Sunday, September 5th, 2010

“After consulting with Darren I was inspired to change my approach to a marketing campaign. I followed his instructions and the results speak for themselves. We sold 45 units of my Dynamite Speech System in 72 hours to the tune of over $4500. If you want to create, market and sell more product, hire Darren [...]

Does you product have lasting impact? Check out this amazing encounter I had with someone 6 years after meeting him at a conference. Stage time, Darren LaCroix, 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking

Love to get testimonials like this: Darren, I’ve got to tell you! Thank you for providing tools and techniques to use right away! In fact, I think I used them without thinking about it because you implanted them in my mind so well! Today was the first day I presented as Education Coordinator for our [...]

As a candidate for lieutenant governor of marketing, I knew most Toastmasters would make their choice after hearing the two of us give our two minute speech at the business meeting.  The election was slated for mid-April.  I had a one hour coaching session with Darren the final week of January to help me prepare [...]

One of my favorite shows on TV is Mythbusters. I love what they do and how they do it. They scientifically confirm or deny urban legends and myths in a fun way. It got me thinking about some of the classic myths about presentations. Early in my speaking career, I received one of the worst [...]

Dear Darren, I spent my best hour of coaching with you Darren. You helped me transform a two year old dream into specific and realistic objectives, and you made sure I committed to it. Imagine, I will prepare my own conference, yes me, and inspire parents like me who deal with challenging children situations at [...]

What do people say 3 days AFTER you speak? How memorable are your words? Found this print out of an e-mail from my Henry Miller, who had me come speak to his TLI about: Speaking Outside of Toastmasters for Fun Profit and Club Building. Henry’s e-mail said: I attended two Christmas Club parties yesterday and [...]

Was forcing myself to knock down some of my piles in my office today, and came across a letter from Karen Hudson, an attendee at one of my training sessions that I did with fellow World Champion, Lance Miller. Karen is a writer for Redbook Magazine. We never know who is in our audience or [...]

Don’t take my word for it, what do people who learned YouTube from me say: “Darren really took the fear out of working with YouTube. He really made it YouTube for Dummies!” Alton Jamison, Motivational Speaker “I’m such a techno-phobe that having Darren walk us through step-by-step was wonderful.” Charlyne Meinhard, Management Consultant “Darren showed [...]

SUBJECT: Humor Applied Hi Darren, I thought you’d like to know that your Humor Boot Camp® worked so well for me that when I gave the “Confrontation: The Adversary Relationship” speech, the club was supposed to get riled up. But they laughed all the way through …your techniques for humor worked way too well! Maybe [...]