Personal coaching can help marketers who need help delivering their material to an audience. Although content is king how you deliver that content can be just the limo you need to transport your message to a sales conversion.
A personal coach can listen to your tonal quality and assess your level of presentation energy. Think about it.
Plan your presentations with a montly view in mind. The simple truth is if you agree to do a presentation on a Saturday and you also have a presentation on a Monday you will need to plan time to prepare the presentation. That should be scheduled also.
In addition everyday planned activities will take a toll on your mental and physical energy. Thus, seeing the party planned for your child on your calender as well as your presentations will give you a better perspective.
This will not only reduce your stress but enable you to deliver more dynamic and energy packed presentations.
Practice your teleseminar by talking with the cat. Ok, you may have a dog or other pet but talk to them. Rehearse part of your teleseminar using the outline you have prepared. By doing this you will not SOUND LIKE YOU ARE READING A SCRIPT. Your presentation will be more natural and easy to listen by your audience.
Of course you may get funny looks from your pet but use those looks to make your points clearer. Imagine that they are your listening audience and every new term you introduce clarify if there is a change that the audience may not be familar with your computer or internet marketing jargon.
If this is your first teleseminar, get additonal training from some of the teleseminar gurus but you must get going.
Preview a good blog post which presents 20 ways to increase your alexa ranking. Now why as a presenter should you bother? Many people look at an Alexa ranking to measure how effective your blog is on the internet. As a presenter you want folks looking at your blog or regular website.
If you are a presenter and do not have a website or blog please get one real soon. You can share your videos and parts of your presentions on a website or blog.
I will talk more about this creature called a blog in other posts. But know that it is a website on steroids.
Check out the article on 20 Ways to Improve Your Alexa Ranking. It also explains more about Alexa.
So much of our preparation starts in our mind. So start with your mind when preparing your next presentation. For example, if you are conducting a teleseminar we all know that an outline is critical. However, what are your concerns,fears or anxiety about even doing the actual teleseminar? Is this your first time? Are you thinking about failure before you succeed. You see, it is important to work out issues in your mind before you prepare that needed outline.
Praise yourself. Why? Because you want to be identify the things you are doing right in your presentations.
Get a small book and list on a weekly basis something that you did very well in your recent presentations.
Resist the temptation to say something that went wrong. That’s easy to document. I want you to write down only the good stuff.
Let me know the results after your next presentation!
Plan time to watch TV. Wow, you are probably saying, “Are you kidding, who has time?”
Well I am suggesting that you make the time to watch how people act on TV shows. Actually, I want you to study the actors.
There is so much to learn from actors regarding voice usage and body language.
I even, at times, watch soap operas because they often over act. Yet, they really show great examples of pausing, vocal variety and gestures.
Imagine using some of that in your next presentation?
What do you think?
Put on a show every time you present. Why? Because folks love to be entertained. You can do this by adding enhanced vocal variety to your voice, extra gestures and lots, I mean lots of stories.
Will it decrease your content? No way. The idea is to grab the attention of your audience and keep that attention on your topic.
For more ideas check out Rap Tap and Act
Present as much as you can. This will not only give you practice but expose you to more people. The more people who hear you the more that might want to hear you again. So, try not to turn away opportunities to share your message with others.
Rosie