The 6 Simple Steps to a Great Story: Master Hollywood's Secrets For Captivating Your Audience

Our guest Michael Hauge, Hollywood Script Consultant for the likes of Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon and other Hollywood pros, critiques six story submissions sent in by the SpeakerMatch community. Michael also discusses his 6 Step Success Story™ process to reveal the principles and methods employed by the most successful storytellers of all time: Hollywood filmmakers. And he will show you how to apply those same methods to your own stories to captivate and transform your audiences. You can download a free pdf of his 6 steps at http://www.storymastery.com/6steps.

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The MAGIC is in the Message

In this session Norma Hollis shares the secrets she uses to help speakers find their authentic message. Sometimes we enter the speaking industry with one thought about our message then as we mature as a speaker we learn that our message is something different. It is much easier to gain success as a speaker when you identify your authentic message early in your career...

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The 6 Simple Steps to a Great Story: Live story critiques!

MICHAEL HAUGE is a Hollywood story expert, author and lecturer who consults with screenwriters, novelists, filmmakers, attorneys and public speakers throughout the world. He has coached writers, producers, stars and directors on projects for Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts and Morgan Freeman, as well as for every major studio and network.

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What I Learned Writing, Delivering & Promoting a TED Talk Seen by FOUR MILLION People

Delivering a strong TED Talk is all about what you do BEFORE you take the stage, not when you take the stage. In this behind-the-scenes conversation, award-winning speaker, Josh Shipp shares specific ...

How to Electrify an Audience

There is nothing more exhilarating than the feeling of walking away from an audience knowing you just hit the mark with your presentation! It’s great connecting with the audience, feeling the energy in the room, and seeing the smiling faces and knowing you made a difference to improve their life and career. This interview with special guest, Patricia Fripp, will share proven methods to prepare successfully for your next speech and electrify your audience.

What Was Covered in This Interview:

• Build rapport before you hit the stage
• Know exactly how you will open and conclude your remarks
• Focus your message based on the interests of your audience
• Create a simple speech outline which is easy to remember
• Include memorable stories and examples
• Build rehearsal into your daily life

About Our Guest
Our guest is a good friend to SpeakerMatch and a popular favorite with our SpeakerMatch audience. Meetings and Conventions magazine named Patricia “One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America.” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance wrote that the sixth best investment in your career is to learn presentation skills from Patricia Fripp. After a successful career as an entrepreneur in the hairstyling industry Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE became a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, executive speech coach, and sales presentation skills expert. Patricia was the first female president–of the over 3,500-member National Speakers Association.

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Finding, Creating & Delivering a World-Class Speech

Meeting planners start judging speakers the moment the the communication begins. This evaluation is most intense in the 60 to 90 minutes before the speech and the 60 to 90 minutes after the speech. The determination as to whether they ever refer you hinges on how you, the speaker, interacts, networks, and mingles during this period. This all inclusive conversation with our most requested guest, Patrick Snow, will not only provide you with strategies to find, create, and deliver a world class speech, but go in to detail about how you should spend your time during the pre and post speech that will cause planners to fall in love with you and happily refer you to their contacts. Make one wrong move and you may come off as an egotistical "ass" and lose the planner's goodwill forever. Join us as we go behind the scenes and look at what it really takes to secure the high-paid booking, get paid in full (months in advance), have the audience love your speech, and get numerous spin off referral speaking engagements. This call is one you will not want to miss.

What Was Covered in This Interview:

• Patrick's Speech formula dissected
• How you should spend your time during the pre and post speech
• How long should you stay in the room after the speech
• Strategies to get numerous spin off referral speaking engagements
• How to stand out and get noticed
• ...and so much more (seriously)

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The Number One Secret of Delivering a Great Speech

Interview with Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker, Patricia Fripp. This interview was conducted as a webcast. To view slides listen at http://www.speakermatch.com/radio/80/.

Turn Your Speech Into A Blockbuster! Master Hollywood’s Secrets for Creating Powerful Stories

Our guest is Michael Hauge, a Hollywood story expert, author and lecturer who consults with screenwriters, novelists, filmmakers, attorneys and public speakers throughout the world. He has coached writers, producers, stars and directors on projects for Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts and Morgan Freeman, as well as for every major studio and network.

Michael critiques five submissions from our listening audience and illustrates how you can turn your speech into a blockbuster using Hollywood secrets. Seriously! Check it out.

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How To Be A Powerful, Pithy Presenter: Increase the Quality of Your Presentation, Content, and Delivery

Learn from a Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker, Patricia Fripp, how you can increase the quality of your presentation, content, and delivery.

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Patricia Fripp Up-Close and Personal

Totally candid interview with 32 year NSA veteran and Hall of Fame keynote speaker Patricia Fripp.

On this episode of SpeakerMatch Radio we discussed...

Exactly WHY is the NSA so beneficial
How to start a speaking business
What established speakers can do if the phone stops ringing
10 specific ways to improve your public speaking skills
Where to find new content
How to get invited back once you finish your speech

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Taking Your Presentation to the Next Level

It is no secret, corporate travel budgets are down, associations are predicting less attendees, and convention committees are asking speakers to cut their fees. What can ambitious speakers do? They can UP their value in a DOWN economy!


Patricia Fripp says, "We need to increase the effectiveness of our marketing and revisit the quality of our presentations." Being perceived as a dynamic, inspiring, and persuasive presenter is no longer a nice skill to have; it is a matter of business life and death!

This starts with your marketing and is magnified in your presentation. If you are a novice, intermediate, or even advanced business or professional presenter, you will benefit from this teleseminar. Patricia has a unique ability to demystify the process of what it takes to transform a good presentation into a GREAT one!

With Patricia, you will learn some often over-looked marketing philosophies and hear Fripp's Good to Great: 10 Little-Known Techniques to Transform Your Speech.

On this call, you will discover how to:

* Revisit your marketing with fresh eyes
* Identify do's and don'ts that ensure a successful presentation
* Adapt two comedy techniques that add retention
* Open and close with more impact
* Avoid the unconscious goof that will hurt your credibility
* Improve listener buy-in for your point of view
* Be remembered and repeated
* Be persuasive, clear, and concise
* Make your stories memorable
* Receive high caliber advice for a low investment