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Public Speaking Beginners

Day 1

Speaking in front of people, large crowds in particular, is usually perceived as the most stressful experience imaginable. The following ideas in this course are designed to help you, or anyone for that matter, convey your ideas and messages to either one person, or a large group in just about any setting. Creating an effective presentation, can seem very overwhelming. But here are strategies you can use to come up with an effective and powerful speech in 30 minutes or less, regardless of your target audience.

#1 Identifying your purpose

The importance of goal-setting must not be overlooked when preparing for any presentation. The very first thing you need do before you even embark on your presentation is to define your objectives. It is crucial that you begin with the end in mind. Ask yourself this, “What do I want to achieve from my speech?”, “What do I want my audience to receive?”, “What do I want my audience to do next?”

The first thing you need to do in the speech preparation process is to identify your purpose. The purpose of your presentation can range from creating awareness, fostering understanding, generating impact, selling a product, or even to inspire your audience. Remember that the main reason why you’re presenting in the first place is to give, not just gain. As such, your goals should be aligned with allowing your audience to benefit from your presentation. Your purpose-setting must be extremely clear, not just to yourself, but to your audience as well. This helps them internally craft the benefits they will gain from listening to you.

The biggest mistake of public speaking is when you start with the wrong purpose in mind. Mediocre speakers operate without a specific purpose which can easily cause stress and anxiety. The nature of your purpose is just as important as the purpose itself. Many speakers often mistakenly assume or even subconsciously decide that their purpose is audience validation and approval. Wrong. This is completely foolish. This causes great pressure on the speaker to be absolutely perfect in order to win unanimous approval and this causes a great deal of anxiety. I call this a “stress-producing” purpose.

Once you’ve established the purpose of your presentation, you can easily craft your presentation around it in order for it to be achieved. Remember that the essence of public speaking is not to GAIN something, but to GIVE something. When you operate with that frame of mind, you automatically tune your body language, tone of voice and craft content that is useful for your audience. With that, you immediately attract the attention of the majority. To conclude this section, here’s a quick summary. Before even writing your speech, you need to clearly define your objectives and ask yourself, “What do you want to achieve with this?” and to set goals that benefit not just yourself, but your audience as well. Now that you’ve identified the purpose of your speech, you can move on to the next stage.

#2 Preparing your speech

Now that you’ve identified the purpose of your speech, it’s time you craft it. But before you do, it’s important to clarify your topic. One way to make sure you’ve got it all cleared up is to try out the “business card test” - can you state your main idea on only one side of a business card? If you can, you’re ready to move on. If you can’t, keep working on it until you can.

Now, you can start drafting your speech. Grab a sheet of paper and right at the top of the page, clearly state your desired topic and the goal of your presentation. Then move on to write your opening lines and follow that up with 4- 5 key points. Back these points up and summarize them in the conclusion. This is your outline. Now that you’ve listed your most important subjects, you can begin crafting your presentation based on the completed outline.

Before you start writing that speech out proper, let’s take a quick detour, and visit one of the greatest and most notable speeches made in human history - yes, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream”. Did you know that the most important, most often-quoted and the most powerful part of his entire speech, his iconic “I have a dream” statement, was made only in the last quarter of his entire powerful presentation? It makes you wonder how he managed to capture the full attention of over 200, 000 agitated, and angry civil rights supporters? If you were thinking that it was his authority, you’re wrong. And it wasn’t his looks either. Reverend King had a powerful introduction. He started with this, “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. started his powerful speech with a strong, passionate story which set the mood for the rest of his speech. When you begin crafting your speech, you have to remember that the most important part is your introduction. If your audience’s attention is not captured within the first 30 seconds, you’re pretty much history. Your introduction can make, or break, your entire speech. Remember that a strong opening is King, pun unintended. You may start with a probing question, a strong statement, a personal story or even a quote. These elements not only set the mood for your speech, but also pique your audience’s attention and focus sufficiently to hook them for the rest of what you have to say.

Now that you’ve crafted a powerful introduction, you can move on to the core points of your speech. Each of these points should be backed by interesting stories, illustrations, historical references, humorous anecdotes, and examples that the audience may be able to relate to. Common stories or illustrations include references to common childhood occurrences, growing up pains or even teenage experiences. You can use these stories and examples to further reinforce your point. Humans are sensory creatures. If you’re able to pique more than just one sense - their hearing - you’ve got them hooked, forever.

Remember to include descriptives in your stories and even images for the visual ones in your audience. Analogies help your audience connect the dots of your points in their heads. Also remember to open and close each point with a clear transition. This makes it easier for your audience to follow your story. For those of you who’re selling to or motivating your audience, you may even address your audience’s pain, stress on the benefits of taking immediate actions, suggest a recommended course of action followed by closing remarks.

Now that you’ve detailed all the main points of your speech, you can start to write your close. A common, but effective, conclusion is a summary. This can be followed by an appeal or a call to action to challenge your audience, which is completely dependent on your purpose and topic. Run a quick summary by your audience and if necessary, outline clear guidelines and next actions they can take with the information you’ve just given them so that they do not feel like they’ve left your speech with nothing concrete to take with them.

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Overcoming Self-Doubt and Believing in Yourself

One of the hardest things that some people ever do is transform themselves from a person full of self-doubt to a self-assured person that believes in themselves. But, the truth is that no matter where you are in life right now, no matter how many mistakes you’ve made, opportunities you’ve passed up, or what’s happened to you in life, you can overcome your self-doubt and start believing in yourself. This is true even if you had a poor upbringing and even if you’ve never believed in yourself before. It’s within your power, and it will change your life completely.

So, congratulations on getting this and reading it, soaking it in, and implementing the suggestions. Once you do, within just a short period of time you’ll start feeling better about yourself, feel more confident, successful and know that your future is bright.

Let’s get started learning how you can overcome self-doubt and believe in yourself.

What Is Self-Doubt?

The dictionary defines self-doubt as, "the lack of confidence in oneself and one’s abilities." This is a very good definition, but it doesn’t fully demonstrate the problems caused by self-doubt and not believing in yourself.

Think about these questions:

* What are the dangers of self-doubt?
* How does self-doubt affect your life?
* Where does self-doubt come from?
* And most importantly, how do you overcome it?

In the next pages, we’ll give the answers to all these questions and more. If it helps, take notes as you read through when you notice issues that resonate most with your current situation. Everyone has different issues, reasons for their self-doubt, and problems in their life. You’re a unique person and there is no one-size-fits-all answer.

The Dangers of Self-Doubt and How It Affects Your Life

There are many dangers inherent in hanging on to self-doubt that you should be aware of. If you suffer from self-doubt, it’s important to understand the type of damage you’re doing to yourself if you continue to hang on to it. It has affected your past, is affecting your present and can devastate your future if you don’t deal with it. Here's why.

* Self-Doubt Damages Motivation – When you don’t think you can do much, and don’t trust yourself to do something right, fear can get in the way of doing anything. This can turn into a severe lack of motivation to do more than you have to just to get by. It can affect your entire life because you may have less satisfying relationships, a job you hate, and not enjoy life much.

* Self-Doubt Causes Procrastination – If you don’t think you know how to do things "right" then you may end up thinking you’re a perfectionist, which is just a way to procrastinate and never finish anything or finish it at the last minute. This is how you set yourself up for failure. No one is perfect and perfection is not necessary to thrive in this life.

* Self-Doubt Leads to Regret – When you miss opportunities, you will experience regret. Regret, when left unresolved, can lead to chronic stress and anxiety. This will then build upon itself to create even more self-doubt, which will create more regret, and so on.

* Self-Doubt Causes Defeatism – If you allow self-doubt to continue, you can start to become almost morbid in your belief that you cannot experience anything good or happy. It’s essentially an acceptance of failure.

* Self-Doubt Stunts Self-Improvement – When you have no faith in yourself, it’s hard to even think about self-improvement. You think you have too much to improve because you can’t do anything, and maybe you even think you’re a victim of your circumstances to a point that you cannot achieve even if you try.

* Self-Doubt Stifles Inspiration – When you don’t believe in yourself, it’s hard to get inspired to do anything new or to create anything new. Ending the self-doubt will bring out the creativity you already really have.

As you can see and may have experienced yourself, self-doubt can be dangerous and these are all good reasons on their own to work toward overcoming self-doubt and learning to believe in yourself.

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Introduction

How would you like to turn a 4,000-word report into a potential $4,000 payday? 

It’s happening all the time with specialized short reports that people will bend over backwards to pay good money for.

Find it hard to believe?

Think about this for a minute.

People are busy. They’re on-the-go, and so they don’t have a lot of time to spend reading extended guides or books.

These days’,people want bite-sized, comprehensive booklets that give them the information they’re looking for without the fluff.  

Think about the kind of articles, blog posts or guides you personally prefer.  Wouldn’t you rather have a condensed version of a 100-page book that rips out the padding and cuts through the noise so it can provide you with all the important information in less time?

That’s exactly why short reports are so extremely profitable. 

The length of your book has nothing to do with whether your product is successful or well received by your audience.  

In fact, a 15 report that cuts out the fat and gets right to the heart of the matter will be far more successful than a 60-page eBook that brings the reader on an endless journey, only to leave them disappointed in the end.
  
Are you ready to start making money with your very own series of in-demand short reports?

Let’s begin!

Making Money with Short Reports

Short reports are incredibly valuable because not only will they appeal to the busy shopper, but they are much easier to create than full-length books. 

In fact, reports can be as short as 10 pages long because if you’ve done your job at filling the pages with solid information, your audience will still be satisfied with their purchase.

And think about this:  With short reports, you can cover more ground in less time.

You know how quickly some niches and buying patterns change. What’s hot today is often irrelevant tomorrow, and in the digital product business you need to keep a close pulse on your market so that you know what your audience is interested in and willing to buy.

Also, when it comes to digital products, the early bird always gets the worm.

What I mean by that is you need to stay on top of trends. 

For example, if a certain money-making opportunity suddenly becomes a hot topic, you’ll make a lot more money if you’re one of the first to create a short report that outlines how someone can jump on board. First to market always wins.

If you were to create a massive digital product that takes months to develop, you run the risk that by the time you bring it to the market, the topic isn’t nearly as popular as it had been.

Short reports removethat risk.

You don’t have to worry about your product launch taking months, or even weeks, giving you the advantage of being able to launch quality, in-demand products on current hot topics, before demand dies down or the market becomes saturated. 

Plus, since you won’t spend a lot of time creating each report, even if they fail to meet your expectations, you can quickly replace it with a new report that’s been tweaked to sell. 

They’re also a lot more affordable to outsource since you could hire an expert writer for half of the price of someone hired to write a full-length book.

Short reports are also one of the easiest ways of evaluating a market, test new niches and identify demand, while there is an active buying pattern. 

If you’ve ever considered creating an information product before, you know just how much time can be spent on market research. 

You could literally spend months testing the viability of a market, and trying to come up with a unique angle or slant so that your product stands out. 

By the time your product is “market ready”, you’ve lost a couple of months in potential earnings, not to mention your opportunity to position your product in front of a majority audience may be gone since they may have purchased other books and are no longer interested in the topic.

With short reports, since you’re not spending a lot of time creating the products, you can make money faster, while working on expanding your collection of in-demand products.

In fact, you could create a report that continues to sell for years in just a couple of hours!

Are you excited? You should be!  This is an exciting opportunity to make money with info-products quickly and easily! 

In the next chapter, we’ll take a closer look at how you can create a bestselling PLR report in under two hours.

Reports That Outsell

When it comes to writing short reports that people want to buy, your content must be both conversational and engaging. 

It doesn’t matter what niche or market you’re in, if you want to create bestselling reports that people want to talk about to others and encourage repeat sales, you need to create content that is easy to understand and keeps their attention.

Here are a few simple rules to follow:

Use contractions in your information product (Example: Use “that’s” instead of “that is”).  This makes sure that your content doesn’t read too stiff or formal. You can still write in an authoritative voice while keeping it light and entertaining.

Break up your paragraphs into easily digestible segments of information. Don’t create a wall of text!  No one wants to wade through extremely long paragraphs.  You want to keep skim readers in mind who will just blaze through your content quickly, picking out the golden nuggets that are of interest

Create chapter headlines and sub-headlines that are interesting and bold. It’s your job to keep your reader glued to the pages of your product, and you can do that by offering ‘visual guidance’ by defining sections, while keeping them engaged.

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Introduction

There’s nothing better than passive income.

With passive income channels, you’re not limited by how much money you can make because it’s not based on the time you put into it.

Instead, you build your income channel once and it goes on to make you money for years to come.

Imagine just how much a solid and reliable source of passive income could ultimately change your life.

You’d finally be able to live the dream lifestyle where you can enjoy time with friends and family while maintaining a viable and consistent source of income.

Exciting, right? 

So, the only question that should be on your mind is…

How can I start building unstoppable passive income channels?

That’s what this special report is all about.

I’ll show you exactly how you can start generating passive income from some of the top hands-free money making opportunities. 

These passive income channels are based on proven, working strategies that have been responsible for generating thousands of dollars a month.  

So, without further delay, let’s begin!

Passive Income Channels

Let’s jump right into it by taking a closer look at 2 of the easiest ways of create passive income online.

Passive Income Channel #1: Membership Sites

I know what you’re probably thinking…

Membership sites require monthly updates so how can it truly be a source of passive income?

The truth is, you can create all the content upfront and then drip-feed it to your members so that they are given access to new material every 30 days.  

Sure, you’ll spend some time upfront getting the membership site ready and creating enough content to sustain members for several months, but once you have laid out the groundwork it can run on almost complete autopilot.  Then you can spend whatever time you wish working on new content for a future update.

Membership sites can also be set up where it simply provides access to fresh content on a limited cycle, such as a 6-month membership site that ends with a final update.

For example, a subscriber would join and be able to access content from month 1. Perhaps this is a series of eBooks, or video training. 

Then, that subscriber would then pay for access to the second month’s content. Their member’s area would automatically update to include the next month’s content and so on.

By the end of the membership cycle (month 6, in this example), they would pay one final time to receive access to the remaining training tools. Then once that final month has been billed, no further content is provided and billing ends.

There are many ways to create membership sites that can run on autopilot, or that require very little work. It’s entirely up to you how much time you spend on your website and whether you decide to create most content upfront and limit its cycle, or develop a continuity website that needs regular updates. 

You can also save yourself time and money by purchasing pre-made digital products from PLR membership websites that you can publish and charge access to. These require no upfront work whatsoever.

Regardless how you decide to structure your membership site, one of the easiest ways to launch a website while ensuring that your content is protected is with Product Dyno. 

You can find it here: https://www.ProductDyno.com

Product Dyno works for every type of digital product imaginable. It’s also easy to set up so it protects a single digital product, or power up an entire membership site with recurring billing. 

It’s a flexible yet powerful product enabling you to host all your pages via Product Dyno, or use your own domain. 

I highly recommend checking it out if you want to simplify the process and get started quickly.

Passive Income Channel #2: Amazon KDP

One of the easiest ways to generate passive income is by publishing books on Amazon. This is something anyone can do even if you’re not a prolific writer.

In fact, you can easily outsource a combination of low content books as well as Kindle based fiction or nonfiction content and then publish them instantly on Amazon KDP.

Self-publishing is a powerful, yet simple way to start building income on total autopilot. Once you’ve published your books and created an optimized book page that drives in readers, you can virtually set and forget your listings and they’ll continue to generate royalty checks every single month.

If you aren’t familiar with what low content books are, think about journals, planners and organizers. Journals are extremely popular in countless niche markets and very easy to create. In fact, you could have hundreds of low content books published in a matter of days with very little upfront costs involved.

If you’d like to find out about a proven way to create profitable low content books without lifting a finger, check out https://www.LowContentMastery.com where you’ll be able to gain access to a fully-loaded training course that includes all the tools you need to get started.

Regardless what genre you’re interested in, you can quickly find qualified and seasoned writers on marketplaces like https://www.UpWork.com  

Start by providing writers with a smaller task, perhaps a 5k word short story to gauge their quality and reliability. If they pass the test, hire them to write longer books. 

There are countless tools available to self-published authors that will help them maximize exposure so that you can build a truly passive income channel, but did you know that your Amazon author central page is one of the most valuable marketing tools of all?

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Introduction

Sharing images on social media is something a lot of us do every day. Many of us do it just for fun. Some do it to try to grow their business. But others do it for pure profit, something the majority of people don’t realize is possible.

There’s actually a number of different ways to make money sharing images on social media, both directly and indirectly. If you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to make money on social media, you may learn some tricks that will increase your chances of success in the pages of this guide.

In this guide, you’re going to learn about some of the various ways you can make money online sharing your content on social media. You’ll learn about some of the different moneymaking methods, as well as ways to increase your follower count and improve your engagement rates.

If you’ve been wondering how the big players of social media make their mega-millions, read this guide from cover to cover and start taking action. You’ll be raking in money before you know it!

So let’s begin.

Profit from Social Media

There are a lot of ways to profit from social media. The best way for you to profit is to choose the methods that best fit your specific social media persona.

Keep in mind that different methods will work better for different types of profiles. You may have to experiment with a few different methods to see what works best for you.

The biggest thing to remember is that your followers are your most important concern. Never put money over your followers. It may seem counterintuitive if you’re building a brand specifically to make money, but if you promote products that could upset your followers in some way, you’ll risk lowering your engagement and you’ll hurt your profit potential—potentially disastrously.

Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can make money sharing content on social media.

Affiliate Marketing

One of the easiest ways to make money with your social media presence is through the marketing of affiliate products. You can earn a great commission from various products that fit with your branding, but be sure you’re only promoting the best quality products. If you promote an inferior product, you risk alienating your followers and harming future promotions.

There are affiliate products available for almost any type of branding you can imagine. You can promote information products through Clickbank or JV Zoo, or you can promote membership sites, or physical products through sites like Amazon.

Amazon is especially good, because they have millions of products you can promote, so it’s almost certain you’ll be able to find something your followers will respond to.

Sponsored Posts

If you grow your social media to a large enough following and you keep a good rate of engagement, you’ll be able to have brands pay you to post on their behalf.

Social media influencers are often paid thousands of dollars to make a single post. For example, someone who has a large following of video gamers might be paid to post about a hot new mobile game. Or a beauty blogger might be paid to post about a new skin care product.

If you’re interested in offering sponsored posts, you might want to hire an agency to represent you. (Note, they’ll want to see quite a large number of followers and a good rate of engagement before they’ll consider you.) But if you’re ready to take your social media to the next level, an agency can help you.

Here are a few places to start looking:

>> https://www.interactivesponsor.com/

>> https://viralnation.com/influencer-talent-agency/

>> https://cycle.media/

>> https://www.socialyte.co/#discover-influential-storytellers

Your Own Products

Having your own products to promote can be the most profitable way to make money, because you get all the revenue, not just a portion of it.

You might think it’s too expensive to create your own products, but the truth is you can make your own stuff pretty cheaply using solutions like CafePress, Zazzle, or TeeSpring.