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I met Damian Mason in the mid-2000's when he and I were both impersonators performing for a meeting in the Agriculture niche.  Most recently, he has also become a top speaker on Reinvention. Damian and I met up recently at the National Speaker's Association conference and I wanted to pick his brain about the business of speaking. He generously shares a lot of specific advice on how he got where he is and how you can step up your game.

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We cover a lot including:

• Being a member of the National Speaker’s Association
• His first and helpful tip about dressing for success (or at least not recess)
• Being as professional as your peers or looking like you don’t belong
• The pros and cons of being an Impersonator
• Being in touch with your material and knowing when it has run its course
• Keeping things relevant by looking at you act as a product
• Products need a buyer who will reap a benefit from giving you their money
• How Old Spice reinvented itself with the advent of Body Wash
• Reinventing means you change your product, customers or your image
• The difference between rebranding and reinventing
• How Oldsmobile dropped the ball when they repositioned
• How comics can rebrand (new jokes, new image, new audiences)
• Niches and why you should find one
• Why great comedy usually has a point of view, commentary or an edge
• How you can be funny without even creating a premise
• Why your job isn’t writing jokes

And a whole lot more!

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