When presenting a persuasive speech, the most important thing is to be passionate about your topic, and use that to engage your audience. Not only keeping their attention, but making them care about what you're saying, and want to act on it, is what shifts a speech from informative to persuasive.

While there are many different persuasive speech outline templates for a persuasive speech, this template by Alan Monroe is considered one of the very best. It is known to deliver the persuasive speech in an orderly progression of events, leading to the desired result. These five steps motivate the audience into taking the required action.

Check it out here:

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/MonroeMotivatedSequence.htm

"When confronted with a need or a problem, people see a solution and take action." ~ Alan Monroe

Some examples of persuasive speeches:

https://youtu.be/ag-Oyn8vIPE

https://youtu.be/dE1DuBesGYM

Another type of persuasive presentation happens around selling product, and how to convince people to buy something. This is sometimes called a retail, product, or marketing pitch. This uses the same fundamental structure as the persuasive presentation, but in a very compact way.

Some tips for "selling anything" that can help you persuade an audience to make a purchase:

https://youtu.be/UCo3Z-y72Kg

If you have you ever watched "Shark Tank" you may be familiar with the idea of pitching an idea to a panel of investors that will then decide whether or not they will invest in your product/business. Here are some great examples of good "pitches" that the cast provides their commentary on, critiquing what made the pitches work well.

https://youtu.be/zq3fwHwgB9g

Think about the way they choose to pitch their ideas. Do you see different techniques integrated? Demonstration, information, and storytelling all weaved together to create their sales pitch. Assignment :

briefly (two paragraphs) describe which of the video presentations on Black Board Week 9 module, in your opinion, were the most persuasive. How did they appeal to your personal needs or how did they present and resolve a problem? Did they use Monroe's concepts and how? Alternately, you may describe how one particular video presentation may have failed to persuade you and did not satisfy your needs.