Do the unexpected

Surprise your audience with an unexpected fact about yourself! Instead of just giving a long mini-biography of yourself, try a short introduction but include something little known and unexpected about yourself. This will get the attention of the audience early and show that you are different, most audiences will be expecting you to be boring and uninteresting. But make sure your 'interesting fact' is really something interesting like you 'once did stand up comedy' or 'you sky dive' or 'run marathons'. Even if you don't think there is anything interesting or unusual about yourself, if you think hard enough you will find something. If you really don't have anything, then perhaps you can use one of my other tips instead.... :-)