I recently took some great advice about public speaking to promote my business from Nick R Thomas, a really experienced speaker who gives some top tips in his blog.

Nick got me thinking about tips I’d give people on public speaking and my advice is this: don’t miss a trick by not recording your speech. You could use the resulting recording to promote yourself as a speaker by featuring it on your website or to promote your business in general by using it as a giveaway to get people to sign up to your newsletter. Or you could even have it transferred to CD and hand it out as an audio business card at networking events.

The best way to record your audio is by using a tie mic with your digital recorder or minidisc recorder but if all else fails you could have your digital recorder’s built in mic as near to you as possible (if you’re standing at a lecturn this works, if not, go for the tie mic) and record that way.

Either way, don’t miss the opportunity to let people hear how well you can speak about your business. Not everyone you need to reach will be at that talk but we all know how far and wide that there internet spreads its sticky tentacles….