Want To Learn How You Can Make Millions Speaking?

By Paul Vann

How many times have you heard someone say, I want to become a professional speaker. That is not all, they go on to say, I am passionate about speaking.

If I had a dollar for every time I have heard someone said they wanted to be a speaker, I could buy a barrel of oil. Get it, buy a barrel of oil?

For the uninitiated, if you want to make millions as a professional speaker do not and I repeat, do not try to go it alone. Do not become a lone ranger and try to figure out on your own it will cost you a lot of money and aggravation.

If you want to make millions in the professional speaking industry, I recommend you hire a speaking coaching. Why?

A speaking coach will cut your learning curve in half and you can concentrate on honing your speaking skills and secure speaking engagements. Let it be said, when the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Some of the things on your checklist for finding a professional speaking coach reads as follows:

1. Research and find a speaker coach who has been where you are trying to go.

2. Request a list of clients your speaker works with, however privacy may be an issue but you can always ask.

3. Review the client list of the organizations the speaker coach works with.

4. Interview your speaking coach and ask for credentials, such as speaking schools or workshops they have attended, etc.

5. Inquire if the speaker coach has a coach, this speaks volumes of their commitment to speaking.

6. Meet with your speaker coach in person and then schedule phone, webinar, and or e-mail coaching.

7. Enroll and attend your speaker coaches training if they offer it.

8. Ensure your speaking coach gives you their professional and undivided attention during each session.

9. Become an active listener and a student of the speaking craft.

10. Ensure your coach provides a comprehensive review of your speaking abilities, including vocal variety, gestures, practice time, history of the audience, etc.

11. Request to attend your speaking coaches live events, assist them throughout their speaking engagement.

12. Fight early and often for feedback, this will make all the difference in the long run.

To be the best, meaning you want to become a million dollar speaker, you must focus on being excellent. In other words, your mandate must include practice, practice, and more practice.

The key to becoming an in demand speaker is to accept nothing less than hard work. Hard work will pay dividends in the long run and you will live your passion as a world renowned professional speaker.

When it comes to achieving success, always surround yourself with a great team of experts. You will soon discover great talent, attracts great talent, choose your team wisely and ensure you select the right speaker coach for you, it will lead to you making millions speaking.

Paul Lawrence Vann is CEO of the Wealth Building Academy, a professional speaking, training, coaching, and publishing company. He is a speaker coach who delivers a two-day live training titled, Make Millions Speaking. Vann's first speaking coach was the late Dottie Walters. Learn more about Paul's speaker coaching program at http://www.paullawrencevann.com or http://speakercoaching.blogspot.com or call the Wealth Building Academy at (800) 476-8976.

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The Importance Of Public Speaking Skills

By Alvin Loh

Public speaking skills are often overlooked by people as being unimportant or they may think that they will never be called to speak in public, that's why they do not bother to get themselves acquainted with any public speaking skills. Truth is, more often then not, it is these people that often get tongue tied and being in a state of total meltdown when faced with the possibility that they will be asked to present a topic in public, even a topic they know inside out.

To some people, they do not put high importance or regards to the importance of having good public speaking skills because they have an impression that good public speaking skills are only for people in sales or marketing. This is untrue. Good public speaking skills are also a hallmark of good communication skills and having good communication skills is essential for any career, unless you are the only person in the entire office. For example, if you are signing up for a new job, any job at all, you will probably need to go for an interview. During the interview, the interviewer does not just judge you based on your qualifications, your ability to communicate, both spoken and unspoken, also constitutes a part of the decision making process of whether you will be accepted or not. If you are a student in college, your ability to deliver a good public speaking session will also be tested on regular basis. An example of this will be the various class presentations that you need to do over the course of the semester and the grading criteria will almost certainly have an element of "clarity of delivery" in it. By not knowing how to give a clear and effective presentation using good public speaking skills will only disadvantage yourself because if you cannot communicate clearly to your audience, it is as if you have never learnt the subject at all.

This is one of the reasons perhaps why a lot of ideas by some of the most intelligent people on the planet are only discovered many years after their death. One of the possible reasons is that although they are highly intelligent and have written very useful information, they just cannot seem to put through to people what they are thinking about due to their lack of ability to communicate to a large group of people using public speaking techniques.

Public speaking skills are not only used in situation where you have to address a large group of people. Communication skills and public speaking skills are inter-related, hence, if you improve your public speaking skills, you also invariably improve your interpersonal communication skills with your peers and family.

Therefore, if you are ever presented with an opportunity to practice public speaking or learn public speaking skills, don't shy away from it. Whether you are in class, in the office or in any kind of setting that requires you to deliver a message to an audience, pick up your courage and go for it. Public speaking is a skill and the more you use it and practice it, the better you will become. To improve your public speaking skills or even if you are a new beginner, there are a lot of public speaking audiobooks or guide books to learn from. By picking up a good public speaking skill, you will have an edge over others who don't.

Alvin runs a Good Public Speaking AudioBooks website with audiobooks for overcoming fear of public speaking.

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Effective Public Speaking Skill - Using a Joke Format to Add Humor to your Presentations

By Jason Peck

Adding humour to your speech or presentation can be beneficial because it helps you to connect with your listeners (most people like to laugh and be entertained) and it can help them more easily remember your message.

The purpose of this article is not to turn you into a comedian. It's just to present you with some ways to add a little humour to your speech.

With that in mind here are two fast and simple, down and dirty formats for including humour in your next speech or presentation.

The first is called: "Joke Format"

This details a way in which you can format street jokes (jokes that friends might tell you in a bar) together to form a comedy monologue like old school comedians, like Bob Hope or Jack Benny. Here's the format:

1) Put the 2nd funniest joke first
2) End with the funniest joke
3) Counter a good joke with a bad one.
4) Organize jokes according to theme.

Now, I'm not saying that they used this format, I used Hope and Benny as an example of the style of comic that might have used this approach. Although, I have to say, the "counter a good joke with a bad one" seems more in-keeping with the comedy format of old school comics, rather than modern stand-ups. I think today's comedy professionals try to have continuous funny lines. This particular point seems to indicate a groaner type of joke, like a pun.

But just to remind you the purpose of this article is not to turn you into a comedian. You don't have to worry about that.

That said, I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with using such a funny line in a speech, providing of course that it ties in with your overall topic and it doesn't offend anyone overtly. Some people might be offended by a groaner joke, but that's too bad. It makes you come across as human because we don't always come out with incredible zingers like they do in sitcoms.

The other format is called the "Message Format". There are two types for this format:

A) Intro2nd Funniest jokeMain body of JokesThemeFunniest Joke
With the second one being as follows:

B) IntroFunniest jokeOther JokesTheme

This last one ends on a serious note instead of a laugh. Personally, if I'm doing a humorous speech I'd rather end on a laugh. But that's just my personal taste.

What you might consider doing is reducing your actual speech or presentation by about a third or even a half. Keep the core details that are necessary to convey your message to your audience. So what do you replace the edited content with?

Humour. Funny stories, funny jokes, maybe you could quote other comedians or witty people as long as you give credit where it's due. There's no sense delivering a line by Woody Allen in your presentation and passing it off as your own. There will always be someone who can attribute it to the original author, plus it's highly unethical.

Not only that but by saying something like: "as Woody Allen once said..." you can immediately get your audience into a better state to laugh as they'll remember their favourite Woody Allen moment. Then if the line doesn't have everyone rolling in the aisles then you can get out of it by saying, "obviously it's much better when Woody did it". Your listeners will love you all the more then because you will have revealed yourself to be slightly vulnerable.

You would have to judge for yourself what you think is appropriate. I would have to guess that it may be better for you to end on a comment about your overall theme. What are you trying to convey to your audience? What's the take home message that you want them to walk away from your speech remembering?

If you can follow some of these pointers in your next speech you'll be well on your way to being remembered for your humorous speeches and you'll get people congratulating you afterwards because you made them laugh and in their eyes you just became the star.

Jason Peck is a Humorist, Speaker and Consultant based in London, England. He provides empowering speeches, valuable business training and morale-boosting entertainment to businesses, colleges and private functions. Check out Pro Humorist

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