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Feeling some nervousness before giving a speech is natural and healthy. It shows you care about doing well. But, too much nervousness can be detrimental.

Using tools like the MSI Personal Teleprompter is a great way to keep you on track and also make sure your presentation is professional. The beauty is you can also record it while you are giving the talk and post it later on the Internet for futher reference.

Here’s how you can control your nervousness and make effective, memorable presentations:

* Know the room. Be familiar with the place in which you will speak. Arrive early, walk around the speaking area and practice using the microphone and any visual aids.

* Know the audience. Greet some of the audience as they arrive. It’s easier to speak to a group of friends than to a group of strangers.

* Know your material. If you’re not familiar with your material or are uncomfortable with it, your nervousness will increase. Practice your speech and revise it if necessary.

* Relax. Ease tension by doing exercises.

* Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice loud, clear, and assured. When you visualize yourself as successful, you will be successful.

* Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be interesting, stimulating, informative, and entertaining. They don’t want you to fail.

* Don’t apologize. If you mention your nervousness or apologize for any problems you think you have with your speech, you may be calling the audience’s attention to something they hadn’t noticed. Keep silent.

* Concentrate on the message — not the medium. Focus your attention away from your own anxieties, and outwardly toward your message and your audience. Your nervousness will dissipate.

* Turn nervousness into positive energy. Harness your nervous energy and transform it into vitality and enthusiasm

* Gain experience. Experience builds confidence, which is the key to effective speaking.

Using msiprompt to keep you on track can be a great tool. Just enter the points of your talk and then scroll through them to keep you on target.

Your audience will appreciate you keeping to the topic and it adds some credability when they see you using a tool.

So far as I understand your sales copy, the “main” selling point is that this is 5 to 10 times LESS than cost of comparable existing software. That is true, but I think you need to demonstrate or explain all of the various ways this program can be of great use.

For example, i have already discovered it is a great way to create an “outline” and keep it up in front of me during phone interviews, to make sure I stay on track and do not miss any key points I want to make. Also, you could use it to create scripts for clients, record them, and easily create info products for your clients — either for a set fee, or royalty basis. We got tremendous reaction from several clients who said they would love to do their own “info product” or course, if all they had to do was sit there and read a script, or speak from an outline.

Hakim Chishti

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