You know…I just can’t help being brilliant. I try to tone it down, but it just comes to me. And here’s what came to me this time… These are really great ways for you to present your testimonials when it comes to marketing yourself… (watch the video) As you know, the...
I’m writing this from the airport as I head to an event and I was thinking… Why is it that most speakers don’t really speak for a living? Only a few actually get to travel and make good money doing it. But why? There are 3 reasons why someone wouldn’t be speaking for...
I was talking to someone who worked for T Harv Eker and several other well-known speakers…and I asked her one question… Why do you think they’re more successful than other speakers? What do you think they’re doing differently? When I asked her that question, I was...
A lot of speakers have heard about sites like eSpeakers or SpeakerMatch. But should you use them to get gigs? If you don’t know what these sites are…here’s a quick rundown… You pay to post your speaker profile (videos, etc) on the website and when meeting planners are...
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This is a sad story…and hopefully you can learn from it. When I just got out of college, I was going full-time with speaking and performing as an entertainer. I wanted to do mind reading shows and motivational speaking, so I was going full-force. So I set up my...
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This is part 5, the final part, of “A Walkthrough Of How To Get $10,000 Speaking Gigs” In this post, we’re going to talk about what you need to do when you’re contacting companies that hire speakers. Read the other parts here: Picking a speaker...
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I’m about to show you how I made myself look like a $10,000 speaker first…and then got paid $10,000 to speak. This is part 4 of “A Walkthrough Of How To Get $10,000 Speaking Gigs” Read the other parts here: Picking a speaker-market that pays...
These are a list of resources you can use to help you grow your speaking business. Directory Of Events: This is a list of websites you can use to find speaking opportunities. Speaker Contract: This is the exact contract I use for my paid speaking gigs. Notice how...
Part 1: A Walkthrough Of How To Book $10,000 Speaking Gigs Part 2: A Walkthrough Of How To Book $10,000 Speaking Gigs You’re about to read part 3… So you’ve chosen a market that can afford a higher speaking fee, you’ve gotten down the psychology, what’s...
How do you set up a follow-up sequence in your speaking business to get you more paid gigs? If you do this right, you won’t have to keep going out and looking for speaking opportunities because they will be right in front of you. You will naturally fill up your...
These are some questions you want to ask yourself when you’re building your speaking business because the more clear you are about where you’re going and how you’re going to get there, the more likely you will get there. Most speakers don’t sit down to analyze their...
Whenever I ask speakers what their number one problem is with their speaking business, it’s almost always, “How do I get more paid speaking engagements?” So if you’re a speaker and you want to get more speaking gigs then listen up. Right now, you have a problem and...
Speakers who want to build a speaking business often wonder if they should put full clips of their presentation online. What do you think you should do? When you think about it, there are tons of things that can go wrong with putting up clips from your presentations....
There are a million books out there on time management tips and secrets. Every book has it’s own technique that lets you increase your productivity but there’s one thing that almost all these books are lacking and it’s the most important part of...
If you’re a professional speaker and you want to get speaking engagements then this is the first thing you must do. Before the marketing, before the social media, before the…everything…you must do this. In fact, if you don’t have this then no...
This is a simple infographic on how to get speaking gigs and what it’s like inside the mind of an event planner. If you’re a professional speaker and you want to get more gigs then you have to make sure you’re on top of your game. The infographic...
If you’re a professional speaker then you probably travel to speaking gigs or you want to travel. But there might be times when you forget a few things or you don’t use traveling to it’s full advantage. Most speakers will travel and they will spend a...
Tons of speakers want to get more speaking engagements but they let little things slip through the cracks and this decreases the profit they make from their speaking business. Have you ever seen an inefficient business? There was a flight attendant who made a...
You’ve probably seen great speakers and you’ve probably seen horrible speakers. There are speakers who you wish would keep going and then there are speakers who you’re practically begging to stop. So what separates the two? What do the great speakers...
If you’re a public speaker then you might be worried that someone else will steal your material from your presentations. Maybe they like a line or two and they take it to make it look like it was their own. So how can you create a presentation that’s so...