How to Be Booked and Paid to Speak with Erick Rheam

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

Public Speaking, Speaking, Business, Authors, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Education, Side Gig, Coaching, How To, Public Speakers, Smallbusiness

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today we've got an extra special guest for you: Erick Rheam. Erick is a student of our Booked and Paid to Speak program, and he has been wildly successful in his speaking career since signing up for the course. He joined us in December of 2015 and in the 15 months between then and our recording of this episode, he has made over $80,000 in speaking gigs!

On this episode of The Speaker Lab, Erick joins us to talk about his success and how he decided who to speak to and what to speak about, why it's important to have a good web site and demo and how he gets referrals.

Because Erick is still relatively new to the speaking world his story is relatable, as his resulting success. You'll want to tune in to hear more about what's next for him on episode 126 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

What was he making in his speaking business before joining Booked and Paid to Speak?
Why agreements and contracts have been critical to his financial growth as a speaker.
What does Erick say you have to love in order to be a successful speaker?
How did he decide what to speak about and who to speak to?
Why helping people achieve signficance in their lives also helps you.
The four things he's learned that are critical to running a successful speaking business.
What percentage of this business is the grind of pursuing and getting gigs?
How he's preparing to go from his full-time corporate job to speaking full-time.
And so much more!

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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.
0:48.6	Hey, what's up, my friend Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. I hope
0:51.9	you're doing well. Hope you're having a great day. We are on episode one, two six, episode 126. We've got a great guest for you today. We actually have a student of booked and paid to speak. This is kind of our premium flagship training program that teaches you all about how exactly how to find paid speaking engagement. So we walk you through a training system on how to actually do that. We give you the email scripts that you need. We give you our speaker contract. We help you know
1:13.9	how to create and deliver your presentation, everything you possibly need in order to be successful
1:19.5	and to find and book speaking engagements. We hook you up with that within booked and paid to speak.
1:24.5	So now we have a student who's been just massively successful. He's going
1:27.7	to share some of his story and journey in just a couple of minutes. Before we get to that, if you'd like to learn more about booked and paid to speak, and even if you're not interested in that, you're like, I'm interested in just dipping my toe in it. Then I would definitely recommend you check out free speakerworkshop.com. Free speakerworkshop.com is a weekly free live training that we do, teaching all about
1:45.3	how to find and book paid speaking engagement. So definitely check that out again over at free
1:49.7	speakerworkshop.com. So today we're talking with Eric Ream. Eric Ream, Eric joined booked and paid
1:55.4	to speak in December 2015. So depending on the time when you listen to this, a little over a year ago or so. And in that
2:03.0	time, actually, 15 months or so since joining booked and paid to speak, he's actually earned
2:06.7	over $80,000 in speaking gig. So really, really cool success story here. We talk about how he landed
2:13.9	on what he should speak about, who he should speak to. We talk about one of the biggest differentiating factors for him as a speaker. We talked about the importance of having a good website and a demo video and then also how he gets referrals from clients. So I know sometimes whenever you hear speakers on the podcast, sometimes it's speakers that have been at it for 20, 30 years, and you're like, that just seems like light years away. But I mean, here's a guy who just like many of you, he's started just recently. He's been at this for a little while and has
2:39.0	figured out a few things along the way and has really taken action. And again, $80,000 in speaking
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