HOW TO MAKE 300K PLUS MONTHLY ORGANISING SEMINARS

Now to make millions from hosting seminars there are some key things one must know and I think the most important of them all is your audience. They are the key to the millions you want to make believe me don’t ever underestimate this group of people, they are your customers without them your seminar will be a flop, so how do we make the best out of this set of people---the audience.

In seminars the host can do a lot with his/her audience

1. Get them to sleep

2. Get them inspired

3. Get them hopelessly confused.

In short they do a lot of good and bad unknowing depending on their capacity, be you whoever if you don’t know the etiquettes of making a resounding presentation you are going to a lot of rubbish and guess what that leads to massive failure and frustration.

So let’s find out how to make a well-organized speeches and presentation in our seminars that will make your audience listen and respond positive on your side ofcourse negative response leads to frustration on your part and theirs ultimately.

SOME NEGATIVE CATEGORIES OF AUDIENCES

1.      

             Passive Audience

This category of audience can be year inactive and uninvolved in whatever that is going on why do they became like this simple because the topic of your discussion is not motivating or captivating enough so became dulled and passive.

2.     

             Competitive Audience

This category of audience only wants to feel what you have to say, they feel competitive with the speaker especially if they know a little about the topic to be presented, they are like who are you to tell me what to do, who do you know that I don’t already know, what do you know that I don’t already know so this type of audience don’t easily pay good attention to the speaker

3.     

       Anonymous Audience

You as the speaker are instantly visible, in fact you are listed in the program or at least you were introduced. This type of audience may also feel distinguished or at least competent but know that to you the speaker we are only a sea of faces. Anonymous listeners or audience rather than the individuals we pride in ourselves in being.

4.       

      Resistant Audience

This is also a fantastic category of audience from the same resistant you should know this category of audience try all possible best to resist your speech, why simply because they feel being manipulated.

The common outgrowth of feeling manipulated is to draw the line.

Don’t tell me what to do is as old a response as the first time we disobeyed a parent. There is not only a natural tendency to resist a sales person for the sheer feeling of strength, smarts, or personal integrity it gives us; we also due to our ad happy culture, very sales-shrewd and vendor suspicious this days.

Whenever a new idea is presented or an in-depth, detailed, or alternative version of an old idea we as the audience are challenged to rise to the occasion and understand it. Especially since you the speaker already and obviously does. But people learn at different rates and come to such a table with different skills and different level of comprehension. Therefore the act of being in an audience trying to understand can be threatening .Especially since, very often , it’s material we need and want to understand.

5.     

       Disfrananchised Audience

Audience membership puts some audience in a receiving mode when we have been quite accustomed to running our lives and being a teller or activator. This makes some audience feel that they’ve lost their turf .It’s hard to si back and watch someone else just take over.

6.       

      Put Upon Audience

Often presentations are either gratuitous, useful for the teller or foisted upon an audience because this is good for you.

Audiences are not in charge of either the subject or the length and manner of presentation. 

This can create resentment especially if the speaker is not impressive.

7.       

      Manipulated Audience

Since most seminars either large or small, cast the speaker as the champion of the cause, the vendor of an idea or someone who wants the audience to do, think or agree with something, audiences have the natural tendency to see themselves as being manipulated. They see the speakers as doing something to them not in a wholesome and open minded state.

8.      

      Bonded

Because we are all together in the same place at the same time, sharing that special experience some people who are not comfortable becomes disconnected from each other. Singling anyone of us out can make the whole audience feel affiliated with and protective of that person. (Just watch the TV game shows if you doubt this.)

Now let’s add the physical realities of sitting in an audience to the emotional responses and consider the effects they could have;

a. How hard are the chairs

b. How long have they been already there

c.  What else has gone before?

d. Is it hot or cold 

e. Can they see or hear clearly?

f. Are they hungry?

All the above affects the receptivity of your audience. Using them as guidelines let us move to phase one of making a good speech.

Readers you want to learn this check our next post on How To Plan Your Presentation later in the day or better still tomorrow.

Peace.