Timing - Why You Should Never Go Overtime with Your Presentation or Speech

When giving a speech or presentation, it rarely follows the rehearsed timings, most speakers go overtime. This article explains why it is crucial not to go overtime with your talk.

To Insure Success in Speaking: Anticipate

Anticipating what others will say or do contributes to your effectiveness as a speaker...

Talk May Be Cheap but Your Speech Should Be Priceless!

Take a moment and imagine if you will any one of the following scenarios: --You’ve been contacted to schedule an interview for a fantastic job opportunity. --You’ve been requested by your employer to make a key presentation at a Board of Director’s meeting. --You have a lunch appointment with a prospective client from a major account. --You’ve been asked to fill in for a colleague in teaching a training session.

7 Sure Fire Ways To Overcome Stage Fright When Speaking Or Performing

In thirty years of speaking and performing I have heard just about every solution for overcoming stage fright. Some have suggested trying to envision your audience all being naked. Others have advised that you just pick one point of focus in the room such as one person’s forehead and concentrate only on that. These ideas almost never work, so here are a few better ideas for your consideration.

Voice Coaching - Training Your Voice to Give Better Presentations

Learn from former broadcaster Thomas Murrell MBA CSP techniques to improve your voice for your next presentation and tips you can learn from former politician and effective public speaker Bob Carr for voice coaching.

Speech Presenting - Seven Ways to Tailor Your Speech to the Audience

Every speech has an audience and every audience is different. Tailoring your next speech to its audience is as important as the content in the speech. Learn seven tips from professional speaker and MBA Thomas Murrell to make your next speech or presentation a success.

The Top Four Ways To Get Audience Involvement In A Presentation

When making a speech or presentation, holding the audience's attention is a big challenge. Learn from professional speaker and consultant Thomas Murrell MBA CSP his four tips to hold your next audiences attention and get them involved in your presentation.

4 Ways To Locate Public Speaking Jobs Online

Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to join a speakers bureau in order to get a public speaking job. The Internet offers leads to prime opportunities IF you know where to look.

Public Speaking: 10 Steps to Avoid PowerPoint Becoming a Deadly Virus

PowerPoint can destroy a great speech, or prevent a great speech every being created. Profession Speaker Rikki Arundel highlights the dangers or using PowerPoint and provides 10 great tips to avoid them and keep your audience awake.

Myths of Public Speaking: #1 You'll Always Be Nervous

You may feel that you will always be nervous as a public speaker, but it’s not true unless you have a disorder. I know some speakers who brag about still being nervous even after doing the same speech for ten years. Please. I don’t need that kind of pressure. Part of the problem is that we fail to recognize the difference in excitement and anxiety. Discover the difference and your public speaking will take a turn to greater confidence.

Should You Hire a Booking Agent?

Is it time to hire a booking agent? Ask yourself the readiness questions?

Ten Steps to Increase Your Bookings

For Speakers, Authors, Experts and Leaders Who Want to Get Paid to Speak

When Speakers' Bureaus Don't Call

Have you systematized the booking process? What do you do to get your telephone to ring? Do you have web traffic to your site inviting you to speak? Read on to see what you can do to attract speaking engagements!

Effective Public Speaking for Small Business Owners

Public speaking is comfortably the quickest and easiest way to improve your company visibility, establish yourself as an expert, get you face known and get businesses coming to you. Here's how to make sure you get it right.