Greg Smith’s Speak Like a Pro without Looking Like a Jack@$$ is available Mon., Apr. 30 for business professionals and anyone else who would profit from better speaking skills.
     
      Over the last decade, Compco Industries’ Chairman of the Board, Greg Smith, set out on personal quest to learn all he could about public speaking. Today, he is the author of new book on the art and science of effective speaking titled Speak Like a Pro without Looking Like a Jack@$$.
     
      “I’ve discovered how powerfully communications skills can impact a person’s personal and professional lives and I felt an overwhelming need to share what I’ve learned with as many people as I could,” Smith says of his book.
     
      Speak Like a Pro without Looking Like a Jack@$$ is Smith’s first book. In it, Smith condenses and gives context to insights gained over years of intense, personal study with the best speaker-trainers in America. These “masters”, as Smith calls them, include voice coach Roger Love, former NFL player turned playwright and story trainer Bo Eason, personal power coach Tony Robbins, former Army Green Beret and leadership coach Scott Mann, communications coaches Mary Kincaid and Jonathan Altfeld and Leadership expert John Maxwell—author of several best-selling books, including The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Smith even dedicated the book to Maxwell, whom he has been friends with for more than twenty years.
     
      “I spent a great deal of time and money researching this book. And, now, anyone can buy it for less than ten dollars and read it in just a few hours,” Smith says.
     
      According to Smith, his book covers a wide range of topics including keys for developing impactful content for speeches and connecting deeply with the audience as well as advice for improving the speaker’s voice quality and body movements on stage. “I wanted to write something that covered all the bases and would be immediately helpful to both the novice and experienced speaker,” Smith says.
     
      As for his intended audience, Smith says “I define public speaking a little differently than some. This book is not for politicians and performers. If you use communication in business or life, Speak Like a Pro without Looking Like a Jack@$$ is for you. It’s information that makes people and companies more productive and profitable.”
     
      In order to introduce his book to the widest possible audience, Smith priced the e-book version at $1.99 (regular price- $7.99) and the print version at $9.99 (regular price- $19.99). This is for one day only—Monday, April 30th.
     
      Speak Like a Pro without Looking Like a Jack@$$ is available on gregsmithleadership.com, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and other online stores.