Media Training

How long can and should a sound bite be? There is this perception that sound bites have to be super super short. Certainly if you are talking about network broadcast tv news, they are on the short side. In 1988, the average sound bite was 9.8 seconds. However, if you want to look at the…

Why is public speaking so hard? This is something that i have been asked numerous times on numerous occasions by people from all walks of life. But i want to challenge you. Imagine if at the age often, someone gave you some car keys and told you to go drive or maybe threw you in

Why is it so hard to start a speech or presentation, my clients say that after the first couple of minutes i feel comfortable, then i relax, and then things get going. The problem for many of us is that it is hard because we are doing something that feels artificial, phony and contrived. A

Here is your Skype video tip of the day: if you are doing an interview or just conducting an interview through Skype video or any other platform, the problem is that it often looks horrible. This is because you have a camera at the top of your laptop and it is a foot lower than