7 Keys To A Powerful Elevator Speech

Discover 7 keys to writing and using the elevator speech to make you stand out among your peers -- and to attract your ideal clients.

7 Deadly Sins to Avoid When You're the Guest Speaker

Speaking about what you do is an incredibly powerful way of marketing a service business. There are a few simple steps you can take and mistakes to avoid so that you have a memorable presentation that makes your audience eager to hear from you again and again.

Three Tips to A Terrific Talk

When writing a speech, here are ten tips to making it a positive experience. Communications trainer Katie Schwartz shares secrets of success.

Speakers - How to Get Booked!

A handful of tips to help position yourself within the speaking arena and get those speaking engagements!

Speakers: Are You Struggling to Find a Good Speaker for Your School/Conference?

Staff training day coming around and the headteacher has asked you to get a good speaker to do a day's session on autism ... or ADHD ... or behaviour management. Where do you go? A new section on our website will provide all the information you need.

Public Speaking: Storytelling Tricks

TRICK: Look in different directions to indicate different characters. The audience will associate a stage right or stage left look with the different character...

Public Speaking: Stage Fright Strategies

Stage fright Is Good and Makes You Better Looking Too! Before you learn how to speak in public, it is important to be ready to speak in public. Stage fright is a phenomenon that you must learn to control if you want to be good at public speaking. Actually, stage fright isn't the most...

Public Speaking: Line of Sight

When you speak alot you run into some crazy room setups. It's your job to be there early to make sure all the little preparation details taken care of. One of these details is the visibility of you and your visuals from each chair in the audience.

Public Speaking: Bribes

I don't believe in penny pinching when you get in a pinch...

Public Speaking: 20 Questions to Ask BEFORE Hiring a Speaker

1. Is the speaker's topic right for my audience? 2. Does the speaker have verifiable references? 3. Does the speaker have audio and/or video demonstration materials? These materials should show you what the speaker is like in front of an audience. Caution: Don't get hung up on the...

Public Speaking: Tips for Television, Videotape, and Videoconferencing

Here are some things you should keep in mind when a television camera is trained on you:

Give 'em What They Want

As a professional public speaker you don't mope around crying because your product sales would suffer or because your ego is suffering. You give it your all whether there are 3 or 3000 in the audience.

Time of Day Matters

Public speaking has aspects related to time of day that you must know about. The first speaker of the day for an early morning (7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.) program should not expect hearty laughter. People are not conditioned to laugh a great deal in the early morning. Many won't even be awake yet. Use more information and less humor. I was asked by a sales speaker to open up an early morning public seminar. He said, 'I just want you to get them laughing before I start speaking.' I told him that it was not a good idea, but he insisted. I opened up the seminar with some sure-fire humor to test their responsiveness and got little response. I cut my material and brought the speaker on stage. He couldn't get them laughing either. I sat in the audience and watched. By 10:15 a.m. they were laughing at just about anything...

Public Speaking: The WOW! Factor

If you want to push your name up the memorability chart, put something unique in your speaking engagements that causes the audience members to go WOW!

Public Speaking: On Stage Tips

* The larger the crowd, the larger and slower the gestures...