How To Charge $20K Or More As A Speaker with Mitch Joel
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Can you imagine how you'd feel if your first speaking gig was in front of 6,000 people, and Dr. Phil was speaking at the same event? You'll hear how today's guest on The Speaker Lab felt because that's exactly what happened the first time he took the stage as a speaker!
Mitch Joel is an international speaker, author and CEO who works with major companies like Wal-Mart, Google and Starbucks. He joins us for this show to walk us through his early career days, including whether or not he rocked his first gig or he bombed. We also discuss his recommendations for becoming a premiere speaker who charges $10k, $20k or more.
And we wrap up with the three different types of speakers, examples of each and which one you should be if you are a beginning speaker. Tune in for that and so much more on episode 144 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What is your content center of excellence, and how do you find it?
- Who are examples of great speakers who have gone from $5k speaking fees up to $50k?
- What is an SME and how can you be one?
- What three criteria must you meet to be considered someone with a "significant platform"?
- How do you know if you are killing it or not as a speaker on stage?
- Why being memorable is better than being funny.
- Do you have to have a large social media following to charge $15k or more as a speaker?
- What is the Louis CK model of public speaking?
- And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
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| 0:50.7 | Hey, what's on my friend? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speak of Loud podcast. We are on episode 144. |
| 0:55.8 | Today we are hanging out with my buddy Mitch Joel. |
| 0:58.6 | And Mitch is a speaker and author and has been in the speaking industry for many, many years now. |
| 1:04.2 | Speak to some of the biggest corporations around. |
| 1:06.2 | I mean, this is a guy that works with Walmart and Google and Starbucks and just major, major companies. |
| 1:11.4 | We talk exactly through how he got started. |
| 1:14.8 | And his, he has a crazy story. |
| 1:17.3 | I'll tell you now, there's some crazy stories about getting started as a speaker. |
| 1:20.8 | And his is one of the craziest. |
| 1:22.7 | So we talked through how he got started, how his first event that he keynoted for, |
| 1:26.8 | it was actually for 6,000 people. And you're going to want to stick around to see how that went. Did he bomb? Did he kill it? You'll have to wait and see. So we talk about that. We talk about how he positions his personal brand within his business and company. So Mitch does a lot of speaking, but he also is a CEO and president of a company. So we talked through exactly how he kind of navigates those two worlds. Let's talk about how he recommends you make the leap from a $5,000 speaker to being a $10, $15, $20,000 speaker. Maybe for you, you're in that spot where you're getting, you know, around $5,000 or below and you're going, hey, how do I become a 10,000, 15, 20,000 speaker? What are the things that I need to change? What are the things I need to |
| 2:06.2 | improve upon in order to make that leap? And so Mitch walks through what he recommends for making |
| 2:11.5 | that leap. We'll talk about the secret sauce of how he creates his talks and how they are always |
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