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.

2. Stop Slouching. This sends a bad message period. It looks like you couldn’t care less and it prevents your lungs from taking in the optimal amount of air. If you have full lungs it prevents your voice from cracking, and allows you to sound more powerful. In the future when you realize you’re hunching slightly, straighten up immediately and allow more energy to feed your voice and body, soon this will be unconscious and you’ll have a better posture naturally.

3. Keep it open. Our voice gets squeaky and high when we’re nervous which is not the confident image we want to project. The more we try to tame it by force the worse it gets. The simple cure: practice breathing into your lower diaphragm (around your abs), and always let your throat be open and free of stress. I find lemon and honey tea soothes my throat and helps it relax. An open throat ensures your voice is protected, projected and also not surprisingly produces a richer/fuller sound.

4. Keep them awake. Want to capture your audience and keep them awake? If you speak in a monotone voice, with no inflection, modulation, intonation you will send a group of 1,000 people off to fantasyland. How do you prevent this you ask?

Alex’s “Four P’s To Perfect Pitch”

Pace: If you speak too slow you sound like the village idiot or worse you’re not credible or knowledgeable on the subject. If the pace is too fast it will sound like you’re nervous or a salesman trying to pull a fast one on you.

Pitch: This isn’t a contest to sound like James Earl Jones…if you’re too low and deep nobody will hear you. Speak too high and you sound nervous and insecure.

Pauses: Create intrigue and curiosity by placing well timed pauses into your presentation- do this sparingly though.

Passion: This is critical to your success as a speaker and educator. This will sell more than anything else. If you love your topic the audience will see this and will love you for it. They’ll embrace you like no other speaker has ever been embraced. Passion sells more than knowledge for the topic.

5. Master the tone. If you are able to adjust your tone to suit any situational you will be a successful speaker no doubt. If you sound monotone you will sound bored and boring, if your tone is lackluster you may lose parts of the audience and it won’t convey passion. If you sound arrogant, aggressive this can put off a lot of people. If you learn to change and tune your tone to the occasion you’ll be successful at speaking. Learn to sound enthused even if you’d rather not be there at all.

6. Sell yourself and not your product. Being authentic is one of the most important takeaways from this article. If you’re authentic it will show through to the audience and they’ll buy from you.

Don’t try to sound like someone else, if you be yourself there is no competition for you. What’s unique about you? Convey this and be real.

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?

Everyone needs to bring something to the table when you are collaborating on a project. Joint venture with three or four other speakers that are of the same caliber as you.

Their criteria are:

• They have a list of customers
• They have a list of past clients from other speaking engagements
• They know how to generate leads
• They have some advertising capability: via newspaper, radio, television, or internet in order to reach their target audience.
• That you are all relevant with the general topic of your event.

When sharing contact information, always make sure that you have all your information on your business cards. And don’t make the mistake of throwing away a contact just because they’re in a different field.

You may be able to connect them with another speaker in the future that can use their services. What’s in that for you? Good will. Promoting good will is a cornerstone of great networking.

Networking with others will allow you to:
• Reduce your costs by sharing the cost of the event with the other speakers
• Increase your audience through the customers/client lists of the other speakers
• Enlarge your database of customers and clients by getting the contact information of your combined audience at the event.
• Garner more sales of your product by sharing a market with your other speakers.

Alex is a Sydney based professional speaker who has developed a unique “speaking strategy” little used in the speaking industry to generate massive amounts of income (sometimes several millions of dollars) working as a part time speaker.

These strategies are based on real-life shortcuts professional speakers use to improve the impact of their speaking and hold audiences spellbound. Some of these shortcuts are so simple and easy, but the impact is enormous.

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.

You can learn how to speak!

“If You’re Not Out Speaking To Groups About What You Are Passionate About . . . It’s Literally Costing You A Fortune”

We all know that people do business with people they know, like and trust. Great speakers know instantly how to build a relationship with an audience and convert non-believers into believers, and then buyers.

There’s nothing more profitable than a speaker who knows how to connect with an audience, move them to action, and convert them into clients for life.

The first step to becoming a profitable speaker generating massive passive income working part-time only a few hours per week is to master public speaking as a skill.