What's The Best Way To Start A Speech?

This blog post from The Accidental Communicator focuses on speech making but it’s easy to see how the same principles for success can be applied to any type of media that you are producing when trying to engage an audience. Just like an engaging speech, written or filmed content has to connect with you audience on a human-to-human level.
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