Reprinting these articles

We're passionate about helping people being better communicators.  We do this through our seminars, individual coaching, speaking at conferences for our clients and publishing short self-help articles on this site.

We've deliberately not charged for these articles as we want to inspire as well as help you add power to your communication.  However a number of trainers ask if they can use our material after they've been to one of our seminars or heard us speak. 

We're happy to share our articles most of the time

We're pleased to share our articles in the spirit of helping people learn to be better communicators.  But it is our copyright and we're happy to share it for free only if you are not reprinting our material for profit or without crediting the author. 

Fair enough, don't you think?  This doesn't include a training session if you're a corporate trainer.  But it does if you are a private training company advertising courses based on our material.  If you'd like to run courses based on our material, let's talk.

We've listed the specific conditions under which you can reprint our material so please check below.  If you'd like to talk to us about this or seek permission to use any of this material commercially, email us at: talkshowarticles@talkshowconfessions.com.

And we'd like to add value to your company

Remember, reading an article is a great first step to becoming a successful communicator.  But nothing beats face-to-face training, coaching or consulting.  These are the methods which have been proven to add the most value and save the most time when developing skills. 

We can provide personal coaching for executives, seminars and workshops for you or your staff.  We can speak at your conferences to motivate colleagues and get them excited about communication.  Write to us to find out how we can help you at: seminarsandconferences@talkshowcommunication.com.

Conditions for reprinting articles

When you don't need permission

You're welcome to reprint these articles so long as you don't reprint more 8 articles at a time, you acknowledge full authorship, reference this website, and don't substantially change the content in a way that modifies the content or context of these articles. 

While we don't ask you to seek our permission to print less than 8 copies for a training course or work meeting, we'd be grateful if you let us know you're using our articles.  We're always interested to know how helpful they are.

This policy stands until June 2007 at which point we will withdraw this open agreement to review it.  Until a new policy is published on this site to replace the current policy, all rights will be reserved after June 2007 so that any use of our content will require written permission from us.  (This is to protect the rights of this material, not change our policy of sharing.)

When you need permission

Our content has been filed with the US Copyright Office.  We will consider it a copyright violation if you do any of the following without first seeking our permission. 

1. Reprint and distribute more than 8 copies for any purpose except academic or media review.  If you want to use these for a large group, email us for permission.
2. Reprint copies for profit.  If you want to make money off the back of our creativity, email and we'll look at a commercial agreement.
3. Reversion any of our materials so they do not fully credit the author and website, or they reflect a brand other than talkshowconfessions.com.  We are happy to discuss licensing articles and parts of our content for other training companies but you must seek our permission first.

If you'd like to share your thoughts on our articles we'd also like to hear from you.  Just email the the author's name @talkshowconfessions.com.  For example, fredsmith@talkshowconfessions.com