How to Find What Makes You Unique with Rory Vaden

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to building your brand, Rory Vaden is the expert you want in your corner. He's committed to helping others identify the problem they solve and build a strategy for lasting success. Rory has a unique story of how he came to be an entrepreneur, found his place on the stage, and embraced the wisdom and insight of others so he could keep growing. As a college student, he found his niche in door-to-door sales. With a knack for developing principles of personal success and development, he soon found himself on the speaking stage and rubbing shoulders with mentors that would change the trajectory of his future. His mindset, experience, and intentionality have set Rory apart in the industry. If you want to learn how to build a brand that will set you apart, this episode is for you!

Here’s what you’ll learn from this episode:

The value of mentorship
The difference between a good and great speaker
How to be intentional in networking
Building your sales team and structure
Why you have to “nail” your uniqueness
Can you identify your niche alone?
Why you need one-on-one coaching
And much 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.
0:45.1	Hey, hey, what's up? French Grant Walden here. So glad to have you here with us today for
0:52.3	episode 404 of the
0:54.4	Speaker Lab podcast. Today I'm joined by my buddy Rory Vaden to talk about his personal experience
0:59.0	as a speaker and how to build a strong brand. Now, Roy credits his mom with raising him to
1:03.7	really understand the principles of personal development and success. And during his college
1:07.6	years, he found himself in door-to-door direct sales soared to the top because of his desire to be invited to speak at the company's national convention. It was there that he met and listened to a speaker that had completely changed the trajectory of Rory's future. I think you're going to be familiar with who that speaker is. During our conversation, Rory's going to share about the mentorship that changed his life, the intentionality it takes to break into the industry and why it's so important to be well
1:30.1	connected in the space. More importantly, Rory's going to share the fascinating journey that
1:34.3	brought him to where he is today, from sales to speaking and mentorship, to entrepreneurship.
1:38.4	He's got a ton of insight into how to build success with strategy and brand. Rory's story
1:43.8	is inspiring. It's going to challenge your mindset as you continue on your own entrepreneurial journey. You're going to love this episode. So let's get right to it. Here's my conversation with Rory Baden. Enjoy. Hey, what's up, French? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speakerlap podcast. Good to have you here with us today. Today we're chatting with my buddy, Rory Vaden, and I'm going to be talking about all things speaking, but even bigger than speaking, talking about just building a personal brand. And Rory and his team have become experts at that. And so excited to chat with him. Now, Rory, one thing, I don't know if I've told you this before, but actually I was looking for, I think I was, I was emailing you recently and I was pulling up your email just at a quick search, you know, in your inbox.
2:25.8	And I think one of the original emails I sent you was like in 2004.
2:30.4	I was just just getting started as a speaker.
2:33.7	And I sent you an email.
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