Are you a beginner public speaker? An aspiring tech influencer? Was doing more public speaking one of your New Year's resolutions? If you have been building up courage to give a talk at a meetup or wondering how to increase your chances with a conference review committee (or both!) - this presentation is for you! In this talk, I'll go over a few points as to how to ensure your talk proposal looks great for the commitee members (and the audience!), how to write a compelling meetup talk title and description, and how those two processes can be different. Bonus: hopefully, this talk will also inspire you to go ahead and submit that proposal!