As a professional speaker and closer you will need to train your voice to resonate confidence while you’re speaking. If you speak too fast, too slow, too high pitched or don’t pause enough this will convey subtitle traits about your message.

This will stop you from gaining rapport and will impact how your message is received by the audience.

Your voice plays an important role from building a connection with a seminar promoter, business calls, meetings, conferences and of course your presentation.

Use these tips to train your vocals to achieve optimal resonance.

1. Start early. As soon as you wake up in the morning check yourself in the mirror. Notice where the air is displaced when you breathe, is it inflating your chest? Ideally it should be a DEEP breath that’ll inflate around your waist, not the chest area. You will need deep breathing when you speak. Are your shoulders rising when you breath, if they are don’t allow this to happen, make a conscious effort to stop this. It helps if you stand straight, allow your breathing to come in down low in your belly area and relax. I can’t stress that enough … relax.

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If you really want to be a professional speaker one of the areas you must learn is networking with other speakers. Why network?

Simply put, this critical step will save you time, money, and build up your speaking business faster and more easily than by working alone.

Let’s look at a scenario that will help clarify why networking is critical for your business. You’re in the fitness industry and are well versed in cardio exercises. A client, who happens to be a physician, wants you to think about conducting a seminar on the healthy benefits of cardio workouts.

As you are talking together, he also mentions Pilates, strength training, yoga, and even begins talking about dieting. Before you know it, you have a whole range of subjects to cover. Would you know who else to call to help with this type of speaking engagement?

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Have you guessed what the highest paid profession is in the world? You guessed it… Speaking!

Speaking … and selling!

Great speakers are seen as the leaders in business, in the communities where they live, and in life in general. People have always been influenced (and probably always will be) by the entertaining speaker who knows how to connect emotionally with his or her audience.

Good speakers get paid between $5,000 and $100,000 for only a few hours of work and that’s on a fee based system, if you were to sell a product or service there is a lot more money at stake and you could bring home (I’ve been told) over $400,000 for a days work, can you think of any other industry that can match that amount of money for the same effort?

Unless you’re a celebrity you’ll find those figures a little intimidating. That’s only if you’re a good speaker, if however you’re a great speaker with a few years experience under your belt you can be earning DOUBLE or even QUADRUPLE that!

“There Is Nothing Magical About Speaking on stage… It is A SYSTEM that anyone can master no matter their looks, age or current income” It doesn’t matter whether you’re an experienced speaker who has been speaking for a number of years or someone with nothing more than the determination to tap into the most powerfully lucrative industry in the world.

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