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What Are You So Afraid Of?

Speakership

Speaking + Thought Leadership

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Why Are You Here?

1. Want to learn something

2. Wish to be inspired

3. Hope to be entertained

4. Have a need that you hope I will satisfy

5. Desire to meet other people interested in the subject

6. Seek a positive experience you can share with others

7. Forced to be here by your boss

8. Handcuffed to your chair and can’t leave the room



Your Charge as a Speaker

1. Teach them something (answers their questions)

2. Inspire, motivate and agitate

3. Entertain your audience (without jokes)

4. Satisfy a need they brought to your presentation

5. Connect the room through shared experience

6. Create ‘social objects’ that your audience can share after the speech

7. Be so compelling that their boss mandates their attendance

8. Handcuff them to their chairs (if all else fails)



Why Speakership?

Public speaking is the perfect

marketing method, because it

showcases your knowledge in

polished form to people who are

interested in hearing it. Steven Van Yoder

Author, Get Slightly Famous



Speakership Builds Business

9 of the top 11 effective ways of getting a business buyer’s attention of involve Thought Leadership Marketing

How would you rate the effectiveness of the following marketing vehicles in getting your attention?

Mean Rating (N~344)

Speech or presentation at a conference or trade show

Case studies describing successful customer solution implementations

Article in the business or trade press

Invitation to a Webinar, seminar, or workshop

Sporting or cultural event sponsorship

Online advertisement

Vendor's blog

TV or print advertisement

Phone call from a sales representative from the service firm

Email from a sales representative from the service firm

Direct mail brochure

Conference sponsorship

Electronic newsletter from the service firm

White paper offered on the Internet

Search engine hits when doing research or surfing the Web

Analyst firm recommendation (such as Gartner/IDC/Forrester)

Speech or presentation at a conference or trade show

Case studies describing successful customer solution implementations

Article in the business or trade press

Invitation to a Webinar, seminar, or workshop

Sporting or cultural event sponsorship

Online advertisement

Vendor's blog

TV or print advertisement

Phone call from a sales representative from the service firm

Email from a sales representative from the service firm

Direct mail brochure

Conference sponsorship

Electronic newsletter from the service firm

White paper offered on the Internet

Search engine hits when doing research or surfing the Web

Analyst firm recommendation (such as Gartner/IDC/Forrester)

2.0

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.5

2.8

2.9

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.4

3.7

3.7

Source: ITSMA, How Customers Choose Study, North America, 2007


Speakership Delivers

• Coherency out of marketplace chaos • Diminished price resistance • Valid and credible value proposition • Self-qualified leads & opportunities • Shortened sales cycles • Value-forward marketing & selling platform • Ongoing market dialogue • Prospects experience your value before buying • Buyers invested in your ideas before purchasing • Growth in media placements & requests



Become a Thought Leader


What is Thought Leadership?

RainToday.com

“Thought leadership centers on earning trust and credibility. Thought leaders get noticed by offering something different—information, insights, and ideas, for instance. Thought leadership positions you and your company as an industry authority and resource and trusted advisor by establishing your reputation as a generous contributor to your industry.”



Why Become a Thought Leader?

• Professionally rewarding

• Personally rewarding

• Opportunity to serve others

• Right thing to do

• Communicates excellence



The Thought Leadership Equation

Competence, purpose and core market

understanding inform the point of view & thought

leadership platform. Thought leaders outshine

their competitors who compete on price and

advertising.

Strategic use of TLM tools and channels with media collaboration garner your share voice in the industry

and spark the industry dialogue around your

ideas. As buyers seek out more

real market dialogue, SOV is an increasingly important

factor contributing to marketplace success.

Thought leaders and trusted advisors occupy

the greatest share of mind among business buyers. Share of mind predicts

share of market. Thought Leadership Marketing steadily increases your

SOM with buyers, growing your share of

market.


The Thought Leadership Mindset

1) They love what they do – energy & motivation 2) They have the drive to teach – no strings attached 3) They reach out and communicate – to everyone 4) They take risks with messaging – on the edge 5) They balance confidence with curiosity & learning – learn

from everyone 6) They put in the time today (TL activities) for tomorrow’s

benefit 7) They never stop working, connecting and communicating

– not drip marketing, but constant education 8) Everyone is now in marketing – they’re ALL tied to the

business – thought leadership is fully integrated



Thought Leaders Develop the 4 C’s Competence

We work with you to define your core competence and translate it into marketable intellectual capital with a

differentiated point of view

Content Creation

By creating problem solving, useful and influential content across a variety of media, thought leaders can move along the customer awareness continuum

from “I don’t know you” to “I trust you to solve my problem”.

Channels Referring to the thought leadership marketing toolkit, channels are simply those

marketing channel that thought leaders use to dialogue with and learn from their audience while sharing their thought leadership message within an industry.

Connection

Thought leaders often market through networks or in highly networked situations and industries. In order to be a successful thought leader, an organization should have a well-developed and active online and offline

social networking strategy in place.


Summary Five Keys to Successful Thought Leadership

• Be Generous With Your Knowledge

– Share beyond the marketing speak

• Be Consistent

– Calendar your activities – daily, weekly, monthly routine

• Always Deliver Value

– Listen, think, revise, teach, repeat

• Take A Stand

– Take your strong positions to market

• Focus On The Long-term Benefits

– Track your results in months & years



Getting Started in Speakership



The Art of Speakership

Teaching is the highest form

of understanding. Aristotle



Get a Message!

• Yes, you actually need to have something to say…

• Your message differentiates you

• TED speakers ALL have a message

• Fix nervousness with service



Deepen Your Knowledge

• Confidence in expertise overcomes the nervousness of speaking

• Thought Leaders learn before they teach

• Your preparation will make you resilient in adversity and proactive in opportunity



Connect the Dots

• Join the dots to paint a picture of the future

• Write down everything you know about a topic

• Understand the questions about the topic

• Connect what you know with the questions

• The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. (William Gibson, Author Neuromancer)



Build Your Platform

• Write and refine your major idea, view, or perspective

• Uniquely YOUR point of view

• Create clarity from confusion

• Pursue your “higher holy calling” (big picture idea)

• Write before you speak!



Articles, Research & Whitepapers

• Weekly articles (trade, paper, web)

• Blogs

• Whitepapers (answer customer questions by vertical)

• Research reports & surveys



Tell a Story

• What moves you:

– FACTS?

– A GREAT STORY?



Balance Why and How

• Your audience wants to know WHY before they BUY and HOW when they’re ready to buy

• 60% of all sales leads slip into a bucket called “indecision” (not because people don’t know HOW to buy…)



Great Speakership is About Emotion

• Anyone can deliver a presentation

• Speakership connects your why and how with your audience



Your Next (First?) Speaking Gig

• Speak for free

• Speak internally first

• The “Events Section” of trade journals

• Local chapters of industry groups

• Regular networking meetings

• Customer trade events



On Your Way to Speakership

• Get your message straight

• Deepen your knowledge

• Connect the dots

• Build your platform

• Tell a great story

• Balance why and how

• Great speakership is about emotion

• Secure your speaking gig



Tips for Better Speaking

Here are four ways to break down that invisible wall that separates you from your audience

• Share something unrelated yet personal (not too long and if you can be self depreciating, awesome). No therapy on stage.

• Vary your timing. Don't get into a "power point rhythm", where each idea is delivered in a consistent cadence. Mix it up. Pause. Speak fast and speak slow.

• Gesture like you would when chatting.

• Make is a conversation, not a presentation



Tips for Better Speaking

• Use service to fix nervous

• Be prepared (spontaneity actually comes from preparation)

• MOVE!

• Read books…not your speech

• Mathematics of retention (don’t make too many points

• Don’t ever say you’re [something negative before you speak]


Speakership is NOT

Death by PowerPoint Therapy on Stage



Study TED Speakers http://www.ted.com/talks

http://www.ted.com/talks

Questions?



Q&A

1. What are some out-of-the-box lunch and learn topics that could apply to any business?

2. What are the best ways to plan for speaking? 3. The right balance between story telling and

technical content in a speaking engagement 4. How do I find subject matter that's not already

filled with "experts?" 5. Other than blogging, what are ways to establish

your credibility/content/reach in launching a "thought leadership" campaign?



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