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How To Know If You’re Hiring the Right Keynote Speaker For Your Next Event

Jeff Havens — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:42:47 +0000

Hiring the right keynote speaker for your next event can be a challenging task. In most cases you’re agreeing to pay thousands of dollars to somebody you don’t know, and sometimes all you know about them is what they’ve posted on their blog or website. Most keynote speaker demo videos are only a few minutes…

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Why You Should Ask Dumb Questions

Jeff Havens — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:46:24 +0000

Recently my 8-year-old son came home from school and asked me if I knew how many uses for the peanut George Washington Carver had discovered. After silently thanking his teachers for encouraging his love of random information, I admitted that all I knew was that it was a lot. “More than 300,” he told me…

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Do Apologies Really Matter?

Jeff Havens — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:31:08 +0000

Recently somebody got mad at me for something they shouldn’t have. That’s not just my opinion, either; they even agreed with me that they were mad about something else and took their anger out on me. However, they didn’t apologize for getting mad at me when they shouldn’t have. And it’s bugging me. It’s still…

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Merry Christmas From Jeff Havens and Friends! (For Real This Time!)

Jeff Havens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:00:52 +0000

Now that it really is Christmas and not December 23rd, Merry Christmas to all and to all some good laughs! And what are you doing on my blog? Go spend some time with our loved ones already and I don’t mean on Facebook!

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4 Internet Marketing Tactics To Make Your Traffic Go Away!

Jeff Havens — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:06:05 +0000

If you’re even halfway smart – and you must be since you’ve chosen to read this – you’re spending some amount of energy marketing online. Word on the street is that the Internet is still going strong, and it’s one of the best (and cheapest) ways to tell people about whatever awesome thing you do…

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Customers Are Not Illegal (Yet!) So Annoy Them Until They Go Away!

Jeff Havens — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:34:35 +0000

Let’s face it – customers are annoying. They’re constantly asking for things, and they touch everything – and there’s no telling if they washed their hands the last time they went to the bathroom. Customers are gross. They should be illegal. But unfortunately they’re not illegal. There’s an election coming up, and I’m hoping to…

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Ye Olde Keynote Speaker

Jeff Havens — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:25:51 +0000

It is impossible to tell you how excited I am to be writing about today’s post. You see, every year I do one presentation that falls so far outside the norm that I don’t even truly know how to explain how I ended up doing that particular job. One year I performed in a loading…

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Jargon Time!

Jeff Havens — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:33:31 +0000

Hello everyone! I’m in a pretty good mood today. I’m in Durango, Colorado, about to present at the college here, but I got in early enough to go skiing for half a day. It’s gorgeous, and my life seems to be heading in a happy direction. Which of course bodes ill for this post, since…

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Thoughts on Diversity

Jeff Havens — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:00:05 +0000

Hello again, and welcome to another Martin Luther King Day. Today we honor one of America’s most impressive orators, a man who helped usher in the most sweeping social change in the United States since the Civil War. The civil rights’ movement of the 1960s would probably not have accomplished as many things or commanded…

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How to Keep New Potential Members out of Your Association!

Jeff Havens — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Hello everyone! I’m getting ready to head yet again to another conference, filled with association members who will most likely try and persuade me to join their group. Maybe I will. Perhaps I’ll stage an impressive coup and install myself as Association Dictator For Life, then wage a vicious purge against all of the members…

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