Dave Delaney's Blog

Don’t miss our free guide, 5 Essential Ways HR Pros Can Survive and Thrive in 2019. If you're an HR professional in a growing company, your skills matter now more than ever. Unemployment has reached record lows, and recruiters are finding it difficult to get candidates to consider their open positions. Moreover, companies are struggling...

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2018 has been a busy year, I have loved speaking and delivering workshops. I have traveled quite a bit of the US and Canada speaking on behalf of Google. I have also been delivering my Communication Reboot communication workshop. I continue to receive excellent feedback from my Master Communicator’s Secret Weapon presentation that I am already booked to deliver next year. I connected with Mick...

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Reprinted from the Nashville Business Journal by Joel Stinnett - October 19, 2017.   Have you heard the one about the company that hired a social media strategist to teach their employees how to perform improv comedy, with the expectation it would improve office communication skills and improve employee retention? Probably not, because it...

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Picture a six-year-old boy standing on a stage in front of an audience. The school production is of Little Red Riding Hood. The little boy stands erect, his arms spread out on each side, facing stage left and stage right. He's wearing Buster Brown shoes, brown corduroy slacks, and a forest green colored turtleneck shirt. At an earlier date, the boy was to play the woodsman, who would rescue...

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Do you have glossophobia? Are you familiar with the term? Glossophobia is the anxiety of public speaking and approximately 75 percent of people have this fear. Jerry Seinfeld jokes that at a funeral, most people would rather be lying in a casket than delivering a eulogy.  All jokes aside though, we still need to give presentations during our lifetime. Perhaps you have one scheduled with your...

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If you missed the news, Twitter is reported to be testing a $99 subscription service. It’s not very pretty. I’ve been an active Twitter user for over ten years. I’m even verified which makes me special (I joke). What got me into Twitter in the first place was the community. The community has dropped off considerably over the last several years.  Anyone who follows the technology space knows...

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Automation online can be a wonderful thing. It can help us to speed up processes that otherwise take time. For example, I created an email series using a company called ConvertKit (Affiliate Link). I wrote 15 emails that walk the reader through a step-by-step process to find a new job or launch a side business. The email series automatically delivers a new message every few days. This method...

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10 Must Know Conference Networking Tips. Free download here. Networking at conferences is not always easy. Have you ever arrived at a networking event or conference alone? It can be daunting to walk up to someone and introduce yourself. What do you talk about? How can you break the ice? The first step to meeting new people at a conference...

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I have been working in social media marketing for more than ten years. I have worked in marketing, promotions and communications for nearly twenty. When I learn new things about this industry, I can’t help but be inspired and excited. This week, I had the good fortune of being invited as an attendee of a digital marketing conference in Nashville. Sprinklr, a social media management platform, held...

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In order to build and grow your brand you must create content that people can discover. It is this content that will tell the reader more about you, your products and your services. We write articles, proposals, blog posts, emails, Facebook updates, tweets and more every day. We are all writers. We just need to get better.  I decided to re-read Ann Handley's wonderful book, "Everybody...

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