How secure is your WordPress website? Rock-solid? Easily-hackable? Have you ever been hacked? How long did it take to recover from the incident? Are you doing anything differently now, to keep your site more secure? If you’re one of the…
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Facebook has a really great tool for telling people about things that are happening in your speaking business. It’s called… yep, you guessed it! EVENTS! You can use it for promoting: Webinars Teleseminars Workshops Radio Shows & Interviews Keynotes /…
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I received an email from one of my vendors the other day… Here’s what I saw in my in-box: From: Diana Smith Subject: 50% Off! Seconds away from tagging it as spam, I decided to take a more in-depth look.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How long has it been since you updated your speaker photos? Are people still seeing a pic of you from 5 years ago? Are you wearing a different hair style nowadays? Or, perhaps you have a bit less on top…
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If you’re not using Google Alerts… why not? 🙂 Here are a few ways in which you can benefit from using Google Alerts: 1.) “Call for speakers” is the traditional term used by organizations looking for people to speak at…
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Do you have business cards? One of my mentors insists that we don’t need them these days, but I disagree. Even with all the technology available to us, there’s still something kinda cool about physically exchanging cards with somebody. Think…
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Give credit to sources of brilliance! Did a colleague say something SO great that you’d like to share it with the world? Great! Attribute the quote to them in your post. Here’s how… Type your message in the “what’s on…
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