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Better Public Speaking – How To Change Your Presentation To Become A Highly-Paid Public Speaker

You can improve your skills as a public speaker by making just a few small changes in what you are already doing. A career in public speaking can be the most highly paid careers in the world and the need for public speakers will always be high. If you have given public speaking a try, but feel you need to improve your presentation or delivery, here are some suggestions that can turn your speaking into a new career.

  • Practice speaking in front of others as often as you can. Just being in front of an audience regularly will help you to improve in a short amount of time.
  • Prepare a speech that will become your signature or keynote speech. This can be a personal story with some helpful information for your audience, or a lesson on how the audience member can do something related to your topic.
  • Prepare a handout to give to the audience members. Depending on your topic and where you will be speaking you may want to ask the audience to answer some questions or fill in the blanks on the handout you give them. Getting the audience to participate is a great way to involve them in what you are speaking about.
  • Be ready to give the audience a website or blog address where they can find out more information about you. This will help you if they ask you a question you are not ready to answer. By the time they visit your site you can include the answer to their question.

I encourage you to learn more about becoming a public speaker from someone who has done it professionally for many years so that you will have a greater chance of becoming a highly paid public speaker.

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Presents For Your Mother On Her Birthday

Moms will love anything from their children. They really don’t care about the present because cliché as it may sound; it’s the thought that counts. The fact that you remembered her birthday and opted to give birthday gift for your mom which is something will melt her. But this shouldn’t stop you from making your mom feel special on her birthday.

Make a birthday card. It will remind her of the times when you were in kindergarten and you’d go home to her with a star or a simple present. Don’t forget to mention that it’s her birthday! It will really bring tears of joy in her eyes.

Get her a bouquet of fresh flowers as a birthday gift for your mom. Just make sure she isn’t allergic to the ones you plan to give her. It will make her feel really special. Bear in mind that moms are still girls at hearts and flowers makes almost all girls feel giddy.

Cook for her. You don’t have to go all out, especially if you don’t know how to cook. Just prepare cookies or a cake for her and she’ll love you for it. Gather everyone and celebrate her birthday with her and she’ll overflow with happiness.

If you want to splurge on mommy dear, get her what she wants. Get her a new perfume, a bag or pumps. Give her whatever she likes as birthday gift for your mom. After all, it’s her birthday and it’s her turn to be spoiled.

You can also treat her to a day at the spa. Oh, she will love the feeling of being pampered! Give her a massage, get her hair done and whatever she wants. Just make sure she is relaxed. If you want, you can send her a certificate for a complete treatment on your local spa center as your birthday gift for you mom.

Remember kiddos, it’s the effort that counts here. So just think of what will make your mom happy. Follow your heart because deep inside I know as much as you do that your time is enough to make mom more than happy on her birthday.

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Failure to Fully Explain Exercises Before Presenting Them

One common error when people write is to simply present an exercise and a title (and sometimes without). The author who does this makes two mistakes: First, in overestimating how easy it will be to entice readers into doing the exercise. Second, in assuming the reader will deduce what the exercise is for. Readers are notoriously reluctant to try exercises.

They lack confidence in their own abilities, are certain that even if they do try an exercise, they will find it difficult and taxing. They are also reluctant to invest their time in any activity unless they know beforehand that there is something in it for them. In order to motivate readers to try the exercises you offer, you need to preface all exercises with a paragraph or several that put the carrot on the stick and make clear what is in it for them. Always address these four key issues before you present any exercise:

1. The problem or lack of ability it remedies.
2. The promise. How it will benefit the reader: How it solves the problem or what new skill it teaches.
3. How and why the exercise works. The premise or idea behind it. What makes it effective.
4. That it is easy to learn.

In a book on marketing, for example, you might have an exercise called: Coining “Sell Phrases” that would be introduced something like this: “Most people think they can not coin the same kind of dynamic, sizzling ‘sell phrases’ that advertising and marketing geniuses do. But they are wrong.

You can learn to produce the exact same kind of ‘sell phrases’ on demand, every time you need them. You already have the ability. If you are able to talk to other people so that they understand you, all you need to learn is a simple, six-step process for coining ‘sell phrases’ that draws on your own ability to use words.”

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