| Start a career in public speaking and earn money while having fun. Learn how to make $5500 or more for each speaking presentation you do.  You can get all the latest public speaking tips and tricks for FREE by signing up for Tom's Great Speaking Ezine. Listen to Everyone A great lesson from my own career in public speaking is to make sure you listen to every speaker who is on before you at an event. Especially don't miss the keynote or general session speakers. When you listen to them you are able to add a polish to your talk and to the event as a whole by incorporating something that was said by a previous speaker or by simply not sounding redundant on your material.
It also might save you some embarrassment. I'll never forget several years ago I was doing a breakout session for a big real estate company. We then went to the closing general session an hour later and the big shot keynote speaker looked ridiculous by using the same material I had already stated. He may have had a good career in public speaking, but he did not practice some very important speaking skills. People were looking at me and winking. There were only two back to back sessions going on and it would have been really easy for the keynote speaker to stop by and check out my presentation, or at least find out what I and the other breakout session speaker were going to be talking about. Besides listening to as many speakers as you can, where you can learn for future events, make sure your material is really unique which will help guard you from embarrassing situations in your career in public speaking. Home
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