A Perfect Meeting: AKA When You Don't Want to Strangle the Speaker

Have you ever worked for weeks or even months, often far beyond normal office hours on a special meeting event only to have it turn into THE PERFECT STORM. Well, maybe your entire crew didn't perish at sea, but there were those clearly identifiable moments when it looked as if the ship was about to capsize. Although many meeting goblins can contribute to such disasters, sometimes the speaker can be one of the contributing causes. How can such terrors be avoided?

How to Become a More Persuasive Speaker: A Systems Approach

This article provides an outline of the Tracy Presentation Skills S3P3 System for planning, practicing and presenting. The objective of the article is to show both the importance of persuasive speaking for career success and an easy-to-learn method to become a persuasive speaker.

Speakers Learn How to Define Your Niche

Position yourself to become the speaker of choice. If someone is already doing it - do something else!

Getting Yourself Known

Getting your first speaking engagement may be difficult but once you have a great topic and the right audience, the word will get out. This article discusses ways of getting known in the speaking industry.

How VALUABLE is Your Speaking Topic?

Most speakers think they are giving great value to the audience. How can you make sure this is true? This article will give you some tips on making sure vlaue is a part of your delivery.

Know Your Audience

Before you make a presentation or explain to others what it is that you do, you need to know your audience. This article is the beginning of understanding your audience and how to pitch your product or service.

For Speakers: Ten Tips on How to Increase Your Fees

Do you give speaking engagements? Marketing Master and Professional Speaker, Catherine Franz, discusses how to increase your speaking fees in small ways that add up to bigger amounts in your bank account. Catherine also shares with you just how important it is to on what name you use.

Poised for Success: How Developing Self-Awareness Can Improve Your Presentations

There is a well-known saying ‘you never get a second chance to create a first impression’. First impressions are formed quickly and often retained to some degree throughout the relationship, and certainly throughout the duration of a presentation. How an audience responds to what you have to say has a lot to do with how you present it. It is therefore vitally important to ensure that the first impression your audience forms is the one you wish to portray – whether an accurate reflection on your ability or not!

How To Get Paid Every Time You Speak - REALLY!

Speaking maybe a way to marketing your business, however, when you speak, make sure you're getting paid, too!

Directing Voiceovers: Don't Be, Do!

Directing a voice-over talent you've hired to read a spot for, say, dog food is pretty much the same as directing a great actor in a scene in a major film production. Well, almost the same. Go with me here.

12 Ways to be a Confident Public Speaker

Speak from your heart. If you believe in what you say, than others need to hear it. All confident speakers fall in the P2 (passion plus persistence). Be sure your speech contains your most fundame...

Top 7 Steps to Better Public Speaking

Whether you want to be a part time, full time or BIG time speaker you must speak, speak, speak. At first, deliver 25-30 minute free talks to service clubs and community organizations. Consider it ...

Speaking Body Language

I observed an almost surreal event when I was a business student. At the front of the classroom, an entrepreneur was practicing a pitch he would make later to venture capital firms. Specifically, he ...

Speaker Partnership Offers Trade Show Value

Want to gain added exposure at a trade show? Consider sponsoring a professional speaker at the attendees meeting. But don't just settle for a banner on the stage with your company name. There's much...

The P's and Q's of Public Speaking

Public speaking is still one of our greatest fears; it turns grown men and women into nervous wrecks. The mere thought of it turns our tongue to cotton wool, causes our internal plumbing to act up and our kneecaps to start knocking lumps out of each other.