How to Follow the Speaker Success Road Map
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wanted a guide or a road map to help you along your speaking journey? Today I'm giving you exactly that!
On this listener Q&A show, Clayton Watson called in to ask what his next steps are to get bookings. Clayton is from Calgary in Alberta, Canada and runs a site called Coaching Caregiver. He also has written a book, and is now wondering what to do next to land paid speaking engagements.
When you listen to this episode, you'll hear my answer to Clayton's question as I lay out the five pieces of the speaker road map puzzle. I explain what each step is, why it is important and how to implement it in your journey.
Today you'll also hear my answer to another listener's question about whether YouTube videos of your speeches can help or hurt your chances of getting hired as a speaker. Listen in to hear the details on episode 127 of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What are the 5 steps of the speaker success road map?
- Why you are in the problem-solving business as a speaker and entrepreneur.
- What is the topic trifecta and how do you use it?
- What are the 7 primary speaking industries?
- What are the two main tools you need to establish yourself as an expert?
- What is the simplest way to find paid speaking gigs?
- Can having YouTube videos of your talks hurt your chances of getting paid speaking gigs?
- How to protect your talks in your contract with clients.
- And so much more!
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- Jeff Domenic's web site
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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. |
| 0:48.5 | Hey, what's on my friend, Graham Baldwin here? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Today, |
| 0:51.9 | we're on episode 127. And actually for the next couple weeks or so, we're going to do a lot of listener Q&A. So we have several people that have submitted questions over the past few weeks or so, and we want to get to some of those questions. So first of all, if you ever have any questions, please feel free to shoot us an email or to better thing to do if you'd like to have that answered on the podcast |
| 1:11.0 | like the voicemail questions you're going to be hearing today in the next couple weeks |
| 1:14.6 | is going to be going to the speakerlab.com and go to ask grant right at the top there you can |
| 1:21.0 | either put in your question into the comments there or preferably we'd love for you to leave us a voicemail |
| 1:25.5 | so again we can answer those on an upcoming episode of the show. So let's get right into it today. We're going to be getting |
| 1:31.8 | questions from Clayton Watson asking all about next steps for booking. He's got some pieces in place |
| 1:37.2 | and just trying to figure out what do I do now, Grant. So we talk about that. In the second question, |
| 1:41.4 | we get from Jeff Dominic and he's asking about YouTube videos for speakers, meaning that if you have some YouTube videos up online, is that going to hurt you or help you in any way in getting speaking gig? |
| 1:52.2 | So let's get right into it. |
| 1:53.3 | Here's the questions from Clayton and Jeff. |
| 1:55.0 | Enjoy. |
| 1:59.7 | Hey there, this is Clayton Watson calling from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. |
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