How To be A Motivational Speaker | Find your Niche Can Make You Rich
A How-To video series about how to be a motivational speaker.   In this very informal video in which Brad Montgomery — a funny motivational speaker — Brad asks fellow motivational speaker and Colorado speaker Elaine Dumler for a killer tip for folks [...]

How To be A Motivational Speaker | Humor Tips — Give the Audience a Voice
A How-To video series about how to be a motivational speaker. In this very informal video in which Brad Montgomery — a funny motivational speaker — Brad explains the simple technique of Giving the Audience a Voice. [...]

Be A Motivational Speaker!
How to be funny on the platform:   a specific technique

Here is Part 6 of the continuing series about how to be a motivational speaker. In this video, Brad Montgomery discusses adding humor to your presentation. (And if you want to be a paid professional speaker, you’ll need to be funny — if [...]

How To be A Motivational Speaker | Template for a Keynote Speech
A How-To video series about how to be a motivational speaker.   In this very informal video in which Brad Montgomery — a funny motivational speaker — Brad explains the simple format (or template) for creating a motivational keynote speech.      Interested in exactly how you [...]

How To Be A Motivational Speaker Tips   Choosing a Topic
Here’s another one of my tips on how to be a motivational speaker. Today I talk about how to choose your topic. Questions? Leave them in a comment below and I’ll answer them in a video.

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I’m psyched to be visiting the fine folks of the National Speakers Association Houston Chapter on Nov. 8th and wanted to invite you all.  This event is open to the public, so if you have a hankering to learn more about the world of professional speakers, here’s your chance.
I’ll be covering two topics.
1)  How to [...]

Note:  Dear Readers:  Please comment below and tell me what you are reading now!
My pal and fellow Colorado Speaker Jay Arthur and I are in the same mastermind group.   After a discussion about reading in one of our meetings, he wrote the following letter, and I thought it was absolutely right on.  Check it out:
Years [...]

Wondering how to be a comedian?  
Do you want to know how to be a funny motivational speaker?  Here is your answer.
I am so proud of this project.  Humor College was a series where I interviewed some of the top speakers and comedians around and asked them:  How can we be funny like you?   It [...]

Powerpoint has to be one of the most overused and abused tool ever invented.  Lousy, uncreative and lazy  presenters mistake good slides for a good speech or presentation.  My point?  Even though you have a “professional” Powerpoint presentation, you still are a mediocre (at best!) speaker.
 
Ok, maybe not you.  But everybody else reading this blog.
Remember [...]

This cartoon cracked me up — and makes a legitimate point about comedians.
Sure, to be a great comedian or comedian speaker you have to have:
• Great Material
• Great Timing
• Appropriate Topis for Any Given Audience.
But most of all, you have to have confidence.  Audiences know right away when we are psyched-out and insecure.   It [...]