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Market Without Marketing When You Speak

December 10, 2018 By Lucinda

In the last post, we talked about maintaining focus while speaking. In this post, we are going to talk about how to market without marketing when you speak.

Find Opportunities to Market While Speaking

Many times, local civic organizations look for experts from various businesses to come and give a presentation about your area of skill. The Elks, Rotary and Kiwanis are just a few who are always on the look for good public speakers to address their groups. If you get a chance to speak to these groups, it’s easy to see these as tremendous business opportunities for marketing.

Civic Organizations Want You to Speak Not Market

These groups restrict you to only address your field of expertise and do not allow marketing of any kind when you come to speak to their membership. This could be a pretty frustrating situation. Many times, these men’s groups are fraternities of the most successful business people in your area. These groups meet monthly they are always on the lookout for good public speakers like you. If you are confident in your public speaking ability, you can easily see yourself getting return invitations to address these groups.

By looking at these speaking opportunities differently

you can leave that frustration behind and find a way to market to these people by not marketing. You can use the natural functions of the public speaking forum to advertise your business in a way that never has marketing feel to it at all. These methods are not forbidden and your sponsors will applaud your presentation as you quietly market yourself with these speaking engagements.

Go To Give Value Rather Than To Sell Something or Yourself

First of all, you are allowed to introduce yourself and talk about your specialized training and experience. Let’s face it, while that is a section of your presentation to help your audience understand your area of expertise, it is also nothing short of a job interview. By discussing your training and talents in the context of background, you cement in the mind of that audience why you would be a good person to think about when they need your kind of talent as part of what they do.

But the introduction is not the only way you can market without marketing.

Speak with energy and passion about your work, that excitement sends a message about who you are to those potential customers out there. The one thing a client wants to see is that you are always on a quest to increase your knowledge of your field.

This is especially true if you are in an industry that goes through a lot of changes every year. Your clients want a partner who can keep up on those changes so they don’t have to. By demonstrating that this is a big part of who you are as a subject matter expert in your area, you will become a very attractive prospect as a business partner for the future.

You will want to make sure your presentation is packed with very useful information to your audience.

But don’t tell them so much that they can live without you. A good approach is to discuss the problem area in business that your specialization is very good at addressing. By using your time to detail the problem, you create a need in your audience. The solution section of your talk simply describes the perfect solution in enough detail so your future clients know you know what you are doing but not enough so they can take on the problem themselves. Once again, this creates the desire in the members of that fraternal organization to come to you when that very well described need comes up in their businesses.

Be sure to use the time before and after your presentation for networking.

You may be invited to join the group for a meal and if you have already had a chance to speak, this is an ideal time to make some personal connections, answer questions about your talk and even make appointments to come and speak to individual business owners about how you can be of help to them.

You are usually allowed to have your business card with you and for members of the club to take them after your talk.

If you’ve done a good job of marketing by not marketing, those business cards will fly into the hands of those interested audience members and you will see a nice return on your investment of time.

In this article, you have learned that you have to learn how to market yourself, not products when you are speaking.

I highly recommend this book to improve your public speaking skills and influence in your networking relationships – Conversationally Speaking on Amazon.com where you can download it right now.

Is this article helping you? Yes, or No, please leave a comment below! Thanks!

Make sure you look for my next post.

Until then,
Keep The Shiny Side Up,

Lucinda

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