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1. Win A Free Book! (And get your questions answered to boot!)

2. Want to Be Happy? Ask a Government Employee For Help.

3. The Frasier Rule of Comedy. (And Niles too.)

4. Cool links that will make you laugh.

Win a Free Book!

Here’s your chance to:

1. Win a Free Book.

2. Get your questions answered.

3. Be famous!

As many of you know, I’m blogging more than ever. And I’m always eager to make sure that what I cover on my blog is exactly what you find valuable (or fun.) I’ll be answer a limited number of questions on the blog, and the questions I actually use will earn their “asker” (is that a word?) a free copy of one of my electronic books. (Valued at $15 or more, depending on what I send.)

We won’t limit the number of winners… but we’ll only select great questions, so make ‘em good.

Send your questions about:

1. Speaking

2. Humor (and comedy) Techniques

3. Stress and humor

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1. New Newsletter News. (Reminder)

2. Caramels and Whining Or: What does Juice Have to do with Happiness?

3. A Fun Practical Joke for the Office (or Home)

4. It’s not funny but…. (Killer website resource!)

5. Cool links that will make you laugh.

Birth of a Newsletter – Reminder

I’m proud to announce a sister newsletter: BRAD SPEAKS

BRAD SPEAKS is a newsletter about:

* Humor & Comedy Skills

* The Business of Speakers / Entertainers / Comedians

* How to get more money from your motivational or professional speaker / entertainer business

… and we are about to release the premier issue.

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This new project is going rock… and if you knew even HALF of what I have planned, you’d have a smile on your face as big as mine.

The first 3 projects that come out of this newsletter are gonna blow you away!

I’m so psyched. You’ll be psyched too.

Promise.

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Caramels or Whining.

The Latest from Brad Montgomery

1. Smiling CAN get you more of what you want.

2. Help Me With YouTube and Get a Free Book

3. Presentation Tip: Smile!

4. Cool Links to Even More Humor.

Smiling as a Second Language

I spent three weeks with my family in Guatemala over the holidaze. (What can I say? I have a great job.) I learned about a million things: Spanish, Poverty, Geology, and Food. I also learned that you probably cannot spend too much time with your kids.

But the most surprising lesson I learned is about the power of the smile. And I learned that I have a lot to learn.

Let me explain. During my day-to-day interactions with people, I use a bunch of humor. I joke with everybody from my wife to the teller at the bank to the woman at the grocery store. I feel that I get more of everything when I joke. More fun, less stress and even better service.

Rewind

The Latest from Brad Montgomery

1. Why You Need A Funny Email Signature.

2. 7 Tips For Telling A Joke.

3. Cool Links to Even More Humor!

The Whys and Hows of a Funny Email Signature

Humor helps people to connect with other people. And people tend to trust those people who make them laugh. If these points are true — and they are — doesn’t that mean that we should all strive to use more humor?

One of the easiest ways to be funny is to add some humor to your email signature.

Read a great example and get more ideas in this article.

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Seve Tips for Telling a Joke

To be honest, I think that most presenters should avoid telling jokes. But on the other hand, telling jokes around the water cooler or on the porch while sippin’ lemonade is a time-honored tradition. If it was good enough for Gramps, why ain’t it good enough for us? But if

The Latest from Brad Montgomery

1. How To Feel Rich At Work.

2. What Does American Idol Have To Do With Pro Speakers?.

3. Cool Links to Even More Humor!

How to Feel Rich at Work! (This is a fun, cool idea!)

Here’s a killer idea to improve the humor in your workplace courtesy of one of my clients, the Florida Department of Revenue.

They have “Anniversary Day.” It’s an awesome idea in a good news / bad news kind of way … and you should steal it.

Somebody makes up a tacky sign that says, “It’s My Anniversary!” on it. It’s made out of cardboard, has a string, and is meant to be worn around the neck like a necklace on the day of the anniversary that you started work at that office.

That’s the Bad News.

What’s the Good News? Everybody else in the office has to give the Anniversary Person a dollar on that day. They can use it to treat themselves to a

The Latest from Brad Montgomery

1. Office Practical Jokes

2. Don’t Try To Be Funny. Please.

3. Cool Links to Even More Humor!

Office Practical Jokes

Safe Jokes Can Improve Your Day. (Mean ones can get you fired.)

Those of you who know me know that I love practical jokes. But only some jokes. For me, the only practical jokes to consider are safe practical jokes; victimless practical jokes.

How do you know you’re on the right track?

If your “victim” ends up with mud on her face, is totally embarrassed, or it ends up costing him significant money then your joke is no good.

But if your joke brings more laughter and happiness, then you’re on the right track.

I found a fun site with goofy practical jokes about duct tape. Here’s a fun example:

Sinking Chairs

Here is a fun (and safe) prank to pull on co-workers in an office setting. Most office dwellers have chairs that use a pneumatic piston to control the height. They are

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End the Lousy Meetings! And Earn My Book… My Treat!

If your meetings seem to drag on and on… before they even start… then perhaps a great ice breaker would help. The basic idea is this: Cut out some photos from a news magazine, or from the internet, or… you get the idea. Then you encourage the group to come up with as many possible captions for that photo as possible. Don’t shoot for funny captions, just go for a LOT of captions. You’ll be surprised how many of the captions are genuinely funny. I can’t stress enough how if you try to make them funny, you’ll fail. But if you just go for quantity, you’ll have a great, fun, and sometimes funny ice breaker for your meeting. The result? More creativity. Better team spirit. And a bit of humor. I have a contest running on a funny photo of a lion… you can

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Celebrate Every Day with Garden Gnomes

After recently speaking to a group of fine folks, I left with a killer idea about how to use a tad more humor while at the same time boosting your company’s morale. The short story is that they have a Gnome that travels to a new desk every couple of months based on who has done something extraordinary. Yes, an ordinary garden gnome to celebrate the extraordinary. The beauty of this killer idea is that it doesn’t only reward top achievers. It could also be used to reward people who “finally cleaned up the snack room,” or were simply “in an infectious good mood on Monday.”

Click here to listen to the podcast (or right click to save it) here.

Do Professional Speakers Every Feel Like Frauds

In a podcast I interviewed professional speaker Mark Sharenbroich about several things, but one thing we talked about is the concept of

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Here is the chapter you requested called Humor Is A Business Word. (It’s part of my book, Humor Us.)

I’m proud of it, and hope that you’ll find it helpful and fun.

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Are you a believer in the power of levity and lightheartedness and its ability to help your organization get to where it deserves to be? Are you having trouble convincing the masses? Give us a call. We can help.

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