How to Find Your First Paid Speaking Gig with Bryan Allain (VII)

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to part seven of how to find your first paid speaking gig with Bryan Allain.

Missed the first six episodes? You can listen here to part one, part two here, part three here, part four here, part five here and part six.

Today, you'll hear a two-part conversation: in the first part, we talk right before Bryan talks to a potential client he got a positive response from and in the second part, we recorded an update on how the call went and what his next steps are from there. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned pro we've got insights and lessons you can learn in this series.

Join us on episode 289 of The Speaker Lab to hear it part seven of how to find your first paid speaking gig with Bryan Allain.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Why is the goal to get someone on the phone?
What questions do you ask when you're talking to a warm lead?
How do you approach gigs with no pay?
Should you build travel into the fees you quote?
How to ensure you are exchanging value for value.
What should you say if you reach someone's voicemail?
What are potential wins you can look for in a reduced-fee speaking gig?
How to ask for referrals from new clients.
And so much 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, thespeakerlab.com slash get
0:38.8	booked and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:56.1	Hey, what's up, friends? Grant Baldwin here.
0:56.7	Welcome back to the Speak of Lab podcast.
0:58.9	Hope you're doing well.
0:59.6	Hope you're having a great day.
1:00.5	We really do appreciate you being here.
1:02.3	All right, we are on part seven of this eight part series.
1:05.3	We've got one more stretch in this series to go before we get to the finish line.
1:09.9	But we've been, if you haven't already, you definitely need to go back and listen to one through six here because we've been following along with Brian Elaine as he's been working on his speaking business and we've been doing some coaching with him. And, you know, the reason we decided to do this is I think Brian represents a lot of you that may be listening. And you're going, I want to do this. I think I can do
1:28.1	this, but I have some of the same doubts and insecurities. And I wonder, will this work for me?
1:33.7	And so Brian was exactly in those shoes. And so we've been following along with Brian on this
1:38.2	process, on this journey. And I'm excited to give you episode seven today. So let's talk through what's going to happen. This is actually a two-part series or two-part episode. And so the first part is what has happened is he's been emailing some potential clients, got a really positive response. And then we recorded the call right before he called her. She was like, okay, I got a positive response. What do I do?
2:01.7	We hopped on immediately.
2:21.2	We recorded something. I walked him through the step-by-step process of exactly what he needed to do next. So that's the first part that you're going to hear. The second part is what we're going to talk about is after a couple days playing chase with her, he finally had a call with her. We recorded an update on how the call went
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