Tag: Make Them Laugh
Public Speaking Means Never Saying “I’m Sorry”
Public Speaking Means Never Saying “I’m Sorry” In the romantic movie,...
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Marketing by not Marketing
Many times local civic organizations look for experts from various businesses to come and give a presentation about your area of skill. The Elks, Rotary, and Kiwanis are just a few who are always on the look for good public speakers to address their groups. So if you get a chance to speak to these groups, it’s easy to see these as tremendous business opportunities for marketing.
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Making a Living as a Public Speaker
One way to view making your living as a public speaker is to see it as a variation on the profession of a professional author. When you think about it, a writer of informative books takes an area of expertise that they have excelled at and they used their skills in writing to lay that out for people who need that knowledge. And when people buy that knowledge, it’s a fair exchange to pay that person for that valuable knowledge and allow that author to continue writing.
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If you pick up any self-help guide on how to be effective as a public speaker, one of the golden rules is to open with a joke. But guess what? That is not actually a hard and fast rule. Humor is the type of thing that works just as well about a minute into your presentation, halfway through or just about anywhere that you feel you are losing your audience.
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