A WEDDING MC HOTLINE matches the worlds BEST multi-lingual master of ceremonies with bride and grooms looking for a FUN wedding reception

A photo of you in action is a great way to promote your services. They instantly reveal your personality. For a Master of Ceremonies this means MIC in hand, smiling and creating rapport with their audience. Much better than the staged studio shot.

Unfortunately, these shots are difficult to find; most of mine look like I’m trying to shove the MIC up my nose!

The next best thing is a photo of the wedding MC with your happy clients the bride and groom. At A WEDDING MC HOTLINE, we have instructed all our MCs to take their camera with them and make sure the bride is in the centre and the MC is holding the MIC up. It needs to be a threesome shot; like a combined effort.

Ive managed to get better at this over the years – you can see my results by clicking here

http://gallery.me.com/petemiller8#100207

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Matt Lang from Brisbane asked this question after reading UP FRONT IN CONTROL :

MY RESPONSE WAS:

First impressions count so get the visual part (your MC brand) up & running
eg photos / testimonials / videos of you MCing with microphone in hand.

have a look at mine here: http://gallery.me.com/petemiller8 OR at petemiller.com.au

Consider what TYPE of Master of Ceremonies or Compere are you?? eg intellectual / funny / quirky / niche industry / passionate

then there is the FEE issue eg how much do you charge? there should be a fee schedule for download; but be aware it is difficult to change your fees once they are set in the minds of your prospective clients

To make it look like you are in control and serious about your MC career, you might want to get a spefic domain eg I own brisbanemc.com (but haven’t used it yet; available for sale)

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I was Master of Ceremonies for a wonderful, colorful exotic wedding the other night @ the Hilton, Sydney.
It was amazing; Sri Lankan + Dutch bride and Aussie Handsome hunk groom.

Dramatic entrance with Drums, trumpets & exotic dancers. Unfortunately we couldn’t fit the Elephants thru the doors … ☺

But no matter how many wedding I emcee, it is still remains one of my greatest joys; to know that what I do for my job makes such an major difference and improvement to a young couples most important day.

Being a wedding MC has to be one of the greatest jobs in the world – and the most fun you can have with a microphone in your hand.

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Pete a professional public speaking coach gives a public speaking tip on looking at communication as an art form

 

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Pete, a public speaking coach talks about how he deals with clients when they have a fear of public speaking

 

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One of the best public speaking tips I can give as a public speaking coach is to learn from an Actor. An Actor has studied communication and acting is one of the oldest forms of communication. It has been studied as a communicative art for two or three thousand years
The Greeks and the Romans were beautiful communicators. They had the ability to stand in a large open air auditorium and communicate. They had no lights, no stage, no PowerPoint slides and no microphones. They had to contend with elements such as wind or rain, but they could still make 3000 people cry. Not too many people have communication skills like that these days.
I went to acting school to learn to be an actor. I studied acting for three years. In the very first week of the course we studied the Greeks and Romans. We studied this for a few months. Those few months changed how I communicate today. I was amazed at how well the Greek and Romans communicated.
From that first year in acting school I knew that I wanted to communicate this to the rest of the world. So be selective who you get the public speaking advice from. Look at the person’s background and question if they have learned the art of communication.
While I have many public speaking tips that I give my clients as a professional public speaking coach, one of the best public speaking tips I can give you is learn from the actors as they understand the art of communication.
 

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Pete, a professional public speaking coach explains the origin of the fear of public speaking

 

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I am a professional public speaking coach and I still get nervous before public speaking but it is totally different to a fear of public speaking. People sometimes confuse nerves as a fear of public speaking and think being nervous is bad thing but I think nerves are good.
When you have an interview or go on a date you are nervous and that is to be expected. You are nervous as there is a lot at stake and public speaking is no different.
The thing that you should be nervous about is wasting the audiences time. This is the biggest crime you can commit to another person is to waste their time. A public speaker has got a responsibility. If there is ten people in the audience and you are on the stage for an hour, then that’s ten hours you are responsible plus your own. If it’s a hundred people, it’s a hundred hours and so on. The people in the room won’t get that time back so there is a lot riding on you.
A  speakers only concern should be the audience. It is not about me when I am speaking it is about the audience I am delivering the speech to. To overcome the nerves this is what you should be focusing on.  Most of the people I work with quickly get over their nerves when they start to concentrate on the audience.
All these nerves are caused by you putting expectations on yourself. Try putting the expectations on what you are delivering to the audience. This will help you concentrate on what we are delivering.

I always tell my clients that I coach on public speaking that it is self-indulgent to worry about their own nerves when they are delivering to 100 or so people. I think this is a really important public speaking tip. Let go of any perceptions that you have on nerves or the fear of public speaking and just concentrate on your audience.
 

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As a professional public speaking coach I have looked into the origin of the fear of public speaking. The origin of the fear of public speaking comes from the Book of Lists. This book was published in 1972. The Guardian newspaper had picked up this book and said, “Oh. Listen to this. How about this? the Book of Lists says that the fear of public speaking is greater than death”.
The source of this list, no one knows. Some journalist in some office somewhere in London has come up with it, but there was never any source given. So no one really knows where this survey was done.
With more than thirty years since that was published, I think we’ve got over it a little bit. But it’s constantly brought up and as a professional public speaker and coach I should come across this on a daily basis if it was such an issue.
I think this Book of Lists statistic on fear of public speaking above death is silly concept and I have noticed as a professional public speaking coach that as a society we have moved on from this.
 

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I believe that a blog should be controversial and of course always interesting and I think that you will find my take as a professional public speaking coach on the fear of public speaking fulfils both criteria.
I have noticed through the Google alerts that I receive that the topic of the fear of public speaking is featured in about 90% of the posts on public speaking. Obviously this is on the minds of people.
What I find strange is that as a professional public speaking coach, and I have been doing this for almost 15 years, that it is very rare that I came up against this fear of public speaking. I can think of one case in my 15 years as a coach. Her fear of public speaking was definitely caused by an incident where a teacher at school had told her to sit down and shut up, and she took it on board. She had risen very high in her career because she’s very good at what she does. Due to this she kept getting asked to speak at functions. And she did a couple, and she felt terrible, and she said, “Pete, you have to help me,”. I just dug a little bit deeper and found out within a couple of minutes what it was and we wrote that teacher a letter. A metaphorical letter if you like, we didn’t actually write it and post it, but I said, “What would you say to this teacher if you could see her now.” She said, “This, this and this,” and it was all gone. So this issue about fear of public speaking, if it is an issue, it’s a very insignificant issue. It’s very small. And anybody who knows anything about public speaking will realize that it should be not be made into a bigger issue than it is.

I dispute that this fear of public speaking exists as I think that as a professional public speaking coach I should come across this a lot more often if it was a major issue.
 

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