Brian Tracy covers five practical tips for virtual presentations: position your camera at eye level with good lighting and a clean background, answer specific questions privately unless they apply to everyone, practice beforehand to nail your timing, smile to seem approachable, and test your audio and internet connection first.
How to Speak to a Virtual Audience the more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. Brian Tracy in this age of technology, one of the most common and effective ways to speak to your audience is virtually. There are many methods for accomplishing this, whether it is through a Facebook Live, a YouTube video, a webinar, or even in video lessons. However, how well you can reach your audience depends on how you manage your virtual sessions. It is one thing to get your audience to tune in, but another to keep their attention. Before you start your virtual sessions, make sure you use these tips to not only keep them entertained, but also keep them coming back for more. Know where to keep your camera. If your audience cannot see you, they may not stay long. You want to make sure that you not only have your camera facing you and keeping you center, but unless you have a prop that you want to use to one side, but also that you have a light facing your face. Test out a few options before you actually create the video or go live so you can make sure that they see you and that you and or your prop are kept as the main focus. Additionally, you want to make sure you have a good background. A messy room can be distracting to your viewers. 2. Answer some questions in private chat There are some questions that are great for answering in real time through the video, but there are others that should really be answered privately. You do not want to take away from your video by taking a question that is very specific to one person or a small group of people. If you do want to answer the questions live on video, make sure they are relevant to most people who would be watching or you run the risk of losing the attention of a lot of your virtual audience in the process. 3. Practice ahead of time. If there is nothing else that you can do before you create your video or go live at, at least make sure you practice. While it may seem like it will be easier because you are not speaking in front of a live audience, it can be just as intimidating if you do not practice. You could easily trip over your words and mess up in your own video. Another reason that you want to practice is that you do not really know how it will go until you practice it. You may think you have a five minute video to record, but the first time you practice it it would be a lot shorter or go a bit longer. It is best to test it out first before you hit record number four. Remember to smile. You want to be approachable to your audience and the easiest way to do this is by smiling in a natural way. Remember that this is something that people will be watching and even though no one is there with you physically, you still need to smile towards them. This not only makes you more familiar and warm on screen, but it makes you seem like a real person that people will want to listen to make sure your sound and Internet connection is good. The last thing you want is to start your live video or recording and only to find out later that people could not hear you very well or that the recording is glitchy because your Internet connection was not strong enough. You will want to test both of these out before you start recording and maybe even do a test video ahead of time so you do not run into these issues. If this does happen, people will stop listening and watching and move on to the next thing. So this is very important as a baseline for your videos and here are some other tips to keep your audience engaged. With so much around to take the attention of your audience, you want to make sure that you keep their attention for as long as you can. One way you can keep your audience engaged is by encouraging interaction of some sort throughout the video. You do not want to talk at them, but to them and bring them into the conversation. Another way is to stick with simplicity but also use some visual cues. If you can, try to break up all of the talking by including some visual cues or slides throughout the video, but also make sure that these are simple so that they can look at it but still pay attention to what you're saying now. We'd love to hear from you. So our question today is what strategies have you been using while conducting virtual presentations? Leave a comment below and Brian will be sure to follow up with you. Thanks for watching. And remember, as Brian always says, if you want to change your future, take action. And take action now.
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