Most of the things that hold you back are all in your head, especially with live online webinar presentations. Public speaking is the #1 fear and if only you can get over yourself and force yourself to run some webinars, your anxiety will die down and every time you do a webinar, it'll get easier and easier. I want to share with you a few mental exercises you can perform to silence your inner voice and overcome your natural obstacles and actually get yourself out there and perform a webinar so you can create the easiest way of making the product and the best way of getting in touch with your audience. That's to listen to someone you want to be like, imagine a crowd cheering, and focus on just one of your own faults.
I want you to think right now about one person in your life who you think is a great speaker. This might be someone on TV, on the radio, that you know in real life, that you see him speak at seminars, that you know from the internet. Whoever it is, get a recording of their voice. Listen to one of their teleseminars, or their free audios, or their CDs, or their phone calls and get their voice in your head. That way when you speak, you can speak as if they were talking almost as if you inhabited their body and were controlling the things they were saying. I know that I hate my own speaking voice. You probably hate your own speaking voice. So make yourself sound like someone who's voice you don't hate. Think about what part of their voice you like the best. Is it the way they slow down certain words? Is it the way they ask certain leading questions. Is their voice high? Is their voice low? Is their voice fast? Is their voice slow? Whatever it is, listen to someone you want to sound like and slightly change your voice to somewhat model but not copy the way their voice sounds.
The next thing I'd like to do is imagine a crowd of cheering people. It's kind of a weird thing to sit alone with your computer and talk to nothingness. On the other hand, if you imagine that you're in front of a crowd of people and they all are just like loving you and cheering and wanting you to talk to them, it provides more motivation for you to be excited and for you to get yourself out there. And if you don't like your speaking voice or you think people don't like the way you talk, narrow down the problem.
It's so easy to just cop out and tell yourself nobody likes the way you talk but if you can focus on the number one thing you hate about the way you speak, you can improve on just that one thing. For example, maybe you don't breathe properly and can't catch your breath when you are presenting. So you need to work on adding more pauses, taking more deep breaths. Maybe you talk too fast, so you need to make it a point to speak almost too slow, almost at a point where it's too slow for you to be comfortable, that way people will better understand what you are saying. Whatever the one thing it is you need to focus on with your speaking, you probably know what it is. So next time you're on a live webinar, make it a point to only improve that one thing.
Those are the things you can do to get yourself more confident and psyche yourself up for webinars. Listen to someone you want to be like, imagine the crowd cheering, and focus on one thing. Put these mental exercises to use and run your very own webinars at www.webinarcrusher.com.
