As a professional speaker, you need to offer more than simply a keynote or two to your clients. But you don’t want to offer so many different things in different forms that you confuse your client. You’ll seem scattered and unfocused. What is it that you’re selling? Keynotes, seminars, consulting, coaching, training, retreats? Decide what […]
How Free Professional Speaking Gigs Can Lead to Increased Business
With dreams of stardom and hopes of owning the Mercedes and the million-dollar home, many aspiring professional speakers set off in hunt for getting highly paid speaking gigs — only to get knocked down by rejection after rejection. After doing some investigation, they discover that virtually all of their starting events will be free speaking […]
Professional Speakers – How to Write Your Booking Contract
The speaking world is full of forms and contracts – the two most important are the contract you’ll fax to the meeting planner who’s agreed to hire you and the pre-program questionnaire that you’ll send out to the planner before the event. Your credibility is on the line with each one of these documents — […]
How to Make Your Own Product
As you know, speakers who have their own information product end up getting more speaking gigs. This is important to remember. If you are a speaker, and you want to increase the chance to get more speaking assignments, you need to get busy creating a product for yourself. Create an info product that people will […]
