Public Speaking Skills - The Size of the Audience

The size of your audience has a direct effect on the types of humor which are most appropriate, the expected audience response and the timing of the presentation.

Members of very small business groups tend to be too self-conscious to laugh much. Use short one-liners. Be brief and informal with your humor; don't use any long stories or jokes.

In small groups laughter will come more quickly. It's now OK to stretch to jokes and short stories. Your presentation will take less time to deliver than to a large group.

A presentation to very large crowds in enormous rooms or venues such as stadiums will take longer to deliver because laughter comes in waves. The portion of the audience right in front of you will laugh first. Then most of the rest of the crowd will laugh. The third wave will come when those slower to get the joke finally do, and when those who laugh because everyone else is laughing kick in. You must allow time for this phenomenon to occur. In large crowds you must play to the back of the room. These people are hardest to reach.

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Public Speaking Gags - He Tripped Me!

And now for the ultimate audience gag. Drum roll, please. I do an old, old banquet gag that I recycled for the 90s.I call it Cuss Your Lunch which stands for Cuss(tomer) Service Your Lunch.

Through my practical joke company, I have done literally hundreds of performances as the Clumsy Waiter at banquets, luncheons, and wedding receptions. These performances were done mainly for fun and they are not messy unless, of course, you want them to be. When I started speaking more and more to business audiences I wanted to find a way to incorporate this outrageous routine. Now Cuss Your Lunch is a live training session on customer service, but the participants don't know it. I get the company to arrange an appreciation luncheon for the managers or employees of the customer service division.

I am planted as the waiter at the function. The participants really feel what it is like to get rotten service. There are two ways this can end. One way is to prat fall to the floor and make a really big commotion. I claim that some innocent attendee tripped me. The banquet manager or head waiter then comes in and fires me. Then I reveal the joke and immediately go into a customer service presentation based on what they have just experienced. The other way to end this presentation takes more time and effort, but is more fun. In this case, I storm out of the room after being fired. I immediately go somewhere and change into a spiffy suit. I change my hairstyle, take off my glasses and return to the meeting as the guest speaker whose plane was late. The looks on the participant's faces are something you have to see to believe. If you want to see for yourself, you can hire me to do this for your company. Ha-ha.

Don't be afraid to have fun with an audience. Gags are a good way to do it and they can really help you drive home your point too.

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Attention Public Speakers: I Don't Know How She Did It...

and I don't care...

If you've known me for a while, you probably have heard me talk
about the fact I wanted the "Ka-ching" sound on my cell phone
as my ring tone. I gave up trying to figure it out myself knowing
it would take me all day.

A young, geeky girl in the office heard me complaining about
this. She took the phone and came back in five minutes with the
Ka-ching sound on the phone.

Do I know how she did it?.....NO
Do I care how she did it?.....NO
Was the job done quickly without any hassle on my part? .....YES!

This same geeky girl edited a video for me that has made me I
would estimate at least 5 million bucks since she did it.

I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS FOR YEARS

If you want to be successful online, you need to get a geek. I
recruited my first one in 1997 and he was a major part of my
success today.

The fact is that you shouldn't be wasting time trying to figure
out complicated technological things when a local nerd could do
it easily for practically pennies.


Here are just a few things a geek can help you with:

=> Tutoring to help you operate your computer, IPAD, IPhone,
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=> Social networking

=> Answering your dumb questions over the phone hahahaha without
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=> Formatting e-books for you and

a ton of other things that will be outlined for you at the link
below.

The only problem is that people go out and try to find geeks on
their own, and they do it the wrong way which usually ends in
some kind of emergency disaster call to me.

That’s why I’m excited to tell you about a young student of mine
Zach Swinehart, and his "Geek Guidebook".

NOTE: I've never really promoted something this cheap that could
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In the guidebook Zach walks you through EVERY step of the
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=> Training about the five different types of geeks, and how
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=> Step-by-step instruction on each of the 4 approaches you
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=> Insight on how much to pay your geek, and how to pay your
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=> An outline of how long it takes professionals to do
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=> Convenient downloadable pdf & doc formats, so that you
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=> Instruction on how to keep your information secure, so
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Presentations in Non-Hotel Venues

When you are speaking at an event that is NOT in a hotel setting, you must pay particular attention to making sure you have everything you need to make a smooth event.

Here's a brief checklist of things that may not be available if you aren't in a hotel:

*Projection Screen
*Flip Chart
*Extension cords
*Power strips
*Ice
*Refreshments, coffee, juice, water, etc.
*Lunch
*Cups
*Napkins
*Pens
*Pencils
*Microphone and sound system
*Adapters
*Signage
*Copies

Add to the above list any items particular to your event that the hotel usually supplies. Pay close attention to every detail because there may be no time to head to Radio Shack or some other outside vendor before your event starts.

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