Whenever you open your mouth, whether you're talking to one person or a thousand, you usually want to get a specific message across. How do you do that best when you are communicating through a webinar? What's different when the lecture is in the virtual world? How do you catch and keep your audience? Here […]

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You’re waiting your turn to make a speech, when suddenly you realize that your stomach is doing strange things and your mind is rapidly going blank. You realize you are probably suffering from the fear of public speaking. How do you handle this critical time period? People ask me this question in all my speaking […]

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For many years I have attended the Ragan Speechwriters Conference. Many of these heroes write for history. Rob Friedman is one of the most talented and interesting friends I have made there. Everything he writes and says is of interest to me. This is a repost from Ragan. Enjoy… How to write a speech for the […]

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Executive Speech Coach Patricia Fripp Offers Public Speaking and Sales Presentation Skills Advice You can feel free to forward and share! Traps to Avoid When You Speak Podcasts 2009 – June 2009 Written by Patricia Fripp Speakermatch Podcasts: Listeners Favorites How to UP Your Value in a DOWN Economy GUEST: Patricia Fripp http://www.speakermatch.com/teleseminars/022609/ How to […]

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John Kinde has fun with Patricia Fripp at the NSA Las Vegas. Here is a brief bit Observational Humor I used as an opening remark at the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Speakers Association.  Patricia Fripp was the featured speaker presenting a full-day program.  Her program included individual coaching of audience members presenting speech […]

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Finding a speaker’s ‘voice’ is the key to great speechwriting By Ian Griffin Capture your orator’s meaning and cadence through familiarity and a few essential guidelines Veteran speechwriter Hal Gordon says that speechwriters need to know three things—the speaker, the audience, and the subject. Knowing the speaker means, among other things, being aware of how […]

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Executive speech coach's 15 techniques to present online. As corporate training budgets are reduced Webinars are being more and more popular.My Fripp Associate Tom Drews is an expert in presenting online and through Webinars. He is the go-to guy with Fripp clients need to learn the RIGHT way to engage an audience when they are […]

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