The 5 Biggest Mistakes Public Speakers Make . . . And How YOU Can Avoid Them!

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Mistake # 1 – Not Selling Your message alone is not enough to inspire people to buy your products and services.  Not giving a sales pitch to your audience is doing them a disservice. In order to make a real difference in someone’s life, you must give them the opportunity for an ongoing education.  If […]

Why You Need A Blog

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This week our tip is supplied by website guru, Vanessa Rothwell. Vanessa – or Ness – worked as Shift Speaker Training’s very own in-house Web Developer for 2 years. In fact, she was with Joey and Greg right from the beginning, helping them as they started out in those early days and grew to what […]

It’s All About Image

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When it comes to speaking, we like to think that what we say and how we say it is more important than what we look like and how people see us.  But the truth is that people do judge us by our appearance and by our offstage behavior.  When you are portraying an image that […]

How to Write a Book

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You want to be looking for strategies to increase your celebrity as a speaker. One of these strategies is to write a book. People think they don’t have time to write a book. We have this concept that our book needs to be perfect and all emcompassing. A friend of mine wrote his book in […]

Using Public Speaking To Sell From Stage

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Public speaking can serve these 5 business functions – research & development, marketing, sales, product creation, product delivery. You can take someone from “who the hell are you?” to “I love you! Here’s my credit card!” You must be able to deliver what you say you will deliver. Public speaking can increase your conversions, way […]

The Importance of Introduction – “Your Life on the MC List”

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Knowing how to introduce a speaker is a very important skill and although it seems very simple and straightforward, there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. The Purpose of IntroductionsThere are three main reasons to introduce a speaker correctly. The first is to grab hold of the audience’s attention,the second is to […]