Top 7 Ways to Succeed in the Business of Speaking
How attractive are you as a speaker?
No, your looks, but
your consistent ability to provide a quality presentation,
attract clients, and be irresistibly attractive to meeting
planners and speaker bureaus?
Below are some useful tips
that I learned while owning a national, professional
speakers bureau for 13 years.
1. Presentation ? do you have something interesting,
inspiring, and useful to share with audiences?
Be mindful
of your voice (keep it deep and low pitched), your
personality and attitude (positive), your tone (soft, loud.
Encouraging as needed), your style, your vocabulary.
2.
Connection ? how quickly do you get to the core of your
audience's problems and challenges?
Skip what is between
their ears and go straight to their hearts.
3. Passion ? do you love what you do?
Develop a niche or
specialty that you truly enjoy ? and are good at.
4. Network ? enhance your speaking career by networking with
50 or more other speakers.
They become your referral
sources.
Join the National Speakers Association ? a 4,000
member organization that holds conferences and has local
chapters to help you with your marketing skills and
networking.
Call 480-968-2552 (Arizona)
5. Products ? write a book, booklet(s), create audio tapes,
video tapes, CD/ROM.
Having products will catapult your
speaking career and make you more valuable to your clients.
This "passive" income is like having frosting on the cake.
6. Value added ? become known as a value added speaker.
Provide handouts, attend the cocktail reception before your
program, stay after your speech, offer follow-up
teleclasses, offer your consulting services, be a
facilitator.
7.
Hire a Coach ? The Olympic Games remind us that a
world-class athlete is surrounded by a number of people
whose function is to keep him/her on track.
No serious
athlete or professional speaker would expect to progress
very far without a COACH.
?2004 by Sandra Schrift.
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7 Ways to be a Great Speaker
1. Be YourselfIt's great to watch other successful speakers, to see what they do and how they do it. To be a great speaker in your own right requires you to develop your own style, to speak using your own voice. Be yourself when you speak and you can't help but be successful. 2.
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There's something that sets them apart. Makes them stand out. They're the speakers who do more than just stand in the front of the room and talk at you. 4. Be funnySuccessful speakers know how to be funny, that is: they know when and where to use humor in their presentations...
and they aren't afraid to do so. 5. Be engagingListening to a speech is, for most...
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7 Ways to be a Great Speaker
1. Be YourselfIt's great to watch other successful speakers, to see what they do and how they do it. To be a great speaker in your own right requires you to develop your own style, to speak using your own voice. Be yourself when you speak and you can't help but be successful. 2.
Be BoldYou might think that it takes boldness just to stand up and start talking, and it does, but there are plenty of speakers out there who come across like timid mice. Be bold as a speaker, confident in your abilities. Practice every day, give speeches whenever you can. 3. Be differentSuccessful speakers aren't like everybody else.
There's something that sets them apart. Makes them stand out. They're the speakers who do more than just stand in the front of the room and talk at you. 4. Be funnySuccessful speakers know how to be funny, that is: they know when and where to use humor in their presentations...
and they aren't afraid to do so. 5. Be engagingListening to a speech is, for most...
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Affiliate Summit Affiliate Marketing Conference Announces Call for Speakers for January 2007 in Las Vegas
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