What you need to know is that the video didn’t influence my purchase of the book. I still went ahead and bought it, despite the video. The testimonials, reviews and other information on the page was enough to sidestep the video. But I have to say that video could do with some improvement.

And there’s another thing. The sound was ‘echoey’ as if spoken into a direct microphone on the computer, instead of routed through a microphone. I’d recommend a lavalier mic, or to record the audio separately on an audio layer and merge the audio and video later.

Sean
http://www.psychotactics.com

Rikk, Bert’s book has 2 pages on eye contact. It’s not the thrust of the book, it was what I needed though. I doubt if there is a comprehensive book on eye contact. What I liked about Bert’s insight is that the eyes are part of the central nervous system. It’s the only way our central nervous systems can touch another person. That had so much insight to me as to the power that the eyes have to connect and create a first impression. I’m working hard at my slow blink and also to not move my eyes around like Thomas the Tank Engine.

Enjoy your day guys!
Nancy

this seems to be one of the cases where we learn to listen much more to our kids than we usually do

When watching the first video, from my perspective you really make an impression of being bored. In the second video you appear to be much more behind the story you are telling. Still, there is one thing that I personally find a bit distracting. Every now and then, you are looking to lower right (or lower left from your perspective) corner as if you were reading from a teleprompter.

Christian

PS: The video didn’t sop me from buying the book – and I love it