 |
advancing the professional speaking community worldwide.
 
ShareShare your experience, your knowledge and ideas with your peersChannel: Featured ArticlesEvery month we'll feature the 'Best Picks' from association publications around the world right here, with information about the authors and the magazines that first published the article. Dine with Speaker Friends Next Time You Travel
by Joe Heaps in Featured Articles, on Feb 7, 2012
Some information on eSpeakers new Speaker Radar service
What a waste! Read more about: Dine with Speaker Friends Next Time You Travel Speak at TEDx to diversify your network
by Jordi Robert-ribes in Featured Articles, on Nov 13, 2011
The before, during, and after, aspects of speaking at TEDx
Stay Connected on Business Trips
by Maria Carlton in Featured Articles, on Nov 10, 2011
Some tips on how to manage the busy-ness of traveling as a speaker.
For f***s sake, stop swearing
by Jeremy Nicholas in Featured Articles, on Oct 6, 2011
The ethical issue of swearing on the platform
Free for All?
by Maria Carlton in Featured Articles, on Sep 30, 2011
This question was posed to members and answers collected for a column in the NSA Speaker Magazine
Beige is Boring - Use controversy to add some colour to your event
by David Gouthro in Featured Articles, on Jul 19, 2011
Tired of conferences and conventions that follow the very same pattern and that fail to deliver value.
Read more about: Beige is Boring - Use controversy to add some colour to your event Beyond Borders
by Debbie Allen in Featured Articles, on Jul 12, 2011
Debbie Allen talks about some small changes with big results
This strategy is not for everyone. You have to want do business internationally and be willing to travel great distances frequently. I’m adventurous and I simply accepted the fact that I would have to adjust to a longer commute to keep the money rolling in. Many countries are open to bringing in American speakers with different points of view. For speakers, the world is indeed your oyster. Simplify and Automate Your Internet Marketing
by Gihan Perera in Featured Articles, on May 22, 2011
To be successful at Internet marketing, you don't need to spend every waking hour on-line
Read more about: Simplify and Automate Your Internet Marketing Its Your Business
by Laura Stack in Featured Articles, on May 8, 2011
Why you should outsource some parts of your business. Pay Someone Else to Do It
Even after I could afford to get some help, I kept doing it all. After almost burning out at the ripe old age of 27, I realized that even the Productivity Pro couldn’t maintain that pace long term. Sensory Distractions - Using Feng Shui To Balance Meeting Energy
by Beverly Beuermann-king in Featured Articles, on Mar 25, 2011
If the room energy isn’t right, the best speaker in the business can suffer, along with the audience.
You can ramp up the success factor of any event by using Feng Shui. You can give your event that extra edge, that ‘X factor’ that no one sees but everyone knows is there. It’s the energy in the room with which everyone feels and reacts, without even knowing it. Read more about: Sensory Distractions - Using Feng Shui To Balance Meeting Energy Top Contributors
Article Feedback
|
 |
|
||
© 2013 global speakers federation
— terms and conditions
— privacy statement
— strategy, concept & project management by futurist erwin van lun — based on chatbots.org
| ||
eSpeakers founder Art Berg once told me a story about arriving a day early in Hawaii for a speech and spending a boring evening eating a room service dinner . . . alone. A week later, he found out one of his good speaker friends was doing the exact same thing that night. In the same hotel. One floor above Art’s room.
Speaking at a TEDx event, at least in my case, had three very distinct parts (as you might have guessed): before, during and after the event.
Speakers tend to travel a lot and there are some things which we can all do to help make the strain on our resources much lighter. Here are some great tips from Francis Rios, as featured in Beyond Borders in this month’s Speaker Magazine. 
At some point in the last couple of years it has apparently become OK to swear onstage at business events. What the flip is going on? As a professional speaker I’ve spent the last twenty years being given the usual pre-match pep talk by event organisers on not using profanities, but now it seems swearing is almost compulsory.
“You developed a very powerful technique to increase audience engagement. Other speakers are impressed with your growth and want to know how you do it. Should you share your technique freely or charge for it?”
Hello there. My name is Charles Chandelier III. Yes, that’s right—I’m a chandelier. And I have to tell you, I’ve had it with beige. I don’t mean the colour of the meeting room walls – although they’re bad enough. No, I mean meeting content and processes that are anemic, banal, blah, bland, boring, characterless, colourless, commonplace, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, ho-hum, inane, innocuous, lifeless, limp, mild, mundane, ordinary, plain, pointless, prosaic, spiritless, stale, subdued, tame, tedious, tenuous, tired, trite, unimaginative, vapid, watery, weak, wearisome and wishy-washy.
When the speaking business in the United States took a hit two years ago, I made it my mission to obtain more business on a global scale. I changed the name of my business to Debbie Allen International, designed a new logo and refocused the marketing direction for my website. Within three months, I was doing 75 percent of my business internationally. 
To be successful at Internet marketing, you don’t need to spend every waking hour on-line - although it might seem that way by listening to what some Internet marketing experts say. Instead, make some smart decisions about which Internet marketing tools you’re going to use, and which you can afford to ignore.
I earned my MBA from the University of Colorado in 1991 at 21 years old, and started my speaking business a year later. Out of financial necessity, I was the Jill-of-all-trades and did everything myself. “My MBA taught me all of this, didn’t it?” I rationalized. 
There are many aspects that make or break an event, it isn’t just who is speaking. The environment itself can set up an event for success or failure. If the room energy isn’t right, the best speaker in the business can suffer, along with the audience.
