How to Choose Your Speaking Gigs with Jordan Harbinger
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you already have a business becoming a speaker can only expand your reach, your audience and how many people you can serve. A great example of this is our guest, Jordan Harbinger of The Art of Charm.
Jordan is the co-founder and host of The Art of Charm. The AOC, as it is called for short, is an in-person school as well as a podcast focused on helping men achieve peak performance in every area of life. Jordan's been interviewing experts for his show since before most of us knew what a podcast was!
On today's show he shares some of the knowledge he's learned in that time. Jordan explains how to build relationships with event organizers, the three criteria he considers when evaluating a potential speaking gig and why you must be comfortable hearing the word no in order to land more gigs. Check it out on episode 76 of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What's been the biggest value-add Jordan has gotten out of being a speaker?
- The three things he considers when asked to speak at an event.
- Why exposure isn't a reason to speak.
- What's the difference between Ted Talks and Tedx Talks?
- Why is networking at an event high on his priority list?
- What is the people-location-compensation calculation?
- How to get feedback when you are turned down for a speaking gig.
- What's a recipe for unhappiness?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
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- Jordan Harbinger on Twitter
- The Art of Charm podcast
- Email Jordan!
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Transcript
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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 speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's what you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is up, my friend? Welcome back |
| 0:49.4 | to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. |
| 0:53.9 | Hope you're doing well. Hope your summer is going good. I hope you're enjoying the pool, the beach, the lake, the ocean, the pond, the, I don't know, whatever body of water or just, I don't know, maybe you're just like, no, I don't, I hate water and I just like the sun. And I'm just soaking up UV rays on a daily basis |
| 1:12.1 | and trying to avoid skin cancer. So good for you. Good for you. Hope you're out there just |
| 1:16.0 | enjoying the beautiful weather. I know for my family and I, we love the summer. Summer's so much |
| 1:20.9 | fun. So we dig it. We dig summer. But nonetheless, we want to continue cranking out podcast episodes |
| 1:27.3 | for you. We are here on |
| 1:28.4 | episode 76. And today we are talking with my buddy Jordan Harbinger. Jordan runs the Art of Charm, |
| 1:34.3 | which is actually one of the biggest podcasts in all of podcast land for real. Go check out iTunes. |
| 1:40.4 | The Art of Charm is one of the top. I think it's typically like right up there like the top two or three |
| 1:45.5 | business podcasts, like of all of business. And even all podcast, all of them, he's always within the top, |
| 1:52.7 | I think top 50, maybe even top 30. I don't know. So definitely check it out there because he's got a great |
| 1:58.4 | show. He's been doing, been podcasting for many, many years. So today we talk a lot about networking, connecting with other people. We talk about just building that charm and that likability, the importance of that whenever you are building your speaking business. But I've had the opportunity to be on Jordan's show before. So we chat about that as a little bit as well, but just a great dude who really knows his stuff |
| 2:17.9 | whenever it comes to speaking as well. So let's get into it. Here's my conversation with the |
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