A quick check on Google this morning to search for web pages on public speaking produced an overwhelming 24,500,000 pages. Twenty four million results? However, a similar search for public speaking on YouTube for videos tagged for public speakers yielded an astounding, but disappointing grand total of 14,400 videos on the topic.  Why both astounding and disappointing at the same time? As opposed to being found amongst the 24 million pages (this site is ranked 197), don’t you think it’d be easier to be one of the 14,400 videos?

Some years ago, while contemplating the launch of a new business, I remember a speaker saying that starting out was much like getting an airplane or rocket to fly. His logic was that the process would require a considerable amount of momentum to be generated to get the business to “fly”. Once that was accomplished, I could expect to ease the power back and ride that momentum to anywhere I wanted to go in life.

I posted a question to my FaceBook group discussion the other day asking all of the speakers who participate “what is your profit engine?”

While there are still a number of members who have not responded yet, there was one response from Stephen Tweed, a Certified Speaking Professional who really gets it.

One of the many magazines I get and read each month is called eContent. The stories they report on deal with the creation and delivery of content. It is a topic which is extremely relevant to what I do.

My FaceBook group is growing nicely and as topics are posted the discussions have begun to take shape. I can tell you it has been very interesting and enlightening to read and learn from my friends and peers. I’m excited by the opportunity to mentor them and hopefully shift a paradigm or two as we move along.