How Running a Podcast Will Grow Your Speaking Career with Cliff Ravenscraft
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Do you think starting a podcast can help you reach your target audience and land more speaking gigs? Our guest for episode 96 says yes, and he's got the history to prove it.
Cliff Ravenscraft, known as the Podcast Answer Man, joins us to talk about the connection between podcasting and public speaking.
On this episode of The Speaker Lab, Cliff shares how he got started as a podcaster, how he's helped people start 40,000 podcasts (!), why podcasting is still relevant today, and the main ways podcasting will grow your speaking career.
Listen in for all of that and so much more on today's show!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Why was 2008 a financial disaster but the best year of Cliff's life and his marriage?
- How Dan Miller helped his career trajectory.
- How did he initially generate revenue when he started podcasting full-time?
- Why are his free speaking gigs the most profitable ones?
- How can a podcast help your speaking career?
- The two ways to choose your podcast topic to get more speaking gigs.
- How has podcasting made him a better speaker?
- Does the average podcast listener prefer weekly or bi-weekly episodes?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Cliff Ravenscraft's web site
- Cliff's free podcasting tutorial
- Cliff Ravenscraft on Twitter
- Learn to podcast from A to Z with Cliff Ravenscraft's podcasting course
- The $12,000 check Cliff received from a listener
- Get Free Speaker Resources
- Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
- Calculate Your Speaking Fee
- Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
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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. |
| 0:49.5 | What is up, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're |
| 0:53.1 | doing well. Hope you're doing great. Hope you're having a wonderful day hey this is the stop this is the podcast that you need to be listening to learn all about how to find and grow your speaking business how to find a book speaking engagements how to deliver a talk that matters how to build your business beyond this age that's what we are about and that's what we're going to be bringing in you every single episode we're on episode 96 we're going to be talking with a good friend of mine here in just a couple minutes but before we do let me quickly remind you if you've been living under a rock maybe you haven't heard but if you don't know now you know we've been getting ready for the speaker lab summit which is going to be starting in just a couple of days. |
| 1:28.7 | If you're listening to this, when you should be listed, which is when episodes come out, |
| 1:33.1 | and then you've got just a couple days before this starts. |
| 1:35.1 | The Speakerlab Summit.com is where you're going to want to go to register for your free ticket. |
| 1:40.2 | We have interviewed over 40 of the world's top speakers. |
| 1:44.0 | In fact, we did the math here. If you were |
| 1:45.7 | going to hire all of these speakers to come speak at a conference or an event, it would cost you |
| 1:50.3 | in the neighborhood of $615,000. $615,000. No joke. That's the kind of caliber of speakers that |
| 1:59.8 | we have brought to this event, like some really, really top-notch speakers. So you're definitely going to want to go register for that. You can get a free ticket by going over to the speakerlabsummit.com. We're going to be kicking off on Monday, September the 12th, so you're not going to want to miss that. So again, make sure you register over at the speakerlabsummit.com. All right, so today we are |
| 2:18.4 | going to be talking with my buddy Cliff Ravenscraff, who is known as the podcast Answer Man. |
| 2:23.0 | This guy's a great guy. Actually, has an amazing personal story where in the past year and a half |
| 2:28.2 | or so, he's lost around 100 pounds and just the guy looks night and day different from what he was |
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