In one of the blog posts (Creating a speaker follow-up sequence)…I mentioned that you should create a demonstration that you can do…after you speak…because it’s much more likely to get you booked for other gigs. Since that post, I’ve gotten several emails that go...
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...
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...
There are tons of professional speakers who have a product but find it hard to sell that product when they’re in front of a crowd. Maybe you have a product and when you’re speaking, the sales aren’t even close to where you think they should...
Have you ever seen the show Shark Tank? If you have, then you’ve probably seen the entrepreneurs mess up their pitch. And this got me thinking… If you’re a professional speaker and you forget your speech, what do you do? First, watch the video of...
When you first start your speaking business, you might not have a huge budget to get things off the ground so you start bootstrapping. But once you get a couple of gigs, you have money to spend which will allow you to get more gigs…so where should you put that...
