Million Dollar Speaking: The Professional's Guide to Building Your Platform

INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by f indicate figures.

A

Accelerant Curve, 318–320

Accessible, being, 34

ACSs (see Audience-centered speakers)

Ad libbing, 207–208, 278, 294

Additional services, offering, 237

Administrative tasks:

minimizing or delegating, 145–146

using staff for, 148–149

Adult learning, 62–63, 210–211, 227–228

Adult Rule, 210–213

Advertising, 242–243

Advice:

giving off-platform, 314–315

listening to others for, 341

After-dinner speakers, 14–15

“Amateur” speaking, ix

Ambient noise, 297

Analogies, using, 248

Anecdotes, 68–69, 188–189, 217–218

Approaching the stage, 12

Approval, need for, 67

Arriving early, 289–290

Articles, writing, 128–129

Attire, appropriate, 12

Audience(s):

determining needs of, 18

disruption from, 297–298 ...