Auckland Small Business Owners

There are a lot of Small Business owners in the room this weekend which is great to see. A lot of business owners have been cutting there advertising costs so they need to start using other methods to generate traffic and new leads into there businesses, and at this weekends event that’s exactly what we are teaching.

This weekend we have had an SEO Challenge in Auckland for the keyphrase: Auckland Internet Marketing Event. I’ve just come off stage to carry out the challenge and now I’m about to gett ready to back up again to do the Domaining session.

The SEO Challenge is looking good and we are again hoping to rank #1 in Google for this term.

Public Speaking Training - Useful Anywhere Anytime

Assuming you do not live alone on a desert island in the Pacific or an igloo in the frozen wastelands of the Arctic Circle there is a good chance you will be expected to talk to a group of people at some time in your life. It might be at a wedding, a business meeting, or worse case in front of a jury of your peers - or something in between.

At these occasions you will be expected to convey emotions, share ideas or carry a convincing argument and the importance and benefits of good Public Speaking Training will become obvious.

If you are after more formal or specific Public Speaking Training courses you will find thousands on the net.
How do you pick a good Public Speaking Training program from among the thousands?

Public Speaking Training Courses - Experience Counts

There are many things to consider when choosing a Public Speaking Training course but one thing that is critical is that the program include live training and practice. You won’t learn to speak in public unless you practice speaking in public or in front of a small group.

Theory is all very well, but in the end public speaking is about talking in front of an audience and managing the fear. The only way to manage that fear is experience it. Something that only happens when you do it.  You should not consider any Public Speaking Training program that fails to offer this.

One of the best providers of Public Speaking Training is Toastmasters International. The difference from other Public Speaking Training courses is that there is no instructor - members learn from other members as they follow a structured and well tested training program.

A lot of the teams decided to use this challenge as an opportunity to help raise money for the #bushfire appeal.. Combined, our teams raised over $100 in under 5 hours to help with the appeal, which is fantastic and an amazing effort in the limited time and internet connection that they had.

One of the teams did a special offer on their wine, which took off like wild fire and they made an awesome $497.78 in the 5 hours they had.

It goes to show that making money online isn’t difficult and that you can do it quickly and easily when you put your mind to. The challenge showed many of our participants that they knew how to drive traffic to an offer using multiple traffic streams including, Social Media, Pay Per Click marketing, Blogging, SEO techniques and another couple of “secret” strategies they learnt on Sunday morning.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the challenge and well done on raising money for such a worthy cause ☺