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Don’t fake an answer. Ever. Your audience will see right through it.
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Your voice is your most valuable tool for building trust when the audience can’t see you.
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Think of each interaction as one moment in a larger relationship with your audience.
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When sessions open up for questions, try and be among the first people to put our hand in the air. A really well-formed and insightful question is a mini-opportunity to get seen by the entire audience.
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An informed audience is going to spot the holes in our case… We might as well get credit for having the humility to look for them, the foresight to spot them, and the integrity to acknowledge them.
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By asking questions rather than thinking for the audience, we invite them to join us as a partner and think for themselves.
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Many communicators try to make themselves look smart. Great listeners are more interested in making their audiences feel smart.
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There is a failure to understand that in digital video you seek fans, you don’t buy audiences.
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Humor also is a safe way of exploring negative situations – often relying on shock or on setting the audience off balance in some way.
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The purpose of a pith is to stimulate interest, not to cover every aspect of your startup and bludgeon your audience into submission. Your objective is to generate enough interest to get a second meeticng.
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