How the National Speakers Association Can Help Your Speaking Career with Brian Walter

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🗓️ 4 February 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

For many of us the first thing we think of when giving a speech is giving a keynote. But there are plenty of other speaking formats that are in demand and are lucrative ways to create a successful speaking career.

Brian Walter is a shining example of this. He is someone who is highly in-demand for his non-traditional approach to speaking, and he's here to talk about it.

Today he shares the origins and progression of his speaking career, how his Extreme Meetings business began and how you can learn from his experiences. It’s all here on this episode of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

How being his fraternity's secretary at UCLA led to his speaking career.
What are platform skills?
What is the "I" disease?
How to use humor in a speech, and reduce the risks associated with it.
His three year journey to find his expertise, and why it's important to you.
Why did he get involved with the National Speakers Association?
What are the differences between the NSA and speaking bureaus?
What are the two reasons most people join the NSA?
And much, much more!

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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 speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:46.5	Hey, what's up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to
0:50.4	have you here with us today. We are a month into 2016 and I hope life is treating
0:55.8	you well. Hopefully your speaking business is popping and I think that means good. I think that
1:00.7	means good. That's what we're going to go for today. We got a lot of great stuff happening this
1:04.6	month. I'm really excited about. We got a new free tool that's coming out next week, I believe. So
1:09.5	be on the lookout for that. We interviewed a bunch of the top speakers in the world to ask them, what is your best speaking tip? What is your best speaking strategy? So you're going to be hearing from them. Be on the lookout for that next week. So pay attention. Hey, also, if you haven't already, make sure you stop by the speakerlab.com. There, you can hop on that email list,
1:28.6	and so that way you don't miss out on anything good because we share a lot with you on the show,
1:32.4	but there's also things that we share with you just through email, and I don't want you to miss out
1:36.2	on anything. So, all right, let's get into today's interview, today's conversation. Today we are
1:40.6	joined by Brian Walter. And here's why we had Brian on the show is not only is he a great speaker, but he's also the basically the incoming, let me make sure I get this right, incoming incoming president of the NSA, not that NSA, the National Speakers Association. So many of you may be, I've heard of the, are familiar with the NSA and it's one of those
2:03.0	organizations and associations. I get a lot of questions about people are going, should I
2:06.5	join, should I need to join? Should I go to a conference? What about the chapter meetings?
2:10.6	Is it worthwhile? Is it beneficial? What do I get out of it? Yada yada yada yada. Brian is going to be,
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