The art of Public Speaking is a not easy. To deliver your thoughts in front of a known or an unknown crowd, especially for the first time means sleepless nights, nervousness, deadlines, many rounds to the toilet and a lot more. But that challenge needs to be accepted. We all face that moment on stage when we go blank, the moments when we freeze on stage. So, Startup Idols have researched a lot and found out 5 impressive public speaking tips to overcome the fear of stage and to be able to deliver your thoughts eloquently.
here are the aforementioned, Public Speaking Tips:

1. It’s All About How You Say It

There is a saying, “A good speech is like a pencil, it has to have a point”. Spending a whole week on framing the perfect speech with right points, big words and some very good vocabulary is of nothing new. You try to make it as perfect as possible. Majority of your time will be spent on the content and what to speak but you usually miss on something very big that is ‘How to speak?’. The main role is of our body language and our voice. Content does play a role but the body language and voice have a bigger share. A person’s ability to communicate with its audience is mainly judged by his body language and his voice rather than the content. To be a good public speaker you must also know how to stay confident.

2. Connect Up With The Audience and Engage Them In Whatever You Speak

Try to make your speech as interactive as possible. Make sure that the audience doesn’t get bored with the topic. If this happens, they’ll not concentrate on what you are speaking, as a result, it might lower down your confidence. If you see a good opportunity to say something you think is funny, go for it. Therefore, try to get them to invest into the speech somehow.

3. Connect Better With a Positive Impression

It is not only important to make a lasting impression but to make the positive one. Don’t stick your eyes to one point rather make a meaningful eye contact with the entire audience and try to figure out what type of audience it is and what do they demand for and accordingly handle them. This will help to connect with them in a better manner. Do try to use examples from daily life to make your audience relate to it?

4. The Crucial First Few Seconds

The start of the speech is the most important part. Walk confidently keep your files on the podium properly and greet the audience with a warm smile. It gives them a lot of comfort when the other person has everything under control. Start with a phrase that the audience could relate to strongly.

5. Eat Right For Success

Food is something that might not come to your mind before you are going to give a big speech or a presentation. But if you eat right it can significantly improve the performance.

Emails are the primary source of communication in the Business world. However, there are some rules on how to write a business e-mail and there are certain phrases to be avoided while connecting up with employers, with you being an employee or even with the clients, with you being the owner or any other business relation. People might think that writing an email is a simple task. But, even a single error in that mail could be alarming and drag you in trouble. This can happen because email is the first interaction with the other party. It frames an image in the reader’s mind. As the saying goes, “two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression”. So, it is extremely important in the business world to lay down a good impression on the party, especially if you are going to have a deal with the other one. Hence, given below are some Phrases to be avoided while writing business emails. This would definitely save you from degrading down your first impression.

1.      Don’t hesitate to contact me

The rules of writing business emails are very clear, don’t use such cliche phrases. This in a way is being over polite, which is completely unnecessary. People are well aware that they can contact you for any further assistance. There’s no need for clarification.

2.      Hey/Hi

You need to follow a proper business e-mail format. Starting up with the mail like this is a very unprofessional way. However, if you have been conversing with the person for some time, you can add the name after Hi, or start the mail with just the name.

3.      Kindly

This is again a cliche word. It can be replaced with Please which sounds more genuine.

4.      You don’t know me

Never write this phrase as it will put off the reader. Also, to some extent, it might sound hilarious for the reader. As it is obvious in the Business Emails that at first you don’t know the person and is trying to connect up because of some reason.

5.      I am not an expert

Never say the above phrase. Even if you are not an expert or not having enough knowledge about the subject, you can still give your feedback. Stating the above phrase will result in the reader not taking you seriously.

By – Nayni Jain

If you are reading this post, you will surely fall into one of the two categories: You have never started a blog or you may have started one, the blog didn’t get much traffic, and then you lost the motivation to keep working on it. Well, Startup Idols has prepared this post to motivate you to start blogging again with some creative blogging tips.

Also read: Tips to Improve Writing Skills ‎

Blogging is not a one day task. You have to focus on it every day, regardless of seeing results immediately. But once it grows to a certain stage, it takes a life of its own and then it keeps amplifying.

To motivate you to start blogging, I have laid out the top 5 benefits of becoming a blogger.

You Organize Your Ideas Better With Our Blogging Tips

You learn so many things you go through your professional life. But the problem is that unless you document it somewhere you may forget most of the things you learned.

A lot of people have written several pages of notes. But you know what happens to those notes.

Such notes are not organized and presented well. The motivation to organize it well doesn’t exist because no one else is going to read it. Not even you are not going to read it again. It gets lost over time or just buried somewhere.

When it comes to blogging, it solves the above problem. When you know that someone else is going to read it. No matter how small your audience is, you will arrange and present your ideas in a better way. And when you put your efforts to present it in a better way, you also understand the concepts better and organize it better in your brain!

All blogs, after the certain stage, has the potential to generate revenue. You will never know how it can grow unless you get started. It could be a side project that gives you added income or it could become a source of full-time income.

Start Writing, Traffic will Come

If you are worried about having traffic and readership (which you won’t have initially), then it becomes very hard to motivate yourself to continue blogging consistently.

Those who do not care about traffic and readership are the ones who end up getting it – because their focus is mostly on the most important thing: Writing.

Writing is what counts value to a blog. Traffic is a result of that writing only. So you need to focus more on creating value than the after-effects of that value creation.

Action Steps:

• Choose a topic for your blog
• Register a domain name at GoDaddy
• Get web hosting and start a blog

Create Something, You Become an Artist

Blogging is the easiest way to get your hands dirty in creating something that people will admire.

But you may ask, why create something in the first place?

Humans have a chronic need to express themselves and be unique. That expression can only come from being an artist.

Writing & Speaking Skills Will be Improved

The only way to improve your writing is to write more. I remember my days when I used to write and edit an article several times and I still wouldn’t be satisfied with it. And now most of the blog posts I make are mostly first drafts with just a few edits

When you keep on writing a lot of content, you learn to organize the thoughts in your mind better and bring it out in a regular flow. The rectification reflects in speaking. The skill of talking in front of an audience without any preparation can only be gained from writing extensively. That’s why most of the published authors are almost always good speakers. They speak naturally and effortlessly even in front of large audiences.

When you become a great author, ultimately you become a good speaker. Isn’t thought

So write!

Your Brand and Network Expands

There are some people who just have phone numbers and email IDs. Then some have a few social media profiles like Facebook and Twitter. Some people have media coverage in several news publications. I guess you would agree that wider their digital footmarks– higher is their brand value.

Having a blog with good readership influences all this. When you write and people visit your blog to read, share and comment you have the liberty to expand your network. As your network expands, your brand value increases.

By Pallavi Singh

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People use the words RESUME, C.V., and BIO-DATA interchangeably for the document highlighting skills, education, and experience that a candidate submits when applying for a job. On the surface level, all the three mean the same. However, there are intricate differences.

RESUME

Resume Is a French word meaning -summary”, and true to the word meaning signifies a summary of one’s employment, education, and other skills, used In applying for a new position. A resume seldom exceeds one side of an A4 sheet, and at the most two sides. They do not list out all the education and qualifications, but only highlight specific skills Customized to target the job profile in question.

A resume is usually broken into bullets and written in the third person to appear objective and formal. A good resume starts with a brief Summary of Qualifications, followed by Areas of Strength or Industry Expertise in keywords, followed by Professional Experience in reverse chronological order. The focus is on the most recent experiences, and prior experiences summarized. The content aims at providing the reader a balance of responsibilities and accomplishments for each position. After Work experience come Professional Affiliations, Computer Skills and Education.

C.V – CURRICULUM VITAE

CV Is a Latin word meaning “course of life. Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) is therefore a regular or particular course of study pertaining to education and life. A C.V. is more detailed than a resume, usually 2 to 3 pages, but can run even longer as per the requirement. It generally lists out every skills, jobs, degrees, and professional affiliations the applicant has acquired, usually in chronological order. A C.V. displays general talent rather than specific skills for any specific positions.

BIO-DATA

Bio Data the short form for Biographical Data, is the old-fashioned terminology for Resume or C.V. The emphasis in a bio data is on personal particulars like date of birth, religion, sex, race, nationality, residence, marital status, and the like. Next comes a chronological listing of education and experience. The things normally found in a resume, that is specific skills for the job in question comes last, and are seldom included. Bio-data also includes applications made in specified formats as required by the company.

A resume is ideally suited when applying for middle and senior level positions, where experience and specific skills rather than education is important. A C.V., on the other hand is the preferred option for fresh graduates, people looking for a career change, and those applying for academic positions. The term bio-data is mostly used in India while applying to government jobs, or when applying for research grants and other situations where one has to submit descriptive essays.

Resumes present a summary of highlights and allow the prospective employer to scan through the document visually or electronically, to see if your skills match their available positions. A good resume can do that very effectively, while a C.V. cannot. A bio-data could still perform this role, especially if the format happens to be the one recommended by the employer.

Personal information such as age, sex, religion and others and hobbies are never mentioned in a resume. Many people include such particulars in the C.V. However, this is neither required nor considered in the US market. A Bio-data, on the other hand always include such personal particulars.

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