This is part five of a five-part series about how to start a public speaking career. In the past episodes, we focused on how to use public speaking within your current career, both as an income stream and as marketing. We also covered a session on how to become a professional speaker for an established…
One of the easiest ways to become a professional public speaker is to speak to groups in your current industry. In this article, we will show you several ways to get paid as a professional speaker without having to change careers. This article is a continuation of our previous article, How to Start a Public Speaking…
We are continuing our series on How to Start a Public Speaking Career. In this session, we will show a shortcut to becoming a certified public speaker. You can do this by working for an organization that is already an established public speaking or facilitation business. While our first post mentioned a wide variety of approaches,…
Being a professional speaker is a very lucrative and rewarding profession. But if you have never actually made money from speaking before, you may be looking into how to start a public speaking career. As an FYI, the way that I did it is not the ideal way to become a professional speaker. In fact, when I give advice to new speakers,…
If you deliver presentations at the office, you’ll often look for ways to create a good PowerPoint presentation…. But let’s face it: most meetings are pretty boring. They are also repetitive. So, if you are a speaker, and you deliver Microsoft PowerPoint slideshows, they can be a challenge. As the speaker, we want to do…
When people ask me how many slides should I use in my presentation, I typically reply very cautiously. Most people make a huge mistake when designing a speech or presentation. They start by designing their slideshow. Then, later, they figure out what they want to say. This technique is backward. Instead, you want to figure…