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As I survey the speaker’s market I’ve become a tad weary willfully wearing the title “Motivational Speaker”. All speakers worth their salt seek to motivate or cause action. Maybe it’s just me, but does the mere, three person tent
, mention of the term “Motivational Speaker” conjure irritating mental pictures in your subconscious mind? There are far too many stereotypes being propagated regarding speakers.

I will address a few of these speaker stereotypes and hopefully simultaneously construct a not-to-do list that aspiring speakers may use on their roads to success in the lucrative speaking industry.
Motivational Speaker Stereotype Number One:
The “Over-The-Top” Speaker
The “Over-The-Top” Speaker or the O.T.T. Speaker appears to have discovered a new fad diet which includes mountains of pure sugar and caffeine.

Just like, dana point real estate
, a cheesy pick-up line, the first words that come out of your mouth when you are giving a speech will determine if you are going to get lucky with this audience. Unlike a wanna-be Casanova in a bar, you (normally) don’t have an opportunity to buy your audience a drink, so you’re going to have work extra hard to make your opening lines do all the work for you if you want to have any hope of sweeping the audience off of their feet.

How are you going to score?