How to Be Great at Public Speaking and Get Paid For It

Becoming a great public speaker and getting paid for it starts with a great topic and a dynamic presentation, and it ends with marketing techniques that get you bookings at top dollar.

Priceless Tips for Public Speaking

Avoiding the pitfalls of public speaking is easy when you follow these helpful tips. Learn from the experience of professional speakers, and start way ahead of the game.

Present Powerfully Using Strong and Well-Planned Transitions

Your transitions, well planned and strong, will add a smoothness and professionalism to your presentations that will wow any audience. This article highlights why, what and when to use transitions.

How To Reach An Audience

Technology helps us communicate messages faster and to a larger audience than every before. But technology does not create the message. Communication is still a human activity. To reach an audience, you have to know how to choose the right target audience, the right medium, and the right message.

Speak Out!

Public Speaking is not only a great business building strategy, it is also an excellent personal development tool. As a business strategy, it sets you apart from the crowd in your field, and can also be a useful additional income stream for you.

How to Be an Influential Speaker -- Use Knowledge and Experience

As presenters, we want to be remembered as being influential. Before planning and preparing your presentation write down how you want to influence those attending. What action steps, thoughts, fears and/or lessons do you expect them to leave with, remember and be influenced by?

Be an Influential Presenter: Have Passion and Use Dynamic Examples

When we are asked to give a presentation -- a keynote, a workshop, a sales presentation, or lead a meeting -- one of our primary goals is to influence our listeners in some way. What are the tools, methods, attributes and attitudes that will help us to become powerful, influential presenters?

Public Speakers! Helpful Tip #2 From Your Friendly Grammar Police

There are words that are so commonly misused that most people assume the wrong word is the correct word, and wouldn't even consider checking a dictionary. And are you one of those people who are bamboozed by the pronounciation of foreign words that we commonly use? How about your favorite little verbosities? Check out suggestions for fewer words and greater clarity.

Successful Presentations by Panels -- The Secrets

Recently, I was a presenter on a panel consisting of three other women entrepreneurs. It gave me a chance to revisit the potential power of panel presentations. Whether you are a presenter and/or a meeting planner and/or program coordinator, consider using the idea of a panel for your next presentation. It takes some extra organization and work, but I think you will find that it is well worth the time.

Improve Your Presentation Skills -- Ask For and Make Use of Feedback

Recently, a young woman who, in preparation for giving a 90 minute seminar at a regional conference on a rather dry and technical topic, asked a group of us to preview her seminar. She told us that we were to give her honest critiques along with any tips on ways she could improve her presentation.

Public Speaking: The Terror of Being Judged!

And that's really what's it's all about, isn't it? For most of us that fear of being unlovable, however it manifests in your particular case, is the trigger that makes our fear of self-exposure so scary. So, how can we metamorphosize that powerful, basic human emotion into a positive and self-affirming technique?

Public Speakers! Relax and Strengthen Your Voice With These Easy Exercises

One of the most discomfiting occurrences when you're speaking in public is to have your voice tighten up and come out as a high-pitched squeak or just give up and go away. It's so off-putting that it makes a person want to jettison the entire business of speaking in public. Perhaps the thought of being a mime becomes very attractive indeed.

The Trouble With PowerPoint

PowerPoint is the most misused tool since the television remote control. Sure, you can flip through 200 channels in under a minute, but should you? And while you can show 50 PowerPoint slides, should you? This article tells you how to prepare a great presentation without misusing PowerPoint (and losing your audience).

Public Speaking from Dull to Dynamic

Here are some speaking tips when you're forced to present on a dull topic.