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The Fizzle Show

Episode 270: How to Obtain & Deliver Great Speaking Gigs (FS270)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Are you looking to book some amazing speaking gigs? Do you feel like to really level up in your business, speaking at events is essential? How do we go about getting into the game?

Here at Fizzle we have all felt the pull and experienced the benefit of getting on stage and sharing what we do and who we are. There are reasons why speaking and presenting have such a high reputation in the entrepreneurial world!

In this episode, we are going help you reach that next stage in your career, where you are one step closer to landing and delivering that inspiring speech at your ideal event. We’ll be looking at the ways in which you can approach securing these opportunities and then unpacking some tips and techniques to sharpen your presentation skills until they are razor sharp!

We also talk about finding your own niche in the market and choosing the approach that suits your ambitions. We cover some ideas for getting over nervousness and anxiety and also give a few examples of potential frameworks to use for your speeches.

So if this a goal in which you would like to take the next step, come with us as we give you the low down on the game of speaking!

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Why speaking is such a common goal for entrepreneurs. [0:04:01.2]
  • The sacrifices and commitments that are a requirement of giving talks. [0:08:08.3]
  • Landing speaking gigs through networking and relationships. [0:16:40.5]
  • The active approaches to getting more speaking opportunities. [0:23:48.8]
  • Pitching the result as a promotion strategy. [0:27:50.1]
  • Starting with the transformation to jumpstart your game plan. [0:32:55.4]
  • Small beginnings can grow to big successes. [0:34:01.9]
  • Introducing, expanding and summarizing as a simple framework. [0:38:58.2]
  • Putting yourself into the shoes of your ideal listener. [0:43:22.1]
  • Using teaching as a tool for persuasion. [0:46:58.7]
  • Recording yourself as a preparatory technique. [0:49:46.4]
  • And much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Chase. This episode is brought to you by HoneyBook. HoneyBook asked Natalie Frank

0:06.0

about how she took her creative passion from a side hustle to a full-time business. And in today's

0:12.2

episode, you'll hear a little clip with her talking about how she uses HoneyBook to do what she

0:17.8

loves full-time. So stay tuned for that.

0:21.4

Let's get into the show.

0:26.6

Hello and welcome to the Fizzle show.

0:35.2

What is up?

0:37.2

What is up? Oh, my God, I am pumped. You're an entrepreneur or you want to be or you're a entrepreneur.

0:45.5

It doesn't matter what you call yourself. You're creative. Are you a creative? Who the hell isn't creative? Do you not think you're creative? You are. Do you think you can earn a

0:54.6

living doing something you care about? Maybe you can't. I don't know. But you're listening to

0:58.8

this because you want to try at least. Or because you're already doing it. That's what this show is

1:03.6

about and for. For people who are earning a living doing something they actually care about.

1:10.0

And it's a good one today. It's a good one today

1:12.9

because we are talking about how do you, how do you land and deliver great speaking gigs?

1:22.7

Now, you might not be thinking about speaking at all in your life right now. You might not be,

1:26.5

it might not be on your radar. So in that case, listen up, because there's some things that speaking can help you with

1:31.8

that are both going to grow your business and going to make you better as an entrepreneur. So listen

1:38.1

up for that because there's some interesting things that we get into here. But most of all,

1:42.2

I just want to say thank you for joining us on the Fizzle show.

1:44.8

Every week we talk about stuff that's interesting to indie entrepreneurs,

1:48.2

people earning a living, doing something that they care about.

1:51.0

And every week we want to try to help you get a little shot,

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