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.”...
What do you do when you quote your speaking fee and they want to negotiate? There are two ways you can go about it: Let The Godfather do the negotiations for you Watch the video above Unfortunately, not everyone has connections with Don Corleone. So if they ask you to...
If someone told me in high school that I would be able to charge $10,000 and up for a speaking gig then I would have said, “Liar liar pants on fire.” But now it’s a reality. So if there’s one thing that contributed to my success then it’s this… Awhile ago, I learned...
Most speakers have a hard time finding speaking gigs…but why? Finding gigs isn’t hard as long as you think about it right. In the video above, you’re going to see what you’re doing wrong when you’re looking for speaking gigs and how to...
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So you’re a speaker and you’re wondering… “What should I charge to speak?” Most new speakers have no idea what to charge for paid gigs…especially that first paid gig. You know you’re worth it, and you know this is a...
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If you asked a meeting planner what’s the number one thing they need to hire a speaker, do you know what they would say? If there’s only one thing they could look at, what would it be? It’s not your speaker one-sheet, it’s not your speaker bio,...
I’m going to tell you the story of how I got really good at getting paid corporate gigs and being able to fill up my schedule in 10 days. At the beginning, I couldn’t get a paid gig to save my life. I started out as a mentalist, doing mind reading demonstrations in...
Professional speakers know that they should have social proof on their websites and this proof will help them get more speaking gigs but what a lot of speakers don’t know is that you can put logos of very well known companies on your website and it can actually...
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 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...
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...
The way a professional speaker starts their presentation is crucial to the success of it. If you start out bad, the audience will hate your guts (ok maybe not to that extent but you will have a hard time winning them over if they think you’re boring). Here are 4...
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....
If you’re a keynote speaker and you’ve worked with speaker bureaus then you’ve probably wondered how much they’re really charging a client for your speaking fee. You’ve even heard stories about speakers who quote a fee and later they find...
