Becoming a Speaker in the International Market with Phil Jones
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
If becoming a speaker in the international market is something you dream about then you'll love this episode of The Speaker Lab!
Our guest today has delivered 90+ plus events every year for the last 11 years, and has spoken in 57 different countries and has been paid to speak over 2500 times.
His name is Phil Jones and he spends the bulk of his time helping people sell with more confidence and more credibility while getting better results.
You'll hear how he does that along with what the markets are like in South America, Europe, Asia and Australia when you join us on the 240th edition of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Are there budgetary variations in Europe vs. South America vs. Asia?
- Why you must allow yourself to go through periods of reinvention.
- What two businesses should every speaker have?
- If you are outside of the US, what are practical ways to break into that market?
- The importance of getting clear on why you want to speak internationally.
- Why should every speaker do simultaneous translation at least once?
- What little things can and should you do when speaking to an international audience?
- Why giving yourself permission to try, play and fail can create some of your best experiences.
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Phil Jones' website
- Phil's Audible book
- Phil's other books
- Phil Jones on Twitter
- Episode 158 of TSL
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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. |
| 0:50.6 | Hey, what's on my friends? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast here on |
| 0:53.7 | episode 240. Glad you're here. Glad you're joining us. We've got a great repeat guest here back on the show and excited to have this guy hanging out with us. Before we get to that, if you have not checked out our YouTube channel, you need to. Every single week, we're doing a new video. Oftentimes we're doing speech breakdown videos of some of the more popular keynotes, presentations, TED talks online. And we're taking those talks, kind of dissecting them, showing them, showing the good, bad, the ugly of how those talks have come together, what works, what doesn't work, and how you can take those same ideas and principles and apply them to your next presentation. So if that's something you're interested in, |
| 1:27.9 | if you watch YouTube videos already, definitely check it out. YouTube.com slash the speaker lab. |
| 1:32.6 | Again, YouTube.com slash the speaker lab. We'd love to hang out with you and meet you over there. |
| 1:38.2 | All right. So today we're going to be talking with Phil Jones. And Phil's actually been on the show |
| 1:41.9 | before. So it's good to have him back today. |
| 1:44.8 | And this is a question that we get a lot is about speaking internationally. So whether |
| 1:49.1 | you are a U.S.-based speaker and you're wanting to speak internationally, or maybe you |
| 1:53.4 | are an international speaker. We have, we have worked with speakers literally all over the world |
| 1:57.7 | and you're trying to figure out how you either speak in your own country or you want to speak in the U.S. or you just want to speak internationally, whatever that looks like for you, wherever you're located in the world. Phil has done a lot of speaking all over the world, has a lot of experience this. We're going to talk about all the different markets all around the world, each pocket of the world we're going to be talking about and what that speaking market looks like and how to break in there. So lots of great stuff there. If you were |
| 2:21.2 | interested in, around the world, each pocket of the world we're going to be talking about and what that speaking market looks like and how to break in there. So lots of great stuff there. If you |
| 2:21.1 | are interested in international speaking at all, this is the episode for you. So let's get right |
| 2:26.2 | into it. Here's my conversation with Phil Jones. Enjoy. |
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