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| I need to Steal-a-Speach | Views: 1790 |
| Mar 02, 2007 4:06 am | | I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
Robert Harrington | | I am up for doing some public speaking, so I need a generic business oriented 15 minute speech that I can customize for my own unique approach...Sort of like a website template.
Like why reinvent the wheel, eh?
So as a roundup of this group MUST include all the usual suspects in the speechifying business, please dust off the ones that kept people awake and e-mail robert@harringtonhomes.ca or post it.
Thanks Private Reply to Robert Harrington |
| Mar 02, 2007 6:23 am | | re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
Patrick McManus | | Frankly I am insulted because you want to steal ideas from people who work hard to create messages that are important to them and their audiences.
I bet you steal music and movies from the web and other sources as well as sales from fellow realtors. It is obvious that you are totaly selfish and only interested in your own good. I hope some other realtor steals your listings and homes from you.
If you are interesting in buying some ideas I would be glad to sell you some cliches.
Patrick McManus The Man of Many Hats
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| Mar 02, 2007 12:43 pm | | re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speech | # |
Murray Farrell | | Don't be so hard on him. He needs help.
I suggest you set some goals about what your want to achieve in this speech, write an opening, a body and conclusion (not necessarily in that order) and then practice and practice and tune and tune for a few weeks and deliver. Once you have done that you may feel like making your hard work available to someone who wants to steal a speech. Or then again ... maybe you wont.
Look forward to hearing of the results.
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| Mar 02, 2007 4:30 pm | | re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
LeeAundra Keany, Executive Communications Coach | | Almost every good speech takes from the best and customizes it to fit the speaker and the occasion.
Even the idea of "Ask not what your country can do for you..." was "stolen" from countless inaugural addresses and simply phrased more winningly by JFK.
Blatant plagarism without attribution is of course wrong, but there's nothing wrong with taking a template and customizing it. I personally don't know of any templates but wish you luck in your search.
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| Mar 02, 2007 5:10 pm | | re: re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
Robert Harrington | | WOW! Some of you are so serious.
I have "stolen" many ideas and custom fit or innovated them for a niche market.
My biggest success was "stealing" old fashioned "car sales" selling techniques in the early eighties onto selling tellecommunications products to business and pioneered the telephone Interconnect business. Sold over 20,000 (thousand)multiline phones and 500 businesses in my first year.
I'm a car salesman. What can I say? The world is my car lot.
I have had minor successes in manufacturing and selling DRYWASH when the original MLM went out of business and I went looking for distributers with clients who wanted product. A quick look at some chemical books in the local library so as to make my own formula, a call to a local chemical plant and Presto...another successful "steal" and product for the people to sell...so that's what I do...take ideas from big markets, adapt or "steal" a process from this larger market to custom fit niche markets...Major success with high rise carpet cleaning when discovering $100,000 carpet cleaning vans can only clean up to 3 stories high which meant that a $1500. commercial portable was used to do higher apartments. So I passed on the cost of the$100,000 van and started High Rise carpet cleaners. As my cost of product delivery was a fraction of others I really "cleaned up."
But I needed to see the original idea, carpet cleaning Plus High Rise apartments to give me something to "steal."
What am I stealing now?
The Real Estate business of course...and it ain't easy.
Get a license, two years selling, another year at school to get the government managing brokers license so you can own and run your own Real estate office..and now doing it.
"Stealing" all the dumb old fashioned, too costly and too complicated Real Estate transaction costs and innovating a complete on-line licensed real estate office.
I am almost there.
So I was simply looking for a speach template to help with the pace and meter message intro etc. so as to start marketing by seminar or public speaking my new service.
By the way if you are looking for something to "STEAL" for yourself e-mail away. I'm a great thief.
Cheers
Bob
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| Mar 03, 2007 4:48 am | | re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
T Chendil Kumar | | Hi All,
I agree with the view that no one can truly claim to be original !I think Bob was honest to use the word steal instead of "get inspired" !
To look at the lighter side of the topic - If you lift from one source, you are a plagiarist. If you lift from many sources, you are an expert !"
I am reminded of Oscar Wilde, or was it G B Shaw who said
" A member of the audience told me that my speech was both good and original. But the part that was good was not original and the original part was not good !!!"
Yet another gem on the topic 'originality is the art of concealing the source !!!"
Bob, go ahead, get inspired, ask for ideas and as long as you have added value to your audience, you are on the right track !
Well, you may also want to visit a local Toastmasters Club and trust me, you will get an amazing array of ideas from the speakers !
cheers
CK
www.ckconsultants.co.in
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| Mar 03, 2007 4:23 pm | | re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
tique lee | | greetings!
i am new to this network and don't want to "rock the boat". i think that the word steal may have taken some aback and that is too bad. this gentleman is looking for some ideas! how many of you have original thoughts? ideas? really?
the truth of the matter is that there is nothing new under the sun. i think that the person that wishes ill on any one needs to think about how the laws of the universe work! you came across as very mean and maybe that wasn't your intent but you wished for ill on someone, very sad!!
i applaud the guy that asked for help. steal conjures the wrong perception but not deseving such mean spirited response. Private Reply to tique lee |
| Mar 03, 2007 7:01 pm | | re: re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
Murray Farrell | | If it's mean spirited, Let's put 'steal' in context. Larceny is larceny. I am sure someone would like to steal your auto.
Should we assist?
The reason for my reaction is/was the spirit of the request.
Asking for a model speech probably would have been better. Maybe now the people who responded in the positive to the post will supply some of their work as an example to be "re-appropriated".
Or are we prepared to support stealing anyone's work with the exception of our own? Private Reply to Murray Farrell |
| Mar 03, 2007 7:11 pm | | re: re: re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
Robert Harrington | | Aha! But my headline got your attention! Private Reply to Robert Harrington |
| Mar 03, 2007 7:29 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speach | # |
Steve Reed | | Here's an idea that I think will solve at least part of the problem, write your own speech. It's simple, I prepare speeches all the time for Toastmasters as well as for my profession.
You start with your topic then follow some simple guidelines.
Develop an opening statement, that could be a question to your audience. Then have three main points with three sub points for each. Finally give a summary and wrap it up with a conclusion.
You can prepare a 30 minute speech in 10 minutes. Be creative!
Finally, can you imagine Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Tom Hopkins or even Tony Blair "stealing" someone else's speech? They may take some quotes but they don't steal the speech. If that was the case, why not just play a recording of someone else.
I too must admint, when I saw the headline, I was turned off and almost deleted the message. Watch your words.Private Reply to Steve Reed |
| Mar 03, 2007 10:00 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speech | # |
Murray Farrell | | Maybe the Headline did get my attention.
It got my interest (it is negative though to your request.)
It didn't create desire to assist.
And it didn't result in an action beneficial to you.
So you wasted your headline on me and didn't get any assistance expect for possibly a moral pointer or two.
Always rememeber we never get a second chance to make a positive first impression. And if the first impression that I made was of being ethical, a person of integrity and unwilling to compromise my values then I have succeeded whereas you still have to write a speech of your own.
Maybe if you asked for assitance to Steel a Speech the results would different. To steel = to sharpen.
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| Mar 17, 2007 4:24 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: I need to Steal-a-Speech | # |
Raj Menon | | People, get off your high horses!
Check this out (or similar Google searches) and you'll get everything you need to get started.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-18,GGLD:en&q=famous+speech
IMHO, the harder thing in becoming a speechwriter or speaker (for ordinary mortals) is to find a TOPIC that is of interest to others... (real interest...mind you)...and that you have SOMETHING to contribute...Private Reply to Raj Menon |
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