The 7 Best Personal Branding Speakers of 2024
Every entrepreneur has a personal brand, but they don’t all build those brands themselves. Those who neglect personal branding are inevitably branded by others.
Before the media or your competitors have a chance to paint your personal brand, be proactive. If you want to be seen as kind and thoughtful, for example, be generous with …
How to Find Speaking Engagements That Build Your Brand
What’s your favorite and most effective method for identifying speaking engagement opportunities that will help build your brand?
Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most successful young entrepreneurs. YEC members represent nearly every industry, generate billions of dollars in revenue each year and have created tens of thousands of …
These 13 Skills Will Improve Your Branding Efforts
The following answers are provided by members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched BusinessCollective, a free …
Become a Better Public Speaker
Many people freak out when they need to deliver a speech in front of a crowd. However, if you want to move ahead in your career and become a leader, you need to learn how to be an effective public speaker. Fortunately, public speaking is something that you can learn and with training along with …
Use Humor Safely During Your Next Talk
Many people advise new speakers to avoid using humor during their talks.
“It’s not a safe subject,” they say. “It will almost certainly backfire, and you could cause yourself a lot of trouble.”
Sure, if you have all the self-awareness of Michael Scott in a coma, yes, it will backfire. If you’ve been told to …
Improving your Speaking Skills the TM Way
When you think about speaking in public do your palms sweat?
Do you worry that you might flub your words or lose your train of thought?
Have you tried to envision the audience in their underwear?
Not to worry … these and many other thoughts have crossed the minds of anyone that has been told …
We’re Never Experts In Our Own Hometowns
It’s one of the most frustrating hurdles for anyone who wants to be a paid consultant or professional speaker: you can’t get hired to speak at the event or consult for the company just a few miles from your house, even when you get paid a few thousand dollars to fly across the country and …
Stand Firm On Your Speaking Rates
One of my problems as a professional speaker is that I’ve often been too willing to speak for free. This bothered my wife and my business partner to no end because, they said, my time and knowledge are worth something, and that I’m devaluing myself by speaking for free.
So I finally took the time …
Five Secrets To Write Outstanding Presentations
Want to write great presentations that leave your audience wanting more? Want to avoid Death By PowerPoint, but still need a slide deck?
The secret to outstanding presentationsHere are five secrets I use in creating outstanding presentations.
1) Start with the title.
I always start with titles similar to the ones I’ve done here …
Speaking as an Expert Makes You One
I had been writing for seven years before I finally decided to call myself a writer. Even so, I was unsure. I wasn’t “A Writer.” I was an “Oh, I’m also a writer. . .?” (You know that annoying way people put the question mark at the end of a statement? I did that for …