10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Speaking
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Now that I've been working as a speaker there are things I wish I had known at the beginning of my career that I know today. On episode 87 of The Speaker Lab, I'm sharing the top 10 items on that list!
Whether you're brand new to speaking or have your career in hand, there is something you can learn.
Listen in to hear topics like why you shouldn't bother with a speaking bureau or agent, what your best marketing piece is and the importance of investing in yourself and your business. That's all here plus more on today's solo episode of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- How to keep a long-term perspective, and why you should.
- How long does it take most speakers to build a full-time speaking career?
- Who do people do business with?
- Why you should be just as good offstage as you are on stage.
- Should you focus on one talk or many talks?
- Why finding a speaker to model yourself after is a good strategy.
- Should your marketing efforts ever stop?
- Who you are is more important than what?
- And so much more!
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- Episode 60 of The Speaker Lab
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
| 0:03.7 | Well, of course you are. |
| 0:04.4 | Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website. |
| 0:27.2 | This training is free. |
| 0:28.1 | It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you. |
| 0:32.5 | All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked. |
| 0:36.3 | That's all one word. |
| 0:37.2 | Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked |
| 0:39.3 | and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training. |
| 0:46.8 | What is up, my friends? Grand Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Hope you're doing well. |
| 0:56.2 | Hope life is treating you good. |
| 0:57.3 | We are on episode 87. |
| 0:59.4 | I've got a great episode for you today. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm really stoked about this. |
| 1:06.7 | I put together 10 things that I wish someone told me about speaking when I got started. |
| 1:15.0 | So just did a brain dump, just thinking through everything that I, oh, what is a thing I wish I knew then that I know now? |
| 1:17.4 | And so I'm going to give you those things in just a couple minutes here. |
| 1:25.1 | But before we do, let me quickly remind you, if you haven't already, we'd love for you to register and join us for an upcoming free online training. |
| 1:29.4 | We are teaching you all about how to find and book paid speaking engagement. |
| 1:33.7 | Yes, that's right, paid speaking engagement. So you can register for that by going over to free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. Register for that, |
| 1:40.7 | and we will see you on the next one that we have. All right, without further ado, |
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