How to choose a youth motivational speaker

Youth Motivational Speakers should be informative, entertaining and inspiring. However good your facilities, sound system or food is... The event could completely collapse if you do not have a good speaker who is able to deliver your message.

Hence choosing a good youth speaker is a big responsibility. Given below are the best tricks and techniques that would help you with making this decision.

Youth Motivational Speaker Selection Tip #1: Ask for recommendations from trusted sources.

The great thing about student councils is that it's a very small world by that I mean somebody would have already hired a good speaker in the past so you can consider looking at that. Email, call, text... Whatever you feel is the best way to get in touch, do it.

You would be amazed at how easy it turns out to be. You need to get yourself involved in networking and growing your resource base and make a few good connections.

Youth Motivational Speaker Selection Tip #2: Know your event's purpose.

You need to find the right kind of speaker to match your current audience keeping in mind what you want the audience to take away from the event.  Once you are confident enough to who your audience is and what you want them to learn, selecting the right speaker is easy.

Youth Motivational Speaker Selection Tip #3: Determine your budget and stick with it.

The purpose of getting a speaker is not so that you can stress about the expenses. While it's a known fact that you get what you pay, so the more you pay the better you get. However if you set your budget before you start the research process you can filter out the speakers who are too expensive for your requirement.

It's better to get in touch with them first and see if you reach a negotiation which works for both of you; most speakers set a high budget but would be negotiable up to an extent. So do not write off anyone until you have spoken to them.

Youth Motivational Speaker Selection Tip #4: See their presentation.

It's a good idea for you to meet the speaker personally and have them do a presentation of their work. A presentation done by them is a clear way of you figuring out how they are going to be like at your event.

This can either be done by them showing you some of their work through different videos or if there is a presentation happening before your event, maybe you could go see it for real and then make a decision.

Youth Speaker Selection Tip #5: Don't let them annoy you!

Go with your gut. If you find there is something about the speaker's marketing approach, promotional content, presentation or videos that bugs you... do not hire them! It's really that simple. There's really no point in putting up with a speaker who cannot meet your needs.

Please find speakers who are more fun, friendly and easy to work with. Using these techniques, you can easily find an amazing youth motivational speaker to present at your next event.

James Vasanth writes a blog on Kevin Saunders, Motivation business Speaker and connecting the dots between online and offline. He can be found on Facebook and microblogs on Twitter as @ kevinsaunders7.

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