I am thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to announce the publication of my ninth book (Joy!), Before You Even Open Your Mouth: The Writing Guide for Professional Speakers.
It has long since been a source of absolute amazement to me to read content from so-called “professional speaker” websites and look at the basic mistakes these people are making. Some of them claim to be consultants, motivators, leaders, and—my favorite—international best-selling authors, but they just can’t spell! They can’t write! Holy moly!
My book will be available on Amazon.com within the next couple of days. If you can’t figure out what’s wrong with the sentences below, please buy it. You need it.
If you are a professional speaker or aspire to become one, there are lots of opportunities out there for people who truly are professional, as these sentences demonstrate!
Liz Coursen, Sarasota, FL
Why (and how) can someone who claims to get $10,000 a speech have a really nasty punctuation mistake in the very first sentence of her online biography? (There were 4 misspelled words and dozens of punctuation mistakes in her material.) Take a look: She is the worlds leading body language expert in human behavior for leadership and deception detection.
Here’s a sample of sentences I pulled off these websites. It’s rather shocking, when you get right down to it.
12 REASON WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND THIS PROGRAM
He is in the development phase of launching a book publishing company which will published and distribute his leadership and business management books, audio and video products.
In the 1970’s, 70 to 80 percent of all civilian and military aviation accidents were occurring as a result of human error. (From someone who charges $10,000 plus!)
2/3 of career professional don’t enjoy their work.
Topic Development: Right Story, Right Time to Throttle Your Expertise into More Business
Throughout history there’s been leaders who have shook the world with their passion, voice, message, and charisma.
She knows what will work, and will not work, in order to see growth using brain-based, differentiated instruction and inclusive co-teaching.
Being a member of the XYZ Public Speaking Association has it’s perks.
Stress serves you, which is it’s true purpose.
“Its the number of minutes in each day”, she says.
In 2011, he found his beautiful bride Margot and together they paid off over $115,000 in debt in just 2yrs and 6 months!
His passion is making a difference in people’s lives by teaching critical thinking skills that leads them towards self-sufficiency.
These organizations represent some of the best public speakers from across the country and has helped booked speakers at dozens of events at corporate, non-profit and educational institutions.
The average employee will spend 3.2 years of their life in meetings.
Personal branding can make a huge difference in a student being able to differentiate themselves from competitors that are vying for the same job offers and open positions.
These events are much more intimate than our public offerings and often impromptu as we hear of a speaker who is in town and willing to share their time.
Have you ever met someone who had a great idea but they weren’t effective at delivering their message?
In this fascinating, interactive and fun workshop, every person on the team learns to discover and use their strengths to reach team goals—even “impossible” goals.
She was very organized and prepared wonderful handouts that each participant could use to identify their strengths, weaknesses and fears in regards to public speaking.
Each excels within their own area of expertise, creating an environment of individual proficiencies that meld together in collaboration to serve your organization like none other.
I work with small to medium size business on growing their business through marketing, communication and branding.
The XYZ company was named as a top 100 SBA Company as well as had their winning video submission played at the National SBA conference.
His inspirational message will motivate your audience to achieve successes beyond what they may think or believe is possible and give them the tools and mindset to stay the course.
Have you become friends with someone you were in love with in the hopes they would one day see you as more than a friend?
This talk is appropriate for all groups, as he can relate to anyone from at-risk youths to CEOs, with a powerful message that shines a light on all of the options and opportunities available to anyone willing to put in the effort to make the most of their lives.
How’s your audio presentation? Is it smooth, or peppered with audible pauses — “uh”, “um”, “you know”, etc.
Some speakers even start their keynote speeches with “um”.
A lifelong learner, she continues to take classes on human behavior, but she acknowledges’, ” the best class is one person talking to another”.
Does the speaker start his or her presention with “Um”, “Uh”, or some audible, non-sensical utterance? Believe me, I’ve heard keynote and webinar speakers begin their presentation with “Um”. Is that inspiring? No.
Does the speaker pepper his or her presentation with a lot of audible pauses like “Um”, “Uh”, “You know”?
Realizing that in business and in life there is only one opportunity to “impress” your audience, she developed “Your Sixty Second Self Promotion”.
During this interactive, hands on course you will gain insight into leaving a lasting impression and will write and present your “self promotion” .
Mr. XYZ believes in self-empowerment he believes in “Grabbing The Bull By The Horn”.
The organizations that hire the speakers’ bureau do so because they are interested in saving time and not having to go “speaker shopping”.
He has his famous “Tear-Up-Your-Check Guarantee”.
Having learned to live with a difficult disability “one day at a time”, he proves through the use of magic, humor and personal example that it’s truly “not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens to you that makes the difference”.
As short as the rush maybe, it does give you a miniscule boost, if anything.
Get some dough nuts and talk them into being a focus group!
If you’ve been given the responsibility of getting a motivational speaker to talk to your audience, it is important to understand your audience—what do they want to hear, what will stoke their mind, how will they respond to the speaker?
Feel free to ask for referrals, any professional speaker won’t have a problem providing them for you.
Some speakers require their complete payment upfront others only require a deposit.
We also qualify each speaker on being an expert in their specific field.
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