Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Getting Started as a Professional Speaker Tips

Do you have the gift of the gab? Do your friends and colleagues tease you that you're always talking and trying to help people from your professional experience? You may the basis for what it takes to become a public speaker.

Most professional speakers, short of their first having been an Olympic Gold Medal winning athlete, start their speaking careers cutting their teeth giving free talks without remuneration.

When I was in the sales profession in Silicon Valley selling corporate software to multi-million dollar businesses, I was also aiming at developing the foundation for my eventually being a professional public speaker.

People in the field were recommending that first start speaking for free at the area service clubs.

There was only one problem.

Where I lived, the protocol of the service clubs was to book speakers months upon months in advance and only to book a speaker who came to them exclusively through certain Toastmasters speaker skill development clubs.

With that kind of entry threshold even for giving free talks, that meant I was more than 1 year out from being able to get booked to speak before the community service oriented clubs.

If that was really how it was going to be, I then had a huge obstacle in my way on my path to become a woman professional motivational speaker.

What was I to do?

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