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5 Powerfully
Persuasive Speech Topics
What makes for a persuasive speech topic?
In this article I'm NOT referring to persuasive
speech delivery techniques such as using social
proof, hypnotic language patterns, or special
staging techniques (that's a different article!).
This article is focused on 5 fundamental elements
that comprise a persuasive speech topic - i.e.,
a speech topic that is inherently, intrinsically
persuasive in nature.
In your particular speech these elements can
be combined, modified and adapted to meet your
needs.
These elements are not meant to be hard and fast
strict rules to limit you, the opposite is true:
these are fundamentals to stimulate your creativity
and a foundation to build upon.
Persuasive Speech Topic #1: Easy, How-To Solutions:
People want fast and easy solutions to their
problems. Look no further than television infomercials
that promise you'll lose weight by taking a pill
or applying a cream for proof of this fact.
Because people want an easy, step-by-step "already
done for them" solution, framing your speech topic
in this manner is extremely persuasive.
Persuasive Speech Topic #2: Cure, Not Prevention:
It's far easier to persuade people when they
already need a cure for what pains them than prevention
for potential pain in the future.
For example, who do you suppose is more motivated
to get help: someone with severe back pain, or
someone with no back pain? Pain doesn't have to
be physical; it can be financial pain or emotional
pain.
Prevention is simply not a persuasive speech
topic, but the cure to pain assuredly is!
Persuasive Speech Topic #3: Making Money:
It's almost a no-brainer; almost everyone wants
to make more money. Systems and methods and strategies
to increase business revenues or personal income
are extremely persuasive topics indeed.
Persuasive Speech Topic #4: Solve a Pervasive
Problem:
Examples of solving a pervasive problem can be
anything from getting a dog to stop barking constantly,
to dealing with weeds in a garden, to ridding
a home of pests.
Persistent, pervasive problems cry out for a
solution, and that makes for a very persuasive
speech topic that people will line up to hear
about. Persuasive
Speech Topic #5: Stop Bleeding Money:
If you can prove that someone is bleeding money
and that you can help them stop the bleeding,
you've got one very powerfully persuasive speech
topic.
For example, if you can demonstrate that homeowners
are needlessly bleeding money by inefficiently
heating and cooling their homes, or that business
owners are losing big bucks due to easily preventable
employee theft, you've got an extremely potent
speech topic.
Summary:
Those 5 Persuasive Speech Topics should really
get your creativity flowing and stimulate plenty
of ideas for you.
Take your topic, your business, your product,
your service and run that through the 5 Persuasive
Speech Topics and use the ones that apply.
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