How Speakers Can Best Use Technology in a Chaotic Climate with Brian Fanzo

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Grant Baldwin and Brian Fanzo (from iSocialFanz.com) hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how speakers can best use technology in this current climate.

During the live stream, Grant and Brian discuss:

Leveraging technology and social media to grow your speaking business
Starting a podcast to supplement your speaking and increase your audience
How to use virtual options to replace in-person meetings
Reinventing digital meeting experience with the distracted attendee in mind
The challenge event planners face in moving or redesigning large-scale events
Take a beat and remember the groundwork you’ve put in that will last beyond a crisis
Don’t sacrifice long-term wins for short-term gains
Getting creative in responding to canceled or postponed events
The importance of being transparent (and why it’s different from over-sharing)
Alternative options besides being on stage that speakers can do well
How do you think about pricing for virtual speaking gigs?

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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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:45.1	Hey, what's up, French? Grand Balden here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. As you may be
0:52.5	aware, we are doing these these daily Facebook lives and just sharing some real-time in the trenches right now, what are
1:00.1	speakers doing to combat the situation of dealing with the coronavirus? So this is obviously a situation
1:06.0	that's unprecedented. We are in uncharted waters here. And so we want to make sure that we
1:09.9	hear at the Speaker Lab, we're doing whatever we can to serve and support you. So this is a conversation we had
1:14.2	with Brian Fanzo. Brian's a well-known keynote speaker. And Ossol does a ton in the technology space.
1:21.1	It's just he's my go-to guy for all things technology. So we talk about transitioning your
1:26.9	talks online and turning things more virtual.
1:29.3	We talk about interacting and working with clients right now, how to be thinking about this,
1:32.3	the technology to be using, and also how to price yourself as a speaker right now for things that are more virtual.
1:38.3	So a big wide-ranging conversation. Let's jump right in with Brian Fanzo. Enjoy it.
1:42.3	Hey, what's up, friends? Grant Baldwin here, joined by my buddy Brian Fanzo. Enjoy.
1:48.4	Hey, what's up, friends? Grant Baldwin here, joined by my buddy Brian Fanzo, and we are talking about all things speaking right now, as you guys are all well aware. It is an interesting
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