Speak for Success
indratno August 22nd, 2007
Being able to stand out and deliver a compelling presentation will set you apart. Read tips to help you be a better presenter.
An important aspect of business success today is the ability to communicate effectively. Not only with the written word but to be able to stand out and deliver a speech or presentation with confidence will set you apart.
As a business educator, I have the opportunity to meet some great speakers from around the world and learn more about how to grow my business. Like others in the audiences I am most impressed by presenters who not only impart relevant information but do it in an interesting and entertaining way. Do you make compelling presentations? If not here’s a few tips that may help.
What makes a great presenter? Confidence is usually the initial response and I agree. The number one characteristic that shines through is confidence. Acquiring this quality alone will put many ordinary presenters into the “good” category. What could you do then to go that extra step forward?
1. Awareness of what works for you and what doesn’t and the willingness to build on those foundations. Feedback is incredibly important whether you tape or record yourself and analyse your own performance or have someone else critique for you. But here’s the catch. Most of us only dwell on what didn’t work, try to fix those problems and don’t work on their strengths. By recognising what works for you, acknowledging and building on that base will give you the confidence to improve and become a great presenter.
2. Practice makes perfect, so they say. But practice also makes permanent. It’s important to try new things, experiment, take risks and most importantly to add variety to your presentation. Variety can be built into your presentation through storytelling, humour, use of props, audiovisuals, group exercises or audience involvement. Variety in your voice try soft, loud, fast and slow. Try a range of techniques to keep your audience energised and interested.
3. Have a clear outcome in mind of what you want the audience to take away from your presentation. Remember it’s about them and how they feel. It could simply be they feel comfortable with you to provide a particular service, or you’ve convinced them your product is the best on the market. It could be to motivate them to do something or inspire or challenge them to try something new.
4. Organise your speech into “chunks”. Rather than try to memorise or read a 30 minute speech (or a 3 hour one!) if you have several chunks that deliver a particular message it is easier for you and your audience to remember. As an example 30 minutes could be broken up into a 5 minute opener with a story, 3 chunks of 7 minutes where you talk about 3 different points using some variety while delivering those messages. Then a closer of 4 minutes perhaps to give out handouts or take a question or two then finish big with a call to action.
5. Use your body wisely. It’s okay to jump up and down and be energetic if that is your style. Many of you would have been to an Anthony Robbins or other motivating style of presentation and seen how they use their bodies. At other times a speech delivered with poise and stillness from a lectern is appropriate. What isn’t appropriate is distracting movement such as pacing up and down for no reason, gesticulating wildly for no purpose, rocking back and forth or playing with your hair (girls) thrusting hands in your pockets (boys) or scratching or picking at imaginary fluff on your jacket.
These are just a few of my observations and techniques I’ve learned while practicing to become a great presenter. I hope these tips help you next time you need to make that great client presentation.
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Infopreneur, Have You Optimized Your Mind To Its Full Potential?
indratno August 13th, 2007
Dear infopreneur,
Have you ever wished that you could be smarter without having to study?
I recently came across a brand new website that reveals the secret tool you need to have to increase your mental abilities, IQ and mental focus.
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Should We Forget About Search Engine Traffic?
indratno August 7th, 2007
Dear Infopreneur,
Master of internet business automation shares with you his latest insight on traffic generation. JP has successfully implement the automation of his business through Fantasos(tm). Below is his newest article on traffic generation trend.
Through out my internet infopreneuring journey I found out that the most important foundation for internet business success is the optimum implementation of traffic & copywriting formula.
Please enjoy the article.
NEW TREND IN TRAFFIC GENERATION
By JP Schoeffel
Worried about the next Google slap? Do you only rely on Search Engine traffic? Don’t know where to start when you need to drive traffic to your site? If yes, this article is for YOU!
Whatever you do on the net, you will always deal with
Traffic Generation…the holly grail.
To make it short, you have 2 main types of traffic :
1) Search Engine traffic
What is it? : organic traffic
coming from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN
Pros :
- This traffic is f.re.e
- Traffic is highly targeted
- Volume of traffic can be very high
Cons :
- you don’t control it
- you rely on robots to analyze your site and deliver some traffic
- you need to get indexed…without being de-indexed
(once again, you rely on search engines policy and algorithms)
- short term
2) Referred Traffic
(I know Search engine traffic is also a sort of
referred traffic, but let’s put SE traffic apart
from this category)
What is it?
Traffic coming from third party sites (other than search
engines) and is a result of a “manual / human” action.
Examples : article directories, social bookmarking services,
forums, partners, text link ads, banners, directories, rss…
Pro :
- you control it
- you have a lot of means to develop it (almost unlimited ; a lot are fr.ee)
- it’s highly targeted
- You can pay to get better targeting and control over your referred traffic
- Long term
Cons :
- Time & resources consuming
- Repetitive tasks
Now, through my membership (Niches-In-A-Box), my forum,
my readings of other forums, I know that most webmasters
mainly rely on search engines traffic, our first category.
The aim of the present article is to throw the light on
a different angle of the Traffic Generation big box!
Summary : the right way to get into traffic generation is
to forget about search engines.
Focusing on search engine traffic gives a too narrow
vision of traffic generation. It does not reveal all
the opportunities existing outside of the search engines
(understand all the way to generate Referred Traffic).
In addition, as you’ve seen from the cons above, you accept
to rely on something you never control, and this is a HUGE
risk in your marketing strategy.
Warning : I do not say, you should not care about search engine
traffic. I say that it should not be your priority, and the first
door you try to open when dealing with traffic generation.
It’s a question of point of view.
Now, on the other hand, focusing on developing what we called
Referred Traffic is a more positive, constructive and profitable
attitude and marketing strategy.
Not only will you build traffic for the long term, but
you will also “manually” control your traffic, either by
submitting your content, your sites, your feeds, or by
exchanging links, content, traffic with partners,
being active on forums, blogs…
Doing it this way will give you a lot of power and effectiveness.
Those sources of Referred Traffic only vanish…if you decide
to let them vanish. Once again, you control everything.
Now, you have some positive side effects :
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