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Speaking Secrets

How to create revenue and clients from speaking engagements.

I fall to pieces. Isn't that the feeling you get when you've got to speak?
You're fine when you're speaking one on one. But when you're speaking to an
audience, your nerves are a wreck. Well…it happens to the best of us.

And the fear of speaking is something you learn to control, if not overcome.

Of course, the part about speaking that
slips under the radar is the whole business of speaking. How do you
maximise your speaking engagement? This section on Speaking Secrets
will give you concrete tips on what to do and how to bring in huge
amounts of applause — as well as money in the bank.

  1. How The Right Display Can Accelerate Sales At A Speaking Event
  2. How the Restaurant Trick Gets Audiences To Quieten Down Instantly
  3. You’re In The Speaking, Not In The Catering Business
  4. How To Set Up A Room For Maximum Participation
  5. How To Time A Speech Down To The Last Second
  6. Why Audiences Fall Asleep
  7. Should You Take The Speaking Engagement? How to Choose
  8. How to keep audiences awake after lunch
  9. How To Get Your Contact Details Across: When The Organisers Won’t Let You
  10. The Most Critical Entry To Check On Your Sales Form
  11. Audit of A Radio Interview
  12. How To Get Your Noisy Audience To Instantly Pay Attention!
  13. How To Get An Audience Back Into The Room
  14. Why You Should Hold A Teleclass: Part 2
  15. How To Bring A Dead Audience to Life: Overcoming a Speaker’s Worst Nightmare
  16. The Difference Between A Written And Live Testimonial
  17. How To Prevent Your Speaking Voice From Falling Apart
  18. How To Beat Jet Lag
  19. How To Avoid Audience Challenge
  20. Why Time Isn’t Your Enemy (And How To Make Friends With Time)
  21. How To Get An Audience To Raise Their Hands
  22. The Curse of Business Cards At A Speaking Event
  23. The Importance Of Orchestration
  24. Why Jokes Fall Flat In A Presentation
  25. Getting audiences out of zzzzzz zone
  26. Dumping PowerPoint
  27. How To Get Business Cards From Your Audience
  28. How To Do Video Interviews: Crafting Your Video Message
  29. How To Do A Video Interview: Part 2
  30. How To Do A Video Interview: Part 1
  31. How To Do Video Interviews: Part 3
  32. Workshop Recording: Picking the Sound Engineer
  33. Workshop Recording: Outsourcing Your Recordings
  34. Workshop Recording: Is A Dictaphone A Good Idea?
  35. Workshop Recording: Getting the audio ready for distribution
  36. Workshop Recording: FAQs About Recording
  37. Workshop Recording: How To Make Editing Easier
  38. Should You Script The Audio For Your Video? Or Avoid Scripting
  39. Why Most Screencasts And Online Presentations Are Tedious (And How To Fix It)
  40. How to Syndicate Screen Video
  41. The Subtle (Yet Important) Difference Between Presentation And Conversation
  42. How To Record A Screen Video Presentation (Without Having To Do Tons of Editing)
  43. Why You Need To Segregate ‘Subscribers’ From ‘Buyers’ At Speaking Events: Part 4 of 4
  44. How To Create A Pretty Awesome Speaking/Course/Teleclass Agenda: Part 3 of 4
  45. How To Increase Consumption (And Sales) with Advance Reports : Part 2 of 4
  46. How To Get Higher Scores In Seminars: Part 1/4
  47. Teleclass Techniques-Part 4: How Third-Party Businesses Increase Participation
  48. Teleclass Techniques: Part 3- Why The Common Pool Of Understanding Helps Increase Participation
  49. Teleclass Techniques: Part 2-How To Warm Up An Audience
  50. Teleclass Techniques: Part 1-How To Get Audience Participation
  51. How To Do Interviews Like A Professional: Part 1 of Interviews
  52. How To Approach Potential Interviewees: Part 2 of Interviews
  53. Where To Find Interviewees In Your Field: Part 3 of Interviews
  54. How To Really Impress Your Interviewees: Part 4 of Interviews
  55. How To Design An Order Form for Speaking Events
  56. Podcasting: How To Enable Your Customer To Find Your Audio File Easily
  57. Podcasting: How to syndicate your content and attracting customers
  58. Podcasting: Production Techniques That Anyone Can Follow
  59. Podcasting: How To Control The Sound of Your Voice
  60. How Analogies Work To Get An Audience’s Attention.txt
  61. How to Use Props to Get The Attention of the Audience.txt
  62. How To Use Well-Loved Stories to Wake Up An Audience
  63. How to systematically use numbers to get attention when speaking.txt
  64. Why You Should Hold A Teleclass: Part 1
  65. Teleclasses and Training: Best of 2007: Why You Should Hold A Teleclass
  66. Audio and Teleclasses: Should You Always Have A Transcript?
  67. Teleclasses and Training: Best of 2007: How To Get Audiences To Speak On A Teleclass
  68. Teleclasses and Training: Best of 2007: How to use 1:1:1 system for teleclass series
  69. Teleclasses and Training: Best of 2007: A checklist
  70. Testimonials: Proof is the bottom line for everyone
  71. Speaking: Do you script audio or speak extempore?
  72. How To Avoid Hecklers During Your Speech
  73. How to price Homestudy Versions of your live event
  74. How To Estimate Event Costs
  75. You Are Not In Catering: Why Your Workshop Costs Go Ballistic
  76. Why Couples Should Be Segregated At Events
  77. Things You Shouldn’t Tell Your Audience
  78. Learning from Kindergarten Teachers: The Gold Star Route to Consumption
  79. How To Set Up A Room For Maximum Participation
  80. How to use 1:1:1 system for teleclass series.

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