🎤 A lot of public speaking anxiety isn't really about the audience — it's the fear of losing your place and going blank in front of one. A teleprompter removes that specific fear directly, which frees up the mental bandwidth to actually connect with the room.
📝 Write it as a real speech, not an outline
Full sentences, not bullet points — bullet points are easy to write but hard to expand smoothly on stage. A written-out speech gives you something concrete to rehearse and fall back on.
🗣️ Rehearse until you barely need it
✍️ Write the full speech → 🗣️ Rehearse it several times → 🎤 Use it as a safety net, not a script
The goal of rehearsing with an online teleprompter isn't to read from it live on stage — it's to rehearse enough times that you know the speech, and only glance at it if you genuinely lose your place.
🖥️ For webinars and virtual talks specifically
Unlike a physical stage, a webinar gives you the option to actually keep the script visible the whole time via Picture-in-Picture, floating over your slides or video call — invisible to your audience, always there if you need it.