Ten Ways To Public Speaking
Can you stand in front of huge audience and express your self? Most of us have butterflies in our stomach with the very thought of doing this. Apart from few that have natural talent for connecting with other people or had some one who could actually teach them to communicate, few of us get the best results that could from the wonderful communication tools that we are given with most of us are in a dire need to improve public speaking skills.
We all have people with whom we have to work to get things done. Our ability to communicate with clients, customers, subordinates, peers, and superiors can enhance our effectiveness or sabotage us. Many times, our public speaking skills make the difference.
Here are 10 ways to improve public speaking:
1. The first way to improve your public speaking is by developing your voice. A high whiney voice is not perceived to be one of authority. In fact, a high soft voice can make you sound like prey to an aggressive co-worker who is out to make his/her career at the expense of anyone else. Begin doing exercises to lower the pitch of your voice.
2. The second way to better public speaking is to talk slowly. People will perceive you as nervous and unsure of yourself if you talk fast. However, be careful not to slow down to the point where people begin to finish your sentences just to help you finish.
3. The third way better public speaking is to animate your voice. Avoid a monotone. Use dynamics. Your pitch should raise and lower. Your volume should be soft and loud. Listen to your local TV news anchor; take note.
4. Fourth way better public speaking is enunciating your words. Speak clearly. Do not mumble. If people are always saying,”huh?” to you, you are mumbling.
5. Fifth way better public speaking is by using appropriate volume. Use a volume that is appropriate for the setting. Speak more softly when you are alone and close. Speak louder when you are speaking to larger groups or across larger spaces.
6. Sixth way to better public speaking is by pronouncing every word correctly. People will judge your competency through your vocabulary. If you aren’t sure how to say a word, do not use it.
7. Seventh way to better public speaking is by using the right word. If you are not sure of the meaning of a word, do not use it. Start a program of learning a new word a day. Use it sometime in your conversations during the day
8. Eighth way better public speaking is by making eye contact with the person you are talking to.
9. Ninth way to better public speaking is by using gestures while you speak Make your whole body talk. Use smaller gestures for individuals and small groups. The gestures should get larger as the group that one is addressing increase in size.
10. Last but not the least, tenth way to better public speaking is by not sending mixed messages. Make your words, gestures, facial expressions, tone, and message match. Disciplining an employee while smiling sends a mixed message and, therefore, is ineffective. If you have to deliver a negative message, make your words, facial expressions and tone match the message.
Public speaking is an art, which can be developed by practice. You can draw attention of thousands of audience if have good public speaking skills. Not only while addressing large audience, you can make your talks a pleasure for everyone by improving your public speaking skills.
John Khu is an experience entrepreneur and internet marketer. He specializes in communication development and personal happiness.
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The Only Scientifically Proven Method Of Eliminating The Fear Of Public Speaking Permanently
In May 2006 the journal Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy published a research study that proves there is a way to permanently eliminate the fear of public speaking.
This research paper described how 36 people who had a fear of public speaking were divided into two groups to test the effectiveness of a fear elimination procedure called The Lefkoe Method.
One group was exposed to The Lefkoe Method.
The other group went to Toastmasters meetings.
After a few hours of exposure to The Lefkoe Method the first group spoke in public and each member of that group reported that their fear had literally disappeared.
The second group spoke in public at the same time and, of course, they had the same level of fear they had before.
However, researchers wanted to be totally sure that The Lefkoe Method produced the results they were witnessing.
So they had the second group go through the steps of The Lefkoe Method.
This group was asked to speak in public again and each participant reported that he or she had no fear of speaking in public.
Of course, by itself, this doesn’t prove that the changes are long lasting.
So researchers followed up with participants in the study two years later.
And they found that participants remained fearless when speaking in public.
So Dr. Lee Sechrest, professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, who conducted the study, concluded,
“The Lefkoe Method is an effective, quick, and convenient procedure to eliminate the fear of speaking in public.”
Morty Lefkoe, founder of The Lefkoe Institute and published author, was not surprised as he and his colleagues were already helping over 450 people a year eliminate their fear of public speaking at the time the journal article was published.
And how does it work?
According to Lefkoe it works by “undoing” the two main causes of the fear of public speaking–negative beliefs and emotional conditioning.
Many people who have the fear of public speaking have beliefs like “Mistakes are bad” and “If I make a mistake, I’ll be rejected.”
These beliefs cause them to fear making a mistake in front of an audience, fear looking stupid and fear people even seeing that hey have fear.
Emotional conditioning is that familiar phenomenon described by Pavolv’s experiments with dogs in which he got them to salivate at the sound of a bell by ringing it when food was given. Once this happened often enough the dogs salivated at the sound of the bell even when no food was given to them.
A similar process happens to help you get conditioned to fear the types of events that could happen when you speak in public.
For example, many fearful speakers fear being judged or criticized. They form their fear because when they were young their parents were upset at them whenever giving criticism. This caused them to feel fear and to “associate” fear to being criticized.
And so as an adult aware of the mere possibility that they might be judged or criticized when speaking in public they feel fear.
Lefkoe’s processes help people to disconnect from past conditioned fears and to stop negative beliefs cold.
So what can you do if you want to get rid of your fear?
You’ll have to follow the four steps of The Lefkoe Method:
1. Uncover the beliefs that have been causing your fear.
2. Isolate the events that led to the creation of those beliefs.
3. “Get” at a very deep and profound level that those beliefs aren’t true now and never have been, and that you never actually “saw” them in the world.
4. Dissolve the conditioning that’s locking your fear in place on autopilot.
When you do all four of these things you will speak without fear in public for the rest of your life.
Rodney Daut is a personal growth expert. He is a fully certified facilitator of The Lefkoe Method and can be contacted through http://www.undoityourself.com/fear
Marketing Your Podcast
Now you have to get your podcast out into the world to be heard. Many broadcasters to simply podcast for personal interest or to get their opinions out into the world, don’t bother to market their podcast. And perhaps, if you have a small and faithful following that might be all you’re interested in.
For example, maybe you are pastor at a church and it doesn’t matter to you other people outside of your congregation hear your podcasts, as long as they are available for your parishioners. That’s fine.
But there are many people, especially business podcasters, who need to be heard. Perhaps you need to be heard because of the importance of your sell your product and put food on the table, whatever the reason is, you need to do your podcast out there.
The first in you want to do is submit your podcast to the podcast hosting sites mentioned in a previous chapter. If you haven’t done that already, take time to be that right away. Don’t just submit to one, submit to all of them.
The next thing you need to do is to make sure that your marketing material (if you are a business) contains the web site on which your podcast is hosted. For example, if your company has a web site, make sure it’s on your marketing material.
Then go on to your company’s web site and make sure that the podcast is easy to see. Lots of companies have very busy web sites which makes it difficult to notice if there are new items on the page. You might also want to put on your marketing material something along the lines that of “subscribe to our podcast.”
Just plunking down your podcast on your web site and a web address on your marketing material will not get you very many subscribers. It could get some calm and that’s great, but just like any other product that you sell you need to give people a reason to subscribe to your podcast.
If you haven’t noticed, this article talks about content and niche marketing but the underlying secret of both of those is value. When you offer a value, people will come to you. If your product solves a problem, they will buy it from you.
If your service benefits someone, they will buy it from you. If your podcast helps them in some way, they will subscribe to it or even buy it from you.
So how do you make your podcast provide value? This article, and previous article, give lots of ideas to help provide value: people are looking for interesting and engaging entertainment, information, and instruction to listen to at their convenience. That’s what podcasting is all about. Those three things:
1. Interest and engagement. (Is the format varied and easy to listen to?)
2. Entertainment, information, instruction. (Is the content of high quality?)
3. Convenience. (Is it an appropriate length and updated with appropriate frequency?)
That is the best test to ensure that your podcast provides value. If it does not to fulfill all three things than you’ll find your subscribership will diminish over time.
Here is another exercise that will help you determine your value to your subscribers. If you have spent any time in sales or as an entrepreneur you’ll probably already familiar with this, but it is a good exercise to do nonetheless, since it is often overlooked in the podcasting industry.
Features and Benefits of your podcast
1. One one side of a piece of paper, list the features of your podcast. Leave plenty of lines under each feature. What are features? The topic is a feature, the length is a feature, the frequency you update it is a feature, it’s a feature if two people host the show, the format can be a feature, and your variety and quality of content is a feature.
2. On the other side of the paper, list the benefits: what it is about those features that subscribers will find helpful. For example, CNN provides very short podcasts of excellence depth. Those are features. The benefits are that the listener will save time and become well informed.
3. Determine if there is one or two of those benefits that set you apart from other podcasts in a similar category. For example, perhaps you can provide the same depth of coverage on a sports team as another podcast, but you can do it with greater frequency or with more expert analysis. (Of course those of the features, but the benefits are that your subscriber can save time and increased knowledge by become better informed more frequently).
4. Now promote those benefits!
This is a classic feature/benefits exercise from sales training 101. It is often overlooked in podcasting because podcasting is such a personal medium and its brand-new so people are pushing the boundaries in spite of the lack of benefits to their listeners.
Pushing the boundaries is okay if that’s what you want to do, but if your interest is in gaining subscribers or in making money from podcasting, then you’ll want to discover the benefits of your podcast and promote them.
If you can drive people to your web site, you might be able to you post a couple benefits beside your podcast link. Or, if your marketing material has enough room, you can put those benefits right under your heading “subscribe to our podcast”.
You might also find that, although they may appreciate the benefits and value that you provide, they may be scared off by how “technologically advanced” it seems to them.
Rather than calling it a podcast, you may want to call it an online audio program or an Internet radio show. It may not be exactly accurate, but it’s a lot easier then telling people that it’s a podcast and spending half an hour explaining it to them and telling them why they don’t need an iPod to hear you.
You may also want to you pay other people to host affiliate advertising to send an end to your site if you are creating a podcast for people to pay to listen to.
These concepts are covered in a little greater detail in another article, but it is appropriate to mention them here at something else to think about in marketing your podcast.
The best form of advertising for any kind of business is word of mouth advertising. It he can get your search drivers to be your biggest supporters and talk about you all the time to their friends, you won’t have any problem getting subscribers. How do you do that? (You should be able to answer this in your sleep by now: content, niche markets, benefits).
It is still very early in the industry, but it won’t be long before you see referral marketing programs that give subscribers some kind of discount or freebie for getting other people to subscribe to a podcast. With a little creativity, you may be able to start doing this right now.
Getting subscribers is all about providing value. If people see the value, they will subscribe. Tell them about your program, tell them what the value is to them, and tell them how to subscribe, and tell them to get their friends to subscribe, and you should not have any problem building up a big list of subscribers.
And with this audience, you’ll be able to get your views heard and maybe even make some money!
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What Is A Teleseminar And How Can I Profit From It?
Though it is not a new concept, the telephone meeting idea has gone through many technological changes through the years.
It started as a simple office conference call among employees in long-distance locations.
Today, technology allows the host or presenter to include training sessions, sales and marketing presentations, Power Point Presentations, videos, and much more.
They are becoming increasingly popular as people come to realize the cost savings of a teleseminar compared to an in-person presentation. This is especially true of businesses which have locations not only nationally, but internationally as well.
The cost savings in travel alone can more than cover the cost of the equipment and the service itself. One company has a conference call scheduled weekly between their Delaware office and their office in Dublin, Ireland. It would be economically unfeasible for everyone to get together in person to have a meeting on a weekly, or even monthly, basis.
Colleges have also adapted this practice as part of their distance-learning program. Students dial a phone number furnished by the school and receive the lecture for that day in addition to homework assignments.
They are usually only required to attend class in order to take exams. Of course, as with more traditional correspondence courses the student must have good discipline to do these kind of courses.
The student must take it upon themselves to be disciplined enough to know what needs to be completed and when in order to meet the requirements of the course. The teleclasses are not limited to colleges by any means.
Companies have taken to using them as part of their on-the-job training, and mini-courses that are available on the Internet or even through local educational institutions are also available.
As we look toward the future, teleconferencing will likely evolve into video conferencing.
Videoconferencing is being done more and more widely, and it is likely to become commonplace, especially with so many people becoming interested in working at home or wanting less travel with their jobs.
All of this new technology is wonderful, in its place, but teleconferencing cannot and will not replace the in-person seminar or meeting.
The telephone will never replace the personal contacts and relationships that are developed through people getting together as a group, nor should it.
However, teleconferencing does provide a way to bring people together effectively and inexpensively, and it represents an opportunity for entrepreneurs.
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Successful Podcasting For Dummies Like Me
Have a script but don’t read from it. Listeners can tell both ways: if you are just flying from the seat of your pants, or… all… you… do is speak like this all the way through your podcast. Both ways can be annoying.
Put a little bit of music or a related sound at the beginning and end of your podcast. Like parentheses, these just give the listener with audible cues that your podcast is starting and finishing.
Host a podcast, rather than simply letting it be a sounding board of one person renting on and on. The differences in voices will make for a more enjoyable experience for your listener.
Give headlines at the beginning of your podcast. Tell listeners to expect to hear these 3 things: Number one, number two, number three. That way, they can follow along more easily.
Add value! Podcasts can be a good way to make money, which we will talk about in detail later, but people will only be drawn to them if they actually add value to their lives. Don’t use your podcast as a vehicle to only move product or you will find you only need to make one podcast because no one will listen to any more.
Remember that podcasting is an audio format. There are many podcasts out there today that are simply recordings of seminars or trade shows or product unveilings that require in order to succeed.
Learn to speak clearly. Either hire a professional to help you or join a group like Toastmasters whose purpose is to help you speak more clearly. There are too many podcasts today whose speakers have not tried to improve their ability to be understood, and these podcast will not be around for very much longer.
Be excited about your topic!
Whether you are new to podcasting or a veteran this list will help improve your listener’s experience.
Niche markets
The secret to successful podcasting, and to the future success of the industry lies in podcasting’s ability to service a niche market. Most people can find general information readily available quickly.
What people want is in-depth information, instruction, and entertainment specific to their area of interest. It is easy for them to find a web site that will post all the baseball scores in their favorite division.
What they might be looking for however, is information, instruction, and entertainment related to their baseball team, which might not be readily available at the click of a mouse.
People who want to find out more about the industry, do not want to scour the Internet for a couple hours each day looking for analysis and information and top experts. Podcasting brings all of that to them.
Richard Reichmann is internationally known as a millionaire maker.
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