Not too long ago, a speaker bureau told me that they wanted me for an event. Ok cool. But after I get all the information for the event, and I’m ready to go, they say, “Oh, we’re going to pay you the full fee after the event. We just need to make sure you show up.”...
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...
Getting asked to speak for free is like a pimp slap to professional speakers. People wouldn’t ask their dentist to work for free and they wouldn’t expect others to ask them to work for free…but they have no problem asking a speaker to work for free....
Most speakers write a book to position themselves as an expert and to get more speaking gigs. But if you’ve tried to write a book then you might realize how hard it can be. You’re sitting there, staring at your computer, wondering where to start. So how do...
