Creating Your Speaker Contracts with Jane Atkinson
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
With over three decades of industry experience, Jane Atkinson of Speaker Launcher is a colleague and friend of our program. We’re so grateful she agreed to join us as a repeat podcast guest to dive into creating contracts!
When it comes to navigating the ins and outs of speaking contracts, the process can be overwhelming. Jane breaks down the must-haves, opportunities to be creative, and where we can go the extra mile for our clients. We also discuss the uncertainties in the business and how to build-in opportunities to add value and keep gigs on the calendar despite challenging times!
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- What are the basic elements of a speaking contract?
- How to navigate travel (literally and contractually)!
- Substitute or refund?
- How to accept payment
- The value of being proactive vs. reactive
- And much more!
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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 up, French? Grant Baldwin here. So good to have you here with us today for episode |
| 0:53.6 | 366 of the Speaker Lab podcast. |
| 0:56.1 | Really excited that you're here and excited about welcoming back my colleague, friend of the program and repeat podcast guest, Miss Jane Atkinson, from Speaker Launcher. |
| 1:06.5 | Now, she has over three decades of industry experience and really knows what it's like to be in the trenches and also how to pivot successfully amidst uncertainty. |
| 1:15.5 | And during this episode, we're going to be looking at the intricacies of speaking contracts, very exciting stuff. |
| 1:20.2 | This is very important. |
| 1:21.1 | You want to pay close attention to this as well as what we're going to be talking about the must-haves as you navigate opportunities to take the stage. We're also going to be talking about booking travel, the value of keeping an open line of communication with your client. And then also, Jane's going to remind us of the careful balance between building relationships in our business and how to stay solution-oriented in less than ideal situation. So last to get into here,, tons of insight, actionable takeaways and experience |
| 1:45.1 | shared by Jane. So let's jump right into it. Here's my conversation on the ins and outs of |
| 1:49.2 | speaking contracts with Jane Atkinson. Enjoy. Hey, what's our friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome |
| 1:57.3 | back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to have you here with us today. I'm excited to bring back one of my favorite people in the speaking industry, Ms. Jane Atkinson, who's been on the |
| 2:05.3 | podcast a couple of times, but has just been a, a titan in the industry for decades. Can we say |
| 2:13.7 | decades? It's got to be decades, right? Three decades? Holy Biscuits. We are literally |
| 2:19.5 | recording this on my birthday and I've been alive just longer than three decades. So that's how long |
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