How Speakers Can Thrive in the Midst of Crisis
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Grant Baldwin and Erick Rheam hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how coronavirus has impacted the speaking industry and how you can thrive in the midst of crisis. During the live stream, Grant and Erick discuss:
- How to process times of crisis
- The importance of managing cashflow
- Be flexible and proactive with event planners
- Challenges of rescheduling and postponing events
- Creating value and security with event planners through patience
- How airlines are setting an example for customer service
- Remember that speaking is a relationship business
- Experiment with alternate presenting options to save gigs
- How the size and frequency of event types will change
- What’s a good way to suggest virtual speaking engagements?
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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. |
| 0:47.2 | Hey, what's up, Frank Baldwin here? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're doing well. |
| 0:51.5 | Hope you're having a great day. Hey, we wanted to record a couple of special episodes for you. We dropped the episode with Eric Ream, my conversation with him a couple days ago. We talked through four specific strategies about how you can kind of weather the storm, how you can handle any type of crisis as a speaker. And one of the things we talked about is this has not been the first. It won't be the last. |
| 1:10.9 | There's always going to be challenges that come up in the speaking industry that affect us. |
| 1:15.2 | And so one of the things that we wanted to do is I'm going to be doing a series of Facebook lives on a daily basis, talking with various speakers, various industry contacts and friends, just hearing from them how this is affecting them, |
| 1:28.7 | what they're doing, how they're handling it, how they're thinking about it. And so we're |
| 1:32.4 | going to be doing those Facebook lives on a daily basis over on our Facebook page. And so if you're |
| 1:38.5 | not already there, you can go follow us over at the speakelab.com slash Facebook, thespeakalab.com slash Facebook. Like I said, we're going to be doing those on a daily basis. And if you're not already on our email list, we've been emailing out regularly who we're going to be doing those interviews with. But you definitely want to be checking those out. One of the things that we are doing, though, is we're taking the audio from those Facebook interviews and putting it here just some bonus episodes. |
| 2:02.2 | So since this is obviously really unique, unprecedented times, we wanted to share some |
| 2:07.8 | additional content that's relevant to right now. As you may know, if you've been listening to the |
| 2:13.3 | podcast for a while, a lot of what we do is more evergreen and stuff that's, that has, |
| 2:18.1 | has been around for a while, will continue to be around for a while in the speaking industry. |
| 2:22.1 | But again, like we've talked about, these are some, some unique, unprecedented times. |
| 2:27.2 | And so we wanted to make sure that we're providing some specific, detailed, actionable |
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