How To Diversify Your Speaking Income Right Now with Neen James
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The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Grant Baldwin and Neen James hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how to diversify your speaking income right now.
During the live stream, Grant and Neen discuss:
- Comparing the impact of COVID-19 to the 2008 recession
- Relocating to the United States and starting speaking business over from scratch
- How uncertainty creates a unique challenge
- Keeping your head in the right space
- A service vs a sales mindset
- Defaulting to positivity and generosity
- The difference between making money during a crisis and making money from a crisis (shout out to Sean McCabe)
- Unique challenges faced by different industries
- Managing a long lead time before your next live speaking gig
- The domino effect of events getting postponed
- Financial practices that speakers should emulate
- The reality of what events are actually getting canceled vs rescheduled
- How speakers can look at their available speaking dates as inventory
- “Be kind or be quiet."
- Avoided short-sighted decisions
- Don’t sell something you’re not qualified to teach
- Playing the long-game with intentional attention
- The invaluable gift of asking “how can I help?"
- "You can’t organize history. You can’t live in regret of what you should’ve done."
- And 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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:48.4 | Hey, what's up for? I'm Braddon here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're doing |
| 0:51.5 | well. Hope you're having a great day. We are bringing you another |
| 0:54.8 | bonus episode. We're going to be doing one of these every single day this week as we are continuing |
| 0:59.9 | just to be in the thick of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis that is happening and affecting |
| 1:05.8 | literally the entire world and especially the speaking industry. So if you are not caught up at this point, |
| 1:11.3 | what we are doing is a daily Facebook live across multiple Facebook channels, as well as on |
| 1:16.1 | YouTube and doing these on a daily live basis. Just talking to different people in the speaking |
| 1:20.9 | industry, speakers, people on the front lines. Later this week, we're going to be interviewing |
| 1:24.4 | a president of a speakers bureau. We've got an event planner. Other people in the speaking industry, we're talking about technology and how do you, how to do virtual speaking today with Neen. We're going to be talking about, well, I guess we should introduce today's guest today. We're talking with my friend Neen James, a friend of the program, how it are on the podcast numerous times, but we talk about how to diversify your income and also how to just keep your head up and keep your mindset in the right place. So I really enjoyed this conversation with Neen. Like I said, this is a Facebook live conversation that we recorded Monday, March 23rd. So make sure, again, you can go back and check out the video on that on our different Facebook channels and platforms there, as as on a YouTube so yeah let's get |
| 2:02.9 | right into it here's my conversation with Neen James enjoy hi with that friends great |
| 2:07.1 | folded here joined by my friend miss Neen James we were here to laugh and bring joy to your |
| 2:11.4 | live in the midst of chaos lean how are you holding up over there good a gorgeous well I'm working |
| 2:16.7 | on my tan you know I got all the time in the world. How long have you been in the speaking industry? Oh, Lordy. I'm going to say, probably about 16 or 17 years now, Grant. I mean, a while, yeah. Great, so you've been around, you were here for, you know, the 2007, 2008 recession |
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