourself To
A Market, Create Credibility & Flourish, RainToday.com,
April, 2007
- Speak to Sell: 3 Ways to Convert
Audience Members Into Clients, RainToday.com, March 2007
- When Applause Just Isn't Enough:
How to Get More Clients From Giving Speeches, RainToday.com,
August 2005
- Public Speaking: The
Secret Weapon in Career Development, USA Today Magazine, May
2005
- CEOs Hit the Road: Speaking
as a Brand-Building Tool, Handbook of Business Strategy, 2004
- The Power of Choice:
Which Revenue Stream Works for You?, Professional Speaker
Magazine, January/February 2004
- Make Every Speech a Branding
Opportunity, Association Management Magazine, August 2003
- Five Tips to Make Speaking
Engagements Pay Off, Communication World Bulletin, May 2003
- Speaking for Dollars, Presentations
Magazine, October 2002
- The High Cost of Bad Advice,
Professional Speaker Magazine, April 2002
- How to Use Expert Speakers
as a Promotional Tool for Your Business, MarketingtoSmallBusiness.com,
October 11, 2000, Issue 1 Vol. 13
- Top 10 Ways Professional Organizers
Get Clients through Public Speaking, NAPO News, July-August
2000
- From Free to Fee: A Consultants
Guide to Becoming a Paid Speaker, IMC Times July/August 1999.
- Who's on First: Selling
Your Programs to Education Committees, Professional Speaker magazine,
May 1995
- Keynote and Training: Before
you Start, it's Time for a Reality Check, Professional Speaker
magazine, April 1993
Quotes & Interviews
with Vickie Sullivan
- Speak to
Me: How to Choose the Right Speaker for Your Sales Meeting,
excerpt from Selling Power, April 2005
- Your Innovative Mind:
Best Practices in Marketing Strategy, excerpt from Professional
Speaker Magazine, December 2003
- Guide Dog Led Owner Down Stairs
on 9/11, excerpt from Ventura County Star, April 2003
- 20 Top Tips for 2003,
excerpt from Country Business magazine, January 2003
- Live, On Stage, It's ... YOU?,
excerpt from Ad Genius, October 2002
- In the Age of Focus, How the Mind Wanders, interview in The
New York Times, September 29, 2002 (registration is required on
the NYT site, but it's free!)
- WorkWorlds Radio Hour, with Beth Warren, aired on Voice of America,
September 27, 2002 (requires Real or Windows Player)
- The Replacements: 5 Ways to Replace Lost Clients, interview
on Fortune.com, August 1, 2002
- Hit the Mark: Seven Small Business Trends to Position Your
Company for Success, My Business Magazine, August/September
2002
- Speaking Your Way to the Top,
excerpt from Ad Genius, May 2002
- Making Your Mark, excerpt
from interview in Club Industry, April 1, 2002
- Take Your Public Speaking to
the Next Level, interview in Lawyers Weekly, May 15, 2000
- Shortcut to Increase Business
Referrals: "Speak up and out!" interview with Vickie by Ellen
Heffes, Accounting Today, October 1997
Articles from free quarterly newsletter
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Thunderbolt Thinking Inc. Author of Thunderbolt Thinking
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