The Confident Speaker Podcast #2: How to Engage a Virtual Audience

In this episode, I share 7 ways to engage virtual audiences. Listen and implement these tips to make your online meetings, keynotes, workshops and presentations more impactful.

What You'll Hear:

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Engaging an online audience isn’t easy because there are an endless list of other things vying for their attention

Goal: Be more interesting than your audience's distractions​

1. Choose your content wisely

• Make sure it's interesting and relevant to your audience
  

2. Show interest

• Be sure to appear highly engaged and passionate

3. Get to the point

• Be brief and clear, reiterate important points​
  

4. Address the elephant in the room

• Invite your audience away from distractions and back to you

5. Include your audience

• Consider Q&A, polls, the chat box feature, etc.

6. Show rather than tell

• Go for eye-catching visuals that illustrate your points

7. Infuse variety

• Alternate between teaching, storytelling, video, Q&A, etc., especially for longer presentations

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