How to Get Your Message Across to Your Audience By Patricia Fripp Both business and professional speakers always need to ask themselves “How do I best connect with my audience?” “How do I get my message to stick?” “How can I get my audience to listen and engage?” My long time friend, early mentor, and […]
Read More...Public Speaking: Your Presentation Starts Before You Walk on Stage
Whenever you open your mouth, whether your audience is ten people or a thousand, you naturally want to get a specific message across. Whenever you set out to present, persuade, and propel with the spoken word you want to keep the audience engaged…from the moment you walk on stage or to the front of the […]
Read More...Who Do You Trust? Do You Sound Persuasive?
If you want to be trusted it helps if you are a powefully persuasive. Patricia Fripp and Darren LaCroix can help you in our June Story and Structure Speaking School and Coaching Camp. June 15-17, 2012 in Las Vegas. When it comes to trust I am sure you will find Richard Edelman’s article as interesting […]
Read More...The Triple Threat in Business Communications
On Broadway, you’re a triple threat if you can sing, dance, and act. In business, you’re a triple threat if you look the part, know the part, and see your role in the larger drama.
Read More...Public Speaking Tips: Make the new familiar
To introduce a new idea, link it to something familiar. For instance, cars were first sold as horseless carriages, and Edison shaped the light bulb to resemble the flame of a gas lamp.
Read More...Public Speaking Tips: Speak To Be Remembered and Repeated
Public Speaking Tips: Edit your sentences to a nub. Remember, Jerry Seinfeld said, “I will spend an hour taking an eight word sentence and making it five.” In comedy, the fewer the words between the set-up and the punch word, the bigger the laugh.
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