As a professional speaker, you probably know that you should create products because they will increase your profits in the speaking business. But how should you create and sell your speaker product? If you’ve been to conferences with speakers then you’ve...
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...
There are several professional speakers who want to get more speaking engagements but they don’t have much money to start with. Sure…if you had $50,000 to start your speaking business then of course you can hire people to do all kinds of things and get...
Lets face it, most public speakers are boring. They create presentations with slides that have so much text that you wonder if they were writing a book. But then there are those other speakers…the speakers that can just walk out on stage and give a presentation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
