Products and services do not sell themselves. People do.
So it is with Techmasters, a Toastmasters club. The club occasionally take opportunities to “sell” our group to likely prospects.
Our “prospects” were attendees of Minnebar on May 2. As billed on Minnebar’s website, it is the big day to join 1,400+ technologists, builders, designers, founders, and curious minds at Best Buy headquarters in Richfield, MN for the largest technology unconference in the country. It was founded in 2006. An unconference(or BarCamp) is a user-generated conference that is participant-led. There are no keynote speakers or formal workshops, and all sessions are led by people from the tech and business communities.
Our “sell” of Techmasters involved holding an abbreviated Toastmasters meeting that was open to Minnebar attendees. The main portions of the meeting were table topics, a prepared speech, and evaluations. Table topics are impromptu speaking for one to two minutes.
Khalid Mohamoud of Techmasters gave the prepared speech titled “To Speak Good”. Khalid chose to become a member of Techmasters after browsing through online info on the 50-plus Toastmasters clubs in the Twin Cities metro area. “I discovered my way of speaking at Techmasters”, states Khalid. “In the business world, a person is so busy that there is not always time to concentrate on improving communication”. At Techmasters, Khalid can concentrate on just that.
