4. Your passion:

Are your ideas throbbing with aliveness? Does your body language match your words? Do you gaze deeply into eyes of different audience members, connecting one-on-one with each if only for a few seconds? Do you radiate an emotional intimacy with your words -- and do you express that intimacy by look on your face? Do you use power of pause, eloquence of silence, to let your ideas sink in?

5. Your state of being:

This is your primary message. It's what your audience members see and feel first. They get it subliminally. They get it instantly. They see it in your stance. They sense it in your glance. And they persist in getting it every second of your program. Are you up? Your audience knows. Are you here now, are you present? Your audience knows. Are you emotionally attuned to your topic? They know.

6. Your mental acuity:

Can you turn your talk on a dime if audience mood so indicates? Do you respond brilliantly to spontaneous questions...saying enough to satisfy, landing on your feet and staying on your track? Are you sensitive to various cultures present in room -- to their perceptions, their expectations and entitlements, their differences and similarities? Are you careful not to offend?

7. Your physical energy:

Do you arrive fully rested, on your toes, eager for this opportunity to speak? Do your eyes sparkle with aliveness as you move through your presentation? Are you light on your feet as you move about? Do you think tall as you stand before your audience? Here's an easy way to do this: Picture a silken thread at crown of your head gently pulling you up-up-up. This visualization aligns your bones and muscles into perfect order. It often makes you look taller, more in command. It helps you tingle with energy.

Burt Dubin, a 20 year veteran of the business of speaking, coaches and mentors speakers and wanna-be's world-wide. For samples of his wisdom, simply go to his web-site, . Down-load some of the 20 FREE articles and 26 FREE newsletters. 1 Speaking Success Road, Kingman, Arizona 86402-6543, USA. Phone 1-800-321-1225. Fax 928-753-7554. E-mail Burt at:

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Reward referrals generously.

Action 6.

Treat people right. Be there for them long after sale. Care about each client. You've heard this before: "People don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care!"

Let Golden Rule govern your attitudes, your thoughts, your words and your actions.

Action 7.

Don't sell. Instead, market. What's difference? This: Selling is persuading someone to buy your wares. Marketing is creating conditions under which buyer is attracted to your offer and decides on their own motion to invest in what you offer. How do you do that? PR. Advertising. Word-of-mouth. In words of Walt Disney,

Do what you do so well that people can't resist coming back for more and telling their friends to do same. __________________________________________

These 7 stratagems are some of methods I've used to move myself from unknown journeyman speaker to respected, successful, well known marketer of Speaking Success System. You can do same.

Success in your field is at hand for you now. You can have it if you want it--and you've got to want it enough to have it.

Burt Dubin, a 20 year veteran of the business of speaking, coaches and mentors speakers and wanna-be's world-wide. For samples of his wisdom, simply go to his web-site, . Down-load some of the 20 FREE articles and 26 FREE newsletters. 1 Speaking Success Road, Kingman, Arizona 86402-6543, USA. Phone 1-800-321-1225. Fax 928-753-7554. E-mail Burt at: