Appeal to Any Audience You’ll Ever Present To

How to get to know your audience and compel them to listen to you.

When you get on stage and start talking about something that’s incredibly important to you, but not necessarily to your audience, chances are you’ll lose them before you even start.

This results in the type of presentations where people get distracted on their phones, start counting the ceiling tiles or dozing off into dreamland. They have no reason to be engaged with something that they simply don’t want to engage with. Next thing you know, you miss out on the opportunity to rebook a similar event and there goes an opportunity lost. All because you didn’t care to research who you were speaking to.

You can walk on stage and think that you’re somehow more important than the people in the audience…Or you can take the time to learn what is important to the people in the audience.

Commit to investing a portion of your preparation time into getting curious about your audience. Put their needs and interests ahead of yours, and watch your speaking career really take off.

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