Would you pay for Public Speaking Confidence coaching?

In the book - Talking to Humans, Giff Constable highlights a very important rule of thumb on assessing users potential to pay for a future service/product. He says, the question should always be 'When was the last time you actually paid for a service/product/course relating to X? This is because humans are terrible at foresight and they always make different choices relative to the scenario in the future. [ For eg. Post-poning / dropping the idea or purchase , etc ]

It's really hard for anyone to accurately predict what they will and won't pay for. So even if you ask a bunch of people, "Would you buy X?" you might get lots of no's from people who would actually use it and (more commonly) lots of yesses from people who actually wouldn't. There's a great book called The Mom Test that might be helpful here. If you search for it on IH, there are lots of useful discussions that say more than I have here: https://www.indiehackers.com/search?q=the mom test

All that said, I think I'd pay for something to help with this? But not because I plan on doing lots of public speaking. More because I'd be curious to see if there are some general valuable lessons to learn here. I guess I'd be exceptionally more likely to pay if there was an actual human coach involved, and very unlikely to pay if not.

That's a good idea.

The area I would be interested in is the art of storytelling.

Followed you on Twitter hope to get some updates on your program

Paying service for public speaking exists hence your first question is definitely a BIG YES for me.

However, I don't seem to hear what makes your coaching unique than many professionals out there. I'm sure you're a pro in terms of pitching and communications. Would be nice if you can include more empathy when you're selling yourself or the services instead of work experiences.

All the best! @PublicSpeakingMethod

I would be interested in learning the fundamentals, effective tips and techniques. And would pay for practice sessions. (I wouldn't say confidence is the missing piece).

I think it’s good! I found value in a couple ToastMasters meetings and would pay for sessions on technique (not confidence) ahead of, say, presenting at a conference.

I definitely would. I think the topics of confidence and ridding anxieties are key, but I'd also add in how to be more succinct in your delivery, how to get your message across in as short a time as possible (Ted Talk style) so that people don't get bored. How to step out of using PowerPoint slides - or making those slides just images and no words to make them more engaging.

I would be interested in a service like this. I'm aware that these type of coaching services exist, but for me, there's too much uncertainty around them to ever pull the trigger:

• How much will the coach charge? Lots of these kinds of services have very intransparent pricing. This issue should be easy to solve.

• How many hours is it going to take to get me to a noticeably improved level? Most of the time, it's going to be thousands of dollars until you can seriously judge how effective the coaching was. This is going to be tough to solve. Maybe believable testimonal videos with before and after could help?

Would be it worth putting up a sign up page clearly articulating what participants walk in and walk out with and see what sign ups do you get.

I think anxiety is an important aspect. I think it would be interesting if this would be a live video coaching (could be a group), but in any case something beyond just writing about it. No matter how many books you read about public speaking - if you do not do, fail, do again, fail again - you will not succeed.