The Winning Interview™
The Winning Interview™: How to Win Pageant Interviews
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$19.99
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The Winning Interview™
Dramatically improve your pageant interviews with this DOWNLOADABLE training program by Ann-Marie Bivans, author of three major books on pageants: 101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants, Miss America: In Pursuit of the Crown, and The Miss America Cookbook and a past judge for the Miss America Pageant.
This audio training program, originally available as a set of four CDs, now is available for immediate download as four MP3s. "The Winning Interview" provides hours of outstanding step-by-step instructions on exactly how to prepare for your pageant interviews and how to prevent or recover from the different types of problems that can sabotage your judges interviews:
- The steps you must take before you enter the judges interview
- What questions judges are most likely to ask
- What personal qualities to emphasize to impress judges
- What mistakes can cost you the crown and how to avoid them
- How to overcome interview nerves
- Body language that can cause judges to conclude you're not their winner
- The behaviors that most annoy judges
- How to recover when a judge asks a question you can't answer
- What questions you absolutely must answer
- Costly mistakes to avoid in handling questions about controversial subjects
- How your voice can cost you the crown
- Examples of how major winners' answered judges' questions
- Real-life examples of clothing mistakes that cost the crown
- and much more....
Listen to samples of the MP3 audio downloads:
Ann-Marie Bivans Ann-Marie Bivans is the author of three books on pageantry: "101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants", "Miss America: In Pursuit of the Crown - The Complete Guide to the Miss America Pageant", and "The Miss America Cookbook", as well numerous articles in Pageantry magazine and Miss America program books.
The author has been interviewed on 300 radio and television programs including Larry King Live, The Jenny Jones Show, The Joan Rivers Show, Hard Copy, American Journal, Real Life (NBC), Lifetime, The 700 Club, TV Food Network, America's Talking, AM Canada, AM Los Angeles, AM Philadelphia (interviewed live from the Miss America Pageant), Live From Universal Studios, and A&E's "Beauty Pageants: Bright Lights and Big Business". The author and her work have been quoted in newspapers and magazines nationwide, including Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, Harper's magazine, Washingtonian, New Woman, Woman's World, New York Daily News, Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, New York Post, Miami Herald, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly and more.
A seasoned pageant judge, Ann-Marie has judged the Miss America Pageant, Cinderella International Finals, Miss Cayman World/Universe, and scores of local and state pageants including the intensely competitive Miss Florida and Miss South Carolina pageants. Her two decades of research on pageants has included 250 interviews with titleholders, judges, emcees, contestants, officials. Due to Bivans' expertise she has served as a consultant for pageant-related features and documentaries including A&E's "Beauty Pageants: Bright Lights and Big Business" and pageant-related features produced by The 700 Club, American Journal, Hard Copy, and TV-Asahi (Japan).
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NOTES:
- Due to the several hours of instruction on these 4 MP3s, the download size is considerable and requires a large hard drive.
- Once downloaded, many customers burn the four MP3s to four CDs or a DVD for long-term storage.
- Recommended for Teen, Miss and Mrs contestants. We suggest that parents of child contestants (under age 12) listen to the content with their daughter.
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