How To Use Speaking Visual Aids

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The Speaker Lab

Public Speaking, Speaking, Business, Authors, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Education, Side Gig, Coaching, How To, Public Speakers, Smallbusiness

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Two listeners wrote in with two great questions this week so rather than choose one, I'm answering both on episode 105 of The Speaker Lab!

Paton left a message asking how and when to use visual aids and Todd wanted to know if he should keep using his name as his web site now that he is seeking more speaking gigs, even though he previously was promoting his music skills on that web site.

Today I'll speak to both of these questions: I will explain why I'm not a big fan of slides, and how to use other visual cues properly in your speech or workshop.

I'll explain why you are always the product people are buying when they hire you as a speaker and what that has to do with the domain name you choose, plus so much more! Tune in to hear it all on episode 105 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

How to know if your slides are an enhancement versus a replacement.
Is a picture really worth a thousand words when speaking?
When are visual aids most powerful and impactful?
The three basic rules for using props in your speech.
How to determine what you want to be known for.
When should you use your name as your web site domain?
How to clearly communicate the primary role you want to be hired for.
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.
0:01.4	Hey, what if I told you that there was a single marketing asset that you could use to book tens of thousands of dollars in paid speaking gigs before you even have a website?
0:10.2	Well, that tool exists.
0:11.4	And Dan Irvin, one of the speakers on our team, used it to book over $36,000 in speaking gigs without a fancy website or any social media presence.
0:19.6	Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how
0:22.1	to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to
0:26.9	be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking
0:31.9	paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing.
0:38.5	That's what you got to do is go to the speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:47.6	What is up, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hey, we are doing
0:51.8	another listener Q&A episode. We've got two questions we're
0:55.6	going to be dropping at you today. Dropping at you, dropping on you, bringing to you,
1:00.8	coming at you. You ever do that sometimes? Like you just have like multiple variations of the
1:05.9	same sentence in your head and they just kind of come together and it just doesn't quite come
1:10.0	out the way that you anticipated. It happens as part of being a speaker. All right. So today we've got, again, two listener questions we're going to be bringing to you. The first one is all about using PowerPoint and visual aids and slides whenever it comes to speaking. This is one that we haven't talked about on the podcast. And so we're going to get into that today. And then the second question, we're going to be talking about your domain name and your website. And so maybe you're someone who's like, hey, Grant, I already have a website and I'm trying to figure out how do I incorporate speaking into that? Should it be incorporated into that? So we're going to get into that in the second question. So again, if you have a question, feel free to let us know. We want to answer your questions. We would try to do a mix of interviews on this. We do some teaching from me. We do some listener Q&A. So if you have a question that you would like to have answer, definitely stop by the speakerlab.com and go to the Ask Grant tab right at the top there and send us your question preferably through voicemail, which is what you're going to hear today from both of the listeners. But you can also just text in your question if you would like, or if you have a guest that you would like to hear some speaker or someone in the industry that you think would be valuable to others and you would like to hear them on the podcast, let us know. Now know if there's a certain topic that you want me to teach on.
2:18.8	I guess you can just ask that question and we can hear your voice.
2:21.4	So anyway, we'd love to hear from you and we appreciate you.
2:24.9	You listen and tune in.
2:25.8	So let's get right into it.
2:27.1	Here's the questions for today's show.
2:32.7	Hello, this is Peyton Blow from Greenville, South Carolina. My speaking website is
2:38.0	Peytonblow.com, P-A-T-O-U-G-H.com. And my question for you today, Grant, is, when and how should I use
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