If you have no working relationship with your audience, you have only a few minutes to convince them that what you have to say is worth listening to.

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If you are totally unfamiliar to an audience, they tend to be impatient. If you don't establish credibility in a few short minutes they will begin to tune you out. For this reason, be sure to use some of your "best material" at the very beginning of your talk.

If You Have No Working Relationship with Your Audience, You