TITLE: How to Give a Great Speech AUTHOR: Sandra Schrift CONTACT: sandra@schrift.com COPYRIGHT: ©2004 by Sandra Schrift. All rights reserved

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How to Give a Great Speech

As a former owner of a National Speakers Bureau, I have learned from several thousand professional speakers "How to Give a Great Speech." Here are some techniques that I share with my coaching clients who want to become paid professional speakers or business professionals who want to deliver masterful presentations.

1. Speak from heart. Believe in what you have to say, or don’t say it. If your passionate about your subject words will come. Speak about fundamental beliefs you have about life, simple truths that you believe in with all your heart.

2. Write down two or three specific objectives you have for this speech. Ask yourself, 'What do you want audience to do as a result of your speech? 'Think differently? Act differently? Do something differently?

3. Write it out. When you give a speech be sure that people need to hear what you have to say. Than you need to understand it so well that you could explain it to an eight-year-old You know, if you write it down enough times, than you will become familiar with it. Don’t read your speech if necessary, just read lead sentences that you write on a three by five card.

4. Be present. Connect with your audience in first 60 seconds and than engage them throughout your speech. Once you get audience rolling, be sure to embellish certain comments that you know are being well-received.

It is about a successful farmer who risks everything searching African continent for diamonds. Ultimately he dies sick and penniless, while new owner of his farm uncovers on his property largest single diamond ever known to man.

Point of fact: After helping hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners, I’ll lay odds that story is true for YOU in more ways than you are currently willing to admit to yourself.

No matter where you are on success continuum, your ability to generate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in immediate windfall income is well within your reach.

I know firsthand, because everyday, I am paid handsomely to do just that by my clients and associates.

Now, no one likes to be told that they are sitting on a diamond mine, especially when they don’t see it for themselves. So please allow me to give you some advice which could potentially generate a cash jackpot of between $10,000 and $1,000,000 almost overnight.

“What’s secret?”, you ask impatiently.

I’ll tell you flat out: Your hidden wealth is buried in your email list...it’s hiding in your client list...and it lies dormant in your vendor list. I could go on and on.

Here’s secret in a nutshell: One of places your hidden wealth lies is in trusted relationships you’ve cultivated with people over years.

Let me prove my point with a quick example. I recently did a consult with a client who has a wonderful nutritional product. His own clients are very enthusiastic about results they get.

At same time, although he is successful, he is also cash poor. He needs a cash infusion of hundreds of thousands of dollars to be able to fund building up of his business.

What’s solution? A banker? An angel investor? A partner? Venture capital? Maybe, but I think there might be an easier way.