One of the most empowering, life-changing skills that you can learn and develop is public speaking. Through public speaking, you can improve your communication skills, increase your personal confidence, meet new and important people, and drive more people to do business with you.

In fact, if it’s done right, public speaking can double your income in seven months, providing you with the lifestyle you deserve while giving back to others at the same time.

This is NOT a discussion about how to be a better public speaker. (For that, you should check out Toastmasters.)

Instead, here are seven strategies for helping you maximize your opportunities in the area of public speaking, and for showing you how you can double your income in as little as 7 months.

1. Creating Products On-The-Fly

Most people want more than just a great presentation. We learn best through different delivery methods and through repetition. Fortunately, EVERY presentation you give is an opportunity to record it (which will result in audio and/or video clips), and transcribe it (to create books and e-books). That’s how you can create information products that you can then either give away as lead generation tools or sell. The more presentations on different subjects that you give, the more information products you can simultaneously create.

2. High Visibility

Because you were chosen to speak to an audience, they perceive you as the obvious 'guru' on whatever your topic is about. The room is generally FILLED with people who want your advice, services, and information products (books, videos, etc.). You can now have your choice of potential clients and probably even increase your prices over your ‘lesser-known’ competitors.

3. Power Networking

Your status as a public speaker makes other people view you as the cream of the crop, and so it’s natural that other experts and high-powered business people in the room will want to get to know you. Even people you meet on the street will be drawn to you when they find out what you do. By nurturing and developing those relationships, big-money opportunities will start to come out of the woodworks.

4. Keeps You On Top Of Your Game

When you're giving a presentation in front of a crowd, you’d better know your stuff and be quick on your feet or else you'll be embarrassed by probing questions from the audience. While doing the homework for your speech, you are simultaneously "sharpening your saw", increasing your knowledge and skills, and thus making yourself more expensive (aka "marketable").

5. Every Audience Is A Goldmine

Nobody knows EVERYTHING about a subject (although you SHOULD know more than most of the people you’re presenting to). By encouraging questions and feedback during and after your presentations, you'll learn things from the people in your audience that you might never have known otherwise. Because they look to you as a 'leader', you can access their collective wisdom and experience which will only help you improve your business as a whole. If you’re open to it, you may even find yourself doing business with members of your audience.

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