Beginning Your Speaking Career with Clay Hebert
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Speaker Lab, world-renowned speaker Clay Hebert joins the show to talk about starting your speaking career.
Clay specializes in speaking to corporations, associations and conferences for entrepreneurs. He began his career speaking for free at conferences, and eventually made his way into speaking at bigger engagements and paid bookings.
Today on The Speaker Lab, Clay talks about who does and who doesn't pay for speakers, how having a relationship with a fellow speaker jump-started his career, and how to get your best talk across every time. Listen in to hear all of that and so much more on this episode of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- Why you need to do some unpaid speaking jobs.
- How relationships can change the course of your career.
- Why mistakes are nothing to be afraid of.
- When can customizing your talk actually hurt you?
- What themes or talking topics are people willing to pay for?
- How can you determine which audiences are right for your talk?
- The speaker who helped Clay's career, and what it means to you.
- And much, much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
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- Clay's crowdfunding website
- Persuadable, by Al Pittampalli
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here. |
| 0:01.4 | Hey, what if I told you that there was a single marketing asset that you could use to book tens of thousands of dollars in paid speaking gigs before you even have a website? |
| 0:10.2 | Well, that tool exists. |
| 0:11.4 | And Dan Irvin, one of the speakers on our team, used it to book over $36,000 in speaking gigs without a fancy website or any social media presence. |
| 0:19.6 | Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how |
| 0:22.1 | to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to |
| 0:26.9 | be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking |
| 0:31.9 | paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing. |
| 0:38.5 | That's what you got to do is go to the speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's what you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. Hey, what's up, my friend? Welcome back to |
| 0:48.7 | another episode of the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin, and it is good to have you here |
| 0:53.6 | with us today. Hope you're feeling good. Hope life is treating Baldwin, and it is good to have you here with us today. |
| 0:55.3 | Hope you're feeling good. Hope life is treating you well. Hopefully you're getting booked and paid to |
| 0:59.4 | speak. Hopefully you're traveling the world speaking, sharing your message, sharing your |
| 1:04.0 | inspiration, motivation. Hopefully you're not living in a van down by the river. You know, |
| 1:07.9 | all that good stuff. Hey, really glad you're here. This is a brand new show. |
| 1:12.0 | We are just kicking things off. |
| 1:13.2 | We are in the first week or so of the Speaker Lab podcast, just getting rolling. |
| 1:17.8 | All types of goodness you're going to want to check out over at thespeakerlab.com. |
| 1:22.5 | Again, the SpeakerLab.com. |
| 1:25.0 | Really excited about this new show, excited about this new year and teaching |
| 1:28.3 | training, helping inspire you as you start, build, grow your speaking business, your empire, |
| 1:34.0 | whether you're brand new, whether you're just getting started, whether you've been doing |
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