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Don’t Read, Even If Your Audience Can’t See You

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

If you’ve been asked to deliver a presentation via a teleseminar or a webinar, this is likely to be your first reaction:

“Great! This will be simple. I can just read my script or PowerPoint. No one will see my face or my eyes. No one will know. This will be a piece of cake!”

Wrong!

Your audience can hear you reading. This is a big problem. If you haven’t rehearsed your presentation dozens of times or unless you are a professional newscaster, your reading will sound awful. Here’s why: