How to Create Virtual Speaking Opportunities With Terry Brock
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Grant Baldwin and Terry Brock hosted a Facebook Live to talk about you can create virtual speaking opportunities.
During the live stream, Grant and Terry discuss:
- Making room for natural reactions to stressful times
- Intentionally focusing on positive attitude
- Leveraging technology to reach our audiences and deliver value
- Why now is the time to hustle
- Market trends when it comes to events canceling vs postponing
- Speakers are communicators who solve problems
- How to suggest virtual options to existing clients
- Pull in experts in your network to deliver additional value
- The problem you were hired to solve still exists
- Exploring new ways to solve the same problem
- Speakers don’t have to speak on stage to deliver value
- Simple tips to improve the quality of your virtual presence
- Scalable tools for video streaming and conferencing
- Don’t get distracted by shiny, new tools. Pick one that works for you and move forward.
- The importance of backup technology
- Social distancing doesn’t cancel our need for social connection
- Rolling up our sleeves to work harder and smarter
- And 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. |
| 0:47.6 | Hey, hey, friends, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. I hope you |
| 0:52.6 | doing well. We are dropping another bonus episode for you. This is a Facebook live we did |
| 0:58.0 | with Terry Brock talking all about virtual speaking. Now, we have had Terry on the podcast recently. |
| 1:03.1 | If you haven't listened to that episode, definitely go back and check that out. But today we're |
| 1:06.9 | digging into a little bit more of how does virtual speaking apply to the world we're in right now with the coronavirus, quarantine, the social distancing. |
| 1:15.6 | He also gives us an alternative phrase for social distancing. So a good conversation here with Terry. I think you're really going to enjoy it. Let's jump right in with Terry Brock. Enjoy. |
| 1:25.3 | Hey, what's that, friends? Grant Baldwin here. Hope you guys are doing well. Hope you're having a great day. I know we are in some weird times. We've been doing this daily Facebook lives, talking with different people in the speaking industry, talking with different speakers. And yesterday we talked with Sean Hanks from Premier Speakers Bureau tomorrow. We're going to be talking with an event planner who's in the thick of this himself |
| 1:44.6 | trying to sort out different events and how this is affecting them. |
| 1:47.8 | But today we talk, we're talking with my friend Terry Brock from Terrybrock.com, and we're |
| 1:52.7 | going to be digging into virtual speaking. |
| 1:54.7 | So coincidentally, we actually had Terry on the podcast a couple months ago to talk about |
| 2:00.7 | virtual speaking. And Terry, who knew that a few weeks later that this would become a, all the thing that all speakers are talking about. So let's start with this. How has the past couple weeks been for you? How are you holding up? Oh, doing well. You know, you and I were talking before we started recording. Last week was the time when we go, oh my goodness, what is going on here? It's shocking. That's understandable. It's natural that we're going to feel down and that's okay. Process that. This week we're going on, okay, hold it. We're going to turn this thing around. We're going to learn. We're going to become better because of it. And actually, Grant, I'm getting work now that I wouldn't have otherwise. People are saying, |
| 2:34.9 | hey, we need to learn how to use this video stuff, one thing that I train on a lot. And they're saying, we need you to come in and show us how to do it. And by come in, it's come in virtually. I'm staying right here doing that proper quarantine and seclusion, but hey, we've been doing that for a while anyway. So doing well, getting some extra exercise in, taking care of the health. |
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